Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that dawned on BRYANT GUMBEL'S career at CBS last week looked a lot like the old days, only with a few more clouds. The network announced that Gumbel, who in 1997 pulled up anchor at NBC's top-rated Today show, would return to morning television as host of ratings bottom dweller CBS This Morning. This is despite the fact that CBS president Leslie Moonves said last year that Gumbel would "rather be shot in the head than move back to mornings." Gumbel, who has a $5 million contract with CBS, has been relatively dormant since his prime-time...
...capture audiences, networks are turning out lavish historical spectacles. The problem with history is that what really happened doesn't always make good TV. We asked a few experts to appraise the historical integrity of Noah's Ark, which appeared last week on NBC, Joan of Arc (CBS, May 16, 18) and Cleopatra...
...While horseback riding in the Hollywood Hills in 1943, Calhoun, then a laborer named Francis Durgin, was approached by Alan Ladd, who suggested a career in show business. Calhoun was best known for his roles in westerns and as Big Bill Longley, a good guy on the late '50s cbs drama The Texan...
Towards the end of a week-long series of games, team Captain Arthur "A.J." Lewis'99 organized a trip to the CBS studios in Los Angeles. The team awoke at 5 a.m. to wait in line for tickets to one of the day's tapings. Team members waited for more than eight hours before being admitted to the studio...
...Littleton's wake, the culture industry has gone cautious. CBS pulled an episode of Promised Land because of a plot about a shooting in front of a Denver school. The WB has postponed a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode with a schoolyard-massacre motif. Movie-studio honchos, who furiously resist labeling some serious adult films FOR ADULTS ONLY, went mum last week when asked to comment on any connection between violent movies and violent teen behavior. That leaves us to explain things...