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...away on the same Law School campus, Professor Charles Nesson '60 sits alone in a modest office decorated in subdued colors which seem to reflect his manner both in person and on television. From this unassuming office, the soft-spoken evidence specialist has frequently made plans to host ABC's "Viewpoint," a special news broadcast that examines the media itself. He and Miller have also moderated separate CBS specials about the media and both appear in "That Delicate Balance," a 12-part public television series that analyzes the constitution...
Nesson recently decided on his own to end his professional relationship with Friendly as well as to refuse two attractive offers from CBS and ABC. Each network hoped Nesson would work in its news division on a more regular basis, while retaining his position at Harvard. Unlike Miller, though, Nesson thought he was being captured by the medium...
...twist. Star Wars? It is like 2001, but cute. E.T.?Disney meets Alien. Flashdance? MTV with a plot. The same, but different. In network television, with its older, more sedentary and conservative audience, the emphasis is on same. Virtually all of the 22 series making their debuts on ABC, CBS and NBC in the next month are clones or hybrids of other TV shows. To hit it big, you just have to know which strains to breed. The trouble is that in most of this fall's premieres the breeding does not show, only the strain...
...City Blues (NBC's major-league series about a minor-league baseball team, from the producers of Hill Street Blues), the new shows find their role models not in TV trailblazers but in the Lowest Common Dreck. I Dream of Jeannie inspired Just Our Luck (ABC); Mister Ed begat Mr. Smith (NBC); Bewitched gave birth to Jennifer Slept Here (NBC). Webster (ABC) is Diff'rent Strokes with a foster mother. The Rousters (NBC) is more dudes of Hazzard. Lottery$ (ABC) is The Millionaire after inflation. Two shows, Cutter to Houston (CBS) and Trauma Center (ABC), could be called...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Roone Arledge, 52, aggressive, innovative president of ABC News and Sports; and Ann Arledge, 35, former Miss Alabama; in New York City...