TELEVISION ' NEWS, PROGRAMMING and PEITSCIALITIES U\‘� Vv, Ei 0,A1 Fr 31 Sir' INSIDE TV / by MATT ROUSH a 'Dream' Comes True for Ihirtysomething' Duo

TELEVISION ' NEWS, PROGRAMMING and PEITSCIALITIES U\‘� Vv, Ei 0,A1 Fr 31 Sir' INSIDE TV / by MATT ROUSH a 'Dream' Comes True for Ihirtysomething' Duo

TELEVISION ' NEWS, PROGRAMMING AND PEITSCIALITIES u\‘ Vv, ei 0,A1 fr 31 Sir' INSIDE TV / BY MATT ROUSH A 'Dream' comes true for Ihirtysomething' duo These thirtysomething guys are on a roll. Not only did they pull off a coup by winning the Emmy for best drama (when L.A. Law was the favorite), but NBC has given the show's producers an order for a midseason drama series - a working-class, New Jersey slice-of-life show titled Dream Street. Executive producers Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick will produce a 90-minute premiere episode and Ave one- hour episodes about men and women "all fighting to And love, hope and dignity on the tough Jersey streets." And did you ever wonder what the office of an Emmy- winning production looks like the day after? Flowers, flow- ers everywhere. Bottles of champagne in gilt paper. And the largest basket of fruit you've seen. That's what the thir- tysomething offices looked like on the day after the Em- mys were handed out. The ostentatious fruit basket came from good sport Steven Bochco — executive producer of NBC's L.A Law — along with a four-line typed letter of con- gratulations to Herskovitz and Zwick. YOU ARE THERE: John F. Kennedy's 1963 as- gassination is widely regard- ed as one of the first major news happenings that linked the nation by televi- sion. The immediacy of that tragedy will be recaptured on cable's Arts & Entertain- ment network, which will begin broadcasting 4IA straight hours of NBC's news coverage of the break- ing news story at 1:56 p.m. EST on Nov. 22 — the exact minute NBC broke into its schedule with news of the HE WAS THERE: Newman shooting. hosts JFK special on ABBE. Edwin Newman, part of the NBC news team that day, will be host of IFIC: As It Happened, a six-hour special that will be aired minus commercials. The 11/2 hours of uninter- rupted news footage will be followed by a 90-minute con- densation of the six hours of NBC's evening coverage. (NBC owns one-third of the A&E network.) The network plans to send study guides to 15,000 USA high schools to correspond to the broadcast, which will he repeated the following Saturday morning, Nov. 26. ALJ IASIOG. • .

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