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THE MONTREAL STAR WEDNESDAY APRIL 12 1978 -Bill Britons must choose Quebec program (Helen Gougcon Neil McKenty Mike Williams Mary Frances Denis) Here Is fhe first-ballot result (least amount of points wins): 1 Sounds Like Montreal and Sounds Unlikely 18 points 3 People (CJFM) 21 4 The George Balcan Show (CJAD) 25 5 The Dave Patrick Show (CFCF) 30 The latter two are eliminated Second ballot (with scoring basis changed at the discretion of the Jury trustee): 1 People and Sounds Unlikely three votes 3 Sounds Like Montreal two The trustee Is empowered to break the tie voted for Sounds Unlikely Gordon Atkinson chairman of (he awards committee said he was shouldering all blame for the error In the press release Friday night the British Broad casting Corporation will run two studies of the Quebec situation and aa la the case with many specials In North America they win be shown opposite one another This la too bad because bath programs offer Britons an exceptional opportunity to acquaint themselves with our dilemma and Its background I am going to publish the texts of reviews of two London television critics to give you an Ides of what they thought of the Quebec documentaries one called James Cross Will Be Executed and the other A Tala of Three Ckles Montreal which were previewed for the press Here Is Elkan Allan of The Sunday Times: my Innocence 1 thought there was a high-powered committee ensuring against dashes of (channels) BBCl and BBC2 Yet how can there be when (the aeries) Life st Slake about a kidnapping by scparationlsts (ric) In Montreal Is placed directly opposite A Tale of Three Okies about the struggle for separatism as evidenced In the two-language television of Montreal? Both are part of aeries playing in no particular order and anyone with an Interest In the subject will be forced to miss one of the very few programs about as seen on British television "If the Life at Slake James Cross Will Be Executed la a bit too similar to the Dr Hcrrema kidnap that started the series there Is nevertheless real excitement as the kidnappers quarrel among themselves are made livid by another snatch by a rival cell of the organisation and disconsolately feel forgotten by media and police as the days fal by some excellent acting the most effective parts of the dramatised documentary are the real extracts on their two television sets of the programs that were shown at the time There Is however no switching between English and French language stations as there would certainly have been Judging from A Tale of Three Okies Montreal There are 1 stations on the Montreal dial counting the American ones that can be picked up There la a complete cultural well linguistic divide between the French and English Jonathan Meades of The Observer's Sunday Plus section wrote: at Stake: James Cross Win Be Executed This film begins with the English actor David Dixon disguised but Instantly recognizable bursting Into an English suburban house In order to kidnap James Cron British High Commissioner In Montreal a city which is the prices astounding It looked like a bit of a vacuum for both sides we decided to go In and offer the advertisers an alternative that would be less expensive and more efficient than the networks and also give' stations a way of acquiring a program with no cash outlay" Soap opera made in Toronto Best viewing and listening tonight further represented by the Holiday Inn 1 at Swiss Cottage and a slope of Primroae HID Dixon proceeds to do his tortured delinquent turn and like most of the rest of his band of Quebec liberatlonists can't cope with a Canadian accent So with the 'authenticity' on which this series has prided It self woefully lacking what's left? Very Utile It seemsv save a poorly paced script and much numb acting The producer's next project Is apparently a series of 'dramatic reconstructions' of spy dramas: the best of luck to Urn and may he And some writers leu concerned with such spurious matters as 'objective' truth and how-things-really-wcre In a barter deal stations can sell four minutes of commercial time bi each High Hopes episode if they air the three minutes of national advertising that comes with each program he said Cox said about a third of the 30 stations carrying the new show are network affiliates Auociated Press Also The Glass Key Part 13 reading FM Radio 8:04 CBF (935) Ideas: The Pollution Scenario Part 4 interfering with the environment 