The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 44

Montreal, Friday, February 21, 1986 I r- Anne in a legal battle in Ontario Supreme Court vs. football: No contest i TORONTO (CP) Anne of Green Gables, the CBC's highly acclaimed four-hour mini-series shown last December, has become the centre of a legal imbroglio in Ontario Supreme Court. The two-part, $3-million series which was based on Lucy Maud Montgomery's 1909 Canadian classic and starred Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth was the most successful non-sports program ever aired by the CBC. "I'm really pleased it did so well, but it's sad it had to end up mired in legal controversy. I'm sorry it had to happen in Canada," said Marie Hoy, president of Los Angeles-based Cori and Orient Inc.

The company claims Anne of Green Gables Productions Inc. and Sullivan Films formerly Hun-tingwood Films both of Toronto, have not respected an agreement appointing Cori and Orient exclusive sales agent for Anne except in Canada and the United States for 10 years. Cori and Orient, an international distributor of movies and TV mini-series, claims the companies, owned by Kevin Sullivan, co-writer and director of the TV feature, inter- Oilers at Quebec, the Nordiques on the road in Hartford and the New York Islanders vs. the Washington Capitals. CBC had the Canadiens at home to two top teams, the Oilers and Islanders, and to the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs.

A few more interesting numbers: Channel 12's rerun of the brilliant Television documentary series is averaging a very respectable 22,000 on Saturday mornings at 11; Montrealers still have to wake up to Moonlighting, a great show with a pathetically small audience of Nitelife wins the Friday night pop video war, with 34,000 viewers to 26,000 for Good Rockin' Tonite and 16,000 for Friday Night Videos. DIAL Spinning: Great Performances (Vermont ETV-33, tonight at 9) presents the Dance Theatre of Harlem's jazz ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams in tights? I guess Blanche DuBois will have to rely on the plies of strangers Keep tuned to Channel 33 for Brown Sugar at 10, a great series on black women singers that will feature the one and only Aretha Franklin and the three and only Supremes in tonight's show Tina on simulcast Tomorrow night's Tina Turner special (CFCF-12 at 8) will be simulcast in stereo on CHOM. The red-hot 90-minute show was taped in Birmingham, England last March using 13 cameras, including a skycam for overhead shots of the great lady's fright wig Saturday Spotlight (CBM-940, tomorrow afternoon at 5:08) salutes the national Theatre School's 25th anniversary and includes reminiscences by NTS founders Jean Gascon, James Domville and current director-general of the school Jean-Louis Roux Loath as I am to ever recommend the dreadful Saturday Night Live, this week's edition of the once-great show (WPTZ-5, tomorrow night at 11:30) might be saved by host Jay Leno and musical guests the Neville Brothers Duelling De Niros tomorrow night: Robert De Niro won an Oscar for Raging Bull (Channel 12 at midnight) and was great with Robert Duvall in the underrated True Confessions (CJOH-8 at Shari Ulrich launches suit against B.C. government CbtfOawtK, Cosby The hand that pops the beer can no longer rules the channel changer.

'Armchair quarterbacks were sacked for a big loss this year "when The Cosby Show drew a bigger Montreal audience than the Super Bowl. The ratings race was close, according to statistics pub-'. lished by the A.C. Nielsen Co. of Canada, but Cosby was the clear winner.

During the three weeks (Jan. 6 Zto 26) that Nielsen conducted a rat- ings survey in the Montreal market, CFCF-12's Thursday evening -telecasts of The Cosby Show 468,000 viewers. The JJan. 26 Super Bowl, in which the I Chicago Bears demolished New England, was on Channel 12 as well and drew an audience of "In Nielsen's national ratings for the week ending on Super Sunday, the Cosby Show had 5.047 mil-! lion viewers to 4.065 million for the football game. And just in case you suspect that the preference for The Cosby Show over the Super Bowl re- fleets our attitude toward Ameri-i; can football, it should be noted that I Cosby's late November ratings were also higher than those for the Grey Cup game.

