Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Childhood friends return to their hometown to battle an evil force that takes the shape of a clown. TV rarely ventures into real horror, and this clunky mini-series based on Stephen King's novel shows why. There are more shudders in an average episode of Twin Peaks...
...Twin Peaks, in its new Saturday-night time slot, is languishing in 75th place in the ratings for the season to date, averaging a paltry 16% share of the viewing audience. Yet ABC's chief of programming hails the show as "a great ratings success...
...main challenge for the networks, however, is to find ways of wooing back viewers who seem bored by the sameness of network programming. The success of such offbeat shows as The Simpsons and Twin Peaks early this year demonstrated that these viewers will perk up for formula-breaking fare. The result, say many TV producers, has been a rather confused quest for unusual shows. "The question is always, 'Why is this show different?' " says David Gerber, president of MGM/UA Television. "((Network programmers)) are worried that they might get a well-executed show but that it won't be different enough...
...Eagle Has Two Heads also resembles Lynch's masterpiece, Twin Peaks, in its cast of eccentric and absorbing characters; a deaf-mute, a pathological count, and a crazy queen only head the list...
...after all. It's about male behavior. Physically, it may be women's problem; morally, it is men's. But where, outside a few campus grouplets, is their conversation taking place? Men's magazines still use the subject to titillate, as when Esquire puts the dead Laura Palmer of Twin Peaks on the cover of its "Women We Love" issue. A 10-year study suggests that more than one-third of alleged group sexual assaults on college campuses are perpetrated by athletes; fraternities are blamed for the majority of such attacks. Where are the coaches, the administrators, the alumni forever...