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...falling behind, the best strategy is often to go deep and hope something good happens. And that's exactly what three television networks did last week, reaching deep into their pockets to pay $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005. Says Robert Iger, president of ABC Inc., the Walt Disney Co.-owned media firm, which spent $9.2 billion on both network and cable-television rights: "Losing would have been devastating...
...boyfriend, former Letterman executive producer Robert Morton, and giving one of them, Over the Top (a sitcom starring Tim Curry), a choice Tuesday-night time period. Worse, from the standpoint of Hollywood's dealmakers, she is perceived as having been stripped of real power by her bosses, Iger and Disney chairman Michael Eisner...
...moreover, proved less than adept at massaging the egos of top producers. Bochco, for example, was furious when he belatedly found out that Tarses had decided against airing the last six episodes of his struggling drama series Murder One in April, as promised. He went over her head to Iger to protest. ("From his vantage point he had legitimate complaints," Tarses says. "It's all about the way you handle a situation.") Iger has since taken on the role of running interference between Tarses and some Hollywood heavyweights. When The Practice, a lawyer drama from producer David E. Kelley...
...Both Iger and Eisner played an active role in setting the fall schedule. "It really got down to Bob and Michael and me in a room," Tarses says, while insisting that "there was truly not a tremendous amount of disagreement." Sources describe at least one instance, however, in which Eisner overruled her. When Tarses' final schedule board was presented to him, Eisner reportedly noticed one prominent show missing--the newly outed sitcom Ellen. The omission, he said in front of several executives, was "inconceivable to me," and the show was put back on the schedule. (Tarses says the show...
...Gerry and I spoke on the phone and both commented on the ludicrousness of it," says Tarses. "She has a job that she loves very much and works very hard at. She has no interest in coming over here. No one approached her, and she never approached anyone." Iger also flatly denies that any overtures were made to Laybourne. A more likely scenario, say close ABC watchers, would be for Eisner to persuade Marcy Carsey, the co-founder of Carsey-Werner Productions (Roseanne, 3rd Rock from the Sun), to join the network in a position over Tarses. Eisner, who once...