Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unexpected, the strange and the fantastic: Steven Spielberg's eagerly awaited Amazing Stories, a new TV version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (both on NBC), and CBS's reincarnation of The Twilight Zone. CBS is premiering a fourth series, George Burns Comedy Week, which will feature a different comedy segment each week, linked by Burns, who acts as host, and the creative oversight of Co-Executive Producer Steve Martin. Each of these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never do TV. Network programmers will be watching the results closely. If one or more...
...Twilight Zone, by contrast, will offer mostly new segments (two to three per hour) based on stories by such writers as Stephen King, Ray Bradbury and Arthur C. Clarke; the directors include William Friedkin, Joe Dante (Gremlins) and Robert Downey (Putney Swope). The show has the difficult task of living up to Rod Serling's classic series, but the early signs are encouraging. A segment in the premiere show features Melinda Dillon as a harried housewife who has the power to make her noisy world stop dead in its tracks. The tone of antic irony, however, leaves the viewer unprepared...
Miami Vice already seems to have supplanted Hill Street as the darling of one segment of the TV audience: the Emmy Awards committee. The program has garnered a record 15 Emmy nominations (compared with Hill Street's eleven), including ones for best dramatic series and best actor (Johnson). No matter how it fares at the awards ceremony on Sept. 22, the show is changing the way TV looks and sounds. Two new series debuting this month, ABC's The Insiders and Hollywood Beat, each feature a pair of young crime fighters and a pounding rock score, a la Miami Vice...
...brokered cease-fire slowed the fighting on Thursday, the twelve-day death toll stood at more than 300 people, nearly half of them victims of a vicious car-bomb war that made every street a potential deathtrap. Health and Communications Minister Joseph Hasham, a Christian, spoke for a large segment of the country when he said, "Eighty percent of the cards are now in the hands of Syria. How long do we have to wait for a solution...
...superelderly," as they are sometimes called, represent the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. The number of Americans over 85 could double by the year...