Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will alternate with Mad. A second project, from screenwriter Steve Kerper, is, according to Lauren Corrao, a development executive at Fox, "a comedy show so original in its concept it cannot be described." (Hmmmm.) But save for UPN, which is considering, among other things, an adult game show or soap opera to go up against SNL, none of the other networks have immediate plans to challenge it. "It's a little amazing,'' notes UPN entertainment president Michael Sullivan, "that no one has really tried to counterprogram SNL all these years." Especially considering that the overall late-night weekend audience...
That Savannah, a new soap from producer Aaron Spelling (Sundays, 9 p.m. EST), could seem more grounded in reality than anything else on WB is indeed a tribute, though to what is open to debate. The show, which debuted last month and garnered the network its highest ratings ever (3.6 Nielsen points, compared with its average of 2.4), revolves around young women who live, love, cheat and eat a lot of pecan pie in the fashionable Georgia city that gives the show its name. Spelling has made some missteps in the past few years (e.g., University Hospital); with Savannah...
Neither. It actually may become an installment in the new season of "Ivory Tower," Harvard's own weekly student-run soap opera...
...past, we shied away from really serious topics because we didn't have the information to deal with them properly," says Andrea N. Moore '96, co-creator of the soap. "We're able to deal with issues more thoroughly now instead of stopping short...
...partnership was formed when Maloney met Danielle M. Dixon '97, who produces the soap, at an Office of the Arts reception at the beginning of the year. There, Maloney says, she realized that such an alliance would be a "really good marriage of what I wanted to do and what they were interested...