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Pailfl Press D4 Thursday, Sept. 2, 1993 TELEVISION NN cable now carries new channels, lineup "The Simpsons" 8 p.m. 0 Bixby's cancer struggle could be made-for-TV By David Nicholson Daily Press Brooke Shields lends her voice -and animated image to this repeat. Bart and Lisa are the writers of "Itchy Scratchy" scripts It mav take Newoort News A. iJ Vlckll 11 a.m.

Dorothy Malone; Virginia Mayo; Jane Russell. (R) CD Jenny Jones 3 p.m. Stalking. (R) CD Oprah Winfrey 4 p.m. victims of violence.

03 CB Arsenlo Hall 1 1 p.m. Billy Ray Cyrus; Louie Anderson. (R) Q) S3 Late Show With David Letterman 11:35 p.m. Martin Short. The Tonight Show 1 1 :35 p.m.

Band UB40; Kevin Nealon; Ross Perot. CD Rush Llmbaugh midnight (R) Q) Late Night With David Letterman 12:35 a.m. John Candy; stupid pet tricks. (R) CD CD Whoopi 1:35 a.m. Goldie Hawn.

(R) CD (R)Rerun Dut wampa, wno ehiaiHa serving as their "front, wins an Emmy for them. "Eyes on the Prize II" 9 p.m. ID The third installment of the 1990 documentary traces America's black history from 1 964-72r. The second hour recalls the Attica uprising, during which inmates took over the facility. (Part 3 of 4) "The John Larroquette Show" 9:30 p.m.

CD CB (Premiere) A four-time Emmy-winner as Dan Fielding on "Night Court," the title star returns to weekly work in this new comedy series, normally to be seen on Tuesdays. This Morning 7 a.m. James Taylor; Joe Montana; Roberto Benigni. Good Morning America 7 a Marketing flops; an AIDS ward's day. CB Today 7 a.m.

Loni Anderson. CD CD Regis Kathle Lee 9 a m. Dave Koz; Shelley Fabares. ffi Geraldo 9 a.m. Serial killers.

(R) CD, noon (EH), 4 p.m. Joan Rivers 9 a.m. Model Tula. 1 1 a.m. (EH).

10 a.m. Donahue 10 a.m. Alternative medicine. (R) Sally Jessy Raphael 10 a.m. Children who molest.

(R) BB, 4 p.m. Maury Povlch 10 a.m. Weight loss and sex. CO. 4 p.m.

Montel Williams 11 a.m. Married couples and prostitutes. (R) Newport News Cablevision has added new channels to its lineup. Mere is a look at each one with name, cable channel and a brief description: WVBT, 17, a Virginia Beach-based shopping channel. WJCB, 18, a Newport News religious channel.

A fourth pay-per-view service, 27. Home Shopping Network, 46, merchandising. El Entertainment Television, 49, entertainment news and features. Mind Extension University, 50, a Colorado-based channel devoted to instructional programming on various subjects. Country Music Television, 52, music videos.

The New Inspirational Network, 53, religious. To accommodate these changes, some cable stations were moved. Here are their new channel assignments: WGN, 13 WHRO, 15. C-SPAN, 16. TBS, 21.

C-SPAN II, 29. Family Channel, 36. The Weather Channel, 37. Cable News Network, 38. ESPN, 47.

USA Network, 48. The Learning Channel, 51. Consumer News and Business Channel, 54 Lifetime, 55 Mind Extension University will be added to TV, the Sunday television supplement later this month. El Entertainment Television will be added to the daily and weekly television grids later this month also. Bill Bixby's battle with cancer, no secret for the last few years, could soon become the subject of a made-for-TV film.

Several people have approached the actordirector in the past with the idea of making a movie based on his life and he turned them down, but now he thinks it might not be such a bad idea. If it could be an upbeat, inspirational story about determination rather than a disease-of-the-week kind of story, he says he would seriously consider it. He also has told reporters that he might be interested in being an active participant in the production, either in front of the cameras or behind them. CHEATED OUT OF 'CHILD? Cathy Lee Crosby is tired of being pushed around, and she feels that's exactly what happened to her in a deal with Lifetime Television that went sour. She has sued the cable channel and Hearst Entertainment for a cool 1 million, claiming those production entities backed out of a deal to have her produce and star in the TV movie "One Child," based on the book of the same name.

Crosby says it was a done deal and she deserves the dough, but the production executives of both companies say they were only in the talking stage and never made a assignment in war-torn Bosnia during the early days Cablevision customers a little longer now to find their favorite channels. Beginning Wednesday, the company added nine new channels and changed its channel lineup. The changes were made in response to new Federal Communication Commission guidelines that went into affect Sept. 1. The company added the stations in order to comply with an FCC formula that requires a set number of signals depending on the rates that are charged, said Beth Matthews, Cablevision's community services director.

