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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...producers and network executives involved in these new shows--Millionaire, Fox's Greed, CBS' Winning Lines, NBC's Twenty One and forthcoming ones including CBS' $64,000 Question, ABC's Mastermind and You Don't Know Jack--admit they were caught short by Regis Philbin's success. But they are making up for it, piling on 6 1/2 hours of prime-time quizzing a week--as much as in the game-show heyday of the '50s. "Honestly, I had not been thinking about game shows before Millionaire," says Darnell. When offered a show by Dick Clark, he liked the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Going Millionaire Crazy! | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...believe everything you read. Then came the harsh realism of TV news, allowing us to witness wars and congressional bickering up close. But with the powers of new media come new dangers; and never has that been more evident than in the spat brewing between NBC and CBS. The Peacock network is fuming over the alteration of video images of New York City in several CBS news programs in which CBS logos are digitally superimposed on everything from horse-drawn carriages to billboards. The final straw came when CBS put its logo over an NBC video board during Dan Rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why CBS Stands for 'Caught Being Sneaky' | 1/13/2000 | See Source »

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