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...variety of genres the high school-show class of '99 covers may be attempts to stand out in a crowded field. Garth Ancier, president of entertainment at NBC, helped set off the teen explosion while he was programming head at the WB, but says a shakeout could be due. "Generally, the originators of these trends succeed, and maybe one copy." Perhaps for this reason, it is difficult to get high school-drama creators to admit they're creating high school dramas. Freaks, NBC insists, aims more "mature"; Popular, says its co-creator Murphy, is "a comedy...we don't look...
...specialty of bringing in young filmmakers to create TV shows. Buffy is produced by Joss Whedon, who made his name as a screenwriter, and the man behind Dawson's Creek is Kevin Williamson, of the Scream movies. "We see film backgrounds as an opportunity, not a problem," says Garth Ancier, the network's entertainment president. "[Filmmakers] bring fresh voices to television." The network requires that a TV veteran work on shows being produced by novices from the movies. For Felicity, Ed Redlich was hired away from The Practice, and whether it's a question of the amount of film...
...same year, Eisner and Katzenberg went to Disney; Mancuso stayed to run Paramount.) Murdoch, who bought the studio a year later, gave Diller the mandate to create a fourth prime-time network. That he did, with his patented management style: creative listening. "What Barry does," says Garth Ancier, Fox's TV programming chief under Diller, "is assemble teams of people and then bring them into the room to debate different ideas. He obviously ran the whole thing, but he really acts as an editor. And he's a very good editor...
...network is attracting a high proportion of young-adult viewers, those most desirable to advertisers. The future is still cloudy, but Fox executives are looking ahead with dogged, if chastened, determination. "We've had to learn the hard way and the expensive way," says Programming Chief Garth Ancier. "But no one has ever got this far before...
...assault guests and audience members as if they were hecklers at a midnight show at the Improv. The program's sole advantage is a virtual absence of promotional fanfare. "It didn't seem to make sense to herald it until we were sure we had something worth heralding," says Ancier, who argues that the neophytes need time to get used to the format...