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...recognize a tv breakthrough? Network publicists usually try hard to sound the alert -- a cop show with nudity! an Asian-American sitcom! She TV too arrived on ABC last month with a high-concept selling point: TV's first sketch-comedy show focusing on, and creatively dominated by, women. Actually, from a commercial standpoint the female angle has probably hurt more than it has helped. Critics were generally cool to a show that wore its feminist agenda on its sleeve, and a lot of potential male viewers were probably scared off as well. Ratings have been mediocre, and prospects...
...Simpson case who has been repeatedly accused of racism by the defense, has been given a desk job, apparently to take him out of the line of political fire. Judge Lance Ito, who's overseeing the trial, forbade the defense access to the officer's military record, ABC News reported. Fuhrman had testified he found a key piece of evidence being used by the prosecution: a bloody glove on the Simpson estate. Fuhrman's attorney said the decision had nothing to do with the Simpson case but added that his client was unhappy about the shift...
...Eric Stoltz. But before Angela (played by real-life teenager Claire Danes) arrives at this promising womanhood, she must cross the emotional hurdles of adolescence, and that passage is the subject of My So-Called Life, an unusually affecting one-hour drama that will make its debut Thursday on ABC...
...review of old court documents reveals that O.J.'s pal Al Cowlings has at least one friend implicated in organized crime, according to ABC News. In the same court papers, Cowlings admitted he had a cocaine problem. Cowlings' lawyer, however, asserted on TV that his client had overcome the problem...
...salaries. But the owners earn almost all their national-TV revenues during the September pennant races and the October postseason. (The broadcast rights to the play-offs and the World Series alone were projected to bring in $180 million.) The owners had just launched their experimental Baseball Network on ABC and NBC with the mid-July All-Star Game. Early TV ratings were higher than expected. To hype fan interest, the owners had offended baseball purists by adding a second tier of postseason play-offs complete with football-like wild-card teams beginning this year. (The gimmick may have...