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...Thursday: CBS Hope 'Walker' Dies Before My Network Gets...
...That said, the network's highest-profile drama is about a professor going through a midlife crisis. "The Education of Max Bickford" stars Richard Dreyfuss - who, if he's at midlife, will make it to 106 - and Marcia Gay Harden. That, says CBS television president Les Moonves, may make it the first TV program to star two Oscar winners. We haven't scoured the history books on that claim, but we gather that this means "The Geena Davis Show" was just Joe Pesci away from being a television classic...
...doings between wolves and some of the citizens (who may be one and the same). Despite the show's Pacific Northwest location, Native American spiritual angle and central character (Lou Diamond Phillips) who's brought in from out of town to investigate the goings-on, there is apparently a CBS corporate memo forbidding its employees to mention the title "Twin Peaks" in connection with it. (It also stars Tim Matheson, "The West Wing"'s vice president, if that helps you handicap the odds of Josiah Bartlet's veep challenging him for the White House...
...Citizen Baines," from John Wells ("ER", "The West Wing"), is a show with so much potential CBS is running it on the least watched night of TV, Saturday, when every other network goes fishin'. It does seem a tough sell: a family drama about a former senator (James Cromwell) trying to reconnect with his three grown daughters in Seattle (let's hope none of them are wolves). On the plus side, given the swelling Americana theme music, some viewers may think it's "The West Wing." Meanwhile, "The Agency," from movie director Wolfgang Petersen, is a drama about the brave...
...perhaps the most important development of the upfronts so far, however, after disappointing setbacks at the NBC and ABC post-presentation parties, the soiree CBS put on for advertisers did, in fact, finally have the little chicken kabobs, grilled crisp outside yet moist inside. It's that attention to the little details that makes a season...