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...London, a bill for commercial television passed the House of Commons by a vote of 291-265, and now faces the House of Lords. In order to squeeze through Parliament, the bill had been so adulterated that commercial TVmen complained that it combined the worst features of government and commercial TV. Grumbled the London Daily Mirror: "It is all snaffle, bit and blinkers, but no horse...
...about enough TV daytime charm. 'Only CBS's Godfrey and NBC's Tommy Bartlett are in the current Nielsen list of Top Ten daytime shows; Art Linkletter and Garry Moore have not quite made it, and all the others are far down in the ratings. But TVmen are persistent. ABC announced that Veteran Charm Boy Don McNeill will bring his Breakfast Club back to TV for a second try at providing "clean, tainment sparkling, every weekday heart-warming fun morning...
Hollywood TVmen are inclined to look askance at Director Albert McCleery when he says, with deep conviction: "Television is only for those who believe in it like a religion . . . It is the dream of mankind, the magic box that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time and the River...
...TVmen last week learned a surefire for mula for a first-rate show: a great deal of talent and half a million dollars. The money was supplied by Ford Motor Co. to celebrate its soth anniversary with a two-hour show carried by both CBS and NBC. The talent came largely from Broadway in the persons of Producer Leland Hayward. Choreographer Jerome Robbins and Songstresses Mary Martin and Ethel Merman...
...celebrate its 20th year on the air, Don McNeill's Breakfast Club (weekdays 9 a.m., ABC, E.D.T.) this week broke a hard & fast rule by giving its studio audience something to eat. The reason: the anniversary radio show was being televised for the first time, and literal-minded TVmen felt that Breakfast Club guests should be shown eating breakfast...