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...movie is billing itself as the first serious drama to explore another forbidden television topic: father-daughter incest. (Brother-sister love was peeped at earlier this year by NBC'S Princess Daisy.) The two-hour show Something About Amelia, scheduled for Jan. 9, is receiving the prudent treatment that is usually accorded "controversial" subjects. Its promotional material comes replete with warnings for parents and a scholarly bibliography. Nevertheless, despite the effluence of manufactured sanctimony, Amelia is a taut and honest, if somewhat monochromatic, treatment of a painful subject...
...Cheers (NBC). Now in its second season, this barroom sitcom has found its saucy stride and, in Stars Ted Danson and Shelley Long, has created a mismatched pair that could give Tracy and Hepburn a run for their moxie...
Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever (NBC). A stirring video jukebox of the most memorable sounds of a quarter-century of soul, from the still irresistible Temptations through the stylized showmanship of Michael Jackson...
...NBC News Overnight. "Being best is not enough," rued NBC News Chief Reuven Frank in canceling this late-night paragon after 17 months. Insomniacs will miss Overnight's tough reporting, its sprightly sense of the absurd and especially its Queen of Tart, Co-Anchor Linda Ellerbee. The first nightly news show good enough to warrant reruns...
...then there is this: that for all the new technology, and the increasing availability of video goods to the general consumer; for all the local programs, and NBC's weekly Friday Night Videos; for all the new clubs and old joints and even the Schaumburg Snuggery; for all the new ways and new places to see music videos . . . MTV is still, for this moment, the place to be. It is not just the major leagues, it is the league, almost unto itself...