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...time of year to feel sorry for the TV networks. Each fall, the Big Three manufacture a fresh batch of shows and try to generate some new-season excitement, and each year the job gets tougher. The audience wants something different; critics clamor for "innovation." But how many new concepts are left in a cable-saturated world where viewers have seen everything -- and seen it all over again in reruns? Judging by a fall crop dominated by play-it-safe family sitcoms, not many...
...Thompson. The Cannes Film Festival boasted the usual honor guard of cinema illuminati. But there was a difference this year. At many recent Cannes convocations, the stars were the show. This time, though, the 23 films competing for the Palme d'Or included many of high quality -- the best batch in recent memory. Since each Cannes festival marks the beginning of the movies' liturgical year, audiences around the world can rest assured that good films are coming soon...
...Three networks. Faced with steadily growing competition from cable and other video choices, the networks were groping for a way to stay relevant and healthy. Critically praised shows like I'll Fly Away and Brooklyn Bridge were renewed despite low ratings. The fall lineup included a batch of hip relationship comedies tailored to the thirtysomething audience (Love and War, Mad About You), as well as a flock of Beverly Hills, 90210, clones aimed at an even younger crowd. The network mantra was demographics; these shows might not draw a huge audience, but they would, it was hoped, draw the right...
This small ceremony underscored the growing organizational savvy of the militant pro-life movement. The Melbourne boot camp, organized and led by Keith Tucci, a pastor and executive director of Operation Rescue National, offered its first batch of students a comprehensive curriculum of conflict. Antiabortion demonstrations seem, to the uninitiated, noisy, chaotic affairs. The Melbourne IMPACT training (which stands for Institute of Mobilized Prophetic Activated Christian Training) disclosed some recommended methods behind the madness...
...there will also be a fresh batch of original channels aimed at special tastes. Already being planned, or at least promised, are channels devoted to game shows, talk shows, crime shows and soap operas. Also the Golf Channel, the Military Channel, the Television Food Network, Ovation (for fine-arts programming) and the Wellness Channel (for recovering addicts). A major stumbling block to such niche services in the past was the limited channel capacity of most cable systems. Soon these fledgling networks will have all the room they want...