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Fouhy spoke as part of the series led by IOP Fellow Marguerite Sullivan on "Power Struggles: the States vs. the Feds." He has served as a Washington bureau chief for both ABC and CBS News and as senior producer of NBC Nightly News...
...certainly must seem that way to the WB's rivals. For the 1997-98 season, the ratings for all of them fell, except for CBS, which was just even. In contrast, the WB's ratings rose 19%. So far this fall the trend has continued. For more than a decade the ratings of the networks have dropped relentlessly, so the performance of the WB is remarkable, even if its audience of 4.5 million viewers is still much smaller than those of the major networks. How has it achieved these results? By finding throbworthy stars, of course, but also by targeting...
...experts have ever become stars of American television? While no definitive answer is possible, of course, an exhaustive study of the available data suggests that the number is zero. With the arrival of Sammo Hung, however, that figure is about to change. Hung stars in Martial Law, a new CBS drama that airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. E.T. Despite the lack of precedent, the series has won good ratings, and Hung has shown himself to be as appealing as any of TV's other leading men. To keep up with the competition, George Clooney may soon need to start kickboxing...
...year ago, Hung would never have imagined that he would be appearing in prime time. Last March Terry Botwick, a programming executive at CBS, learned that veteran Hong Kong action director Stanley Tong was interested in developing a martial-arts show for American TV. That's something Botwick had wanted to do for a long time, and he and Tong proposed such a series to Leslie Moonves, the head of CBS Television. CBS has a new strategy of trying to appeal to young men, and Moonves liked the idea. He ordered up a pilot, collapsing the development process, which usually...
...interview with his prosecutors, but Steele declined. It's still far from clear whether anything coming out of the Willey investigation could help the Republicans in Congress make their case for impeachment. But it appears as if Willey, the woman who had her 15 minutes of fame on CBS's 60 Minutes, may soon be heading for her second 15 minutes...