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...Canceled, would air really awful shows that bombed. I met with Kris Slava, vice president of acquisitions and scheduling, and gave him a list of shows I wanted to air: The Chevy Chase Show, My Mother the Car, Manimal, Pink Lady and Jeff and Mr. Smith, the 1983 NBC sitcom about an orangutan that ran a Washington think tank. Slava put a lot of work into looking into this and discovered that the freaks who owned Chevy Chase's talk show not only wanted a fortune per episode but would sell us only all 30. Finally, we decided that since...
...tired of being the people in Europe everyone loves to put down, and Berlusconi proved why when he attempted to explain away his gaffe at the Strasbourg Parliament. Martin Schulz, he prattled, reminded him of Sergeant Shultz, the bumblingly sycophantic but endearingly human guard on the 1960s American sitcom Hogan's Heroes, which used to run on Berlusconi's private Mediaset network. That such a trite image of Germans would be foremost in his mind isn't just embarrassing to Berlusconi; it's embarrassing to Germany, too. Despite spending half a century in a painful, unprecedented process called Vergangenheitsbew...
...late that year, right before being forced to take a year off for academic reasons, when he had the sobering realization that classes and books should come before plays and former sitcom stars...
...Scripted," yes: the new schedules are heavy on old-fashioned sitcoms and dramas written by writers--but, then again, so were last fall's. "Quality"? The jury's still out: the networks show only clip reels to the press at upfronts, so it's as if the Cannes Film Festival consisted entirely of movie trailers. But "original"? There's the first belly laugh of the new season. CBS had the two biggest new dramas last year with CSI: Miami and Without a Trace; so it announced three more crime dramas, plus two other dramas with cops as major characters...
...front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas: Skin, a Romeo-and-Juliet romance between the daughter of a porn czar and the son of a D.A.; The Ortegas, a sitcom about a family that produces a talk show--recorded live on tape with real celebrities--in its home; Still Life, a family drama narrated by the dead son; and Cracking Up, a dark sitcom about a psychology student studying a family of rich lunatics...