Word: showing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viewers would ask if they were in my place." While Carson is content to operate from New York City studios, with only occasional expeditions to the West Coast, Griffin insists that he will continue to get out of the studio and out of New York. "We want to show the viewer other parts of the world than a desk and three chairs," says his producer, Bob Shanks...
...Smothers network, pieced together at the local level out of independent stations and independent-minded network affiliates, premieres Sept. 10 with the fateful Easter Sunday tape CBS refused to broadcast last April. So far, stations in 75 cities have booked the show, and Smothers Inc. counts on signing up another 50. The total-though short of their old 190-city CBS line-up-includes most of the major U.S. population centers and some 90% of all U.S. households equipped with TV sets. Unlike most spliced-together syndication deals, the Smothers link-up will be simultaneous (air time: 8 p.m., everywhere...
Except for a changed ending (commemoration of the first anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. is out of date), the show will consist of the same tape that CBS decided "would be considered irreverent and offensive by a large segment of our audience" during the week of the Eisenhower funeral. CBS specifically cited a parody sermonette by Religion Satirist David Steinberg (his final line: "Let's put Christ back into Christmas and 'ch' back into Chanukah"). But more likely the network objected to the show's running gags about John Pastore, the influential...
...presenting the program, Tommy and Dick are not exactly plunging bravely into the unknown. The Canadian commercial network transmitted the show on schedule last spring, and ever since, Tommy has toured the U.S., screening the tape for Congressmen, Federal Communications commissioners and the press. The viewers' overwhelming reaction was that the program was not only inoffensive, but probably one of the best Brothers shows of the season...
Stations that sign up with the Smothers network get the last-year show free -in return for a commitment to carry in December a 90-minute Smothers special to be taped largely in Toronto. After that, Tommy figures that Smothers Inc. will have whetted enough viewer appetite to syndicate a regular series of monthly specials-or even win second-season time on one of the established networks on their own terms...