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DAILY NEWS 93 Thursday, July 28, 1988 I 'Reporters' not just reporting Fox (surprise!) goes tabloid again in new series Cable Crows on Emmys Nominees for the 40th annual Emmy Awards will be announced today with cable and pay television programs in the competition for the first time. But after last year's poor ratings showing for the Emmy broadcast, the three major networks have decided they don't care to tele cast the announcement of the nominations, which dic tated a 5 a.m. (West Coast time) press conference last year. "The cable industry is pleased with the number of entries this first time," said Jim Boyle, a spokesman for the National Academy of Cable Programming. More than 450 entries have been received from cable com panies, representing 10 of total entries for the Emmy LOS ANGELES "MIKE TYSON TALKS about life, death, love and violence and he answers that question, 'Is he a No, it's not a come-on for "The Morton Downey Jr.

Show." Nor is it a headline in one of those tabloid newspapers at a checkout counter in your local grocery store. It's the opening tease for "The Reporters," Fox Broadcasting's new Saturday night hour-long series, starting this weekend on Ch. 5 at 8 p.m. Steve Dunleavy, one of five reporters on the series, uses it to kick off a profile on the champ, but you never get the answer he promises. The segment, the opening story of the hour, is titled "Body and Soul." It features scenes of Tyson kayoing Spinks in 91 seconds at Atlantic City, catches the flavor of fight night, visits the graffiti-covered Brooklyn street the heavyweight fighter nominations.

The Emmy Awards telecast will be presented live at 8 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28, from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Fox Broadcasting Co. Stern Gets Square Howard Stern will be taping five shows as a guest panelist and announcer for "Hollywood Squares" this Sunday. The shows will air the week of Sept.

26, after liTl I i 1 i 4 I the show moves into its new home on Ch. 11, probably in the 6:30 p.m. time slot. (The snow is now seen weeknights at 7:30 on Ch. 7.) The loudmouth of radio's WXRK (92.3 FM) is filling in the bottom square usually occupied by the show's regular, Shadoe Steven, who will be subbing as host for John who's taking the day off.

Davidson will be back the following KAY CARD ELLA fey day to tape a new batch of shows. Does this mean that grew up on, and interviews Tyson, his wife, mother-in-law and friends. Nothing is new in it, except the tabloid way it's presented. Its thrust is to show the violent side of the champ, and the vicious early life that helped turn the boxer into a $22 million raging bull. Tyson, who just ended his highly publicized le r' Joan Rivers (center square) will finally come face-to-face with Stem, who has often mocked Joan and her late husband, Edgar, on his radio show? Don't count on it Hollywood Squares was informed Joan couldn't make Sunday's taping session because she'd be busy doing a matinee performance of the Nell Simon Brpadway comedy hit, "Broadway Bound." Oddly, a spokesman for the Simon play said the show would be dark Sunday.

A Rivers spokesman said yesterday that Rivers Saturday night performance would keep her from Sunday's "Squares." Hmmm! George Makslan Cloudy 'Columbo' One of ABC's really big fall shows, "The Saturday Night Mystery Movie," starring Peter Faik, Burt Reynolds and Louis Gossett Jr. in a rotating series of mystery dramas including a revived "Columbo," is the latest casualty of the 21-week-old writers strike. The show stands virtually no chance of making it on the fall schedule (whenever that starts) and production has been put off until next January at the earliest, according -A to Richard Link, the executive producer of the series at Universal Studios. A Universal spokesman said yes gal battle with his manager, Bill Cayton, talks to the reporter about his days as a thug and how he enjoyed ripping people off "the cunningness to outsmart them," is the way he puts it Dunleavy, who sounds like he stepped out of "Crocodile Dundee" with his Australian accent, injects personal asides, such as instructing viewers to "see how his eyes light up." It's not your normal news show; barriers are broken down, liberties taken, and reporters inject themselves into the stories. Yes, tabloid news has come to television! Dunleavy notes that Tyson's enemies say "he's being manipulated by a beautiful wife who is a gold digger and a mother-in-law that gave her the shoveL" He says some people think she's getting "a bum rap as the grand manipulator," and lets the lady defend herself.

