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CBS has amassed the biggest schedule of one-shot shows in its history: 25 specials for the nighttime slate, at least 48 news and documentary specials for Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to...
"Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion." says one TV producer, "but Jack Paar just creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by...
NBC. Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime...
Kovacs won the comparison test, hands down. He put together a half-hour quite different from his usual garrulous routines and his role as sometime host on NBC's Tonight. Instead, Producer-Writer Kovacs buttoned his lip tight and proved himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime...
The show was, strangely enough, Kovacs' first chance at high season to show his stuff and his pulling power on NBC at a prime time. Program Chief Tom McAvity called it Ernie's "audition," explained: "If his rating is good, we hope to sell him as TV'...