Word: hbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SERVICE (HBO) An old-school TV anchorman (Paul Dooley) finds himself teamed with a shallow New Wave co-host (Griffin Dunne). Howard Korder's script for this made-for-cable movie neatly skewered television, but also located the tragedy beneath the tackiness...
...CHRISTMAS WIFE (HBO, Dec. 12, 15, 18, 21, 24). Widower Jason Robards turns to a matchmaker for relief from a lonely holiday...
...DANGEROUS LIFE (HBO, Nov. 27, 28, 29, 8 p.m. EST). A dictator is deposed, a former housewife sweeps into power, and the Philippine revolution is replayed, docudrama style, through the eyes of an American reporter (Gary Busey...
...program was produced by Mal Albaum of HBO, which also handled many of its broadcast logistics. TIME senior editor Terry Zintl provided on-air analysis of the voting results. TIME also distributed guidebooks and a questionnaire on key issues. That survey showed, among other things, that 80% of students and parents opposed new taxes to reduce the federal deficit, and 61% favor a treaty drastically reducing U.S. and Soviet nuclear-missile stockpiles. Asked to compare their future financial prospects with their parents' current circumstances, 43% of the students said they expected to be better off, and only 11% thought their...
...SERVICE (HBO, Oct. 20, 23, 26, 29). A TV station tries to boost its ratings by teaming a veteran newscaster (Paul Dooley) with a shallow young co- host (Griffin Dunne). Familiar TV satire given some trenchant new twists by playwright Howard Korder...