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Pilot Comedies. Results of this de-escalation should show more plainly next season. ABC President Leonard Goldenson told the violence commission that only one of the 30 series now under development by his network is an "adventure" show. CBS's senior programming vice president, Mike Dann, agrees that "the number of action shows is down drastically in the pilot area." His NBC counterpart, Mort Werner, also anticipates "more comedy and less action." The networks' Hollywood suppliers are, of course, reacting accordingly. Universal Studios is not making any more westerns on speculation, but is concentrating on three new doctor...
Wider Spectrum. Michael Dann, CBS's senior V.P. for programming, concedes that "the true excitement must come from specials." This year NBC will offer Roberto Rossellini's impressions of Sicily, an original drama starring Paul Scofield, and shows headlined by Brigitte Bardot and Elvis Presley. CBS promises a study of the Galapagos Islands narrated by Britain's Prince Philip, a Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and another colloquy with Waterfront Philosopher Eric Hoffer. ABC will screen about 45 hours of the sum mer Olympics from Mexico, as well as a Truman...
...commission on violence to determine if "the seeds of violence are nurtured through the public's air waves," CBS President Frank Stanton wired the chairman to pledge cooperation "in every way possible." At the same time CBS, which has more flying vice presidents than nuns, dispatched Michael Dann, senior V.P. for programming, to Hollywood. His mission: "individual conferences with producers and writers to discuss specific measures to de-emphasize violence in programs now in production." ABC President Leonard Goldenson disclosed that his network, too, was in the throes of reappraisal; he also designated a vice president, James Hagerty...
...leader of the Coalition, Frank Dann, a member of the swimming team, claimed that the administration had promised him that SDS demonstration leaders would be expelled...
...Dann's group continually harassed the demonstrators today, but there were no incidents of violence this time. Last year conservative students and SDS members came to blows during a demonstration against Marine recruiters...