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Last week nine strangers equipped with scant food and a gallon of water among them were deposited on an uninhabited, mosquito-infested island off the Florida Keys, clueless as to when they'd be leaving. No, it wasn't the first episode of Survivor II, but rather the second attempt of Cuban baseball slugger ANDY MORALES to reach U.S. soil. Six weeks ago, the stellar third baseman tried to defect but was plucked from the sea and hauled back to his homeland, where a year earlier Castro had personally congratulated him for hitting the winning home run in an exhibition...
...that Survivor has begun luring the very same demographics, considerably buffing CBS's stodgy profile in the process, Sassa and his colleagues have finally seen the light. "Reality programming is definitely here," he announced last week. "It isn't a fad; it's a trend...
Here is CBS, reaping a summer-ratings bonanza with Survivor (and lesser returns with Big Brother). ABC, which doesn't need much help since it began airing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 24 hours a day last August, had a quasi-documentary series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage...
...quality really mattered in network TV, of course, NBC would be garnering Nobel Prize nominations for refusing to sully its schedule with the likes of the hokey Survivor and the intelligence-challenged Millionaire and the relentlessly odious Big Brother. Instead, Sassa and NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier have been hearing ominous rumors that their bosses are unhappy that the entertainment division has failed to clamber aboard the careering reality express...
...reason why this week's network prime-time programming schedule gives no hint, before Thursday (and George W.'s Big Speech), that the party currently tipped to win the presidential election will nominate its candidate this week. It's been bumped not just by such obvious candidates as "Survivor" and "Big Brother," but even by football and reruns of "Third Rock From the Sun." And with good reason: The viewing public has long ago voted with its remotes to nix prime-time convention coverage...