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...needed to??be??a??monster. That, in a nutshell, was what J.J. Abrams and his co-creator, Damon Lindelof, decided soon after Lloyd Braun, then ABC's entertainment chairman, gave them this assignment: Write a show about plane-crash castaways on a desert island. The parallel to a certain CBS series was obvious. If Survivor was Gilligan's Island with real people, Lost would be Survivor with fake people. But Abrams, who had raised the spy serial to new heights of cliff-hanging absurdity with Alias, knew that the series would need something extra, something weird, to sustain the audience...
WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO HIS STORY ABOUT BUSH'S NATIONAL GUARD SERVICE, WHICH CBS HAD TO APOLOGIZE...
...think Peter is a formidable player in all this. People know who he is. Does that mean that they are going to automatically switch over from NBC or CBS to ABC? Whenever Brian has substituted for me for a week at a time or longer, he's held his own. And it's not just about these personalities who are out in front. It's also about the strength of the organization and the kind of broadcast that...
...DYLAN, rock icon, in an interview on CBS's 60 Minutes, his first TV sit-down in 19 years...
...face in late-night TV speaks with a Scottish brogue. CRAIG FERGUSON, best known to American audiences as The Drew Carey Show's insufferable boss Mr. Wick, takes the reins of CBS's Late Late Show in January, which another Craig--Kilborn in this case--dropped over the summer. (Easier to remember the name of the guy behind the desk, that way.) Ferguson won a bake-off with three other funny guys, much to his surprise. "I thought, There's no way they're going to let a Scottish guy do this show," he says. (Has he never seen Shrek...