Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CBS News Anchor Dan Rather, speaking yesterday at Harvard Law School, criticized this week's round of presidential debates and suggested a number of ways the public and the press can hold elected officials accountable...
Rather, who is also managing editor of CBS Evening News and 48 Hours, the weekly TV news-magazine, said that voters must work to ensure the commitment of elected officials to their constituents...
...Brown, along with the stellar performance of new Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
...scramble to find further variations on the love-show formula has strained producers' ingenuity. In A Perfect Score, on CBS's late-night schedule, a contestant is presented with three prospective dates. The twist is that the candidates are interrogated by three of his or her friends. Their questions are relatively serious and to the point: "Jackie has two children. How do you feel about an instant family?" The problem is that Jackie is onstage listening to everything; why doesn't she just choose the guy herself...
...SHOWS (FICTIONAL ONES, ANYway) have gone so decisively out of fashion that THE HAT SQUAD looks downright fresh. The new CBS series, about three brothers who wear black fedoras as members of a police special-crimes unit, is in many ways the most preposterous new show of the season. In last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters...