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...networks, the worst nightmare is a delay in the fall season. Brandon Stoddard, president of ABC Entertainment, conceded last week that if the strike lasts into June, fall shows may be delayed until November. The networks can ill afford to give viewers more reason to switch to cable channels and videocassettes. Last week the Nielsen ratings showed that the networks' share of the viewing audience shrank 9% during the past season...
...rated new series and an ambitious pioneer of TV's newest form, the "dramedy." A potential spin-off is already in the works, focusing on a dwarf private eye named Nick Derringer, to be introduced in a segment next week. In addition, Bochco has signed a development deal with ABC that calls for him to create ten more series over the next nine years. Even if only two or three of the shows make it, Bochco's stamp will be on a sizable chunk of the prime-time schedule for much of the next decade...
Instead, Bochco accepted ABC's lucrative development offer. Though he will continue as executive producer of L.A. Law for one more season, his new role will probably force him to give up close supervision of any one series. Some associates think that will be hard. "I think he'd have trouble being an Aaron Spelling, creating a series and stepping away," says Michael Tucker. "Steve isn't a step-away kind...
...BOURNE IDENTITY (ABC, May 8 and 9, 9 p.m. EDT). Mr. Mini-Series, Richard Chamberlain, stars in a two-parter based on Robert Ludlum's novelabout an amnesiac desperately seeking his past...
...Jane to a Bronx drive-in to see the richly hued Pinocchio. "I just couldn't believe the difference between that film and all the other animation I'd watched," he recalls. Starting his career as a page at NBC in 1963, he eventually became a top executive at ABC, before moving to Paramount. Still, when he arrived for his first day on the job at Disney, he felt nervous. "I knew nothing and asked people to explain things to me," he admits...