Word: cbs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sources: Phoenix House; National Assessment of Educational Progress; New York Times; CBS; Peace Corps
...this season's six top-grossing films broke the rules. In summer 2000, the genre was the star: toga epic, Twister at sea, comic-book heroism, a Scream ream and a cutesy Jurassic Park. Moviegoers were in the mood for unofficial remakes--familiar formulas with less famous faces. As CBS's Survivor took 16 nobodies and turned them into summer celebrities, Hollywood made big bucks with the B Team...
Survivor may have shown us the future of TV this summer, but autumn will bring such time-warp fare as a Dynasty-like soap from Aaron Spelling and a remake of The Fugitive (CBS, Fridays, 8 p.m., starts Oct. 6). But the show many advertisers give the best odds is Bette (CBS, Wednesdays, 8 p.m., debuts Oct. 11), a sitcom with brassy Bette Midler--an actual professional entertainer!--playing herself a la The Jack Benny Show. The series has plenty for Midler's fans (yes, she sings), but will Survivor's young viewers swing to this boogie-woogie belter...
Luckily, the rest of America's news team was dedicated to the Survivor story. In fact, reporters were having trouble distinguishing the results of a four-month-old, prerecorded television show from actual live news. CBS cast its local-news anchors in a deserted island set with tiki torches. And because CBS's news shows could monopolize the newsmakers created by its entertainment division, the other networks had to be pretty creative in coming up with folks to talk about the CBS show. NBC's Today show booked Dawn Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island. That...
...office rather than seek psychotherapy or at least a calm visiting professorship somewhere? If she doesn't ask the people in the hall to believe her but asks them to believe she can accomplish what they believe in, she may yet pull it out. She's such a survivor, CBS should have cast her on the show...