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...scarfing the fast food of yet to be signed patrons. "The runner lives in the real world, just like you and I," says ABC sales president Mike Shaw. "If the runner eats lunch at McDonald's in Cincinnati or shops at Sears, that's all very natural." A midseason WB wilderness-race show is being co-produced by Ford, which supplies the suvs the players will drive; the title, No Boundaries, is a Ford ad slogan. Fox may even do placements in Temptation Island 2. (Trojan, call your agency...
TUESDAY THE NEW AMSTERDAM THEATER This morning the WB assured us it would not miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer (lost to UPN) one bit. This afternoon ABC says it is not a smidge disappointed in the fading Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Everything is beautiful at the upfronts. Every old show is hot, every new one a sure hit, and every network is No. 1. The WB? No. 1 in teens! NBC? No. 1 in the rich! Through the magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen...
...seen all week: someone in a Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky-looking soap. I leave...
...comedy Spy Kids took the No. 1 spot at the box office with a story about a family of spies who just happened to be Hispanic, but you would have had a hard time pitching the idea as a TV series. Young whites had no problem embracing Popstars, the WB reality show about a girl group, three of whose five members were Hispanic...
...Wednesday: ABC and The WB Of Regis-cide and the Prodigal Buffy...