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...being shot in Detroit. Much footage for EMI Limited's The Deer Hunter, a blue-collar special starring Robert De Niro, was shot in a bowling alley in Struthers, Ohio, and a U.S. Steel plant in Cleveland. Bette Davis is starring in Harvest Home, a Universal Production for NBC being shot in Conneaut, Ohio...
...record." You don't have to be O.J. Simpson to drive through such a hole. Networks, too, get pretty fatuous when they defend their truth bending. When a committee of scientists objected to the way the networks played up and glorified pseudo science in shows like NBC's Bermuda Triangle special, a network spokesman explained that it was put on by its entertainment division and had not been labeled an NBC News special! Was the viewer supposed to note the omission...
...outdone by ABC's partnership with John Ehrlichman, CBS will create its own docu-drama based on Watergater John Dean's Blind Ambition. Event-loving NBC plans almost as many of these high-budget miniseries as its network rivals combined. Among them: 79 Park Avenue by Harold Robbins, Arthur Hailey's Wheels, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, plus a biography of Martin Luther King...
...Sports, music, beauty contests and holidays-all will be grist for dozens of upcoming specials. The networks' purpose will be purely contentious: to lure viewers out of TV habits or to spoil the debut of a rival's series. In the first week of the new season, NBC will present the first of six Laugh-In specials; in the weeks that follow, there will be a four-bout evening of heavyweight boxing, a Doonesbury cartoon special and The Godfather Saga, a nine-hour, four-night extravaganza combining both movies and some outtake footage too. ABC plans a Star...
Inevitably, many of the new shows will falter, but this year the turkeys will be gone long before Thanksgiving. Replacement series are already in production. "Things were different in the past," notes NBC Executive Vice President Irwin Segelstein. "Now we've got to be ready for anything, any time." The race may be starting next week, but its end is nowhere in sight...