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Bo: Dynasty's' maverick Zahn to run WQAD's daily news operation By MARK HAINEY tow TV Editor Over in Moline at WQAD, viewers won't see much more of Terry Zahn, co-anchor of the station's 10 p.m. news. It seems that Zahn failed to make an im pression upon Quad Cities viewers. That's interesting because Zahn was hot stuff at KTIV in Sioux City, and one program executive touted him as the best anchor around. Anyway, Zahn is moving to an venom and urbanity as Blake Carrington.

"Matthew doesn't play games the way Walter and Carrington do," Hopkins said. "He tries to be honest, but he makes mistakes." The actor admitted there is a lot of himself in the character. "That's the way the character's written," he said. "I've tried to make him vulnerable. We've made him complex so that he can go in five different directions.

"He handles Walter by making him laugh. He uses a different approach with Steven. He tries reverse psychology with his wife, who's been in a mental institution. "I like playing with John," Hopkins said. "There's an opposite-ness between us that works.

He has perfect diction and I mumble. He's very suave. He can tell a lie and make it sound like the truth. I'm more blunt." Hopkins was in six episodes of "Doc Elliot" and four of "The Rockford.Files" because, he said, "I wanted to work with Jimmy Garner." He has preferred to work in movies and said he considers this his first real series. "I've turned down several series over the past two years," he said, "but when Dick and Esther Shapiro sent me their script, I liked that character.

He was one of the best-written characters I've read for television in a long time. "I liked the way they described him in the pilot as a cross between John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in 'Red River' and believing each is right. Matthew thinks the old way. He trusts people, but if you ever give him cause to distrust you you've lost a friend." Hopkins appeared earlier this season in the CBS movie, "Rodeo Girl," which also starred Katharine Ross. It was up against NBC's "Shogun," and Hopkins said he isn't sure that anybody watched it.

"I didn't even watch it," he said. "I watched One of his most popular films was the CBS movie "Thaddeus Rose and Eddie," which co-starred Johnny Cash and Diane Ladd. "There's some talk of a sequel or something similar to it," he said. Diane Ladd wants to do a sequel with me, but there's been no real serious discussion. And I'd like to work with Johnny again." off-camera role: he'll run WOAD's By JERRY BUCK LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

(AP) -Bo Hopkins, clad in a worn leather jacket, chinos and field shoes, rocked slowly on his heels as he waited to confront antagonist John Forsythe in ABC's "Dynasty." The two actors were on the set of Forsythe's office, Denver-Carring-ton waiting for director Don Medford to call, "Action!" Hopkins plays a maverick geologist who quits Forsythe's company to join forces with a blustery wildcatter, played by Dale Robertson. The new Monday night series centers on big oil, iron-willed men and hot-blooded women. It opened just after the first of the year with a three-hour movie that did well in the ratings. The show resembles CBS's "Dallas," but it is not nearly as broad in its scope, nor as outrageous. It is more believable than "Dallas," the dialogue more intelligent, the characters more complex than the cardboard cutouts of the CBS series.

Hopkins' face was daubed with dark makeup around one eye and a cheek to make it look as though he'd been in a fight. In the story, he'd just come from a set-to with a man who tried to pin the blame for an 4 A iri i uajuu-udy uews uperauun. inai, by the way, is pretty much in line with Zahn's own expressed desire to leave anchoring in favor of newsroom managment. KB8 Sr An apologia: Due to mixed signals from the West Coast a recent story in Iowa TV on Charles Kuralt should have included KMEG Terry Zahn in Sioux City and KIMT in Mason City among the stations carrying the program. That's just ducky with The Mirror.

CBS's "Sunday Morning" just may be the best program going. In past issues The Mirror wondered why so little was being attempted in local cable TV not the public access channel stuff that's mandated, but honest entertainment programming. In Des Sears Portrait Studio BABIES-CHIIDREN. ADULTS-FAMILY CROUPS MEDIA MIRROR accident on Steven, Forsythe's homosexual son, who now works for Hopkins. "All the time I worked for Car-rington (Forsythe), I was the son he wanted Steven to be," Hopkins said later.

"And Steven always came to me with his problems. Carrington and I had a father-son relationship, so that it makes the break harder." Hopkins' character of Matthew Blaisdel comes off as cool and competent between Robertson's blow-hard wildcatter (Walter Lan-kershim) and Forsythe's mixture of your child changes. .1 Make a special tradition of keeping the memories with professional VISIT US AT THE portraits taken at aears. HOME GARDEN SHOW Vets Auditorium March 4-8 BEAM BUILT-IN VACUUMS Moines, Heritage programmers Al Barcheski and John Stark have been exploring adding old comedies to the cable schedule. In a writer-survey of cable homes, "The Addams Family" inexplicably came in as first choice.

Speaking of program buying, if you enjoyed IPBN's masterful LeCarre spy miniseries, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," you'll be delighted to know that IPBN has bought rights to the sequel "Smiley's People" for 1982 use. IPBN programmer John White says ideally he'd like to set up a "Tinker" rerun as a lead-in to "Smiley." At Des Moines' WHO, producer Sara Ivey is leaving Mar. 6 for Dallas' KDVW where she'll be one of seven staff producers for news. Husband Dan Piller, a business writer at The Register, will be a business writer for the Dallas Times-Herald. Ivey, who helped put WHO firmly back in competition for ratings and, equally important, helped make the station a competitive news outlet, says the parting is amicable.

One of Ivey's strengths as a producer was in dealing with anchor people who often have their own views on how things should be done. Open mouth, insert foot: For every story it seems there must be a little chit-chat. Sometimes it doesn't work too well. Consider the newscast from WHO-TV recently. Anchor Christy Callahan finished a report on the accident of the top American bobsledder who "died of massive head injuries." With the appropriate grin, she turned to introduce the sports segment, saying, "Well, that's not a very nice story to go into sports with.

A very fatal story in fact." Let the news fit the format, let the punishment fit the crime. As all of us know, the brutal storm was the major news event of the week. At the height of the storm, WHO-TV's noon newscast kept to the same news-interview-weather format despite events. The Mirror opines that breaking up the flow of storm news and weather was not a hot idea. That was a little better than the automated beautiful music station on which, after 4 inches of snow had fallen, the forecast still called for 1 to 2 inches.

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