Word: ran
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roots: The Next Generations did not quite repeat the astonishing success of Roots I, but the seven episodes nonetheless knocked out everything that CBS and NBC ran against them. On Night 1, the show got a 41% share, beating American Graffiti (33%) and Marathon Man (28%). On Night 3, it pulled its biggest audience, 50% of all viewers, against two more movies. In the next three segments it slipped a couple of points, but still dominated the numbers...
According to Paley, CBS's problems began several years ago, when it ran out of inventory: attractive shows to replace the aging hits that it started the decade with. "We made a very, very serious blunder," he says. "Maybe we were too content, but when things started to go bad, we just didn't have the inventory we used to have. This was during the time Silverman was programmer [before he moved to ABC] too, so he has to take some of the blame along with other people. I frankly didn't know we were that...
...going to allow to develop things of broader significance. We began several innovations: we created a whole new form of novel for television that broke the traditional time barrier, things you can't do in theater or in motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory; it is a story about a person who goes through a breakdown. And one called Child Stealing, which is about...
...Buckingham Palace, is imprisoned in the Tower of London. The Queen and their two daughters are in exile in Australia. Thousands of Britons have been deported to work in German factories. A puppet government is ensconced in Westminster, but the Nazis jackboot the country as roughly as they ran occupied France. In Britain, too, there is a tough Resistance movement, as well as profiteers who will provide any quo for a quid...
...post somewhere near the Kenyan border. At week's end about the only sign of Amin's outsize presence in the city where he had held brutal sway for eight years was on television screens: rather than dwell on the perils facing Big Daddy, 55, TV stations ran long documentaries celebrating the past exploits of the country's self-proclaimed President-for-Life...