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...characters: the blunt fool Launce (Christopher Scully), who uses crass language to express his words of wisdom; the love-sick Valentine (Andrew Sean Kuan); and the ruthless backstabbing Proteus (Alice Kim). In addition, the play is full of enough concealed identities, overheard conversations and overworked puns to make a sitcom writer groan...
DAVIS RULES (ABC, Jan. 27, approximately 10 p.m. EST). The year's most coveted time period -- the one following the Super Bowl -- goes to this new sitcom starring Jonathan Winters as the wacky father of a grammar school principal (Randy Quaid...
...networks try, try again with a batch of mid-season replacements: a spy series from the creators of China Beach; the return of a famous vampire; and a sitcom with star power...
...that Lawson, 44, doesn't have some fairly radical programming ideas of her own. Among the shows she is developing for PBS are a children's game show and a sitcom about a Soviet family adapting to perestroika. She wants to showcase more pop music and is looking for a dramatic series that would "explore the mood in the country, relationships between people in our cities and rural areas...
...Cops are becoming more common, partly because they are cheaper to produce. Other cost-saving measures may be on the way: co-productions with overseas broadcasters, more live programming, and series that air more than once a week (an idea NBC flirted with for its new sitcom Parenthood). Meanwhile, the multipart mini-series, once a staple of the "sweeps" periods, has been virtually abandoned because of its exorbitant cost...