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...Vice President killed and a deadly poisonous gas asphyxiates everyone within a several-block radius. Oh, yeah, the Russian President is assassinated, and the world's in chaos. This plausible scenario is the setup for Seven Days, a new series being created for the fledgling (and lowest rated) UPN Network. Produced by Paramount Television (which owns UPN) at a cost of more than $4 million, Seven Days' pilot is reputedly the most expensive produced for the new season, twice as pricey as most others. Where's the moolah going? Into the special effects, from computer-generated images of the White...
...stormy tenure at the network was marked by clashes with management over coverage issues. Fearing Molinari might use her position partially, CBS tried to steer her away from political commentary. She left the network in June...
...noble quest: "It's driven as much by the entertainment industry in those countries as by any genuine fear of being culturally swamped," says TIME Toronto bureau chief Andrew Purvis. "It's basically protectionism." No surprise then that the major initiative discussed was a proposed international news TV network to rival CNN. But CNN already has global rivals such as the BBC World Service, and overthrowing Mickey and Mickey D's may take a little more than hockey and Mike Myers...
From the beginning, the show was swathed in conspiracy; it begged to be suspected of as much far-fetched chicanery as it imputed to all those Trilateral geezers who look like Clark Clifford. Take our hero, Fox Mulder--his first name is the same as the network that owns the show. Mulder's FBI boss, the skinheaded Skinner, is a dead ringer for former Fox chief Barry Diller. And just what is the name of the show? The X Files, as the logo clearly states? Or The X-Files, as the publicity indicates...
...Time Warner (parent company of TIME Daily) is up 127 percent over the same period. Rupert wants to catch up, which is the main reason why News Corp. announced Monday that it would be offering 20 percent of its sexiest subsidiary, the Fox Group -- home to the Fox television network, the 20th Century Fox movie studio and the Los Angeles Dodgers -- to the public in a stock offering later this year. And this time, says Nelson Schwartz of FORTUNE magazine, Murdoch will get top dollar. "Entertainment stocks are very hot right now," Schwartz notes. "There's no Asian exposure because...