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...newspapers, and another book is due out next month. All are the work of 400 eight-to-18-year-old contributors recruited from around the country. The move to TV was the idea of 60 Minutes producer Harry Moses, who had worked on a piece about the organization. PBS was so impressed by a pilot version that it offered a $2 million grant for the first twelve shows. However, Moses must find a new backer for next season...
...MIKADO (PBS, Oct. 28, 9 p.m.). Director Jonathan Miller turns the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta into a Marx Brothers-style musical in this English National Opera production, which opens the Great Performances season...
Even before this fall, however, the excitement had largely drained out of , these annual new-season blitzes. For one thing, there is too much happening elsewhere on the dial, from PBS to pay cable. For another, authentic new network hits seem harder and harder to come by. When the audience for network TV was huge and habitual, nearly anything that programmers threw out at least got sampled. Today most new shows seem doomed to demise unless they get a time slot next to an established hit. Of the 22 network series introduced last fall, only two wound...
...THEBAN PLAYS (PBS, Sept. 16, 23, 30, 9 p.m. on most stations). Sophocles' tragic Oedipus trilogy gets world-class treatment in a BBC production starring Anthony Quayle and Claire Bloom...
...NOVA (PBS, Sept. 6, 8 p.m. on most stations). TV's longest-running science series launches its 16th season with a four-part look at the development of modern surgery...