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...trademark is fitting, for Home Improvement is one of those shows that don't inspire a lot of verbalizing. Murphy Brown is more trendily topical; Roseanne has more behind-the-scenes intrigue; Seinfeld appeals more to the thirtysomething opinion makers. All Home Improvement does is draw the biggest crowds. The ABC sitcom debuted last season to solid ratings (helped by a surefire time slot, between Full House and Roseanne). But this season, moved to Wednesday nights, it has powered its way to a new level. For five of the past six weeks, Home Improvement has been TV's highest-rated...
...have their eyes on the $4 billion spent each year on video games, the $12 billion on video rentals, the $65 billion on residential telephone service, the $70 billion on catalog shopping. They are eager to find out how much customers will shell out to see last night's Seinfeld or the latest Spielberg. They are exploring the market for addictive video games and trying to figure out how much they can charge for each minute of play. It won't be long before someone begins using video phones for the multimedia equivalent of "dial-a-porn" telephone-sex lines...
...Teach" (Anthony Ejarque) is the most dominating of the three. Teach's frenzied ravings (reminiscent of Seinfeld's Kramer) disturb the monotony of the play while expressing his overarching nihilism. Unlike Patrone, Ejarque's and Ritchell's performances are merely adequate, though the blame probably lies mostly with Mamet...
...other veterans -- The Golden Girls, Matlock and In the Heat of the Night -- were given their unconditional release. (All were later picked up by rivals.) The network's last remaining Top 10 hit, Cheers, will call it quits at the end of this season; highly regarded younger shows like Seinfeld have not lived up to ratings expectations; and with the loss of David Letterman, even NBC's dominance of late night seems in jeopardy. The network is desperately in need of a miracle. Homicide: Life on the Street, which makes its one-hour debut in the coveted time period following...
...executives would divulge details of the negotiations, insiders say NBC made several offers, including a weekly prime-time slot. But Letterman rejected them. "If you were going to do a half-hour of prime-time television," he explained, "you would have to do it as well as Jerry Seinfeld does it. I couldn't do it that well, so why waste my time?" The prospect of a different kind of prime-time showcase -- a variety show, say -- also held little appeal. "I would not be interested enough in that format to do what it took to make it work...