Word: dann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Winthrop House battle, Michael Dann, vice-president of programming at CBS, argued that he "can't do great programs on a regular basis" because of the time pressure involved in a weekly show...
Voracious Appetite. That is a question that programming Vice Presidents Len Goldberg (ABC), Mike Dann (CBS) and Mort Werner (NBC) ponder in the small hours of the night. Their major problem is that, in prime time alone, the three of them are responsible for filling 75 hours a week. "We do not suffer," Goldberg says, in the understatement of the minute, "from an overdose of good shows." That is because TV obviously suffers from a severe underdose of talent. There are just not enough good writers and performers to satisfy television's voracious appetite, so even the best entertainers...
...Mike Dann at CBS was cool, Mort Werner at NBC was calm, and Leonard Goldberg at ABC was collected. The three executives, directors of programming at their respective networks, were braced for the first Nielsen ratings of the season. There was no reason for concern: their own glazed eyes could tell them that the new shows they had scheduled with great ballyhoo left some thing - entertainment, to be exact - to be desired...
...this house cleaning should not delude viewers with the notion that better shows are necessarily in store for next season. "The trend and the entire mass appetite," explains CBS Programming Chief Mike Dann, "is toward larger-than-life drama. Anything true, about real people and real problems, is out." Thus, the 1966-67 batch of shows will include more situation come dies, more science-fiction shows, more spy and spy-spoof serials-all, in short, about untrue, unreal people...
...annals of sycophancy include few scenes as good as Miller's re-creation of a meeting at which Cooper recited his new Calhoun story line to Michael Dann, CBS Programming Director, and an important group of executives...