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...enough of those.) The only shows she doesn't want her children to watch are the horror shows. Otherwise, says Delmar, "I'm trusting my kids to make the right choice. I'm hoping this philosophy works." So far, it seems to. Ashley, who's partial to Doug on Nickelodeon, is president of her student government, and Steven, who likes ESPN and The Dick Van Dyke Show, does well in sports...
Tarses scoffs at the rumors that Geraldine Laybourne, the former head of Nickelodeon who runs Disney's cable networks, might take over her job. "Gerry and I spoke on the phone and both commented on the ludicrousness of it," says Tarses. "She has a job that she loves very much and works very hard at. She has no interest in coming over here. No one approached her, and she never approached anyone." Iger also flatly denies that any overtures were made to Laybourne. A more likely scenario, say close ABC watchers, would be for Eisner to persuade Marcy Carsey...
Murdoch, meanwhile, wants to use the Family Channel as an outlet for Fox's children's programming, thus creating a potent challenger to Viacom's Nickelodeon. "Acquisition of the Family Channel would mark another step in Murdoch's drive to establish a dominant presence in production, packaging and distribution," says Steven Rattner, a media-investment banker at Lazard Freres. "It looks smart...
...dozen series airing on network and cable television that center on young women in their mid-teens so capable, self-assured and unfrivolous that any feminist would be proud to call them little sisters. Three of the shows--ABC's Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (Friday, 9 p.m. EDT), Nickelodeon's The Secret World of Alex Mack (airing three times a week) and the WB's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Monday, 9 p.m. EDT)--have even bestowed symbolic supernatural powers upon their young heroines...
Launched in March, MTV's animated comedy Daria (Monday, 10:30 p.m. EDT) focuses on a brainy girl who may not zap ice-cream cones, Alex Mack-style, in the face of uncharitable classmates but can always cut them down with her sharp tongue. Meanwhile, Nickelodeon's The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (Saturday, 9 p.m. EDT) offers up a modernized Nancy Drew in flannel shirts. Played by a Harvard senior, Irene Ng, Shelby is an after-school police-department intern who just can't curb her urge to fight crime as an extracurricular activity. Then there...