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...field of candidates has emerged. Two new dramas, CBS's First Monday and ABC's The Court, are set at the Supreme Court; Fox's 24, CBS's The Agency and ABC's Alias, in the once maligned CIA. Fox's The American Embassy follows cute young diplomats in London. Dramas like Fox's Boston Public and CBS's The Guardian and JAG spotlight public school teachers, family-law workers and the military, respectively. In the works for next season: dramas about the Senate and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The possibilities are endless. The Mint! USPS Blue...
...grownups have cared to accomplish, the nominating committee of the Daytime Emmy Awards has learned how to tell the difference between twins MARY-KATE and ASHLEY OLSEN, 15. Last week only Mary-Kate was nominated for an acting award for So Little Time, the TV show on the ABC Family network in which they both star. Apparently Mary-Kate's portrayal of the spontaneous Riley Carlson resonated more deeply than Ashley's depiction of the overachieving Chloe Carlson. In addition to the TV show, the two collaborate on a self-titled clothing line, a self-titled magazine and self-titled...
...sacred as Nightline is to news junkies and journalists, the ABC News folks know which way the wind is blowing. They aren't naive, just depressed. "I believe in the capitalist system," says Sam Donaldson, whose future as the host of This Week is up in the air after the retirement announcement of his co-anchor, Cokie Roberts. (According to press reports, ABC is grooming a replacement team of Claire Shipman and George Stephanopoulos.) "We are owned by a company that wants to make money, and I believe that the people who run these companies have...
...people it might affect, although not necessarily adversely, is ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings. If Koppel departs, Jennings, as one of ABC's last superpower anchors, could have serious leverage when his contract expires this summer. Industry estimates place his salary at about $10 million a year. ABC could not afford to lose both him and Koppel. In his first statement since being cuckolded by his entertainment-division bosses, ABC News president David Westin declared, "We have every hope, expectation and wish that Peter Jennings will be the principal anchor at ABC for years to come...
While its current melodrama gets the headlines, ABC News shares the same fate as its rival news divisions. All are expected to perform alchemy--to increase market share while cutting the budget and, oh yeah, delivering the news in a lively, interesting and accurate manner. Iger insists that he and Eisner give ABC News their full support. "We cheer them on," says Iger, "on a regular basis. We're constant and avid viewers. We oftentimes suggest things that are attempts to help news grow versus contract: we've urged on many occasions for more programming...so I take exception...