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...applaud Elizabeth Taylor's legal suit against ABC'S proposed docudrama of her life [Nov. 8]. When I watch these TV hybrids, I am so concerned with sorting fact from fiction that I can't enjoy the show...
...those millions of Americans who still prefer the programs to the advertising, this news is not so alarming as it sounds. The proliferation of cable and other non-network programming has put the networks on the defensive. The audience share of the Big Three-ABC, NBC and CBS-has been shrinking, and is expected to fall further. Thus the network stations, and their independent counterparts, are hesitant to drive viewers away with a barrage of commercials. Said Les Brown, editor of Channels magazine: "It becomes crazy to add commercials unless you have a captive audience...
Newhart, featuring Bob, that drip-dry palladin of the beleaguered middle class, running an inn in Vermont with his wife (Mary Frann), could be in its sixth year instead of its sixth episode. Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin show up on It Takes Two (ABC, Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) fighting the kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays...
...with wisdom derived less from Spock and Gesell than from Ozzie and Harriet. Gloria (CBS, Sundays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T) brings back Sally Struthers from All in the Family and plunks her down in the sticks, with child, as an apprentice vet. Another show, The New Odd Couple (ABC, Fridays, 8:30-9 p.m. E.S.T.) has literally been here before. Oscar (Demond Wilson) and Felix (Ron Glass) are black this time around, but the new shading is poor cover for humor that is stale white bread...
...Blond and blue-eyed in the TV glamour mold, she proved tougher and more competent than many of her male colleagues. She emerged from six years as a Hearst newspaper reporter to gain national acclaim as an aggressive floor reporter for NBC at the 1972 political conventions. Shifting to ABC in 1977, she covered Capitol Hill and national politics...