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What Nickelodeon has recognized, first of all, is that much of what makes kids kids is television. Nearly all the shows Nickelodeon has created are junior versions of adult programs. You Can't Do That on Television is a Laugh- In-like potpourri of sketches, blackouts and one-liners. Nick Rocks is a little-league MTV, and Don't Just Sit There is a talk show geared to and hosted by youngsters. The opening of Kids' Court slyly satirizes TV courtroom shows: two young "litigants" face the camera in dramatic closeup and state their beefs, then whirl and burst into...
This hip, TV-savvy attitude is also a major feature of Nick at Nite, the three-year-old companion service aimed primarily at adults, which takes over in the evenings when Nickelodeon signs off. The channel offers mostly old reruns, from The Donna Reed Show to Saturday Night Live, but the retreads are given a self-parodying spin with tongue-in-cheek promos (a "How to Be Donna Reed" home-study course) and special events like a "Do-It-Yourself Sitcom" contest. In that one, viewers were asked why their life ought to be a comedy series. Three families were...
More original programming is on the way. This week Nick at Nite offers Tattertown, a cartoon pilot from raffish animator Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) about a world where discarded objects come to life. Nickelodeon, meanwhile, is developing a sitcom about kids at a dude ranch, as well as a new show for preschoolers, Eureka's Castle, that will use animation, puppets and live action to explore problems like being afraid of the dark...
Committee chairman Nick Patsaouras brushed aside skepticism and promised that the structure would be "uplifting, giving one the feeling of soaring to the heavens...
...Allen Bourbeau 10 5 18 23 8 16 C.J. Young 11 13 9 22 5 10 Peter Ciavaglia 11 5 17 22 12 24 Ted Donato 11 4 12 16 4 8 John Weisbrod 9 8 4 12 6 15 John Murphy 11 7 5 12 2 4 Nick Carone 10 5 6 11 5 10 Tod Hartje 11 2 6 8 4 8 Ed Krayer 11 3 4 7 0 0 Kevan Melrose 10 0 6 6 18 44 Ed Presz 11 3 2 5 7 22 Mike Vukonich 4 3 2 5 1 2 Craig Taucher...