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Rumor has it that ABC's Peter Jennings had cosmetic plastic surgery on his face to look better for the convention. Unfortunately, the scars did not heal in time, and he has been using excessive amounts of makeup here in Houston. Or so we hear...
...television debut on ABC's Good Morning America, Casper the talking (and listening) computer was everything one would expect of a digital servant -- friendly, eager to please but slightly hard of hearing. Morning host Joan Lunden, demonstrating Casper's capabilities on an Apple Macintosh computer, was able to persuade the system to program her VCR simply by talking into a microphone -- although she had to repeat "Casper, accept program!" several times before the machine finally got the message. When the technology is perfected, say Apple executives, computers will be able to act on their human masters' every command, whether...
Alas for both Democrats and couch potatoes, love feasts make boring television. This one, in fact, will make next to no network television; ABC, CBS and NBC plan a mere one to two hours of live coverage a night. The best theater may be on the streets outside Madison Square Garden. Besides the inevitable demonstrations, casts of all the current Broadway musicals will put on a free, open-air show for conventioneers in Times Square. To protect the 5,000 delegates, 15,000 journalists and innumerable hangers-on expected, the city will flood the streets with police. And to drum...
Spelling's shows once so dominated ABC's prime-time schedule that a rival producer called him "practically a one-man restraint of trade." But as his programs dropped off the schedule, Spelling dropped out of sight, resurfacing < only occasionally with short-lived duds like NBC's Nightingales. Then in 1990 he made a comeback with a very un-Spelling-like hit: Fox's high school drama, Beverly Hills 90210. Now he has four new series scheduled to air this summer and fall, the first of which, Melrose Place, has just debuted on Fox. No doubt about it, Spelling...
...Spelling may be on to something. Network drama has been in a slump of late; the audience for realistic, multilayered fare (I'll Fly Away, Civil Wars) seems to be shrinking. The sleeper hit of the summer is ABC's Jack's Place, set in a fancy big-city restaurant run by Hal Linden. Though not a Spelling production, it adheres to the classic Love Boat formula: two or three guest stars each week glide through cute, twisty tales of love lost and found. (Last week Robert Guillaume played a Broadway producer upset at a bad review written...