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Everybody hates reruns, but everybody loves clay animation. CONAN O'BRIEN did the math. On May 15, Late Night will air TV's first clay-animated rerun. "This took four very low-paid people a long time to do," says O'Brien. "And thank God we didn't have the money to do it right, because that would have looked really boring." The Mr. Bill--style animation covers all aspects of the repeat, from the monologue to guests MR. T, Richard Lewis and Johnny Knoxville--even the movie-promo clips. "In some of the shots you'll see a hand...
...chair and CEO Leslie Moonves took the stage at the upfronts today. No, we haven't accidentally rerun yesterday's column, though CBS did hold its presentation a day earlier. Thanks to corporate integration at Viacom, Moonves now also oversees young-adult-oriented UPN, in addition to CBS, the much older network, which airs shows about potbellied guys over 35. At CBS's presentation, Moonves gets to tell advertisers that they're crazy to focus on viewers under 35. At UPN, he tells them that's exactly what they want to be doing. He also gets to say things like...
Eight years ago, how many people thought that tapes of old games like the 1979 Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic...
...indeed toughening his stance, he'll have something to talk about with Bush. But if he goes to Washington merely to push for engagement, the visit could be an embarrassing rerun of former President Kim Dae Jung's White House misadventure in 2001. That summit went off the rails when Bush aired his long-standing doubts about negotiating with the North. "If you think President Bush is suddenly going to change his position because of Roh Moo Hyun?that's just not going to happen," says a Bush Administration official...
...front of an audience. CBS said that would cost too much, so Desi and Lucy took a cut in salary and in return were given the rights to the negatives of the films. Thus the three-camera film system, still used for situation comedies today, was created, and the rerun was born...