Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Until three years ago, the networks were limited in the kind of programming they could own, but with the limits lifted, the pressure is on. CBS, which co-owns an unprecedented six of its seven new shows, gave "King of Queens" a slot on the schedule after Columbia Tristar surrendered a share. "NewsRadio," a so-so sitcom, was renewed for a fourth season after NBC, considered the most aggressive network, acquired profit participation from the producer, Brillstein-Grey, which most likely went for the deal in order to prolong the show's life and make it eligible...
...case has heated up, Bowers has drawn fresh attention from journalists--and has not taken gracefully to it. One CBS-TV reporter says Bowers took a swing at him when he tried to ask him a question. And Bowers tried to ram a TIME photographer with his car. Bowers has declined to comment publicly about the prospect of a retrial, and he did not return telephone calls asking about the Dahmer case or his clashes with journalists...
Worse than nothing, actually. After nine years on the air--eight seasons on ABC, where the show earned solid ratings and anchored the kid-friendly "TGIF" lineup; and a final season on CBS, where viewership dropped sharply--Family Matters hasn't just been canceled. CBS pulled the show off the air in January, and is holding the final seven episodes until June and July, when most of its fans will be at summer camp. Don't expect much hoopla for the two-part finale, in which the newly engaged Steve Urkel, once TV's favorite nerd, is chosen...
Though it got little respect from the critics, Family Matters was in fact the most delightfully outre comedy on TV, an anything-goes farce with good lowbrow gag writing and snatches of smart parody. But just try to say goodbye. The show's producers, reportedly miffed at CBS, aren't talking to the press. White, 21, who is finishing classes at UCLA and said to be writing screenplays, is incommunicado as well. All are getting ready, no doubt, for the last episode of Seinfeld...
Shortly after becoming ABC News president in 1977, Roone Arledge proposed that the network's struggling evening newscast be switched to 10:30. (The idea didn't fly, and Arledge created Nightline instead.) Former NBC News president Lawrence Grossman recalls that in 1990, after leaving NBC, he suggested to CBS chairman Laurence Tisch that the network should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where...