Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...series is set in the Hollywood television industry-a milieu that could prove to be as durable as the Minneapolis TV newsroom of MTM. White plays Joyce Whitman, a veteran TV actress who stars in a fictional network cop show called Undercover Woman. Joyce's ex-husband, a self-described "cold fish" played with slimy charm by John Hillerman, is also her director, and for much of the first episode, the two ex-spouses rekindle their marital acrimony by trading insults on the Undercover Woman set. Occasionally-and gratuitously-Joyce's roommate (Georgia Engel, another MTM refugee) pops...
...gruff but likable Lou Grant, who lost his newsroom job at WJM-TV, cut the mustard on a daily newspaper? Can gimpy Fred Sanford dance out of a ghetto junkyard and onto a variety-show stage? Will a web-footed survivor from Atlantis surface as this season's TV hero...
...dramas The cops and gumshoes who dominate the TV job market will be joined by a few other career men. Actor Ed Asner, former chief of MTM's newsroom, gets a Los Angeles newspaper job-and a crusty lady boss-on CBS's Lou Grant. Lawyers Rosetti and Ryan, having survived a spring tryout, will hang out their shingle on NBC. Patrick McGoohan will scrub up in CBS's Rafferty, the season's only medical show, playing a former Army doctor whose professional skills outshine his bedside manner...
...have been providing for a long time. But this can be wrenching for serious newspapermen, of whom there are a good many at the limes. There some reporters and editors Complain that important news is playing second artichoke to investigative reports on vegetables and hot scoops on wicker furniture Newsroom cynics jest that it is difficult to get a story into the paper without a recipe attached. Others suggest that the Times augment Living with a weekly section called Dying, filled with obituaries and funeral-parlor ads, and launch a new insert called News. A hapless reporter, so one routine...
Director Silver (Hester Street) is a bit studied and schematic in her juxtaposition of scenes, but she is attuned to the hip, offhand humor of the Mainline's newsroom. In one sequence, a bearded interloper hurls a typewriter to the floor in a self-styled act of conceptual art, only to have a group of staffers top him by smashing up the office and punching a hole in the wall...