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...Hearts Afire; the Clinton Administration). "At CBS," says Roseanne, "they wanted Tom for his talent." Meanwhile the Arnolds will start production this summer on a feature film in which they play a working-class couple on the road. Roseanne says she will honor her commitment to do Roseanne for ABC one more season but vows to bar network executives from the set. "They are not welcome," she says. After that, the show will be offered to "whoever has the money. Except that it will go to ABC only if they change the top executives...
...least not yet. Stone says Wild Palms could "absolutely" work as a series. And if America next week is buzzing about rhinos, Church Windows and New Realism, it will be hard for ABC to avoid bringing Wild Palms back in some form. That, in the world of network TV, is known as the Old Realism...
...been a dull TV season; now for a little mind-bending mayhem. For four nights next week, ABC will plunge viewers into the bright, bizarre world of Wild Palms. The six-hour mini-series is the brainchild of two intriguing newcomers to network TV: Oliver Stone, the director of JFK and Platoon, and Bruce Wagner, writer of a hallucinated comic strip in Details magazine on which the mini-series is based. A few minutes into this futuristic fantasy, and viewers numbed by TV's docudrama deluge will realize they've stumbled onto something special. A few more minutes...
...Wild Palms to air in the middle of the high-pressure May sweeps. The network is hoping that the series, like Twin Peaks, will be unusual enough to attract an audience that rarely watches network TV, but not too weird to turn off the Home Improvement crowd. Whatever happens, ABC programmers claim they have learned one lesson from their last experiment in prime-time surrealism: unlike Twin Peaks, Wild Palms will not drag on indefinitely. The mini-series has a fixed ending (unfortunately, a rather lame one), and there are no plans to extend...
...fitting, for Home Improvement is one of those shows that don't inspire a lot of verbalizing. Murphy Brown is more trendily topical; Roseanne has more behind-the-scenes intrigue; Seinfeld appeals more to the thirtysomething opinion makers. All Home Improvement does is draw the biggest crowds. The ABC sitcom debuted last season to solid ratings (helped by a surefire time slot, between Full House and Roseanne). But this season, moved to Wednesday nights, it has powered its way to a new level. For five of the past six weeks, Home Improvement has been TV's highest-rated weekly series...