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...Protect" may have been used loosely, judging by O'Grady's Tuesday morning TV schedule. Having taped some segments earlier, he could be seen on CBS's This Morning at 7:08 a.m., followed by NBC's Today at 7:09, ABC's Good Morning America at 7:10, Fox Morning News at 7:31 and CNN's Early Edition at 8:09. Asked what they thought the Air Force was trying to do to O'Grady, several public-affairs officers at the Pentagon volunteered the word exploit rather than protect...
...ABC and NBC have decided to pull out of their deal with Major League Baseball and will quit showing games after this year's World Series. "Baseball shot itself in the foot again," says TIME Sports writer Steve Wulf. "They just fiddled around, wouldn't make any kind of commitment to the networks, and now they don't have a broadcast TV deal." Acting commissioner Bud Selig has been reluctant to sign a new deal until baseball resolves its ongoing labor dispute with players. And some owners believe they can negotiate a more lucrative deal with CBS or FOX. Stay...
...Saunders, the show's creator, writer and co-star (as Edina), is writing a movie version of the comedy. In the meantime, Roseanne, who bought the American rights to the show because she thinks "every line of it is brilliant," has spent the past few weeks trying to persuade ABC executives that network audiences will love the AbFab she is producing...
...American TV executives are at the same threshold. With help from Saunders and AbFab script editor Ruby Wax, Roseanne has reworked the teleplay for her pilot episode three times in an effort to appease ABC bosses. "The first script I turned in was almost exactly what they would have done at the BBC," she says. But the network executives balked at the drug and alcohol references. Edina and Patsy, who may be played in the American version by Carrie Fisher and Barbara Carrera, "won't be swilling Bollinger and vodka," says Roseanne, "but we will imply...
Although Roseanne is confident that ABC will pick up her AbFab, the comedian has been frustrated with the development process. "It's a groundbreaking show for this country, and it is difficult for the network to see what the show is. We just got hip enough to watch Seinfeld and see unmarried people having sex. This show isn't going to be Growing Pains or Cybill," she says, referring to the AbFab-influenced, modestly rated Cybill Shepherd sitcom in which the main character has a boozy, brassy best friend...