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...HBO's The Sopranos has been called the best TV drama ever and the greatest work of American pop culture in 25 years. So naturally its creator, David Chase, wants to pull the plug on it next year. Why? "I'm just concerned," he says, "about this jump-the-shark thing...
...which now seems as quaint a turn-of-the-century phenomenon as gains on one's 401(k). Since then, the network has tumbled from first place to fourth in the ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned by TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner). The Monk "experiment," says ABC Entertainment president Susan Lyne, provides ABC with only slightly used programming on the cheap and benefits Disney, ABC's parent, which produces Monk. "Potentially," she says, "this is a great way of doing business." Monk...
...only in May after the retirement of Gerald Levin, had limited experience as a big-league operating executive and knew that was where he needed help. So with Pittman's departure, two of the most respected and accomplished of the divisional executives, publishing chief Don Logan and HBO's Jeff Bewkes, are moving to the parent company to try to make sense...
...experience and talents to the assignments that lie ahead of them. Logan, 58, the burly and taciturn Alabaman who has rebuilt Time Inc. (parent of TIME) into a publishing dynamo, will oversee the subscription-based businesses, including AOL, Time Warner Cable and Time Inc. Bewkes, 50, who has led HBO to critical acclaim and rising profits, will add to his portfolio the Warner Bros. and New Line movie units, Warner Music, the WB network and the Turner cable networks such...
...decade veteran of HBO, Bewkes, who holds an M.B.A. from Stanford, works as successfully with creative types as with number crunchers. He and Warner Bros. CEO Barry Meyer have become especially close, since both resisted Pittman's attempts to centrally manage their divisions. Bewkes is not as close, however, with his new subordinate Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting, who was seen as a Pittman ally. Bewkes led HBO to develop such hits as The Sopranos, Sex and the City and Six Feet Under and saw it collect 93 Emmy nominations last week. Warner Bros. is enjoying a successful...