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Apropos of apparently nothing, Blue Man Group opened the festivities at the CBS upfront Wednesday. In sync to the thumping of their little Blue Man drum corps, the paint-faced, ubiquitous performance artists hurled paintballs into each other's mouths, one after another after another, spitting out the paint into brightly colored patterns on white sheets...
...that means cutting loose the sort of programming that Rodger might watch. Fans of "Diagnosis: Murder," "Nash Bridges," and "Walker, Texas Ranger" have been ditched. CBS offers five new dramas, two sitcoms and one reality show, none of which necessarily exactly plays like "Popstars" night at the WB, but at least represent a concerted effort to clear out the last programming bastion of the Greatest Generation. (There's always History Channel...
...Sure, NBC is currently leading the season among the advertiser-prized 18-49 demographic. But it's also under siege on various fronts, not least CBS's attack on its Must-See Thursday empire, which but for the grace of the colossal bomb "Big Apple" it would have lost altogether. And there was that little matter of the XFL. What's more, Zucker and other NBC execs have long acknowledged the network needs to build successful new comedies. So why was it launching the season with a paltry eight on the schedule (canceling "DAG," "The Fighting Fitzgeralds" and "The Weber...
Whether they turn it into a sex-farce sitcom for seniors or a Hallmark Hall of Fame special, the romance between SUZANNE PLESHETTE and TOM POSTON seems ripe for the CBS development department. Pleshette, 64, who played BOB NEWHART's wife on The Bob Newhart Show, and Poston, 79, who played Newhart's handyman on Newhart, are getting married 30 years after they first met. Newhart couldn't be happier. "Not too long ago, Suzy lost her husband, and Tom lost his wife," says Newhart. "I would see Tom on a fairly regular basis, and he was just a fish...
...CBS's business-siders, of course, will probably pretend that it is, and slather on another layer of hype, glory, postmortem get-togethers, affiliate appearances and product placements next season. Forgive them - this thing practically saved their whole network, after...