Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...teens). Meanwhile, it is moving The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, George Lucas's kid-oriented adventure series, to Monday nights, supplanting two older-skewing reality shows, FBI: The Untold Stories and American Detective. In fact, viewers over 50 have only two places left where they are really welcome: on CBS, which still has a healthy roster of older shows (Murder, She Wrote; Knots Landing) along with newcomers like Bob, the umpteenth Bob Newhart comedy; and on Saturday night, where stay-at-homes can flip between all three networks and find such anachronistic offerings as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (Jane Seymour...
...duds you know are better than the duds you don't. The biggest surprise on the fall schedules is the number of shows that weren't canceled. Steven Bochco's drama Civil Wars, ABC's post-World War II soap opera Homefront, CBS's nostalgic sitcom Brooklyn Bridge, and NBC's family drama I'll Fly Away were all marginal performers in the ratings. But all will be back in the fall. They are upscale, critic-friendly shows that, the networks hope, could catch on with a little patience...
...stand on a substantive campaign issue. And yet the Vice President dared to argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a "poverty of values" that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown. The title character, a divorced news anchorwoman, got pregnant and chose to have the baby, a boy, who was delivered on last Monday's episode, watched by 38 million Americans. "It doesn't help matters," Quayle complained, when Brown, "a character who supposedly epitomizes today...
Created by the wife-husband team of Diane English and Joel Shukovsky (who have parlayed the show's success into a four-series development deal with cbs), Murphy Brown is cleverly written, but in a smug, soulless, metallic way. The characters are all Johnny one-notes, the satire of TV news obvious and unoriginal. Pompous anchorman, shallow news bimbo, ratings-obsessed station executives -- once it all might have been daring, but such TV navel gazing is now painfully commonplace...
WILL THIS MADNESS NEVER END? ANOTHer ratings "sweeps," another torrent of tawdry TV movies about women being brutalized -- physically, mentally, sexually. For sheer masochistic excess, this month's champ is CBS'S IN MY DAUGHTER'S NAME. Donna Mills plays a woman whose daughter is raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because...