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...ULTIMATE IRONY OF THE SPARRING BETWEEN FICtional journalist Murphy Brown and real-life Vice President Dan Quayle is that it serves the purposes of one of America's greatest entrepreneurs: Murphy Brown TV series creator Diane English. Last week's season opener, pumped up by weeks of publicity, drew an enormous 44 million viewers to a special hour-long episode. Quayle's rebuke of the sitcom for supposedly glamourizing single moms was challenged by such scripted scolding from star Candice Bergen as, "Perhaps it's time for the Vice President to recognize that families come in all shapes and sizes...
Murphy Brown, along with the stellar performance of new Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
...many ways the most preposterous new show of the season. In last week's premiere, the villain, a sadistic ex-con, was an unstoppable monster straight out of Friday the 13th, and the action scenes (including a bungee-jump knockout) made Road Runner cartoons look realistic. Still, creator Stephen J. Cannell (The A-Team, Hunter) has a knack for vivid characters and punchy dialogue, and he invests the genre with the good-vs.-evil intensity of an old- fashioned western. Also, the hats are cool...
...Lewis said he would "run away" if Quayle ever became President; Robin Williams, in a clip from the Tonight show, described Quayle as being "one taco short of a combination plate." Candice Bergen, accepting her Emmy for Murphy Brown, sarcastically thanked the Vice President. And Diane English, Murphy's creator, capped the evening with a defense of single mothers that crossed the line into partisan meanness. "As Murphy herself said, 'I couldn't possibly do a worse job raising my kid alone than the Reagans did with theirs...
...closest thing TV has to an advocacy producer is Linda Bloodworth- Thomason , creator of three current network shows: Designing Women, Evening Shade and the upcoming Hearts Afire. She and her husband Harry Thomason are Clinton friends and supporters (and part-time residents of Little Rock) who produced the biographical film that introduced the candidate at the Democratic Convention. "So-called serious newspeople miss the powerful potential of the entertainment forum as a means of influencing people's lives in a positive way," she says. "I have my own column on TV, and I take it as seriously as does Mike...