Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Godfather [1972]. NBC would have us believe there is nothing else worth seeing this week when compared to the Mario Puzo/Marlon Brando blockbuster, so we'll play it their way. Actually, this isn't bad movie. The critics said it was one of the rare films that mix mass appeal with artistic merit, and that is probably true. As you watch it, you should be mildly offended that NBC paid Paramount $10 million to show it one time, and that NBC in turn charged advertisers about $200,000 for one minute of air time. Fuck 'em by turning...
People couldn't decide whether it was chic or declasse to be interviewed by The Times. The Ivy Club--confronted by a camera crew from NBC--had barred all press from their formal extravaganza Saturday night. But the earthier crowd at Cottage seemed for the most part thrilled by the presence of a reporter in their midst--although the Times photographer was forcibly prevented from shooting the roulette tables, where the son of the governor of New Jersey was blithely gambling away in defiance of state...
...Mary Tyler Moore was also canny enough to surround her with the best talent in the business. "My career," he says, "has been an inexorable march to get as close as I could to the creative product, working through people who made the shows." That march included stints at NBC and 20th Century-Fox, where he developed a sure instinct for commercial comedy and new talent, including Writer-Producers James Brooks and Allan Burns (see box page 60), the creators of both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. Yet, as Tinker is the first to acknowledge, every supersedes owes...
While the pilot for The Dick Van Dyke Show was being filmed, the recently separated Mary was introduced to an NBC executive whose own marriage had just dissolved. Mary and Grant were married three years later. The network elevated Tinker to vice president in the programming department and made his headquarters Burbank, Calif., where his bride happened to be working. A five-year idyll ended in 1966, when NBC ordered Tinker back to Manhattan, and Dick Van Dyke decided to leave his show to pursue a film career...
Angie Dickinson, as Sergeant "Pepper" Anderson on NBC'S Police Woman (Friday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), is at least permitted to be just not-so-plain Angie, and any program that allows this attractive, good-humored actress to be her familiar self cannot be all bad. The regular supporting cast, headed by Earl Holliman, is competent, and the action sequences are crisp. There is also some attempt to put the cops in contact with interesting criminals and characterized victims...