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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...
Warner and Paramount, the two newest entrants in the network derby, see Fox not as a nemesis but as a network to emulate. Just as Fox did at the outset, each has cobbled together a lineup of affiliates composed largely of independent uhf stations. Like Fox, each is starting modestly, with one or two nights of programming, and plans to expand gradually to additional nights. Moreover, both are trying to reach the same audience that Fox has made its specialty: teens and young adults, particularly males...
...first batch of shows on WB and UPN will convince no one that they are bringing something new to TV. The centerpiece of Paramount's schedule is Voyager, the fourth installment in the seemingly indestructible Star Trek series. The rest of UPN's schedule ranges from a mystery-adventure series, Marker, starring teen heartthrob Richard Grieco, to a pair of frenetic Fox- style sitcoms, Platypus Man, in which comedian Richard Jeni plays the oversexed host of a TV cooking show, and Pig Sty, about five twentysomething men who share a New York City apartment. The four sitcoms being introduced...
...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...