Word: networking
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Center has provided services for women for almost 20 years. Funded through foundations and private donations, the beautifully restored turn-of-the-century house holds multiple meeting areas. Resources in the 14-room center include a children's playroom, library, kitchen and counseling room. Center volunteers operate a referral network, a newsletter and a choral group. No men are allowed in the Center...
WIOU (CBS, debuting Oct. 24, 10 p.m. EDT). Yet another network series about TV's favorite subject: itself. John Shea plays the news director of a struggling station, where a pompous anchorman (Harris Yulin) paws female reporters under the desk. Lou Grant would have furloughed them...
...Network programmers like to think of themselves as wacky guys. Just look at the shows they put on the air. In NBC's The Fanelli Boys, four grownup brothers move back to Brooklyn to live with . . . their mother! In CBS's Evening Shade, a man is nonplussed when his wife tells him she's pregnant; he's already had a vasectomy! (Rim shot.) In Fox's Good Grief, Howie Mandel plays a nutty guy who does TV commercials for (hold on to your hats) a mortuary...
...Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel, a new incarnation of the old Christian Broadcasting Network...
Comedy is the gasoline that keeps the networks' engines humming, but the octane level seems especially low this fall. Of the 17 new sitcoms introduced by CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox, not a single one ranks in the Nielsen Top 30. Is there a comedy glut? Or, more likely, are viewers simply recoiling against network packaging that has grown so boringly rote and predictable that all signs of life have drained out? If so, relief is at hand: increasingly offbeat shows are cropping up in out-of-the-way places on the dial. Some deserve their obscurity. Others might shrivel...