8:30 CBF (1007) Les Grands Concerts: Excerpts from Delibes' Lakme 9:04 CBM Opera Time: Lakme 10:00 CBF Les Petits Ensembles: Music of Beethoven 11:00 CJFM (950) Words and Music: ELO conclusion 11:00 CHOM (977) In Concert: Rolling Stones 0 CIVM Montreal St WEZF Burlington 0 WETK Burlington st WCFE Plattsburgh 0:30 00 the flftti estate Topics: Wintario grants and sugar Imports (60 min) QC0 La tournee 0 Consomme tours avertfs 0 Podca Women (60 min) (828 Starsky and Hutch Manchlld on the Streets: Starsky and Hutch laoo the difficult task of helping a youth overcome deep bit- terness when his Innocent father dies in a police shooting (60 min) 0 Shields and Vamoll 10:00 10:30 LOS ANGELES There used to be 14 soap operas on the air Now this vast sonata of daily woe and worry Is getting a 15th attraction High Hopes It stands out In three ways It Isn't a network show as are the others it's made In Toronto not New York or Hollywood And Ha lead character played by Bruce Gray is a family counsellor who happens to be divorced It premiered last week both on Canadian TV and in about 30 cities In the US Including New York Chicago and Loa Angeles says Dick Cox executive producer of the 30-minute daytime series High Hopes is the first syndicated soap opera on American TV excluding Mary Hartman and Forever Fernwood Cm said been attempts to make them before but this is the first to actually says Cox whose show Is distributed by a subsidiary of the New York-based Young and Rubicam advertising agency Cox said in a telephone interview that High Hopes was launched despite competition from 14 network aoapers because in the last couple of years the networks have taken advantage of their seller's market advertisers felt they were being he said prices for programs were going up but not the At the same time he said stations trying to buy their own programs found Television 1:00 QD Caribou The Incredible Journey wildlife documentary 0:00 (3) Movie: Framed drama 1:00 (31 Who Is Harry Kellerman comedy (R) Great Performances: All Over drama AM Radio CKO (1470) Continuous news 7:20 CFCF (800) NL Baseball (live): Expos at Philadelphia 8:04 CBM 00 Minutes with a Bullet poprock music 11:20 CBM Nightcap: Interview with playwright Arthur Miller 17 the early-morning Canada AM Telemutuelle Ltce of Montreal has bought exclusive rights to distribution of ABC films to French-language television stations In Canada This Includes movies specials programming and other films If headed up La Scic Nfld way soon you'll be Interested In knowing that they're finally got television there CBC uys the 1300 residents of the picturesque fishing village on the province's northern coast can now the same quality reception of CUC programs millions of Canadians have taken for granted for yean" Work continues to bring 50 other locales round the country Into the fold while applications for another 100 still are pending CBS has shelled out an incredible 835 million for the right for repeat showings of the movie classic Gone with the Wind over the next 20 years Adapted from Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel of the Old South the 1939 movie first hit the television screen In 1978 via NBC which paid out $10 million for the two-part showing With 162 million watching It whole or In part GWTW was the highest rated theatrical motion picture ever seen on television CBS first showing will be In the fall PEOPLE When regular broadcasters Dave Van Horne and Duke Snider move to the television side of the Expos games Friday's home opener for example and Wednesday evening games CFCF-Radio's recent award-winner Ron Reuscli and Ted Tevan will do the radio play-by-play and color commentary respectively this season I wonder if Tevan will cut off an umpire If he doesn't like the call RODS SISsmhIs TmMlwi RoS MdSdl 01010 a 4 smi 4 iw ain fcVMWM maw guart mi 699 SALK MICK WiWinMAitiw him lo hnil Rw pHtod cur hu bfWWWrtQ 01 ji 4J f'rilh SPA H4 PMA IV' SPA trip PUA IM PtiAAX) vbl'A AiO- 1199 SALK MICK HMtursm kto cuk h-inrfwa to iw-1 Rfgrie quhIpa Cw bum 7 hiwnranq ip b' afFt c-fef tud SALK PRICK 1499 Brewwlin StuSsrS Sly RsS ai 4JK44I ptfijfcasu Ota -H 18 i 4 fV-fi 4 VrrufetJ hy rod MMcs nr iwto KALI PRICK 1999 Mwto I liniit Ms Ttw uHtG-taim (Muk rut) srkAiJ wt b'ta uQrfl-kjM rod 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channels in Montreal I could only tabulate 17 a wallah Is an expression akin to our big shot In any case UK television like US television