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FIRST TUESDAY (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). This segment of NBC's magazine-format show features a profile of big-game Conservationist Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's son; an attempt to answer the question of Whatever Happened to Carroll Baker; plus looks at skydiving, computer dating and other features...
ALTHOUGH the basic structure of TIME has never changed, there is great flexibility within the format. Over the years we have added many departments and dropped others as their time passed. Stories range from 20-line shorts to two-page essays, as well as the weekly five-or six-page cover articles. Occasionally, an event is of such extraordinary importance that it demands special treatment. This week, to mark what may well be the most momentous journey since 1492, TIME tells of Apollo 11's odyssey to the moon in a 14-page Special Supplement. It is our second...
Music, Demo, Talk. Although he hopes to be syndicated and eventually perhaps make a network comeback, he is starting in modest style. Instead of yesterday's Today army of 116 staffers, Garroway gets along with just six in Boston. The format, in TV jargon, is "music, demo, demo, talk, talk"-guest singer or jazz group, a visual demonstration of something like glassblowing or astronomy, and the inevitable circuit-riding horde of authors promoting books or public figures pushing causes. Garroway calls it the "desk and sofa concept," and he certainly should know. Yet his taste, often waggish, brings...
...format of Oh! Calcutta! is rather like that of short short stories and cartoons strung together in the revue fashion of a supper-club show. Though the program does not say who wrote what, the playwrights include Samuel Beckett, Dan Greenburg, Jules Feiffer, John Lennon, Leonard Melfi, Sam Shepard, Tynan himself, and others. Their playlets will doubtless enhance their royalties if not their reputations...
...children's programming: "Treat children as people," says Executive Producer George Heinemann, "and everything else will fall into line," Too many children's shows, he believes, are based on an adult's idea of what a child wants to see. They use the "age-old format of menace, threat, the chase and lots of action accompanied by noise to hold the youngsters' attention." The problem, he says, is that broadcasters of children's programs have not "grown up" with their audiences. "They still think kids are in the fairy-tale...