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...next big band or singing group using their computers. If all goes as planned, ?StarTomorrow,? which will debut early this summer and run for 16 weeks, will be the first original entertainment series launched by a major network exclusively on the Internet. ?The series is totally interactive,? says Jeff Gaspin, president, NBC Universal Cable Entertainment and Digital Content...
...Star (self-explanatory). This week VH1 launches Born to Diva, and in May, UPN airs America's Next Top Model. NBC is airing or planning searches for talented kids, seniors, comics and action-movie actors, plus a reality-show reconception of the teen-musicians drama Fame. Jeff Gaspin, NBC's head of reality programming, doesn't feel it's overkill. "They're very different," he says. "Wanting to be the next action star is not the same as going on Fame...
...large, reality shows aren't supplanting creative successes like 24 or Scrubs; they're filling in for duds like Presidio Med and MDs. As NBC reality chief Jeff Gaspin says, "There is a little survival-of-the-fittest thing this ends up creating." When sitcoms started cloning goofy suburban dads and quirky, pretty yuppies, we got The Osbournes. And now reality TV is becoming our source for involved stories about personal relationships. This used to be the stuff of dramas like the canceled Once and Again, until programmers began concentrating on series like CSI and Law & Order, which have characters...
...that crashed in Pennsylvania. But a network spokesman stresses that the movie is still in development and might not ever see the light of day. Meanwhile, an NBC biopic on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is also undergoing close scrutiny for its handling of the tragedy. Jeff Gaspin, an NBC executive vice president in charge of movies, says the network is trying to figure out how many script pages should be devoted to Sept. 11: "We're at the five- or six-page option in the first draft, and we have to see whether we want to expand...
...movie Meet the Parents in which Mom and Dad grill their children's suitors using a lie detector--and the suitors quiz Mom and Dad about their sex lives. "We just want people to have a good time and develop some insights into the parent-child relationship," says Jeff Gaspin, the executive in charge of NBC reality programming. On ABC's upcoming The Dating Experiment, a couple undertakes challenges--spend a night together on Alcatraz, follow a 412-mile-long string--designed to bring the two closer. Next season on NBC's Love Shack--deep breath...