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...morning after the second episode of her new series, Real Life with Jane Pauley, TV's newest prime-time star sits in her office, heating a cup of coffee in her microwave oven and fielding compliments from colleagues. One of them, NBC News president Michael Gartner, is in the hall outside her door. "What'd you think?" Jane calls out. "Liked it," says Gartner, a squarish, soft-spoken executive badly in need of some peace and quiet. Pauley senses there might be more on his mind: "You talking about anything . . .?" Gartner saunters toward her and offers one suggestion...
More Jane? Sounds impossible. No one in TV has been harder to avoid, either on the tube or in the press, over the past few months than Jane Pauley. For 13 years, she was the perky, professional, largely taken-for-granted co-anchor of NBC's morning show Today. When turmoil in the person of a blond, eager-to- please interloper, Deborah Norville, 32, engulfed the show last fall, Pauley bowed out -- and suddenly found herself the most in-demand news personality in America. She got her own prime-time show, which has drawn good ratings this summer...
REAL LIFE WITH JANE PAULEY (NBC, July 17 and 24, 10 p.m. EDT). Everybody's favorite ex-morning show host gets a prime-time showcase: the first two of five summer specials that will explore the "stresses and strains and silliness of the 1990s life-style...
According to NBC sources, Brokaw was not even consulted before news president Michael Gartner replaced veteran Nightly News executive producer Bill Wheatley about a month ago with Friedman, a volatile former executive producer of Today. But because Brokaw and Pauley have been close friends since * working together on Today, he is to all appearances comfortable with her assignment, at least as long as she remains sub-anchor. "Read my lips: nothing has changed," says Brokaw. "There will be internal restructuring, but we will still be covering the news. Jane will liberate me, in a way." Brokaw points out, however, that...
...helped lift his network into the lead, the gains by ABC World News Tonight do not fully offset the losses at the rival networks. Something new is needed to bring the lost viewers back. To judge from the past eight months of surging public affection for her, Jane Pauley just may have...