NETWORKS STAY WITH THE PROGRAM
Though we're only midway through the 1997-98 television season, some trends are emerging that have forced network executives to change the way they do business. Overall ratings are down from...
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NETWORKS SCRAMBLING FOR TALENT
As the broadcast networks' development season for next fall's new shows kicks into high gear, executives, producers and studios are facing a major problem -- finding the right people to...
BOCHCO RACES TO SAVE `BROOKLYN’
Steven Bochco makes no bones about it. His new police drama, "Brooklyn South," he admits, has problems. "We're not there yet creatively," Bochco said, sipping bottled water in his big,...
NOTRE DAME 73, ST. JOHN’S 65
Fran Fraschilla sat in the Madison Square Garden interview room denying any presence of a St. John's letdown on Saturday. But later in the still-confident St. John's locker room, players...
TOM SELLECK JUMPS BACK INTO WEEKLY TV
You could say that Tom Selleck's new CBS sitcom, "The Closer," is a spinoff of NBC's "Friends." Getting his own series was the last thing the "Magnum P.I." star envisioned...
HONDURAS ON HOLD
`Honduras??!!" Friends shrieked in disbelief when the subject of our next vacation came up. People go to Central America to dive in Belize or eco-tour Costa Rica. But Honduras? The...
ON COP SHOW, ONE MORE TAKE IS THE NORM
It doesn't take long, hanging around the set of a television production, to figure out why it takes days to create one hourlong episode. Scenes with numerous cast members and...
TARNISHED REPUTATIONS
If the now-retired David Brinkley needs to raise some fast cash by shilling for the Archer Daniels Midland agribiz conglomerate, that's his business. Yes, his ADM television commercials soil a...
RARE `MEDIUM’
In an eerily quiet banquet room in a midtown Manhattan hotel, about 60 people are listening to James Van Praagh speak to the dead. And if Van Praagh is to...
A FIRST-CLASS TICKET TO THE GREAT PASSENGER SHIPS OF OTHER ERAS
Lost Liners By Rick Archbold and Robert Ballard Hyperion, 223 pages, $60 Right in time for Titanic-mania comes "Lost Liners," a handsome and fascinating volume that takes readers on a...