Bowl big in U.S. In the United States where Rambo defines the national ethos and real men still appreciate the inspiring spectacle of a great foot-t ball team whipping the spit out of a mediocre one the Super Bowl was watched by 127 million peo- pie. It topped the American Nielsens for the week and became the most popular television program in U.S. history, edging past the 1983 final telecast of MASH and its 121.6 million viewers. What can we make of Mont-' realers' preference for first-rate situation comedy over uncompeti- tive football? The superficial conclusion is that Cosbs strength proves the ''city's TV viewers are distinguished by their intelligence, taste and sophistication.

But a more thorough examination of the Montreal ratings book knocks that theory out of the box. Do you figure that Montrealers ''appreciate quality police drama? Heat, a fair CTV cop show, 7:00 CD La monde merveilleux da Ditney CBS New K-2000 CO Murder, She Wrote World Today C53 Wheel Of Fortune QD Newlywed Game SB Entertainment Tonight CD Gillet Pure Laine C) Three's Company ED Dick Turpin Business Report S3 MacNetl Lehrer Newshour 3 Aujourd'hui la vie C9 Chinese Detective GEE) Moneyline GOD SportsDesk 7:30 CD Price Is Right D-4 Regionally produced CBC shows continue to struggle. Steppin' Out averaged 21,000 viewers during the ratings period. Country Report, a terrific little show that CBMT co-produces with the CBC station in Ottawa, averaged Steppin' Out and Country Report are both on at 7 p.m., when they face impossibly stiff competition from Entertainment Tonight on Channel 12, which averages 259,000, viewers for its weekday evening glitz and gossip reports. The most popular locally pro-duced English show is McGowan's World, which averaged1 169,000 viewers on Channel 12.

Dick Irvin's Hockey Magazine averaged 110,000. Friday hockey a hit Speaking of hockey, the latest Nielsen book showed CTV's Friday night package beating the pads off Hockey Night in Canada. The Friday games, which began late last season on CFCF, averaged 322,000 viewers, vs. for the Saturday night Channel 6 games that we all grew up watching. I figured that perhaps the CTV package had lucked into some hot games while Hockey Night in Canada was stuck with a few unavoidable National Hockey League turkeys.

Not so. For the three weeks Nielsen rated, CTV had the Edmonton i vx i i i If BILL COSBY The choice of Montrealers 8:30 CD iZ Mr. Belvedere SB NHL Hockey Quebec Nordiques at Minnesota North Stars. 60 Dateline Ottawa (3D $3 Wall Street Week QD La chance aux chansons 9:00 En tete CD CO Dallas SB Arme et Charme CD Knight Rider CD (22 Diffrent Strokes CD Starsky et Hutch CD A plein temps CQ La saga du Parrain Triumph Of The West (33) Great Performances Dance in America: Dance Theatre ol Harlem in 'A Streetcar Named Desire. HT) Movie Calling Northside 777.

(1948) James' Stewart, Helen Walker. (2 hrs.) ESAU theatre ce soir: Alio Helene GEE) Larry King Live CO VJ: Mike Williams 9:30 CD (22 He's The Mayor CDDeja 20 ans SEE) Speed Week 10:00 CD CD Le Telejournal CD Falcon Crest CD Contexte (4 National Journal CD Miami Vice CD S3) Fall Guy CD Montreal Off Broadway CD Parler pour parlor ED Good Behaviour Brown Sugar CO Shortstories GEE) News U4 Movie The Park Is Mine. (1985) Tommy Lee 1 TV Radio Mike Boone gets 117,000 viewers every week. Hill Street Blues, the best police program in the history of TV, averaged 69,000 viewers during the Nielsen ratings weeks. In its time slot (Thursdays at 10 p.m.), Hill Street Blues loses to Channel 12's Miami Vice (244,000 viewers) and Knots Landing on St.

Elsewhere does OK on Wednesday nights for Channel 5 with an average of 109,000 viewers. But 147,000 of us get a daily dose of medical drama on General Hospital. Viewers who spend their days in front of the box prefer American soap operas (an audience of for Another World on Channel 12) to British ones (only 28,000 watch Coronation Street on CBMT-6). At noon, daytime viewers are more interested in the latest developments in Bedrock than they are in news from the real world. The CBC's Midday, a superior daytime newscast, averages 30,000 viewers in Montreal.

