Table of Contents
Week of 08/27/1997

Articles

Getting in on Lear's Act

 

ABC Radio Zoned out for Disney

 

NBC widens its demo lead

 

Hellman inks for 'Freaky'

 

UPN loads up on sci-fi for new movie night

 

Whitlock nabs 'Extra' deal

 

'Carey's' Williams, Disney TV ink pact

 

Stockwell sets 'Scandal'

 

Pubmeisters merge

 

UPN season debut drops off 15%

 

DGA sets summit sked

 

Jeep Swenson

 

Media Access nods accepting entries

 

Vifx looking at N.Y.'s Blue Sky

 

Davidson at the 'Mall'

 

CFP, Col pact on Canada vid

 

Bakula making 'Promises'

 

Telluride Fest fetes Bogdanovich

 

Rifkin on Fox pilot roll

 

Slutzky slips Live

 

Boss man Edlund shutters f/x house

 

Endemol diverts to theme parks

 

Planet H'w'd gains Kiwi foothold

 

New Paradise found

 

Schneider ankles Fox

 

Seems like old times

 

Valenti sets Euro tour sked

 

Messing makes move to 'Survival'

 

Oasis CD breaks U.K. record

 

'Event' bows in U.K. with $1.7 mil B.O.

 

Capitol waltzes with int'l 'Dancing' rights

 

Fox, Baltic TV programmer ink pact

 

Wanda, Yelmo in distrib alliance

 

ITV gets 'Cracker'-ing

 

Nielsen to topline animated series for Amberwood

 

Star-crossed in India

 

Getting hard to see the films for the fests

 

Boosler loses 'Love' interest

 

Clear Channel to buy Paxson assets

 

Pix set for 1st East Asian fest

 

Clintons help pal break into biz

 

'Dogma' lures young faithful

 

Egypt newscasters face weighty issue

 

NATPE's Rosey glow

 

Grounds-Welles of pix; thesps eye 'Break'

 

MCA teams with WCO in global piracy fight

 

MTV India goes Bollywood

 

DF1 gets Premiere billing

 

Kirch denies tax wrongdoings

 

Williams bows Spain sales co.

 

Scoggins aboard "Babylon 5' on TNT

 

Ex-Peacock exec Pike joins CAA

 

Urban 'Vibe' rater

 

Imaginative Pix takes interest in Blue Sky

 

Telescene taps new exec duo

 

MTV Nets ups Albert to VP

 

Dutch TV giant may grow

 

Film Roman gets CEO

 

U renews syndie pair

 

Fox TV's Jacobson in prexy pipeline

 

Keitel preps pic push

 

USA orders nine more 'Silk' segs

 

WB TV taps Bajaria for movie post

 

Evans new Caliban exec VP

 

UPN Tuesday series bows drop from '96

 

Gidley joins 'Mafia'

 

Corrections

 

Fleetwood 'Dance' rocks disc sales

 

Woody twofer opens Venice

 

Blackwell ankles Island Pix

 

Oscar eyes H'wood

 

Disney Hall exec ankles

 

Tartikoff loses Hodgkin's battle

 

'Left-Handed' concert set

 

M-Net nabs Africa Rugby Cup rights

 

Sony takes Taiwan TV stake

 

Int'l exhibs plan Italo plexes

 

Perrier prefers Gents

 

BBC News nabs major cable deals

 

Beeb boards Via Digital

 

Digital day at int'l confab

 

USC sets First Look lineup

 

Oz feevee players suffering big losses

 

Short Takes

 

Richard (Dick) Bush

 

George Newi

 

Joanne Tree Winship

 

Cathleen Cordell

 

NBC taps Liepis for sr. press post

 

MTV skeds Brooks for first cybercast concert

 

Talkers take a dive

 

Hitched

 

Three advance Emmys awarded for animation

 

Emmy Watch

 

Lifetime inks hockey deal

 

Reruns sap Big Four

 

KCBS revamps syndies as Martin adds 'Inside' stint

 

Hampton wins docu org's career award

 

Int'l cast lines up on 'Side Streets'

 

Matsushita reports boost in profits, revs

 

SK taking to Miami streets

 

