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...215T ANNUAL EMMY AWARDS (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). The producers promise to cut down the teen-age chatter. Merv Griffin hosts in the East, Bill Cosby in the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jun. 6, 1969 | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...Talkathons. Much of TV's comment and controversy are heard on the day-and-night conversation shows, which seem to be trying to turn TV into a talkathon. They frantically compete with each other for big-name, talkers. Joey Bishop interviews Ronald Reagan, Carson brings on Ayn Rand, Merv Griffin chats with Bertrand Russell. One night, Dick Cavett has Norman Mailer as his guest, the next night he leads a spirited discussion between James Bald win and Yale Philosopher Paul Weiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: Talkathon of Comment | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Jimmy Durante plays host to Hostman Merv Griffin. Other guests are Ethel Merman and The Grassroots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 1, 1967 | 12/1/1967 | See Source »

...copycat show opposite Tonight, but Bishop is being clobbered in the ratings by nearly 3 to 1. The even newer syndicated Las Vegas Show with Bill Dana scarcely excites a quaver on the Nielsen meters. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. has two talk-variety entries-Mike Douglas in 142 cities, Merv Griffin in 90. But Carson is considered so formidable that Griffin opposes him head-on in only one market, New York City, while Douglas is programmed nowhere after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Midnight Idol | 5/19/1967 | See Source »

...United Nations he may sometimes seem a dogmatic hardliner. It turns out that Soviet Ambassador Niko lai Fedorenlco, 54, is also reasonably good with the one-liners. He showed up on TV's Merv Griffin show, brandish ing a thick Havana cigar, which made him look as if he'd learned his Marx from Groucho. As he mentioned Channel 5, the station that broadcasts the show in New York, he grinned: "My wife likes Channel 5 (applause) . . . Chanel 5 from Paris, you know [laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1967 | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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