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...medium so concerned with "family values," TV has been treating the family pretty badly of late. With rare exceptions (notably ABC's Roseanne), sitcom clans are stitched together with baling wire and bad jokes. Serious family dramas (Family, A Year in the Life) have all but disappeared from prime time, and the few recent offerings have been too distracted by other matters -- skewering small-town life in Picket Fences; cheerleading for the rights of autistic children in Life Goes On -- to pay much attention to the way families really interrelate. In this context, Laurel Avenue, an HBO mini-series airing...
...network magazine shows that have spread to every night of the week. Within the past month, two new shows have debuted (Front Page, a zippy entry from the Fox network, and CBS's Eye to Eye with Connie Chung) and two more have returned from hiatus (ABC's Day One, switched from Sunday to Monday night, and CBS's Street Stories). NBC will introduce another, Here & Now, in August, bringing the number of prime-time news hours to a record 10. Still another show, ABC's Moment of Crisis, is promised for early next year...
...evening news. Already they are taking over some roles of the daily newscasts: giving expanded coverage to major breaking stories and landing big interviews (Chung's recent chat with Roger Clinton) -- besides, insiders say, attracting the best reporters, producers and technical people. Paul Friedman, executive vice president of ABC News, insists that "the main resources of the news division still go to World News Tonight and Nightline." But he laments, "There's a sense on the part of the people who work here that the magazine programs are the glamorous place to be." Notes NBC anchor Tom Brokaw...
...executive producer Tom Yellin promised that the show would feature some longer stories and a mold-breaking format: "If our program is three pieces of the same length and then a light, short piece at the end, then we will have failed." After early shows drew criticism from ABC News executives for being too downbeat and tabloid-like (example: a whole show on serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer), the program was retooled. Last week's show featured three main stories and a light, short piece at the end on the New York Mets...
...patriarch of a clan that included a dragon named Spot and a vampire grandfather, Gwynne was the star of a series widely regarded to be a lighter version of "The Addams Family," which ran at the same time on ABC...