It also requires that certain local stations be carried on cable under a "must carry" rule. The new channels include a schedule guide, Country Music Television, Entertainment Television, Home Shopping Network, the New Inspirational Network, Mind Extension University and a full-time Learning Channel. Two local stations also were added: WVBT-TV, a shopping channel out of Virginia Beach, and WJCB-TV, a religious channel located in downtown Newport News. Most of the additions were made to the company's expanded basic service. But the reshuffling of the lineup also meant moving other channels, such as C-Span I and C-Span II, into its basic service.

Many of the new channels had been previously requested by subscribers, said Bill Moore, Cablevision's acting general manager. No other area cable company made changes in its lineup, though more realigning may occur before Oct. 6. That's the deadline for negotiations between the cable companies and the national broadcast networks, which are now allowed to charge for letting their programming be carried on cable. Additional changes may be in rZ part.

Stay tuned for more on this. UMBAUGHLAND. Circle the wagons. Rush Limbaugh's TV boss is about to run a whole network. Roger Ailes, former spinmeister for George Bush and executive producer of Limbaugh's syndicated late-night talkie, Monday was named president of CNBC, the NBC-owned business-and-talk cable network.

He will also oversee NBC's new cable channel, America's Talking. From wire service reports of the conflict there. He turned it down, claiming his contract was up in a matter of days and that this was a negotiating ploy by his bosses. They fired him and suggested, not so privately, commitment one way or the other. Diane Keaton was cast in the starring role after another producer was handed the reigns of the project in March.

SCUD STUD UPDATE. Arthur Kent will get his day in court, but not until April 12. That's the date a Los Angeles court will begin hearing testimony in his $25 million defamation suit against his former employers, NBC News. The Scud Stud was dismissed by the network following a snafu over an KENT. Court date.

that his decision not to go reflected a certain lack of courage on his News Angel Falls: Possible foreclo Eye to Eye With Connie Newt Copt ft (CC) Late Show With David Let You Bet Your Lite ft (CC) CBS Newt (CC) In the Heat of the Nignt: Althea is near a nervous breakdown. (Part 2 of 2) (R) ft (CC) sure dims Eli's happiness with Rae (Chelsea Field), ft (CC) terman: Martin Chung: Cars stolen in the United States turn up in Poland. (CC) Short, ft (CC) News (CC) Eye to Eye With Connie Angel Falls ft (CC) Entertainment (CC) Late Show Letterman In the Heat of the Night (Part 2 of2) (R) ft (CC) CBS News (CC) Roseanne ft (CC) store if the cable companies take advantage of rules that enable them to refuse to carry local stations when their signal isn't strong or clear enough. Newport News Cablevision was having problems airing WVBT on Wednesday, Moore said. Warner Cable TV in Hampton has not decided whether it will carry WVBT, though Warner General Manager William Day said he may be forced to.

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From the John Steinbeck story. Maurice Sendak's Really Rosie MOVIE: Against a Crooked Sky (1975) (DIM yellow dog while running his Texas homestead girl grandmother in the city and embraces her work) of the theater, ft Animated. iwrth his father away. (CU) MOVIE: The Slugger's Wife (5) MOVIE: Diner MOVIE: Without a Trace Kate Neiligan. Estranged from her husband, a New Yorker turns to the police after her son disappears on the way to school.

MOVIE: The Public Eye Mia Farrow. An Englishman hires a Greek private eye to follow his American wife around London. (1985) PG-13 sensus: ABC's "Grace Under Fire," a new single-mom sitcom; NBC's "Frasier," a spin-off from "Cheers" with Kelsey Grammer; and on Fox, "Living Single," which already premiered; and "The Sinbad Show," mainly because it follows "The Simpsons." No new CBS series was picked as a likely hit. And the shows that did make the short list were picked mainly for their advantageous time periods (just after or before an established hit) rather than for any particular brilliance of execution. The biggest surprise of the new fall season could be a holdover from summer.

If the networks' magazine shows continue to earn big ratings, even up against new first-run entertainment shows, that would mean some sort of major upheaval in the balance of primetime power. In one recent week, six different magazines scored among Nielsen's top 20 shows. It's assumed that some of them did well only because they were opposite reruns. But what if they continue to do well against first-run fare? The magazine shows cost less than the entertainment shows. So a network can make more money off a hit magazine than a hit sitcom.

