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it ii i iim Spinning off family. Optus will screen both series in October. Back to the lawyers Keeping Interactive Denise Eriksen, formerly with Beyond International and one the executive producer of the ABC'f Attitude show, has bean appointed a program executive for Britain's Meridian, ITVs largest and wealthiest regional broadcaster. Erikten is developing a new interactive TV channel which, should it get the go-ahead, she will head. This Is a project involving the Daily Express newspaper group, a United News website and television.

The always personally active Eriksen is also developing other factual program ideas for the company. Meridian, it seems, is about to become part of Granada, a move that Just might see Eriksen working again on some Australian-linked programming. Playing games So how do you counter-program something as formidable as the Sydney Olympics? Following our tip last week that the ABC was planning not only to keep screening SeaChcnge through the Olympics but repeat It in primetime on flo rial: nfcy foew'i cart wffli tieatori llal MtDwy, emtio), ssd mf Pi, twtii fiwiL The big, emotional hour-long farewell episode of Spin City for Michael J. Fox is to be shown by Nine on Monday, September 4, at 7.30pm. More than 37 million American viewers tuned into this sitcom special, an episode in which Fox's character Michael Flaherty sacrifices his own career after the mayor Is accused of being involved in organised crime.

Fox has quit his starring role in the show to concentrate on research into Parkinson's disease with which he has become afflicted. The actor will continue as executive producer and return for guest appearances in the series. Next year the series will return with Fox's replacement, Charlie Sheen. Springing Springer Jerry Springer, currently going through the hoops in the US over the murder of one of his show's guests, has been offered a Jay Leno-type late-night talk show on Britain's Channel S. The troubled Springer, who was born in England, has been trying to take his TV career upmarket through the UK.

He has hosted a late-night talk show for I TV and stood In as a presenter of the breakfast program This Morning wfth Richard and Judy. The British show will focus on celebrities rather than on-stage brawls and bouncers. A pilot Is to be made later in the year. Cartoons coup Pay TV network Optus is spending I million on two new Australian animation series. The shows, nearing completion at the Sydney studios of the animation producers Energee, include an adaptation of Morris Gleitzman's book series Wicked, described as "a comedy of terrors" for children eight to 1 3.

Wicked has already been sold to the BBC. The French broadcaster TFI has picked up the other series, Gloria's House, which is about an Australian country girl thrust into a snooty city life with her eccentric Actor Robert Downey Junior, Just out of a California prison where he was Jailed for violating probation and missing drug tests, has landed a starring role In David E. Kelley series Alty McBtal. Downey, 34, will play a lawyer love-interest for Ally over eight episodes in October. The actor is expected to receive about 1 28,000 an episode which, of course, is a lot better than porridge.

Get out of that After Survivor and Shipwrecked, prepare for Jailbrtak. The folk at Britain's Channel 5 will be offering a $640,000 prize for the first person to escape from an elaborate "prison" they are building with security guards, hidden cameras and tunnels. When the local version of this new reality series starts in Australia, Networking will happily volunteer a few prospective players for its celebrity show. It's alt an act? Never mind reality TV. Actors in SBS's nightly railway drama Going Home have apparently given performances so convincing that even their families have started to believe what they see.

Khristina Totos, who plays Poppy, found herself being seriously questioned about that affair with a married man revealed in the show, while Rhonda Doyle, who plays Tiffany, had her parents convinced she had run up a $7000 credit-card debt. Another set of parents, we hear, were so upset by what they thought they heard about their daughter that they arranged a Mass at their local church. courttsbigpond.net.au Wednesdays well, sorry, but Jonathan Shier's people have changed their minds. They will now be dropping the newly returned show completely for those two weeks of sporting distractions. We await with interest Nine and Ten's plans for the Olympics holiday but no doubt they will follow a similar pattern to what's happening in the US tots of repeats.

The American network ABC says it Intends to run blocks of its favorite comedy series selected for "viewers' choice" and "celebrities' choice" week-long specials in a poll held on the Internet More Elmore? One of the more promising series being developed for Fox Broadcasting in America right now will reunite the Get Shorty team of director Barry Sonnenfeld and crime-mystery writer Elmore Leonard. The show, which according to Voriaty has a working title of Louse Point, revolves around a fallen television star forced into becoming a private eye for the rich and famous outside New York. The twist is Just what the star did that had him pulled off air at the height of his fame. It's a running secret, but if clearly so bad, so horrible that now he can't even get work in TV commercials. As the series goes on, the stories of what the former TV star did will become more and more outrageous.

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