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...CBS chair and CEO Leslie Moonves took the stage at the upfronts today. No, we haven't accidentally rerun yesterday's column, though CBS did hold its presentation a day earlier. Thanks to corporate integration at Viacom, Moonves now also oversees young-adult-oriented UPN, in addition to CBS, the much older network, which airs shows about potbellied guys over 35. At CBS's presentation, Moonves gets to tell advertisers that they're crazy to focus on viewers under 35. At UPN, he tells them that's exactly what they want to be doing. He also gets to say things...
...have the elements one needs for success in TV, or, really, in life: love, conflict and porn. In this self-styled Romeo-and-Juliet story, the son of a district attorney falls in love with the daughter of the adult-entertainment czar his dad is prosecuting. "Wonderfalls," like CBS's "Joan of Arcadia," is about a young woman receiving mysterious messages, except that instead of having God talk to her, she chats with inanimate objects - the eagle on the back of a quarter, the tchotchkes in the souvenir shop she works in. It doesn't quite have God's star...
...Fallujah Nov. 22, 2004 ----------------- Four More Years Nov. 15, 2004 ----------------- The Joy Of Sox Nov. 8, 2004 ----------------- The Morning After Nov. 1, 2004 ----------------- The God Gene Oct. 25, 2004 ----------------- The Vote Battle Oct. 18, 2004 ----------------- Visions of Tomorrow Oct. 11, 2004 ----------------- The Tragedy of Sudan Oct. 4, 2004 ----------------- CBS Controversy Sept. 27, 2004 ----------------- America's Border Sept. 20, 2004 ----------------- Struggle Within Islam Sept. 13, 2004 ----------------- World of George Bush Sept...
...profile holiday season because the studio thinks the man who just months ago brought us Kangaroo Jack might be a candidate for his first Oscar. And Bruckheimer is making more television. The Amazing Race, the closest a reality show has ever got to being a critical darling, returns to CBS this summer despite middling ratings. And he has three other pilots that, chances are, will show up on some network's fall lineup. Cold Cases is Without a Trace with cases that are 20 years old instead of 10 days old (i.e., Martha Moxley, not Chandra Levy). Fearless...
...volleyball and--yes--squash. CSTV joins several niche sports networks--the Tennis Channel, the Ice Channel, Black Belt TV--in launch mode this year. But many analysts vote CSTV most likely to succeed. "College sports fans are rabid, and CSTV holds the category," says Neal Pilson, former head of CBS Sports...