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Time Warner, the owner of Home Box Office, Cinemax and the nation's second largest cable system, and Turner, which controls CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network and TBS, remain publicly confident that the deal will ultimately be approved. If the commission should require either the sale of certain Time Warner or Turner assets or other major changes in the deal, then the merger could be in trouble--in no small part because Tele-Communications Inc., the nation's largest cable operator and an important Turner shareholder, retains the right to veto any changes it deems not in its own interests...
Being a first-time director is a risky game. Even if you have ANJELICA HUSTON's pedigree. TNT contracted Huston to make a version of the cult novel Bastard Out of Carolina, although the suits at the studio knew that the subject matter--a girl who's molested by her stepfather--wasn't exactly family fare. When Huston delivered her film, gritty scenes and all, it dawned on Turner execs (particularly Ted) that they couldn't air the movie without vigorous cuts. "Her vision of the film and what we could air were not the same thing," says a TNT...
This time the festival attracted visitors from Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...more sophisticated Law & Order. "There are guys out there, 18-to-34-year-olds, who want car chases, gunfire and action," says Wolf. "They are an audience who weren't being served." So now they'll have more to enjoy than just reruns of Starsky and Hutch on TNT...
...just one of these acts was enough to classify a program as violent. In addition, the survey covered a number of cable channels--among them USA, AMC, TNT, HBO and Showtime--whose schedules are filled with network reruns (including many action shows like Starsky and Hutch and Kung Fu) or theatrical films. This served to boost the overall totals of violent shows while masking the fact that violence in the most watched time periods--network prime time--has declined...