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The Vancouver Sun, Monday. February 3, 1997 B9 New station will reflect city issues and some U.S. TV The Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company Presents Who's Afraid of Virginia by SF ffiRD Woolf Susan Cox directed by Starring Nora McLellan Tom McBeath jillian Fargey Christopher Hunt Set and rostume design Pam Johnson lighting design Gerald King sound design Susanne Clampett Vancouver Speaks Out (weekdays, 1 p.m., repeated following day at 6 a.m.): Talk radio on TV, in the tradition of Jack Webster's original program on BCTVand RafeMair This Week. QNew Worlds (Saturdays, 6:30 p.m.): Focusing on challenges and triumphs of new Canadians, including multicultural arts, crafts, music and dance. Counterpoint (Sundays, 6 p.m.): A 30-minute public-affairs program to be broadcast across the Baton-CTV network that will reflect a western Canadian perspective to the rest of Canada.

Pacific Profiles (Sundays, 11:30 a.m.): Profiles of Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island personalities. Arts and Entertainment Applause! (Saturdays, 9 p.m.): Arts program focusing on untold stories from the clubs and streets of Vancouver, including jazz, fusion and blues bands; Asian performers who are stars in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan or Japan, but live here; and emerging stand-up comedians. Entertainment Now (Saturdays, 7 p.m.): Baton's Canadian arts-and-entertainment magazine will expand to include a Vancouver bureau, reflecting the West Coast entertainment scene to a national audience. QFirst Story (Sundays, 11 a.m.): Focusing on First Nations culture, from art and design to oral and written traditions. Children's and Youth Programming Youth Chronicles (Saturdays, 6 p.m., repeated Sundays at 10 a.m.): Portrait of Vancouver through the eyes of people under 21, produced by BCIT journalism and communications students.

Master Control (Saturdays, 7 a.m., and The following programs are in development, but may not be ready when CIVT-TV goes to air Sept. 1. Although a tentative program schedule has been drawn up, the days and times of the following programs are subject to change. Drama The Storytellers (Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.) A 30-minute drama anthology series showcasing the work of independent B.C. producers.

Two 13-episode, one-hour drama series will air Thursdays and Fridays at 9 p.m. The shows are still in development. News and Current Affairs This is Vancouver (weeknights, 6 p.m.): CIVTs 90-minute flagship news and current affairs show will provide a nightly trio of 30-minute programs, each directed toward specific areas of interest. Vancouver Here Now: A 30-minute, news-and-information program that CIVT says "recognizes and reflects the new mainstream in Vancouver." Business in Vancouver (repeated weeknights at 11:30 p.m.): Focusing on Vancouver's business community and the marketplace as the engine for economic and social growth. Vancouver Gallery.

Reporting on Vancouver's entertainment scene, from gallery openings, civic events, fireworks shows and award ceremonies to concerts, store openings, parties and receptions. Vancouver Beat (weekdays, noon): A regular noon-hour newscast, followed by conversations between people assembled from different communities across the city. It will make extensive use of CIVTs six neighborhood news bureaus staffed with multilingual reporters. CIVT from page B7 10IH 10 MAKCH 8IH Tickets: 873-3311 TicketMaster: 280-3311 flf-WHOIJHIY aTlT fanarfa MFfXA fifowsi jrfoby pMm V-dnaad sponsors CBC flMadto 690 gViawrSwi ifU Mit JrJN-iJ-U i HOME IMPROVEMENT: CIVT has rights to Tim AllenPatricia Richardson comedy Sundays, 8 a.m.): Baton's popular children's entertainment program has received more than 55,000 letters from viewers in Ontario in just eight months. Acorn Nature Nut (Saturdays, 11 a.m.): Gemini Award winner for best Canadian children's program.

U.S. Programs U.S. prime-time programs presendy airing on other stations, but which Baton has rights to, include Melrose Place, Savannah, Moesha, Drew Carey, Ellen, Home Improvement, Babylon 5, High Incident, Family Matters, Boy Meets World, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Lois Clark. In addition, Baton has daytime rights to Maury Povich, The Guiding Light and syndicated reruns of Ellen and Melrose Place.

