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Paramount added zing to the tale by using the names of real companies, but ABC and CBS have declined to run some commercials for the film because they include fake ads that might upset major network advertisers. Paramount pleads that the movie is a comedy. Starting this week, moviegoers can make that judgment for themselves...
...After nearly four decades of sweet, wholesome TV clans, from Father Knows Best to The Cosby Show, a new clutch of anti-family sitcoms is exploring the squalid underbelly of domestic life. And making a killing. ABC's Roseanne is the No. 1-rated show on TV. The Simpsons, on the Fox network, is a smash mid- season success; it and Fox's Married . . . With Children, airing back-to- back on Sunday nights, have jumped into the Nielsen Top 20, an unprecedented triumph for TV's fourth network...
...outline, ABC's heralded new series Twin Peaks sounds like an amalgam of familiar TV genres. A touch of true-crime docudrama, a dash of Columbo, a jot of Knots Landing. But in the darkly idiosyncratic world of director David Lynch, terms like murder mystery and soap opera don't begin to tell the tale. Twin Peaks, which debuts Sunday as a two-hour movie, is like nothing you've seen in prime time -- or on God's earth. It may be the most hauntingly original work ever done for American...
...also something of a miracle. Imagine: one of the world's most perversely offbeat movie directors persuades ABC to let him try a prime-time series. He shoots a pilot with virtually no interference. The network bigwigs look at the result, realize that it will probably befuddle many viewers, then decide to air it anyway. The programmers even consider -- horrors! -- showing the two-hour pilot without commercials. (Cooler heads prevail; the show will have ads, though fewer than usual.) It's enough to restore one's faith in television...
Will TV audiences feel just as good about the mutant soap opera he has concocted? Frost hopes the series will reach "a coalition of people who may have been fans of Hill Street, St. Elsewhere and Moonlighting, along with people who enjoyed the nighttime soaps." ABC Entertainment chief Robert Iger admits the show will be a hard sell (especially in the time slot opposite Cheers on Thursday nights). Says he: "A lot of people have said Twin Peaks is the critic's dream. But is it the viewer's nightmare? I would hope that the answer is that...