Could magazine shows become as dominant as sitcoms have been? If it happens, the trend might be short-lived. Because if the networks get all the changes they want in existing FCC rules, they'll be able to produce and own sitcoms just like they produce and own magazine shows and, unlike magazines, sitcoms can return enormous profits when their reruns are sold into syndication. The one thing about television that never changes is that it's always changing. TV is still the best TV series of all. Coming Sunday in Arts Leisure: The best and the worst of the new fall shows.

Baseball SportsCenter College Football: (7:45) Pittsburgh at Southern Mississippi. (Live) Inside Senior SportsCenter Up Close (ESPN) Tonight PGA Tour The 700 Club Scarecrow and Mrs. King: Father Dowling Mysteries: Sis The Young Riders: A performance is part of an assassination plot, ft (CC) The Waltons: The Denby cousins move in unexpectedly and take advantage of hospitali Amanda is charged with murdering her boss. (FSB) ter Steve poses as a hooker to find a murder witness. (CC) Life Goes On: Becca's aged dance teacher (Viveca Lindfors) must enter a nursing home, ft (CC) Not realty because viewers know most shows won't last It's big, it's hungry, it's loud, it's sloppy, it lives in a cave and it's dying to get out.

It's the new TV season. Run for your lives! Of course, a new fall season isn't quite the monster it once was. Remember when networks used to introduce most of their shows during one or two big "premiere weeks" in September? That's long been a thing of the past. This year, some new fall shows have already debuted, other premieres are scattered through September, and a few new CBS shows won't air until October, after the World Series. For the record, the Nielsen rating service considers Sept.

20, to be the first night of the new season. One can hardly blame the viewing public for not showing quite the enthusiasm for the new fall season that it once did. The event now produces as many shrugs as squeals of delight. One reason is that viewers know that two-thirds or more of the new shows premiering in the coming weeks will fail. They won't be around to see the flowers come up in spring, and some won't even make it as far as Veterans Day.

Naturally the sitcom, safest and most formulaic of all program types, is the dominant species this fall. Some 22 new comedies will be introduced. Single parents dominate, whether it's Judith Light in ABC's "Phenom," John Mendoza in NBC's "The Second Half," Sin-bad in Fox's The Sinbad Show," or Robert Urich in CBS's "It Had To Be You." Where there are single parents, there are smart-alecky, wisecracking kids talking about sex and making fun of adults. The most common profession represented in the sitcoms appears to be that of coach; coaches figure prominently in NBC's "Against the Grain" and CBS's "Angel Falls," in addition to the coaches in continuing shows like "Evening Shade" and, yes, "Coach." Many sitcoms deal with the baby boomer blues and yuppie angst, addressing an audience whose life span roughly equates that of TV's. In a survey of 15 top advertising agencies by Broadcasting magazine, only four of the new fall shows made the list of likely hits.

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A high-school senior tries to get into the same college where his dream-girl wants to go. ft (CC) PG-13 while playing a fantasy game in a research building, ft crooks borrow $1 0,000 from the mob and wind up owing a million, ft PG-13 (4:30) (1983) ftPG 1993 MTV Video Music Awards: (Premiere) Janet Jackson and Aerosmith are scheduled 1993 Video Music Awards Opening Act ft MTV Video Music Awards Postgame Show TO Beavis and Butt-Head to perform at Universal Amphitheater in Los Angeles. Host Christian Slater, ft (CC) Alfred Lucy Show Dick Van Dyke Dragnet Bullwlnkle Mary Tyler Moore ft (CC) Mary Tyler Moore ft (CC) Get Smart (Part 2 of 2) ft (BIK Partridge Family ft Looney Tunes ft What Would You Do? ft Wild snd Crazy Kids ft News Watch James Jerry Falweli Robert Tilton Morris Cerullo Creflo A. Dollar Bread From Heaven Lawrence C. Callahan (PJD Believer's Voice of Victory Fallen Angels: (10:05) Steven Soderbergh directs Joe Man-tegna and Bonnie Bedelia in a MOVIE: Beaches (1988, Drama) Bette Midler, Barbara Her-shey, John Heard.

Two women from different backgrounds are best friends through girlhood, careers and tragedy, ft (CC) PG- MOVIE: Two Evil Eyes (1991, Horror) Harvey Keitel, Adri-enne Barbeau, Ramy Zada. ft (SHO) MOVIE: Kitsln' Cousins (6:15) (1964, Musical comedy) Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Glenda Farrell. An Air Force officer asks his twin cousin's moonshiner father to give up land for a missile base. tale of police corruption. 3 MOVIE: Big Jake (1971, Western) John Baseball: San Francisco Giants at Atlanta Braves.

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