The Flintstones gets 143,000. The weak performance of Midday reflects the ongoing struggle CBC shows face in Montreal, where CFCF-12 is the channel of choice among English viewers. In the battle of evening newscasts, Channel 12's Pulse averaged 399,000 in the January Nielsen ratings, to 99,000 for CBMT's Newswatch. Dynasty tops Dallas The CBC's 10 p.m. NationalJournal package averages viewers and is beaten by Channel 12 every night of the week most conclusively on Wednesdays, when 318,000 Montrealers watch Dynasty.

(It is interesting that Dynasty beats Dallas (265,000) in their English-telecast competition, while CBFT-2's dubbed Dallas edges Dynastie on CFTM-10, 550,000 to 525,000.) GEE! Crossfire EE) College Basketball Concordia at McGIII. 8:00 CD CD Le Sang des autres (5e de 6) (1 hr.) CD Twilight Zone Sherif, fais-moi peur (4) Tommy Hunter MnT: Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous (5) Misfits Of Science GD 2) Webster CB In Session CD Droit de parole S3 0 Washington Week In Review CD Les Nouveaux jeux de vingt heures CS Movie The Lincoln Conspiracy. (1977) Brad-ford Dillman, John Dehner. (2 hrs.) GEO Primenews 33 Movie Turk 182! (1985) Timothy Hutton, Robert Urlch. 04) (1 40 min.) CO Top 30 Countdown Gl Cinema The Naked Face.

(1 984) Roger Moore, Rod Steiger. (1 45 min.) STATIONS LISTED CBF-AM 690 CBM-AM 940 CBM-FM 93.5 CFCF-AM 60 CFQR-FM 92.5 CFMB-AM 1410 CHOM-FM 97.7 CJAD-AM 800 CJFM-FM 95.9 CKGM-AM S80 1470 CKOI-FM 96.9 WVPS-FM 107.9 1 MEGAN FOLLOWS Starred as Anne fered in its contractual relations with a West German television network, TV 60. It wants the court to order Sullivan's companies to respect the terms of the agreement, or award it for breach of contract. It also seeks an extra $400,000 in damages because of the alleged contractual interference, or, alternatively, $400,000 for the work and expenses incurred during negotiations. prison after pleading guilty last spring to rape and wounding Ulrich, who suffered a collapsed lung in the attack.

Correction Entertainers at Car Bike Show Because of an editing error, information about a Montreal appearance by Bo Diddley, Paul James and heavy metal band Reckless was omitted from the Pop Scene column in The Gazette yesterday. In fact, the performers will appear at the Custom Car Bike Show, at the Palais des congres, Feb. 28 to March 2. The Gazette regrets the error. CD Cinema Foil de carotte.

Philippe Noiret, Moni-que Caumette. (1 40 mm.) Millionaire Maker GEE) Crossfire 1:30 CD News Movie Some Kind Of Hero. (1982) Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder. (1 30 min.) CO Movie Reckless. (1984) Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah.

QU (1 30 min.) 1:35 CB Nitelife 1:45 Cinema Quatre fiances pour un mari. (1967) Sandra Dee, George Hamilton. (1 55 min.) 1:50 GD Cinema Vanina Vanini. (1961) Sandra Milo, Laurent Terzieff. (1 50 min.) 2:00 CO Shortstories E3 Cinema Rive droite, rive gauche.

(1 984) Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye. (1 45 min.) GEE) Sports LateNight KEUJ SportsDesk 2:35 CD Potpourri 3:00 CO Wynton Marsalis Catching A Snake CO Movie Hit. (1973) Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. CB) (2 15 min.) CEE) Horse Racing Weekly 3:30 CEE) College Basketball Concordia at McGill. Mrtm 4:00 (5E3 Top 30 Countdown CO Cinema La Reine des Barbares.

(1960) Chelo Alonso, Jacques Sernas. (1 30 min.) 4:05 CB Movie The Killing Of Randy Webster. (1981) Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter. (1 55 min.) mm mm MSB VANCOUVER (CP) Pop singer Shari Ulrich has filed a B.C. Supreme Court suit against the British Columbia government as the result of a sexual assault in 1981.

