Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During the fall of 1982, Cheers was dead last, and Co-Producer Les Charles wondered % if "maybe we should call NBC and tell them it'll get better. Instead we got calls from Brandon saying, 'Don't worry. We'll give it time.' " Soon after Family Ties made its debut, Tartikoff found himself slinking into Tinker's office: "I'd say, 'Family Ties just got a 16 share, and the renewal notice is up this week and we won't get to see another rating before we have to renew or cancel.' And he'd say, 'Brandon! Is the show...
...year after its debut on NBC, Miami Vice, TV's hottest and hippest new cop show, is reaching a high sizzle. Scheduled on Friday nights opposite CBS's popular Falcon Crest, the show languished in the bottom half of the Nielsens for its first few months on the air. But viewers gradually began to take notice of its high-gloss visual style and MTV-inspired use of rock music, its gritty South Florida ambience and the cool charisma of Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas, who star as Miami Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Since...
...crowds are lining up for The Cotton Club at last: not at movie theaters this time but at video shops across the country. Since its debut on cassette in April, only four months after opening in theaters across the country, 150,000 copies of The Cotton Club have been sold to retail outlets (which rent and sell them, in turn, to consumers). The movie has spent 16 weeks on Billboard's chart of the top video rentals, four of them in the No. 2 slot...
Home video's hit parade, of course, is not made up solely of theatrical clinkers. Big box-office winners nearly always repeat their success when they appear on cassette (usually four to six months after their theatrical debut). Current video chart-toppers, for example, include such 1984 hits as The Terminator and The Karate Kid. But well-publicized box-office disappointments often do nearly as well as the blockbusters. "Sometimes the best video title is a movie that has run in a number of theaters but had a mediocre response," says Reg Childs, president of distribution for Embassy Home Entertainment...
...neighbor has his mind blown by a malfunctioning Walkman, and a waitress is carved up by a knife. Oh well, such is suburbia according to Novelist Stephen King's Overdrive, now filming in North Carolina. The story of everyday machines turning against their human masters marks the directorial debut of King, 37, who quickly learned that filmmaking "is not like writing. You always have a lot of people in your face here." Still, the protean horrorsmith would not have missed a chance to go behind the camera. After all, eleven of his books have been brought to the screen...