Word: minis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Board of Overseers member John Lithgow '67 announces plans to film the deliberations of the board for a poignant three-part television mini-series. Lithgow will star as a member who is silenced for his proposal of divestment from companies that dump sewage into Boston Harbor, and Fred Grandy '70 will portray the stern President Bok in the film, to be called, "Divestment Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry...
...observation, it seems, applies even in the normally bland and polite world of Japanese business, specifically in the case of the Tsutsumi brothers, whose quiet rivalry has led not only to strife but also to success and enormous wealth. If that is not enough to inspire a crackling TV mini-series, add the fact that at least one of their fortunes rests on the graves of shoguns...
...fine period costumes, no tasteful cello music. This is a crackling, contemporary political thriller, directed at headlong speed by Mick Jackson from a witty, clued-in script by Alan Plater. The dialogue is dense, often overlapping, sometimes unintelligible. Compared with such relatively simpleminded American efforts as the NBC mini-series Favorite Son, A Very British Coup seems revolutionary in its own right: a TV political drama for adults...
...LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE (PBS, Jan. 14, 8 p.m. on most stations). Wonderworks presents the first hour of a three-part mini-series based on the classic C.S. Lewis story of four children who discover a magical kingdom...
...with tongue-in-cheek promos (a "How to Be Donna Reed" home-study course) and special events like a "Do-It-Yourself Sitcom" contest. In that one, viewers were asked why their life ought to be a comedy series. Three families were then chosen to act out their own mini-sitcoms, with the help of guest stars like Eve Plumb of The Brady Bunch...