The suit claims staff at the government-run Maples detention centre in suburban Burnaby covered up for the man eventually convicted of the crimes. It alleges that Maples staff "deliberately" did not tell the RCMP that Ronald McFarlane was violent and had previously attacked three women. Ulrich is seeking damages against the government, and five Maples staff members. McFarlane, who was 20 at the time, attacked Ulrich during an institution-sponsored camping trip to Saltspring Island in May 1981. McFarlane is serving 12 years in CD CTV National News Cinema Mon nom est Bulldozer.

(1980) Bud Spencer, Raymond Harmstorff. (2 15 min.) CD Signes-Echanges CD Cinema Adorable mais dangereuse. Peter Falk, Vera Miles. (1 30 min.) 63 Queetion Period S7J MacNeil Lehrer Newshour GEE) Sports Tonight EE) Curling Pepsi Junior Men 's 'Championship semifinal from Red Deer, Alta. (Taped) (3 hrs.) News CD Pulse 12:00 CD Cinema Le cdtd noir de la terreur.

(1 979) Robert Forster, Adrienne Barbeau. (1 50 min.) La Nuit blanche CD Start Of Something Big 2H 100 Huntley Street ED Radio France Internationale OS Movie The Lincoln Conspiracy. (1977) Brad-ford Dillman, John Dehner. (2 hrs.) GEE) NewsNight 133 Movie Avenging Angel. (1985) Betsy Russell, Rory Calhoun.

CB) (1 35 min.) 633 Cinema Un ere pourri. (1985) Kurt Russel, Mariel Heningway. (1 40 min.) 12:30 CD Friday Night Videos Twilight Zone 12:35 CB Boxing Matthew Hilton vs. Wilfrid Benitez in a 10-round non-title WBC junior middleweight bout (taped Feb. 15 at Paul Sauve Arena).

1:00 0 All Night Long CD Comedy Tonight ,7 j.mm juiniM it iiinill iw III? I 11 i 1 Facts Of Life CS3 M.A.S.H CD Carson's Comedy Classics I CB Bizarre CO Serge Vachon en spectacle 09 Genies en herbe C9 Retraite-ection 1 02 Benny Hill CO Magic Shadows David Copperfield. (1 935) (Part 6 of 6) W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, i Of Vermont This Week Jones, Helen Shaver. (1 40 min.) CE3 Gowan Spotlight CQ Cinema Merci d'avoir etd ma lemme. (1979) Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh.

(1 45 min.) fEE) Sportsworld International 10:23 0 CD CD Nouvelles 10:30 CD Vivre sa surdite 10:45 CD Tiragea de Loto Quebec Loto Quebec GD Kiosque A musique 1 1 :00 CD GD CD CD (22) News CD Nouvelles TVA Benny Hill Newswatch CD Le Petit Echiquier CD Teleservice hepeati 63 MoneySworth Movie For Whom The Bell Tolls. (1943) Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper. (3 hrs.) $7) Twilight Zone CXI Wynton Marsalis Catching A Snake GEE) Moneyline EE3 VJ: Mike Williams CEE) SportsDesk 11:15 CD Nouvelles 1 1:20 CD Vivre en forme GD Cocoricocoboy Avec: Vivien Savage. 11:30 CD Cinema Le Verdict. (1982) Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling.

(2 25 min.) C3) Magnum, P.I. (HsPeaT) CI CD GD Nouvelles (4) Good Rockin' Tonite CD Tonight Host: Johnny Carson. Scheduled: Oprah Winfrey fTie Color Purple); comedian Jerry Seinfeld. (60 min.) (9) (22 ABC News Nightline SPECIAL GUESTS THE ARROWS Friday Feb. 21 8:00 pm i IV1UI III tldl Forum IICKCTS 18 NOW ON SAIE AT THE FORUM BOX OFFICE Awn am Tir.KftRdN OUTLETS (.51 MCI CHAROl) HSLLELCANADIAN ZIONIST FEDERATION PRESENTS Guest Speaker: TUVIAH FRIEDMAN Director of the Institute of Documentation for the investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Haifa and Jerusalem, Israel.

