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...presentation, Moonves gets to tell advertisers that they're crazy to focus on viewers under 35. At UPN, he tells them that's exactly what they want to be doing. He also gets to say things like - referring to rap star Eve, who has a sitcom on the new schedule -"Her new show is going to be off the hizzle...
...back to the comedies. Those of you who have longed for Whoopi Goldberg to be liberated from the center square and star in a sitcom as a wisecracking hotel manager, suffice it to say your prayers have been answered. "Whoopi" is, to hear Zucker tell it, one of the "edgiest" new shows of the season, but there was little sign of that in the clips, save for the character of an Iranian handyman, which will apparently allow for a lot of wacky terrorist jokes. Meanwhile, "Happy Family" is not just a Chinese menu item anymore: it stars John Larroquette...
Eight years ago, how many people thought that tapes of old games like the 1979 Rose Bowl or the 1968 World Series could have much value? Brian Bedol did. As a developer of Nickelodeon's all-rerun Nick at Nite sitcom programming in the early 1980s, he had proved, as he puts it, that "once you take something out of the attic, polish it and put it on display, it becomes an antique." So in 1995 Bedol created the Classic Sports Network and showed that the allure of sports TV is more powerful than most people imagined. ESPN bought Classic...
Some of the teen TV shows and films are throwbacks to classic (i.e., old) Hollywood fodder. Lizzie McGuire, a genteel sitcom about a middle schooler, her parents and school friends, provides cheerful role models and helpful homilies. Dissing gets scrubbed into snappy patter, dysfunction into amiable eccentricity. And Duff makes the medicine go down with spoonfuls of beguilement. A budding beauty with good comic timing and the sense not to hit her emotions on the nose, she almost turns Lizzie into a striver. "She doesn't exactly fit in at school," Duff says. "Even though she's cool...
...Very Special Episode” of the mock sitcom “A Very Special Episode” makes all the clichéd jokes about TV dramas, and the Broadway version of The Karate Kid is of course a heartfelt (if at times off-key) rendition of street fighting with a musical twist. Still, the jokes work precisely because they are predictable—and the energy with which the actors pull them off is a delight to watch...