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...dismal Christmas release Spies Like Us, managed to pack far more laughs into his wacky episode of George Burns Comedy Week, about a small town that tries to win federal disaster aid by faking an earthquake. Joe Dante's best work of the year was not his feature flop Explorers but a spooky segment for The Twilight Zone called The Shadow Man, about a boy who discovers a sinister phantom living under...
...venture into television is taking place at a time when 20th Century- Fox, which will supply some of the Fox network's programming, is losing its reputation as a flop mill. Under the ownership of Denver Oilman Marvin Davis, the studio churned out such clunkers as Rhinestone, which paired Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, and Blame It on Rio, which featured Michael Caine at the beach. But Murdoch has the good fortune of inheriting a shrewd studio boss, Diller, who joined Fox in October 1984 after heading Paramount, where he turned out a stream of hits that included Terms...
...criteria on abortion, school prayer and friendliness to big business. But plenty of them are not good judges capable of reasoning and balancing issues that range from the obscure or trivial or unexpectedly profound. And if Reagan chooses a clown, then he might do well by antiabortion groups, but flop for the country as a whole...
...these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never do TV. Network programmers will be watching the results closely. If one or more of the newcomers do well in the ratings, TV may have taken a significant step toward creative diversity. If they flop, well, it's back to the sausage factory...
...recently as 1981, only outsiders (and Johnny Carson) were cracking jokes about NBC. An air of frantic desperation hung over the place as then Chairman Fred Silverman threw onto his schedule, and then pulled off, one expensive flop after another. To the savviest TV producers, "it was as if NBC didn't exist," recalls Gary David Goldberg (Family Ties). "We didn't go there with an idea, because we knew it would be crucified." Silverman, who had earned a reputation as a programming wunderkind at CBS and then ABC earlier in the '70s, was also scalded by the boycott...