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C.2 The Arizona Rcpuhlic Sunday, October 19, IW7 Producers aim to pull new spin on 'Keenen' show uena Vista Television is attempting to counter a Los An-veks Times story, reprinted last week by the Arizona Republic, that painted the Keenen Ivory Mayans Show as less than a run 1 hasn't changed. When the cable company converts to digital and can expand its capacity, Court TV may reappear. If you're planning on visiting the "Icons of the Smithsonian" ex-hibit at the Scottsdale Galleria, be sure to look for the side display sponsored by the House of Broad-casting. A non-profit group hoping to build a museum to hold Arizona radio and TV memorabilia, the House has gathered a cool collection of stuff, including gear from the careers of such local lovables as Wallace, Ladmo, Lew King and Buck Owens. It's there through Nov.

16. Spanish-language Telemundo affiliate Channel 64 (K.DR) begins offering its first local newscast Monday. Titled Cinco en Punto (loose translation: five sharp), the half-hour will air at 5 p.m. week-nights. Two-minute news briefs will also air at 8 and 10 p.m.

Juan Antonio Garces is news anchor, and the shows will be taped daily on the news set of ABC affiliate Channel 15 (KNXV). Wayans hasn't seriously diminished the talk-show's audience, which was small to begin with. Wayans' average local rating is about 1.3, said Hayes. So far in Oc- tober, it's doing about a 2,4 in the 40 or so large markets in which Nielsen Media Research gathers overnight ratings: In May, the most recent signifi- cant ratings period, the Tonight Show won the post-news hour with an average 7.9 local rating (the "rating" figure is the percentage of motal TV households tuned to a show; each local rating point repre- sents about 13,000 households). "Keenen was not doing gangbust-ers over here," Hayes said.

"We gave it a good test run, but after a while decided to move Real TV into its place. That didn't affect Keenen numbers 1 Also mentioned in the Los An- geles Times story was the Magic I lour, Magic Johnson's proposed talk show for midseason, produced by the massive Fox conglomerate that owns Channel 10. -The local Fox affiliate will run away success. Buena Vista, a Disney production arm, is arguing that the new syndicated show's performance in large markets, presumably where its core audience resides, is better than the Tunes piece made out. Keenen Ivory Wayans According to Buena Vista's figures, Wavans outdraws all but The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in the biggest American cities, regularly defeating Vibe (its syndicated competition in the would-be Arsenio race), ABC's Politically Incorrect, CBS' The Late Show and all the rest.

"Since it's an urban-skewing 1 i I experience Young actress finds placing 'Jane Eyre'jn the show if it's picked up by the-network and would be the likely outlet should the Magic Hour be offered via syndication. An official decision on the show's distribution is expected in the next couple of weeks. The question circulating among local programmers: Where will Channel 10 run its Magic show? Some industry observers are pre- 7 dieting that Fox stations will run the show in the late news time slot 10 p.m. here. What, then, will become of Channel 10's late newscast? It finished fifth in its time period in May, and the station has placed increasingly more promotional emphasis on its 9 p.m.

news hour, a move that some local newsies are reading as preparation for relieving some of the news congestion at 10 p.m. Fergitaboutit, said Hayes. "We have no plans of getting out of the 10 o'clock news business," he said. "No plans, no way." Cox Communications dropped Court TV from its local lineup at about the same time that Vibe and could audition for parts. When she won a role in a British television show, she earned enough money at last to go to the theater.

"I don't have a chip on my shoulder," says Morton, whose pale face reflects every emotion. "To some people it's more of a hindrance to come, from a stable background. The upbringing I've had has given me a lot of knowledge I can bring to my work." Morton's real breakthrough came in a 1994 episode of the acclaimed British crime drama Cracker, in which she played an innocent young girl who becomes impregnated by 2 1 nl ri for the first time or umpteenth m.i,.i. lomma Vam'a mncSr picture of how she walks, how she sits, how she addresses people, how she smiles, how she dresses," Morton says. "It's so easy; it's given to you on a Little else has been handed Morton.

She comes from! family of six children: "Very working-class," she says. "Very, very Her parents divorced when she was 3. She left school at age 13 and dreamed of becoming an actress. She wrote plays and short stories; she joined an acting workshop in Nottingham. Its director, Ian Smith, would give her train fare to London so she ifs i DAVE WALKER Republic TV Writer show, we're very pleased," a spokeswoman said.

The Wayans Show's typical rating here, however, is about half its large-market average, On Oct. 6, the show's local carrier, Channel 10 (KSAZ), moved Wavans' start time a half-hour later, to 1 1 :05 p.m. The shift took the show out of direct competition with Vibe, which airs at 10 p.m. week- on Channel 45 (KUTP). Gregg Hayes, program director al Channel 10, said inserting Real TV between the 10 p.m.

news and ON TV 'Jane 5 and 9 tonight, 6 and 10 p.m. Tuesday on Nottingham in the north of England. To find her Jane Eyre, Morton went again and again to Charlotte Bronte's 1847 classic novel, taking notes and keeping them close by during the five-week shoot. "By reading the book, you have a clear UJ 15 'A i It lines, her feature film debut in a decidedly modern role took an award at the Toronto Film Festival last month. Called Under the Skin, the film, a gritty, low-budget drama, was shot on location in Liverpool last winter.

In it, Morton plays Iris, 19, who sets out on a self-destructive sexual odyssey after her mother's death. It is a dangerous role, naked, edgy and scary. "I want to portray people other people may not want to portray. I want to show the truth, not the garbage," Morton says. "Feel the fear and do it.

That's my motto." i I A the Wayans show debuted. Coinci- dence? Well, yes, it is. Total coincidence as a matter of fact. Completely, utterly unrelated. But the justice channel continues to pump out thoughtful, worthwhile programming.

Just ask all the disgruntled cable subscribers who bought satellite dishes in the past few weeks just to keep Court TV in their lives. Throughout October and on Nov. 1, the network is airing a special titled Portraits in Change: Celebrating the Month of the Young Adolescent. Starring and targeted at middle-school kids, the special spotlights the issues facing youngsters ages 10-15. Secretary of Education Richard Riley makes an appearance.

The special is part if a spin initiative by the National Cable Television Association, sparked by an association study that found TV violence is seldom accompanied by the resulting consequences. "According to a Cox spokeswoman, the network's Valley status the married head of a religious cult. In the British miniseries Band of Gold, which was shown on HBO in 1995, she played a hardened 15-year-old prostitute who, her friend says, "does it for a packet of jelly beans." Her work in that show and as the hapless Harriet Smith in the 1997 production of Emma impressed Delia Fine, the executive who helped cast her as Jane Eyre. Next year Morton will appear in an and BBC version of Tom Jones. But lest anyone fear the actress will drown in a sea of crino 0 time for its luxunous score.

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