The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 177

Sunday January 18 1987 The Miami Herald 11K ambitious plans a Big Beal Stovo Sonsky Television TTIRAIINDNG Judith Delgado Director of Education Structured to provide the finest in both avocational and professional performing arts training the Coconut Grove Playhouse Professional Training Conseivatoiy serves students of all ages with varying degrees ofskill levels and from a wide range of economic and ethnic backgrounds And because the Conservatory is a major Coconut Grove Playhouse program our students receive many unique benefits They attend all dress rehearsals all playreadings are invited to meet the stars of our mainstage production are guaranteed the right to all our open auditions and may be invited to participate in our International Playwrights at Seven Seminar Series Being a Playhouse Conservatory student is more than attending a class our students are welcomed and embraced into the Playhouse's framework Not only for the professional performer It might be for you! ACTING MIME MUSICAL THEATER SPEECH PLAYWRITING DANCE Classes for Young Peopie (7-14) Young Adults (15-17) Adults (18 and over) Daytime and Evening Classes Available Gome Auditions Required WINTER SEMESTER BEGINS FEBRUARY 9 For more information call the Education Office 442-2662 3500 MAIN HIGHWAY COCONUT GROVE FLORIDA 33133 sketch formats to take advantage of the wacky Britisher Ullman's talents as singer and comedienne: Julie Kavner (Rhoda) and Harry Shearer (Saturday Night Live) co-star Married With Children stars Ed and Katey Sagal (Mary) in a sitcom that shows the dark side or at least the realistic side of marriage They fight they scream they sometimes hate their kids Definitely not Cosby Fox thinks this could be its and the few clips screened for critics were hilarious Mr President stars George Scott in his first series role since East Side West Side over 20 years ago about the home life of the' chief executive: Gene Reynolds (co-executive producer with Ed Weinberger) described it as more a with than a sitcom Down And Out In Beverly Hills is a broad sitcom based on the movie with Hector Elizondo in the Richard Dreyfuss role and Anita Morris (Danny mistress in Ruthless People in the Bette Midler role Mike the Dog-returns from the original cast Duet is a romantic comedy that will slowly in almost real-life time tell the story of a relationship between two young professionals Jump Street Chapel the only one-hour Fox entry is an action show from the Cannell factory designed to run Sundays from 7 to 8 to exploit against the major networks which must run children-oriented or public affairs programming at that time about an undercover team of youthful looking cops who are assigned to infiltrate high schools Karen's Song is about a divorced 40-year-old mother who gets involved with a man 12 years her junior' Beans Baxter described by Ancier as Gillis with is about the adventures of a kid who finds out his apparently nerdy father is in reality a super-cool super-spy LOS ANGELES Even in this I land of dreams and schemes where The Next Big Deal is just a I lunch hour away what doing at Fox has folks agog and atwitter The empire building at the Fox Broadcasting Company is even by Hollywood standards an exceptionally big Big Deal Joan Rivers was just the beginning Come Sunday April 5 Fox begins its prime-time drive First Sundays Then after Memorial Day Saturdays New shows from some of the best and most successful producers in the business: James Brooks (The Mary Tyler Moore Show Taxi and absent from TV since he hit it big in movies with Terms of Endearment) Gene Reynolds (MTM Lou Grant MASH) Ed) Weinberger (MTM Taxi) Stephen Can-nell (The A-Team Hunter) Then each fall if all goes well a new night will be added to the Fox schedule And maybe just maybe this fall the big prize the wild card that could make them: NFL Monday Night Football The contract with ABC is up and while ABC moans and groans about the huge losses it suffered on football the past two years tens of millions of dollars it is said and how the price for football must come down powerhouse Fox Chairman Barry Diller says his his economic situation is different Fox is leaner at a different stage of development Its overhead is substantially lower For Fox football could work as a credibility-establishing atten- tion-getting loss leader that could be used to promote its entire line-up threshold of success is the dapper Diller explained at a sumptuous bash Fox threw here for visiting television critics no way make money in the first year of football lose substantially in the double-digit eight figures he said in a statement that would strike fear in the established hearts had they any would take current contract and sign it Assuming ABC is not bluffing the ball is squarely in NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle's court He will decide whether to take a chance on the fledgling little Fox Fox the aspiring fourth network was put together under the-auspices of Aussie publishing tycoon Rupert Murdoch the man who would swallow the media Joan Rivers: Gives Fox affiliates a higher profile ups will be in place from 8 to 10 pm on Saturdays and 7 to 10 pm on Sundays nine new series in all (eight half-hours and one one-hour show) and the battle with The Big Three will be joined Most of the series have 13-week commitments and will run through the summer trying to establish themselves while the Big Guys show mostly reruns Ad time is sold out Diller says Pockets emptied pockets filled the essence of the biz These are the shows thus far announced for this spring as described by Garth Ancier 28 wunderkind senior vice president for programming A Brandon Tartikoff protege who was lured by Diller from NBC Ancier says he is building programming on the NBC model of luring the best producers by giving them free rein The shows have a decidedly youthful bent that is the demographic so desirable to Madison Avenue that Fox is courting The Tracey Ullman Show from James Brooks and veteran Cheers and Taxi writers Ken Estin and Heide Perlman is said to be at a million dollars a show the most expensive half-hour on television It combines the sitcom and variety world pockets deep as black holes bankrolled the acquisition of the former Metromedia television station group as a broadcasting base and 20th Century Fox Studios as a production base Then a network of affiliates was assembled: 99 former independent station signed up (including South WCIX-Channel 6) about half of what each of the three established networks boast but a formidable start The lure to the stations was seminal effort The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers Rivers began her nightly whine Oct 9 and was available through those 99 stations in over 80 percent of the homes with televisions in America Broadcast live from the Fox Television Center Hollywood week nights from 11 to midnight Eastern time the show is popularly misunderstood as up against especially given well-publicized feud with Carson In fact what really going after is the 11 pm local news The Late Show has fallen about one ratings point short of the four percent of national viewership Fox was promising sponsors but it has been an overachiever Diller insists in reaching a young demo-graphically desirable audience It is not in any danger of cancellation he said going to be in this business for a very long Diller vowed reaching deeper into pockets are prepared to do what it takes to establish ourselves as a programming alternative for the American viewing Whatever her numbers Rivers has given her stations a higher profile than they enjoyed as amorphous independents programming movies reruns and the occasional first-run syndicated sitcom But all small potatoes come April 5 when the first two half-hour series will be launched through the unusual technique of repeating each one three times between 8 and 11 to sample as large an audience as possible By June 6 regular line- THEiPARKERiPLAYHOUSETt imrxm LASTiWEEKithruSUN ffJAN T0NIGHTiatr7iRM 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