Word: tbs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hollywood's challenge is to entertain as it informs. This fall TBS will introduce children to the cartoon villain Dr. Carbon on Captain Planet. Producer Paul Witt (Golden Girls) is developing a three-hour all-star "practical guide to saving the planet"; Witt hopes all three networks will air it simultaneously. In September a medley of pop stars will shoot Yakety Yak, a music video about recycling. Its refrain: "Yakety yak, take it back...
WITHOUT BORDERS (TBS, Feb. 19, 10 p.m. EST). A documentary on five of the world's great rivers and the people fighting to save them, produced for environment-minded TV mogul Ted Turner...
...GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS (TBS, Jan. 28, 11:05 p.m. EST). Morning-line favorites for Oscar nominations vie for statuettes as the annual awards-show binge begins...
LARRY KING'S NIGHT OF SOVIET TELEVISION (TBS, Nov. 30, 8:05 p.m. EST). The talk-show host presides over a three-hour sampler of video glasnost, ranging from documentaries and quiz shows to a bedroom farce adapted from Dostoyevsky...
...announcing last week's dismal performance figures, TBS accountants tried hard to get out all the bad news at once. Their financial statement included $26 million in loss provisions for the ill-starred Goodwill Games, which had ended less than four weeks earlier. Turner noted that while his losses are "on their face, quite large," TBS business operations continued to show "satisfactory growth." The seafaring entrepreneur clearly intends to hang onto his dogged spirit of optimism as he tries to beat past the threatening reefs...