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Shows that could at least be touted as exploring-some would say exploiting-the new role of women may have been inevitable. To a degree, programming follows the headlines. When television convinced itself that youth was in a prerevolutionary state during the late '60s, shows like Mod Squad tried to cash in on the excitement. When the blacks and other ethnic minorities asserted a claim on the nation's attention. Sanford and Son was sure to follow. Once the feminists started gaining attention, how could a producer fail to concoct something like Charlie's Angels...
...clapped at once. Shouting matches broke out between husbands and wives in splendid evening clothes. Some of the crowd had brought old-fashioned trainmen's whistles, shrill enough to make a hound bay. Nonetheless, Chéreau came out to take curtain calls, wearing blue jeans, a shiny mod belt and a patient smile. Said he later: "I was very amused at the booing...
...Edited coverage," network officials call that abbreviated schedule, and at the last Democratic convention it paid off well. While CBS and NBC were carrying the usual speeches, floor demonstrations and mid-aisle interviews, ABC won half again as many viewers as either competitor by showing such drivel as The Mod Squad, The Super and Corner Bar. Despite that lead, ABC trailed the other networks in ratings during the late-evening hours, when all three focused on the convention: NBC won 8.2% of TV households...
...there in local television land, the past two years have seen a proliferation of "happy talk news" shows that are a demeaning parody of news coverage. In studios that look like mod courtrooms, people of aggressive charm bounce one-liners off each other in ways that trivialize the news and diminish the raw impact of the filmed dead on a Beirut street. This is news as spectator sport. Confident young women or quippy males in tweed jackets review plays, films and concerts they are ill-equipped to judge. Joshing between anchor man and weatherman makes it hard to remember tomorrow...
Facing a thatchwood wall in a mod African conference hall, a gathering of key Protestant and Eastern Orthodox leaders from six continents and four races last week sang and clapped to the accompaniment of a jazz combo, recited the Lord's Prayer simultaneously in a Pentecost of languages, then paraded out into the Nairobi night for an informal session of Christmas caroling...