Played a major role in the capture of Adolphe Eichmann. Date: Wed. Feb. 26th86 Time: 8:00 P.M. Place: McGill University, Leacock 232 Admission: $2.00 Adults, $1.00 Students Golden Agers.

For more information call Heidi 845-9171 in. ainitrii himii man. vSf I i 7:45 a.m. (CFQR) Just for Kicks 9 a.m. (CKGM) All-Classics Hour 9 a.m.

(CKO) John Gilbert. A two-hour talk show linking Halifax, Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and London. I 9:05 a.m. (CBM-AM) Morningside. Includes The Golden Age Hotel by David Lewis Stein.

Part five of five. 9:05 a.m. (CBM-FM) Mostly Music. With the CBC Vancouver Orchestra conducted by Mario Bernardi. Soloist: mezzo-soprano Janet Stubbs.

9:30 a.m. (CFCF) Contact. Open-line talk show with host Mark Burns. 9:30 a.m. (CHOM) Rock Dossier.

Men At Work. '10 a.m. (CJAD) Exchange. What's on Your Mind? 11 a.m. (CKOI) L'Entrevue.

Daniel Charest. 11:05 a.m. (CBM-FM) R.S.V.P. Select-. ed highlight: Les Nuits d'Ete by Berlioz.

Noon (CBM-AM) Radio Noon Noon (CJFM) Hour Montreal Magazine. Sportsweek. 12:20 p.m. (CJAD) King and Cannon. Listener's Forum.

12:30 p.m. (CHOM) Electric Lunch-Hour Spotlight '-1 p.m. (CJAD) Melanie King Show. Guest: Dr. Joe Schwarcz.

1:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) Dayshift 1:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) Off the Record 1:30 p.m. (CHOM) Rock Dossier. Pat Benatar Concert Preview.

2 p.m. (CKOI) Profil. Bryan Adams. 3:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) Disc Drive 3:35 p.m.

(CJFM) Words Music. -Best of '81. 4 p.m. (CHOM) Rock and Roll News 4:40 p.m. (CFQR) Just for Kicks 6 p.m.

(CFCF) Sports Rap, Open-line talk show with host Ted Tevan. 6 p.m. (CKGM) Top Six at 0 6 p.m. (CHOM) Top 20 Album Count- down 'I 6:10 p.m. (CJAD) Insight 6:15 p.m.

(CFQR) Canadian Achievers. With host Pierre Berton. 6:30 p.m. (CBM-AM) As It Happens 6:30 p.m. (WVPS) Folkstage 635 p.m.

(CBM-FM) Music In My Life 7 p.m. (WVPS) Planxty 7:04 p.m. (CBF) Le Cri du cameleon tw wmmffl 5 5tV' "kti 7:30 p.m. (CBM-AM) Vanishing Point. Meteor by John Wyndham.

8 p.m. (CFQR) Lovers and Other Strangers 8 p.m. (CHOM) Time Warp. Talking Heads. 8 p.m.

(CKOI) Rythmes et couleurs 8:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) Gabereau 8:05 p.m. (CBM-FM) Friday Night Pops. In concert: The Pro Band. 8:35 p.m.

(CJFM) Words Music. The Eagles. 9 p.m. (CFCF) After Dark. Open-line talk show with host Rod MacDonald.

9 p.m. (WVPS) Night Music 9:05 p.m. (CBM-AM) Ideas. The Northern World. Part two of four.

9:45 p.m. (CBM-FM) Jerry Goodie's Paul Robeson: Scandalize My Name. Part three. 10 p.m. (CHOM) Top Ten at 10 10:12 p.m.

(CBM-AM) The Best of Morningside 11 p.m. (CFQR) Biddle After Dark. Hour-long jazz show with host Charlie Biddle. 11 p.m. (CHOM) The Metal File 11 p.m.

(CJFM) Prime Cuts. Spanish Train and Other Stories by Chris de Burgh. 11:10 p.m. (CKO) Time to Talk. A coast-to-coast talk show.

11:10 p.m. (CBM-FM) Night Lines 11:12 p.m. (CBM-AM) Late Night Classics 12:06 a.m. (CBM-AM) Night Camp 3 a.m. (CFMB) The Psychotic Hour.

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