Word: segelstein
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...likes are theirs, and his dislikes are theirs. He was born with perfect pitch for American pop TV taste. "He's the man with the golden gut," says Bonny Dore, a former ABC director of variety shows. "He knows instinctively what works and what doesn't." From Irwin Segelstein, Silverman's counterpart at NBC, comes similar and perhaps, given the source, more telling praise. Says he: "Freddie has some strange umbilical relation to the viewer...
...often does?guarantee the commitment of hundreds of thousands of ABC's dollars to a producer. According to lore, Silverman can give a producer a yes or no within 15 minutes. B. Donald ("Bud") Grant, his counterpart at CBS, will say, "I'll think it over." At NBC, Irwin Segelstein will say, "We're having a meeting on it in two weeks...
Inevitably, many of the new shows will falter, but this year the turkeys will be gone long before Thanksgiving. Replacement series are already in production. "Things were different in the past," notes NBC Executive Vice President Irwin Segelstein. "Now we've got to be ready for anything, any time." The race may be starting next week, but its end is nowhere in sight...
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