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TELEVISION B1 0 The Vancouver Sun, Monday, April 3, 1989 CBS vowed to take out trash but new sitcoms leave odor House fix-it host fired by public television station Associated Press BOSTON Bob Vila, host of public television's popular This Old House fix-it show, has been pitching too many fix-it products himself on commercial TV, his bosses said. Vila is getting the sack because his commercial endorsements doCt fit the image of public televisionffi-cials at station WGBH in Boston say. WGBH spokesman Christopher Ridley said "it's really not a surprise for either side" and said station officials have been discussing the issue with Vila for months. Vila's agent, Ron Feiner, disputed the station's account. "Bob first knew about it when he read a copy of the press release," Feiner said.

"Sure he's upset about it. All his commercial activities were approved in advance by WGBH." A fi RICHES Television JT i I 'iP fawgwwjwx-! TTZzumm i drops by and asks Young, "So, did you (bleep) her yet?" (That was the network's indelicate bleep, not mine.) The young men moved on to drill a hole in the wail so they could spy on the nanny while she undressed, and the rest of the plot turned on naked truths revealed in the course of such events. Live-In was followed on the TV TIMES UPDATE schedule by Heartland (9:30 p.m. on Ch. 7), about a middle-class California family that moves hack to its roots in Nebraska farm country.

It looks as though this family spent too much time in L.A. with The Bundy Family of Married With Children. Instead of trying to save the family farm, they spend most of their time making jokes about bathroom behavior. In the pilot half-hour, the big problems were inclement weather and the complete failure of the household plumbing system, thus necessitating the building of an outhouse. Laughs galore in this sitcom, as the father (Richard Gilliland) apologized to his wife: "We literally don't have a pot (Again, the network censors cut the line off, but we all get the alleged joke anyway.) Another tasteless moment in the program (having nothing to do with the toilet dilemma) came when a character defined tornados as "God's way of telling people not to live in trailer parks." Stringer, a former CBS news executive who's been in charge of the entertainment side of the network for a mere seven months, must shoulder some of the blame for this dubious entertainment.

Especially since he cited the two shows in his speech as example of the network's fine publicity efforts. CBS's Monday night lineup, known for its distinguished comedies Newhart, Kate Allie, Designing Women and this season's wonder hit, Murphy Brown is tainted by the presence of these mid-season tryouts. What can Stringer be plotting for next season? Garlic soup, garlic drinks, garlic desserts? TWO WEEKS AGO. on the very day that his network showed the premieres of Live-In and Heartland, CBS president Howard Stringer delivered an important speech on the future of American television. Among many messages, he told his Hollywood industry audience that the days of trash TV seemed numbered.

"The merchants of trash TV usually defend their product insisting that trash is what the people want. That great critic Cyril Connolly, used to say thai 'Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of but garlic isn't supposed to be the main course' Later that same day, Stringer served up a Caesar salad of his own holding back the lettuce, croutons, bacon, egg, lemon and anchovies. There was a little spice, some salt and paper, but mainly it was ust garlic, garlic and more garlic stinking up the screen. The sitcom Live-In (Mondays at 9 p.m. on Ch.

7) was the first offender. The premise was that a New Jersey family with two teenage boys and a new infant daughter hires a nanny to take over the household when mother goes back to work. The two ostensible stars of the program are Chris Young, as the elder teen, and Lisa Patrick, as the Australian nanny who just happens to be blonde, beautiful, vivacious and flirtatious. The script is filled with silly sexual banter between the two with the sophisticated touches one would expect from New Jersey teens, not Hollywood script writers. On the pilot program, the morning after the nanny's first riight in the household, a The following list identifies tonight's and Tuesday's daytime program changes made by the television networks after TV Times magazine had gone to press.

The schedule for Tonight's TV (above) incorporates these changes. Tonight: Ch. 4: Body by Jake at 4:30 a.m. Ch. 8: Robert Guillaume at 9:30 p.m.

Ch. 13: Love Connection at 6 p.m.; Current Affair at 6:30 p.m.; TBA at 7 p.m.; Carson's Comedy Classics at 1 a.m.; Gong Show at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday daytime: Ch. 4: ABC World News This Morning at 5 a.m.; Komo News at 6 a.m. Ch.

13: Straight to the Heart at 10 a.m. TWO NEW SHOWS from CBS are Heart land (above) starring Brian Keith (bottom right) and (clockwise) Daisy Keith, Devin Ratray, Jason Kris-tofer, Richard Gilliland and Kathleen Layman and Live-In (right) starring Lisa Patrick and Chris Young. TONIGHT'S BEST BET Knowledge Network gives another home to Daughters of The Country, an excellent, four-part dramatic series about Metis life in Canada. (The NFB series aired last year on CBC.) The series begins in historical order with a story set in 1770, Ikwe (tonight at 8 p.m. on KNOW).

It dramatizes the life of a young Objiway woman who marries a surly Scottish fur trader. HESTER RICHES La it mil Ch. Cable 5:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 8:30 p.m.

9:00 p.m. 9:30 p.m. 1 0:00 p.m. 1 0:30 p.m. 11 :00 p.m.

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