Word: rerun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...networks seemed to take the strike rather calmly last week, it was because they had the programming problem taped. When they ran out of fresh shows, all they had to do was rerun old ones. Or so it seemed until midweek, when Johnny Carson, incomparable compere of the Tonight show, blew the whistle-and town. He was through for good, it was announced, because the National Broadcasting Co. was playing tapes of his old shows during the AFTRA strike...
...conclusion of insiders was that the rerun issue was just the excuse that Carson needed in order to break and possibly sweeten the three-year NBC contract that he had signed last April. This winter, he took on Show Business Attorney Arnold Grant, and last month they asked NBC about reopening negotiations. The present contract provides Carson with more than $700,000 for a 39-week year, but that is far less than the $40,000 a week that he can earn playing nightclubs...
...third round of World Première, a series of special, two-hour TV-movies being filmed by Universal Pictures, NBC was in gleeful possession of at least the No. 2 and 4 ratings among all the movies shown this season-topped only by ABC's incredibly popular rerun of a movie-movie, Bridge on the River Kwai. With five more such originals to follow-at a cost of $750,000 to $1,000,000 apiece-NBC is all but assured of the only conspicuous new success of the year...
...bedazzling Lady Teazle in Sheridan's The School for Scandal, put on by the Association of Producing Artists, now established as New York's most professional repertory theater. Before the season is out, she will be playing in APA productions of Pirandello, Ibsen, Shakespeare and a rerun of You Can't Take It With You. In addition to all that diversity on Broadway and in touring stints in Toronto, Ann Arbor and Los Angeles, she will be seen this week in NBC-TV's Hallmark Hall of Fame playing Elvira in Blithe Spirit...
French for a Lifetime. With the next volume taking up all of her time, Julia has stopped taping The French Chef, plans to wait until color comes to educational TV before resuming it, because "I'm tired of grey food." Meanwhile, the program is being run and rerun on a rapidly increasing number of stations. Encouraged by the show's phenomenal success, Boston educational station WGBH-TV plans a new program on Chinese cooking presided over by Joyce Chen, Cambridge restaurant owner, cookbook author and teacher. Already, 80 stations have inquired about carrying the show as soon...