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24—The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 14, 1987 The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 11, 1987 arts New spy series Networks reveal programming strategy By KATHRYN BAKER get back into the business on Sun- left Miami Vice in its earlier, 9 p.m. Tartikoff insists that NBC isn't PBS shows focus on date rape tribute to AP Television Writer day night, and three moviesagainst EST time period and renewed sitting on its laurels, but is trying to Dr. Brothers will analyze news classics each other simply isn't very strong Crime Story. be innovative with existing, suc- for any By ROBERT BARR By KATHRYN BAKER the original, two-hour pilot he NEW YORK NBC is trying to network." Shows that will not benefit are cessful shows. There are new writ- wrote. be innovative without tampering The By JERRY BUCK the new program, which she plans chologists are allowed to have AP Television Writer Vice was derived from a biggest factor affecting this skewed toward older audiences, ers, for example, on Miami Vice Associated Press Writer movie pro- with success. CBS is pinning its AP Television Writer to do in one-minute segments on fun." jectYerkovich had wanted to do after season's programming, decisions like Murder, She Wrote and 60 Min- and a new main character on Tuesdays and Thursdays. was hopes on bold programmingmoves. like the surprise renewals of Sledge uteson CBS, prompting NBC's deci- Cheers. Then the She wearing a black and NEW YORK New Image Teen UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. For his three-year stint on Hill Street. each ABC is counting on Dolly Parton to Hammer! and Story and sion to challenge those ratings LOS ANGELES You know anchor from participating white tweed skirt and short jacket Theater demonstrates that teen-ag- Anthony Yerkovich, his new NBC Yerkovich stayed with Vice for the Crime "I've just seen shows fall off the what Oliver North station will have one minute ask and a dotted blouse which had start the week right with her new scheduling of new shows like Tour giants by moving Family Ties to said, but Dr. to been ers can take themselves seriously, series Private Eye is an homage to first half of its first season, then left face of the map because they didn't Joyce Brothers will tell you why he a question. made for her for the show. even if television often does ' Fritz Lang, Orson variety series. of Duty, is a small box with num- Sunday. undertake any change or they not. Welles, Dashiell! to write a movie script, Gunslingers, NBC won in a Another said it in a news segment that looks In the pilot, she talks about North "I love this suit," she said. "I Three shows produced this Hammett and to film-noir An- a character study of four its second season bers on it called a "people meter." programming trend of weren't willing to run the risk of by San Los Naval avi- row last huge The the season at the psychological issues behind and why he was seen as a hero. wear it all the time. It's my lucky Diego theater group are appearingon geles, the "city of the imagination." ators in the Indian year, building on the new device replaces the old due more to production tampering with a successful formu- stationed Ocean; success of the No. 1-rated The Cos- Nielsen economics is the current events. The series is the brainchild of outfit." She paused. "Can a psy- public television this month. The best To the average television which he hopes to get produced. audiometer that recorded rise of so-called la," he said. "But I think that viewer, by Show. CBS is hoping Cos has what "dramedies," The segments, called "The Psy- George Merlis, who developed chologist have a lucky outfit?" of the bunch, Date Rape, airs Thurs- however, it'll be a real good TV show Several other film ideas station the television was half-hour comedies you've got to shake things up a little merged peaked and is putting a Vietnam tuned no with drama, like Frank's on chology Behind the News," are Good Morning America into a hit She laughed and added: "When day. about an ex-cop who takes over his into'Private Eye, pivotal among to, matter who was watch- Place bit, and I think we've done that on them CBS, Hooperman Bever- being offered by USTV and will and also produced The CBS Morn- people have the least control over Date Rape is a sober and compel- murdered brother's detective busi- its period setting. War series on early Thursday to ing. The people meter records each on ABC or Miami Vice. I think the change on The compete with it. ly Hills Buntz on NBC. feature a two-way satellite link ing News, Dick Cavett Show fate you have the most supersti- ling look at an all-too-common abuse ness and hitches up along the way "You know, the devel- viewer's identification code. The Cheers will add years to its life." 1950 s have ABC, after a third-place finish ratings The half-hours are cheaper to that will allow each station news and Entertainment Tonight. tions. When they sent the first man of trust, and even more impressive with a rockabilly sidekick, while the oped in popular culture somewhat companies contend the peo- The threat of AIDS and its impact of last season, hopes the marginal ple meter will give a more make•and sell better in syndication, anchor to question Miss Brothers. to the moon many of the scientists for being developed by the troupe's strains of Joe Jackson jazzand period a lightweight reputation based on accurate on society is not lost on the network "I've really been doing this kind at the space center wore lucky young members. rock 'n' roll wail in the background. shows it renewed will build an audi- portrait of television viewership. where producers make most of Their research in- Hula Hoops and Davy Crockett hats, ence by executives. of .thing for years on an informal shoes or lucky shirts." cluded interviews Yerkovich is a friendly, open, hip, you a Happy without the pre-emptions their money from a successful `When people have with rape victims. know, Days perspective baseball that kept viewers from show. "It is something that we obvious- basis," said Miss Brothers. "News- Miss Brothers is no longer a "No" means "no," the program young guy he'll only say he's "old of the Yerkovich said. ly are concerned said Kim era," "I think seeing them last year. CBS Entertainment President B. about," papers and broadcast people call the least control practicing psychologist. "I think insists, and sex without consent is enough to get the show on the air" that overlooks some of the really, LeMasters, CBS vice president for me all the time to ask about the whose wicked way with ABC Entertainment President `ABC Entertainment Donald Grant said his network is over fate you have now that I don't have a practice I just another name for rape. words has significant innovations of the era, network programs. "We do not mandate psychological why behind a story. have a much better idea of what made him one of the most sought- Brandon Stoddard said the putting on more new programs than "I will never be the person I was innovations that .helped create the hopes. with President Brandon about that, because that would "About Gary Hart, about Elvis the most interests people and what disturbs after writers in He talked to begin the week it has in a decade, programs he before, never, ever," says one girl television. social fabric as we know it today, strengthby putting Dolly on instead Stoddard said the considers risky. probably end up having to take Presley memorabilia and why col- superstitions.' people," she said. you about the derivation of Private Eye innovations like "In practice who plays a victim. in television, atomic of a movie Sunday night. It will be "I don'tthink that some kind of advocacy position" in lectors of the expensive stuff are only see five or six his Universal Studios office, seatedin energy, freeways, network hopes to Frank's Place, people a day. The program contrasts the dev- the beginnings of the first network variety show in Tour Duty or Beauty favor of abstinence or use of con- men and not women. About Col. Now, I see and hear from thou- a stately wing chair more befitting integration, computers, of and the for example. astation of the young woman with the rock 'n' roll. several seasons. begin the week with Beast are programs doms, North and the Contra hearings. I. sands of people all over the coun- the one-time occupant of the office, As for the casting, that one could bragging of the young man, who Yerkovich said "I think one of the reasons vari- say, well, that's exactly like some- "We are dealing with the issue," got one call asking me why people Miss Brothers was in Los An- try." Alfred Hitchcock, than 19- strength by putting believes that "no" is just a woman's a tennis-shod he selected Michael Woods and was Beauty he said. "We are currently prepar- were upset about (Supreme Court geles to film a cameo appearance TV producer. year-old Josh ety kind of came to an end on of a thing else," he said. and the She still gives out a lot of advice way of saying "yes." Brolin after auditioning because there weren't stars to keep Dolly instead Beast is a fantasy about ing a Designing Women half-hour nominee) Robert Bork's beard.