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DIED. Eric Milliard ("Ricky") Nelson, 45, clean-cut rock singer and former teenage idol who grew up on TV's longest-running family sitcom, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952-66) performing such early recordings as A Teenager's Romance (1957), Poor Little Fool (1958) and others, which sold more than 35 million copies by the time he was 21; in a DC-3 crash that also killed his fiancée and five members of his band; near De Kalb, Texas. Nelson had difficulty shedding his adolescent image after the TV program's demise, and his albums did poorly...
...increases, except in special cases. Producers are also feeling the pressure. Esther Shapiro, executive producer of Dynasty, decided against Arledge hiring a high-priced actor for her show this season when the task of get ting company approval proved too onerous. Before the takeover, ABC gave its top-rated sitcom Who's the Boss? $50,000 to shoot part of one episode at a softball field. "I don't think we could do that now," says Producer Robert Sternin. "I really think the money has dried...
...chief last November after running ABC's mini-series and theatrical-films operations, "because what goes on the screen will make us succeed or fail." The network has ordered 27 pilots for potential fall series, more than either of its two rivals. Lucille Ball will star in a new sitcom, and other prospective series include a sci-fi drama based on the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. "Some of the shows may be expensive, some of them may be less expensive; that's a secondary consideration," says Stoddard. "The cheapest program is the program that works...
Shapiro may be exaggerating the public's docuphobia. Consider how quickly the home audience tired of sitcom verities and embraced the supposedly factual dramas laid out in Survivor and its spawn. If reality TV can take over, why not reality...
...anchor and writer for 14 years at ABC and NBC, Linda Ellerbee achieved her own kind of fame as a television personality--outspoken, irreverent and insightful. She was a real-life Murphy Brown, and the rumor was that she inspired the sitcom. This month Ellerbee, 60, comes out with a new book, Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table. She spoke with TIME's ANDREA SACHS about an array of topics, from women in TV news to her battle with cancer...