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Today the networks are scheduling either all-white shows (the sitcoms Friends, Seinfeld, Ellen and Mad About You are set in urban centers, but the only thing black on them is the coffee) or, increasingly, shows with multiethnic ensemble casts, like the NBC dramas ER and Homicide or Fox's new sitcom Lush Life, which stars two female friends, one white and one black, as does ABC 's new Clueless. A significant number of minorities still appear on TV, but they are only intermittently at the center of the action...
...fall--nearly twice the big-network total. Some of them star familiar names like Sherman Hemsley, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Robin Givens. One, UPN's Homeboys in Outer Space, is a must-see for the high-concept title alone. Some are refugees from the Big Four: Moesha, an urban sitcom starring teen singer Brandy Norwood, was developed for CBS, but after the network passed, UPN put it on the air in January and saw it blossom into a moderate...
...racial restructuring, a kind of ethnic perestroika. The four biggest networks, ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which finished announcing their prime-time fall lineups last week, appear to be turning away from minority programming. CBS will have only one black-themed show next fall, a new Bill Cosby sitcom. ABC will have only the aging sitcom Family Matters and the new sitcom Common Law, with Latino stand-up Greg Giraldo. Fox, once a bastion of black comedy, is down to Martin, Living Single and the multiracial drama New York Undercover. All told, that's six minority-themed shows...
...there's this sitcom that requires a lot of physical comedy and is going to get the most coveted time slot on TV, between Seinfeld and ER. Who could be the star? The answer is BROOKE SHIELDS. Really. While the choice of Suddenly Susan, her first foray into series television, may surprise some, Shields sees it as part of personal growth. "Comedy's very liberating," she says. "It allows you to be less self-conscious and less pristine." The show, about a newly single woman who edits romance novels, debuts in the fall. Shields, of course, is engaged to marry...
...kidney transplant at a hospital in San Francisco. Bombeck began writing her column in 1965 and three years later it was nationally syndicated, appearing twice a week in over 700 newspapers. She was a correspondent on ABC's "Good Morning America" for 11 years and starred in the brief sitcom "Maggie" which lasted for only eight episodes. Bombeck was also the author of several books including "The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank," "I lost Everything in the Postnatal Depression," and "When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home." Bombeck suffered kidney failure...