Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violent crime. America's Most Wanted, the highest-rated show on the Fox network, and Unsolved Mysteries, which joined NBC's schedule this month, solicit viewer help each week in tracking down fugitives. The syndicated magazine show A Current Affair, drawing good ratings on 125 stations, goes for the gut each night with stories on crime and celebrity scandal. Typical subjects on Fox's The Reporters, a tabloid version of 60 Minutes, range from a grandmother who tracked down the alleged killer of her daughter to racist youths known as skinheads, in a report titled "Shaved and Dangerous...
...early 1979, and the network wars have reached a frenzied peak. Sitcoms like Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley are riding high in the Nielsens. Blockbuster mini-series are vying to reproduce the huge audiences that tuned in for Roots. Star programmer Fred Silverman, the Man with the Golden Gut, is ready to try everything from Gary Coleman to Supertrain in his quest to lift NBC out of the prime-time ratings cellar...
Under such a system, Jesse Jackson could nail Bush on the Reagan Administration's attempts to gut the Voting Rights Act and to reduce federal grants for low-income students. Sam Nunn or Al Gore could specifically pinpoint wasteful defense systems and force Bush to explain how he would guard against another procurement mess in the Pentagon...
...Angeles-based telephone service that offers the catharsis of confession for the price of a phone call. The service, started up this summer by a Los Angeles outfit called United Communications, receives some 200 anonymous calls a day from people admitting everything from marital infidelity to murder. "They are gut-wrenchingly honest," says apology-line operator M.J. Denton. But that's just for starters. On another number, callers pay $2 for the first minute and 45 cents a minute after that to listen to confessions. The second number receives up to 10,000 calls...
...excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted and gut-thumping depiction of mankind at its most predatory...