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...Silverman 's last-minute shuffle upstages the new series...
...season gets under way, TV's best show remains unchanged: it is the daredevil, off-screen saga of Master Programmer Fred Silverman. Newly enthroned as president of third-place NBC, Silverman just will not sit still. Last week on the eve of the new season's first premieres, he upstaged the entire industry by ripping up his own previously announced schedule. Silverman changed the prime-time lineup on five out of seven nights, shifting the long-running Saturday Night at the Movies to Wednesday and announcing a smorgasbord of "stunts" (movies and specials) for the fall. Says Mike...
...what it did. Reflects Gorey: "Before the Bakke ruling, the question was how America could remedy the effects of past discrimination without indulging in present and future discrimination. And that is still the question." This week's cover story, written by Edwin Warner and researched by Raissa Silverman, offers some answers in the new climate of the Bakke decision...
Neither ex-baseball great Art Shamsky nor designer Halston are in the running this year. Both model Cheryl Tiegs and T.V. superexec Fred Silverman appear likely winners, though...
...tube, and NBC's hope is that enough of them will spot one of their pretty men and stick around." Adds TV Consultant Mike Dann: "The trend is toward fantasy. There is more flesh exposed, but there really isn't much sex." It is a pattern that Silverman, who started it all when he was chief programmer at ABC, is not likely to change; S-Day may really stand for the Same, over and over again...