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CHANNEL HOPPING? Ted Koppel's contract with ABC expires at the end of this year, and colleagues say he is being wooed mightily by CBS to replace Dan Rather. Koppel is very close to CBS News President David Burke, a former ABC executive who helped negotiate his current lucrative contract. CBS would be willing to tailor its evening news to Koppel's on-camera strengths, emphasizing interviews over canned news items -- a change that would set CBS's offering apart from its rivals'. Koppel has never craved an evening anchor post, but the chance to re-invent the format could...
Make no mistake, not even the most credulous couch potato believes that, say, 16-year-old Doogie Howser, M.D., is for real. But the easy affluence that is the birthright of Doogie's family might seem representative enough, especially when on the following ABC show (The Marshall Chronicles) the TV father was dressed in a tuxedo for an evening of Manhattan night life. Despite the pseudo-lower-middle- class realism of Roseanne and Married with Children, the implicit message in much of prime time remains almost effortless economic entitlement. For while most of the nation resides in what bicoastal types...
BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, debuting May 1, 9:30 p.m. EDT). Oprah Winfrey, a bit slimmer but just as soulful, reprises her starring role as Mattie in a weekly series based on her hit mini-series about women in an inner-city black neighborhood...
Should the U.S. rethink its attitude toward Hanoi? Why does Washington support the murderous Khmer Rouge today? These questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre...
Mother Earth's delicate condition. On April 22 ABC broadcasts the Earth Day Special, featuring Bette Midler as an abused Mother Earth who collapses in a town square, suffering from global warming, deforestation, etc., and gets tended by Drs. Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) and Steven Kiley (James Brolin). Visitors to the invalid include Kevin Costner, Quincy Jones and Meryl Streep...