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...Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will get some of these shows before U.S. networks, to help fight U.S. competition for the more than half of Canadian sets within range of U.S. stations...
...Bilko & Como. BBC, after all, was ahead of the U.S. in beginning public television back in 1936. But BBC's drawback in program making has always been, in the words of one English critic, its automatic recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial...
...News Director Hugh Carleton Greene, 49 (brother of Novelist Graham Greene), who this year became director general of the BBC. BBC-TV worked to liven up its prime evening shows (keeping, however, 35% of them "serious" as always), even bought U.S. TV packages such as Sergeant Bilko and Perry Como, both of which proved immensely popular. The result: BBC-TV is gradually winning some of its old audiences back from ITV, now regularly gets a 39% viewership, often clobbers ITV on covering news events...
...Como la salsa del pommodore...
...Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* This one was taped in London. Guest stars include: Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...