Is finally discovering us Too bad It's under such a negative light There apparently has been some confusion or uncertainty over one of the ACTRA awards handed out Monday night here It concerns the category of local radio four hours or less The winner announced at the dinner was CBM-AM's Sounds Unlikely (Kate Malloch Wayne Grigsby) The winner listed in a confidential press release prior to the event listed the winner as being CJAD's Sounds Like Montreal Snorts DIALS AND CHANNELS Circus CTV's planned music-variety series using circus acta a backdrop hu been sold to Viacom International the large US distribution company A special one-hour premiere of the show will be seen Sunday at8 pm on CFCF-12 The CTV-Viacom agreement calls for 24 half-hour segments to be produced over the next season CTV Ss it Is the first time a Canadian vision series in pilot form only has caught the attention of a major US distributor Other CTV productions syndicated abroad Include Stars on Ice The Bobby Vinton Show Untamed Frontier Swiss Family Robinson and The Human Journey CTV's new public affairs series Face to Face makes its debut on Thursday April 20 (CFCF-12 9 pm) with Helen Hutchison as host It will be basically an Interview program a Hutchinson specialty Face to Face replaces CTV Reports in that time slot Hutchinson retains her role co-host of Pros who know the CBMT Montreal CHLT Sherbrooke WMTW Poland Spring CJOH Ottawa 0C Cable TV -MU (9) Nat Cable MU 0 CFTM Montreal 0 CFCF Montreal CBFT Montreal (3) WCAX Burlington fS) WPTZ Plattsburgh 0CKMI- Quebec The complete television listings are carried in the color magazine Montreal Scene every Saturday in The Star 5:00 0 Llieuro do potato (60 min) Cooks kr Horn Show WV MWI ViVWw (60 min) Ducoeuril'ouvrage Thu Price lo Right (60 min) SKID (Meter Rogers' Neighborhood 5:30 (81 Corner Pyle a) Please Don't Eat 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(1971): A successful 1 songwriter's uncertainty about the good life ho leads Is underlined by someone calling his friends to tall them he a rat Starring Dustin Hoffman Barbara Harris Jack Warden end Dorn doLuiso (2 hrs) 00 Three's Company Jock becomes entangled in a feud between his two roommates when Janet accuses Chrlasy of stealing a handsome young executive from her O0 drama Tuor n'est paslouar (1965): Starring John Ireland Sarah Lane and Anal Garrett (90 min) (1 018 Charlie's Angelo Angels On the Air: Tno angels take to the air waves to track down a killer threatening a newswoman's life (60 min) HI Great Performances Theatre In America: A family awaiting the death of Its celebrated patriarch are forced to reveal themselves with naked honesty (2 hrs) and And! The Watson Report uoat: James Jerome Speaker of the House of Commons 0C Junior Hockey (2 hrs approx) 0 McGowan and Co Guests: Jthano Benoit and Guy Lafleur News Sport au Club (ri) Captioned ABC Evening News for the Deaf Reflets d'un Pays (60 min) 0 La Coulourdu Tempo O0 Leo Incorruptibieo (60 min) -0 The Men Griffin Show Guests: Arthur Godfrey and Kayo Ballard (90 min) 0 The City Tonight (3i double feature Hawaii Flvo-O: Starring Jock Lord and James MacArthur Kojak: Starring Tolly Savalas (3 hrs approx) (81 The Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson welcomes Suests Joan Rivers Gore Vidal and onna Theodore (90 min) Police Story A Dangerous Age: A police officer dreading retirement Is teamed up with a rookie cop (60 min) 0 90 Minutes Live Host Is Pater Qzowskl suspense Lisa (1962): A police officer helps a young Jewish refugee get to Israel after the Second World War Starring Dolores Hart and Stephen Boyd (2 hrs) 0 comedy-adventure Salt and Pepper (1968): A spy spoof about two nightclub operators who accidentally get Involved with spies and the British government Starring Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford ana Michael Bates (2 hrs) comedy Le Carroseo or (1952): Starring Anna Magnanl and Duncan Lamont (2 hrs) 12:18 drama Technique Pour un Massacre (1967): Starring German Cobos Marla Mahor and Franco Roaaol (1 hr 45 min) 12:30 (8 0 Mystery of the Week Too Easy to Kill: Imogens Coca stars as a nurse whoso Interest In the oo-cult leads her Into a bizarre situation with a wounded policeman (90 min) 1:00 (81 Tomorrow (60 mm) 2:00 Mennlx(60min) 774b TmbanuM Hud ImihShdN lAcma Irani h4c XortoniiMiil Mm Ibd H70 Mon Wwi Thun in IS Id IS Fndlh 17H Si Mann SwImmhI amoiBM SCarbuiMirl nmndM7 UM0 Mon Wnd14 Ihun- Fn b-I SbllS tAA mmm f- p-M a a.