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...touchy ? and heretofore forbidden ? ethnic, sexual and psychological themes. Religious quirks, wife swapping, child abuse, lesbianism, venereal disease ? all the old taboos will be toppling. Marcus Welby last week joined the abortion debate with a patient who had not one but two in a single year. An upcoming ABC "Movie of the Week" will feature Hal Holbrook explaining his homosexuality to his son. Just for laughs, Archie Bunker's daughter will be the victim of an attempted rape...
This summer, on Fox's Murder in Small Town X, 10 contestants will solve a murder mystery in a Maine town peopled by actors and well stocked with Nokia phones, Jeeps and Taco Bell's grilled stuffed burritos. On ABC's The Runner, scheduled for January, a contestant will travel the country, trying to elude capture by viewers who will compete for a growing pot of cash, while driving the cars, using the ATM cards and scarfing the fast food of yet to be signed patrons. "The runner lives in the real world, just like you and I," says ABC...
...ABC gives DS's show most of its old name back (Prime Time Thursday), makes Millionaire its blockbuster lead-in. BW, who wanted Regis as her lead-in, expresses "deep disappointment." Poor Babs...
...ABC says it will move 20/20 out of longtime Friday time slot. They would never do this to Hugh Downs...
...improvements on the age-old practice of yelling answers at the screen. And they work. The least fruitful type is the kind that comes to mind when hearing the phrase "interactive TV": collaborative, choose-your-own-ending stories, which are becoming more widespread than ever. The season finale of ABC's eminently forgettable Two Guys and a Girl allowed viewers to vote online among four possible endings. (I searched in vain for the options to cancel the series, burn all videotapes or watch Disney honcho Michael Eisner commit ritual suicide in shame for having aired it.) Meanwhile, the creator...