China's TVB boosts profits 15%

 

Baton's banner day

 

'Gettysburg' helmer plans prequel to pic

 

Abbott in bigscreen 'Trance'

 

U rounds out team

 

Sorvino tops cast of indie 'Dead Broke'

 

Bromstad VP NBC Studios

 

Tartikoff service private; NBC airing tribute tonight

 

Seven Arts hikes Sandys to sr. VP

 

National Geographic bows o'seas channels

 

Corrections

 

Agents go Gotham

 

Fine Line snags rights to 'Desert'

 

Gosse's 'Violent' times

 

Germany's digital duel at an end

 

Dog days dog Venice opener

 

Lehman banks on exhib biz

 

Ster-Kinekor stirs Euro exhib scene

 

Bio 101: Mother Teresa vs. Don King

 

'Twas a quiet season before '98

 

Bruckheimer soldiering on

 

Network roadkill

 

Ratings: Who is left as defender of the faith?

 

Picker's Hallmark moment

 

Star light, star bright

 

Wacky tie-ins are the rage

 

New faces egg on late night battle

 

Helpful hints to avoid network erosion

 

Let the games begin

 

Pols ponder coin boost

 

PBS: Playing to both ends of the spectrum

 

ABC want a "Cracker?"

 

Back-burner project blasts off

 

Webs lather up with new soaps

 

Webs roll out season geared to kids

 

Emmys to be more solemn affair

 

TNT dynamiting Western emphasis

 

Showtime kidpix strong o'seas

 

Unleashing the agents?

 

Sony at $1 bil in record time

 

'G.I. Jane,' 'Talks' still tops at B.O.

 

Summer B.O. sets record with big finale

 

U.N.'s Annan hits Venice

 

Telluride fest sees a softer side of Stone

 

Telluride fest sees a softer side of Stone

 

Paparazzi tactics take hit upon Diana's death

 

Paparazzi tactics take hit upon Diana's death

 

Correction

 

Emmy Watch

 

Col TriStar TV hikes Haswell to senior VP

 

Stern, Travis inked to ABC

 

B'casters on attack

 

KTTV's lineup bows Monday

 

Sorkin sues Fox, Beatty

 

Inside Move: Microsoft staffers hitting Sidewalk

 

German webs in IFA spotlight

 

Moraskie ankles post at Capella

 

Brillstein-Grey adds two VPs

 

'Lost World' passes $500 mil worldwide

 

De Niro eyeing UA's 'Ronin'

 

Fest fete subdued

 

Hayek joins Myers in '54' for Miramax

 

7th Level sellout

 

Oz's Becker boosts profit for year

 

News Corp. ups Itzkowitz

 

Food Lion's ABC coin cut

 

Par group affiling up on UPN

 

Hoopla boosts Comedy Central's 'Park'

 

Exec Shuffle

 

Tartikoff's legacy

 

2nd Canadian sat service set

 

DVD's Euro launch set

 

Video sell-through sees first slowdown in France

 

Telefonica eyeing stake in Televisa

 

France, Italy in bed on pix

 

Hitched

 

TF1 obtains Ariane's 300-pic catalog

 

U.K. PPV war looms

 

Short Takes

 

Births

 

Interest in Diana soaring; BBC flooded with queries

 

Tragedy dominates media

 

Goldwyn winding down

 

H'wood Press delivers

 

The serious business of standup startup

 

And he didn't miss a note ...

 

Tarantino's rediscovery net

 

Silly gang war brews

 

Fayed's odd odyssey

 

Reviews

Love in the Ancient World

Affliction

U Turn

Sammy Hagar

The Seahorses; Mansun

Love in the Ancient World

U Turn

Snow White: A Tale of Terror

Honour

Northern Lights

Mondo Plympton

Face

The Last Empress

The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged

Regeneration

The Mirror

Filumena

U-Turn - Stone Rolls in New Direction with 'U-Turn'

The Provok'D Wife

Lucky in the Rain

Lawn Dogs

Life Support

The Bride's Journey

Shooting Fish

Los Locos

Marcus Roberts, Frederica Von Stade, Grant Gershon/ Los Angeles Philharmonic

Shooting Fish



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