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...series based on the story of Job. Prime time at NBC was a gutted ghetto, its Nielsen rating for the past season an anemic 16.6, compared with 19.8 for CBS and 18.2 for ABC. Daytime programming, where big money is made to the sound of soap-opera sighs and game-show squeals, was in even worse shape: of 22 daytime shows on the three networks, NBC'S highest rated was 14th. Early-morning and late-night shows, once the twin props of NBC's profits, were under siege or self-destructing: Today took ratings heat from Good Morning...
Demme's eye and ear for synthetic America make the film more than just the story of Melvin's life. Melvin is constantly overwhelmed by the cacaphony of horns blaring, toilets flushing and cars trying to start. He is always shouting to be heard, usually above something like a game-show audience. "Pick door number one! Number one!" That he never seems to be heard is sad; but though it may bother us that no one listens, Melvin doesn't seem to care. He perseveres...
...ages granny (Eva Le Gallienne), a six-year-old victim of cancer and a Benji-type mutt is pouring itself a tub of bathos. One actor falls in: Roberts Blossom, whose Old Testament gaze and sucked-in gums make the American Gothic farmer seem as jolly as a game-show host. But most of the performers bring craft and conviction to their roles. Shepard is especially fine. This gifted young playwright, whose works show an inside knowledge of America's prodi gal sons, now threatens to become a movie star. His whip-thin body coils itself around a character...
...from TV's penchant for overexploiting a popular idea. After four weeks, CBS last month dropped No Holds Barred, billed as a comedy series highlighting the "crackpot side of modern life" through the "oddball characters that make America unique." That's My Line, a remake of the game-show classic What's My Line?, also fizzled...
...television news community howled?partly in laughter, partly in protest?when Arledge became president of ABC News in June 1977. (He remains president of ABC Sports and is executive producer of the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.) Journalists feared that he would bring game-show hype to the evening news, as described so chillingly in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie Network. Arledge did little to allay those suspicions when, shortly after taking over, he devoted 19 minutes of one 22½-minute nightly newscast to a lurid account of the capture of an accused killer, the so-called...