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...ABC'S OF EDUCATION REFORM
When MICHAEL J. FOX announced his departure from Spin City to battle Parkinson's disease, many thought it meant the end of the four-year-old City Hall sitcom. Not necessarily. Actor CHARLIE SHEEN is in serious discussions with ABC and DreamWorks, which produces Spin City, to join the cast. Spin City creator Gary David Goldberg--who had worked with Sheen on a pilot, Sugar Hill--would return to reshape the comedy in its fifth season next year. Producers toyed with the idea of introducing Sheen's character before the show goes on its summer break in May, but decided...
...demographic-happy television, of course, age spots and weather lines do not an automatic green light make, living legend or not. Moore took the idea to CBS, but the seven-year home of MTM passed. ABC bit instead, though it ultimately agreed only to a movie, not the series Moore and Harper hoped for. "Even four or six episodes, even short orders are a lot more money and a bigger gamble," Harper concedes. The network has, however, retained series rights. "We just hope it's a terrifically successful movie for the network, and then we can evaluate where...
Then, just as quickly, it fell apart. Wondering why Bradley's public schedule had been so light earlier in the week, ABC News correspondent Jackie Judd asked a simple question: Had Bradley experienced any more episodes of heart arrhythmia, the chronic (but not life-threatening) irregular heartbeat he'd made public last December? The answer, of course, was yes. Four times in the past month his heart had "flipped out" of its natural rhythm, as Bradley describes it, then "flipped back in." On its face, this wasn't an earthshaking revelation--the episodes had corrected themselves without medical intervention...
...started in 1997, when the TV ad market was slower. Congress okayed $1 billion over five years to buy antidrug spots on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the WB. As part of the deal, the networks agreed to donate additional antidrug public service announcements for each minute the government purchased. By 1998, with the economy hot, the nets were having second thoughts. That's when the White House proposed that they could reduce their public service commitments by having their programs denounce drugs and alcohol abuse...