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...paced and written, and the sentiment has some sly and unexpected edges. A popular success in Canada, the play had its U.S. premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theater in a little-noticed production that featured two of the year's best performances, by Frank Galati (director of Ragtime) and Frasier's John Mahoney...
...price on good therapy. Unless it's TV therapy. Then it costs $1.6 million for half an hour. According to Variety, that's how much KELSEY GRAMMER will make for each episode of the 2002 and 2003 seasons of Frasier--a total of $75 million for two years' work, the most anybody has ever made for a TV acting gig. (Jerry Seinfeld made more, but he was a producer of his show too.) Grammer's people would not comment on the story, noting that the actor doesn't like his salary made public. While $75 million seems like...
Commercials are sure to be more intricately entwined with programming. Viewers could, potentially, interactively access information on any product or service seen during a program - a chair on the Big Brother set, a piece of art on Frasier's wall, Calista Flockhart's microskirt. Or, if you like the song on a chart show, you could purchase music immediately and directly. This would make, say, a pick-of-the-charts show, sponsored by a major music retailer, a commercially attractive proposition for the sponsor, the performers and the broadcaster - all of whom would earn a share of associated revenue...
...year's flush times; now it's a buyer's market. So as NBC touts its new series--a dubious-looking sitcom starring high-decibel chef Emeril Lagasse, the 1,000th version of Law & Order (O.K., the third)--it touts even more its high-income viewers, the real-life Frasier Cranes who make The West Wing "the most upscale show on any network!" In other words, the people in this room. At the party, the barbecued pork hors d'oeuvres are delish. Maybe it does help to have a chef on board...
...dispute that the genre could use an overhaul. Executives and writers cite the growth in networks as a reason for weak offerings. Says Frasier executive producer Mark Reisman: "There aren't enough [funny actors and writers] to meet the demand." But TV comedy hasn't disappeared so much as migrated to hourlong shows such as Ed, Gilmore Girls, the resurgent Saturday Night Live, the plethora of late-night comics, and even reality shows like Survivor and dramas like The West Wing. The true culprit may be an overly cautious development process. "Networks give writers development deals and then interfere with...