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...result of Dole's mentioning his son at two different times, Delvoland Shakespeare will appear today on both ABC's "Good Morning America" and C-SPAN...
Indeed, far too many contemporary sitcoms have veered away from the Mary Tyler Moore Show's example of mining workplace humor simply from well-limned, quasi-believable characters. NewsRadio has been a smart exception to the recent rule, and so too is Spin City (ABC, Tuesdays 9:30 p.m. EDT), one of the most energetically promoted new shows of the fall season...
Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner aren't the kind of people who say, "I told you so." But if anyone in TV has a right to say it, they do. The former ABC programming executives, who teamed up to form their own production company in 1981, brought one of their early projects, a family sitcom starring a well-worn comedian, to their old network--only to have it rejected. NBC later put The Cosby Show on the air, and it became the most popular series of the 1980s. The producers' next breakthrough hit, Roseanne, landed on ABC only after...
Within the industry, however, their talents are hardly a mystery. Last spring Disney-ABC chief Michael Eisner tried to convince Carsey and Werner to take over the network's struggling entertainment division. They were tempted but said no, partly because it would have meant giving up their company and abandoning their new shows in the midst of development. The company, worth an estimated $1 billion, is growing fast, with a newly created distribution arm (two years ago, Carsey-Werner reacquired the domestic syndication rights for their biggest shows) and a fledgling movie division. Still, they don't rule...
...them. Carsey-Werner, their company, produced three pilots last spring, and amazingly--in a business where a .300 batting average makes you a candidate for MVP--all three were picked up for the fall schedule: Cosby by CBS, Men Behaving Badly by NBC and Townies by ABC...