Word: paramount
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...remain relevant. Now it seems everybody wants to get into the network act. Warner's new WB Television Network, which premieres with a weekly two-hour block of sitcoms this Wednesday night, is one of two aspiring "fifth networks" making their debut this month. Next week the United Paramount Network -- a joint | venture by Paramount Television and Chris-Craft Industries, which owns a group of broadcast stations -- will introduce another starter network with four hours of programming on Mondays and Tuesdays. Both UPN and WB hope to expand to seven nights in the next several years, just...
...superstar Michael Jackson today brought a $100 million lawsuit against Paramount Pictures, the producers of "Hard Copy," calling a January 9 report aired by the TV tabloid show "slanderous, vicious and wholly fabricated." Diane Dimond, the "Hard Copy" reporter for the segment, claimed that a videotape had surfaced, allegedly showing Jackson sexually involved with a young boy, and that prosecutors had reopened their child molestation case against the singer. The Los Angeles District Attorney's office has denied that it is investigating such a tape. Also named in the suit: "Hard Copy" producer Stephen Doran, two hosts...
...keep its offense in focus--Harvard cannot take silly shots when there's plenty of time on the shot clock to pass the ball around some. And of course, accurate shooting from deep threat Mike Gilmore and good inside play from big men Darren Rankin and Snowden are paramount...
...break even for a few years. The producers hope to make it a holiday tradition in New York and other cities. "It's a story that has lasted 150 years," says Ockrent, "and I don't see why it shouldn't last another 150. Hopefully at the Paramount...
...University, then caught the first flight to Los Angeles. From a starting job at L.A. Weekly, he rose to positions as senior writer at Rolling Stone and West Coast bureau chief at US magazine. Since he joined TIME a year and a half ago, his assignments have included the Paramount-Viacom deal, the O.J. Simpson case and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction...