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...future, Chase said he will host his own talk show on the Fox network, starting next August or early September. He said the show, which may run opposite David Letterman and Jay Leno's late-night shows, will be different from the traditional talk show format...
...given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss of David Letterman, even NBC's dominance of late night seems in jeopardy. The network is desperately in need of a miracle. Homicide: Life on the Street, which makes its one-hour debut in the coveted time period following the Super Bowl, will have to serve...
...could stop singing Don't Stop? (David Letterman's advice to Fleetwood Mac: "Stop!") That catchy jingle was the only tune on America's mental jukebox last week, when movie and music stars descended on Washington in numbers not seen since the bond drives of World War II. The whole wide world of American tinsel and twang -- Oprah Winfrey, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, Bill Cosby, Kathleen Battle, Macaulay Culkin, Harry Belafonte -- showed up, swelling the Rat Pack of John F. Kennedy's day to Hamelin proportions, offering its best wishes to a new Administration. Chuck Berry updated the lyrics...
TELEVISION: Letterman Leaps...
...other half of NBC's problem is finding a successor to Letterman. After announcing several weeks ago that Dana Carvey was their choice for the job, NBC officials were forced to admit that the Saturday Night Live star is still undecided about whether he wants to do the show. (Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has been named the program's producer.) Other names, from Dennis Miller to Billy Crystal, have been floated as possible Letterman successors, though one obvious candidate -- Bob Costas, host of the sprightly talk show Later with Bob Costas, which follows Letterman -- has been surprisingly absent...