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...course, you could envision a lot at this embryonic stage. "These are the first steps into new avenues," says Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Primetime Entertainment. "This is all a frontier for everybody." But whether the big new TV distribution medium ends up being iTunes or VOD or something else, the trend throughout entertainment is portability. Viewers can get pared-down mini-episodes of shows, including Desperate Housewives, on their cell phones through services including GoTV. Fox has created one-minute cell-phone offshoots of 24, and a mini-spin-off of Lost is forthcoming. Time Warner (TIME's parent...
...fantasy has certainly pleased its fans. But Bochco's shows--from Hill Street Blues through Over There, the FX Iraq-war drama--are better known for gritty realism than uplift. Bochco wouldn't comment on his plans, and ABC president Stephen McPherson insists that Bochco is "going to be doing the same show that Rod created." But shortly after taking over, Bochco fired five of CiC's nine writers. He has a reputation for boldness, if not lately for success: he has had a string of recent network failures (Blind Justice, City of Angels, Brooklyn South...
...significant events from the previous century. But he goes over the top when he criticizes the Times anthology for failing to mention—among other examples—the 1913 Armory show of modern art in Manhattan, or the life of early 20th-century Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson...
Sources: National Park Service; Library of Congress; National Archives; Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, 1859-1865 (Library of America); The Civil War (trilogy), by Shelby Foote; Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson; Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald; Mr. Lincoln's Army, by Bruce Catton; Battlefields of the Civil War, by William C. Davis; Historical Atlas of the United States
...taught at Harvard and Stanford, experiences that McPherson cited as valuable to her selection as director. He also mentioned “personality, and in some respects, her youth,” as Chang’s other outstanding features, adding that she gets along well with others...