AlexStrachan To be eligible to win, simply register through The Vancouver Sun Hotline at 482-2100 by noon on Feb. 6. Winners will be contacted. Winners will be drawn al random from all entries received Piires trmsl be accepted as awarded and haw no cash equivalent Winners ol any Vancouvei Sun contests within the lasl 3 months are no! eligible to enter Employees ot Pacitic Press, affiliated sponsors and their immediate lamilies aie not eligible to enter. All decisions of coolest Judges are final arid binding in all matters relating to the NO PURCHASE NECESSARY Telling stories that aren't being told elsewhere George Orr, broadcast journalism instructor at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and co-host of the Knowledge Network's Studio B.C.

says Baton will bring a breath of fresh air to the local news scene. "It's a wake-up call to the other newsrooms in town," Orr said. "I think there's going to be a news war in terms of competitive journalism in this market that hasn't been seen in years, and that's healthy and long overdue. The BCTV dynasty is going to get taken on. They'll finally have a run for their money." Seven months before it is to go on the air, CIVT is already attracting attention for its decision to staff community news bureaus with multilingual reporters, who will then report their stories in "The problem Vancouver has is a whole bunch of communities that don't talk to each other," Orr said.

"There's no media that con nects everybody to everybody else. CIVT is the start of a cross-boundary broadcaster that is going to be dealing in non-English mainstream languages and somehow integrating them all into a package that's going to be understood and accepted by everybody." Cameron Bell, the former BCTV news director who was instrumental in establishing that station's News Hour as the dominant player in local news, was an adviser to Baton during its application process and is presently deciding whether to seize the reins of the fledgling station's news division. Bell plays down CIVTs intention to compete with BCTV directly for market share, stating simply that CTvTs mandate is to tell stories that aren't being told anywhere i i r. "They have a very large constituency and they are serving it effectively," Bell said. "We never proposed to directly compete with BCTV.

We believe there are other areas which remain underserved, and that's what we're hoping to attract an audience for." Bell admits having bittersweet feelings about his years at BCTV. "I worked there for 20 years. I'm proud of what was accomplished while I was there and much of it has been sustained. But there's room in the universe, as we keep being told, for three or 400 some odd channels, and I'm looking forward to being part of the process of building something new and exciting." If CTVT is to meet its target air date, things will have to fall into place in a hurry. Murray notes that CIVT will be rushed to air much faster than CKVU was 20 years ago.

i "We've got a large job ahead of us to get on the air by the fall," Murray said, laughing. "It's crazy! At the very least, it'll be an interesting way to start up a new station." Conspiring to create a disaster A KINNfTH It A A FILM SHADOW CONSPIRACY Starring Charlie Sheen, Linda Hamilton and Donald Sutherland. Parental guidance. There's no magic formula for making a bad movie. First-year film students La cr Violence Z-t and suggestive scenes.

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Five minutes in and Shadow Conspiracy has already massacred a houseload of intelligence experts to the tune of Nessun Dorma, set up Sheen as some sort of White House super-Stephanopoulos and encouraged the hearing-challenged in the audience to test their equipment because the sound is so spotty. Even when Sheen and Donald Sutherland aren't muttering at each other about an apparent cabal of Oval Office confidants preparing to wait for it secredy rule the U.S., that shoddy sound-mix invites suspicion of a conspiracy against hearing the awful script. Driven by coincidence and derivative of a hundred other movies in which one man knows too much, the story is so devoid of drive that only an endless string of chase scenes can keep Shadow Conspiracy staggering along. First-time screenwriters Adi Hasak and Ric Gibbs show no imagination and some very dull scissors in cutting out their cardboard characters. Sheen is a shining young hero whose only flaw is an inability to keep his crease while being chased, and Sutherland is a cynical old White House chief of staff so tired he literally has trouble holding his head up.

It's time for veteran director George Cosmatos to have a long talk with himself about retirement plans. After 20 years of barely there fare like The Cassandra Crossing and Escape to Athena, Cosmatos should have let his epitaph be written with Tombstone, an enjoyable if rough-shod 1993 horse-opera. Capitol, Esplanade, Richmond Centre, Station Square, Eagle Ridge, Guildford. Peter Hirm'e -irr -'-m oo. m.

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