As for Tyson answering Dunleavy's "$64,000 Question," he dances around it, saying things like "by my nature I'm wild," and brushes it off. But he slurs his words, and it hard to understand everything he says. Dunleavy, who started his career in Australia, worked on the Star, the New York Post and WNYW-TVs "A Current Affair" before becoming the pivotal reporter on this new series. Other reporters on the series are: Steve Dunlop, Jim Paymar, Rafael Abramovitz (who put together the widely watched Robert Chambers home video segments on "Current and Krista Bradford. In the opener, she reports on a young woman from Taiwan, Yu Chu Chen, a clarinetist at the terday, "We have no scripts at all in the house on any of these shows.

All we have are one-line concepts. You can't get very far with that" "Mystery Movie" was one of ABC's top fall guns. Earlier this month, NBC an NEWS FACES: Krista Bradford and Steve Dunleavy do more than report the news on Fox "The Juilliard School of Music who got tangled in immigration red tape and had trouble getting a student visa. The attractive Bradford becomes as much a part of the story as the musician, Including taking view, ers step by step ad nauseam to the point where she gets immigration to admit they made a mistake, and gets Yu Chu Chen her visa. A final scene shows the grateful musician hugging her benefactor.

This is television's new Journalism. The old rules, about reporters remaining objective and not injecting themselves into a story, have been brushed aside. The tabloid journalism style that has been a hallmark of Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers in London, the U.S. and Australia, is now featured on Fox Broadcasting. Following the presentation, reporters from the show met the press and defended their reporting techniques.

Dunleavy calls it "hard-edged." Still outFoxed on Saturdays nounced that the "Magical World of Disney" was pulled from the fall lineup and would be replaced by an updated version of "The Hardy Boys," which ran on ABC in the late '70s. The show is also from Universal. OLM. Saturday Night 'Bad' Phyllcla Rashad Cobsy Show" and her husband, NBC sportscaster Ahmad Rashad, will co-host the NBC special, "Michael Jackson Around the World," which will be televised this weekend in the "Saturday Night Live" time period (11:30 p.m.-l a.m.). The special features exclusive footage from Jackson's current world tour, which has taken him to Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe.

He'll be seen performing such hits as "Man in the Mirror," "Heartbreak Hotel," "Human Nature," "Off the Wall," TP Be There," "Billie Jean" and "Bad." In addition, he will be shown backstage, sightseeing during the tour and interacting with fans. O.M. Dot's All Jim Fowler, host of the ABC series "Mutual of Omaha's Spirit of Adventure," is adding another network to his growing profile as the nation's foremost conservationist and wildlife specialist. Fowler, once right-hand man to the late Marlin Perkins of "Wild Kingdom," will join NBC's "Today" show tomorrow, offering a daily five-minute essay on the natural world. ABC's "Ryan's Hope" has hired actress Barbara Blackburn to assume the pivotal role of Siobhan Ryan.

Blackburn makes berdaytime debut with the role which has been played by several actresses over the past eight years. The last actress to play the part, Marg Heigenberger, now stars on ABC's prime-time "China Beach." Alan Carter LOS ANGELES-GARTH Ancier, the president of Fox Entertainment, is adamant about not adding an additional night Monday to the Fox network schedule until Saturday night is "squared away." Determined to counterpro- courses to win. At stake Is a weeklong fantasy vacation. Executive producer is Kevin Bright A second series on the drawing board is "Cops," Ancier said, which will follow five cops from the county sheriff's department and Integrate the pieces into one hour in a "Hill Street Blues'Mype of crossover presentation. rjhe.

Facts of Life" off thts having inly "Golden Girls" as the sole popular Saturday network series, Fox thinks it has a shot. G. looks ahead to new technologies and products, medical breakthroughs and other advances and how they will affect our lives. It's earmarked for a Sept 10, 9 p.m. Saturday premiere.

If these don't work, he's not throwing in the towel and turning to movies to fill the night He's going to keep trying to bat-( -tlei the jietworkj, he said, with sore, backup series. -i i One "King of the Mountain," an outdoor comedy-adventure that involves tants overcoming obstacle gram the networks, he thinks a -nevs show, er, Dowing xnis( weeKenq, ideal alternative" viewing, 1 Ancier also has "Beyond To morrow," a series inspired by a similar one in Australia, which.