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THE TORONTO STAR. MONDAY. fTBRrARV 77. 1989 CS Connie Chung the peoples choice as replacement on 60 Minutes NEW YORK (Special) Funny, Forrest Sawyer doesnt look ke Connie Chung. V- Tonight's episode of Degrassi unior High (Channel 5 at 830) no doubt about the future of iS award-winning Independent Canadian TV series; It has none.

Not in this form, anyway. The ing scene that shows Just how mum Joey has matured in recent months, that their relationship is saved. In fact, "Bye Bye Junior High, one of the most sincere and heart warming (no pun intended) episodes of the current series; shows Just how much the production crew and cast themselves have matured in the past year. Even if the old alma mater is burned to a cinder, it would be a real shame not to have these characters and some variant of At first glance; Sawyer was the runaway favorite In the New York Posts maiHn poll on who should replace Diane Sawyer (no relatioo) on CBS SSSBnutea. On second glance someone noticed that nearly all the votes for the ABC We rid Sews This Morning anchor had been run through the same postage meter.

The meter was traced to Forrest Sawyer'S New York agent, Arthur Kaminsky, who confessed that Us staff had fined in 181 ballots for Us cheat "as a Joke, and without his knowledge. When the bogus ballots were thrown out, the real winner with 41 at 3(Kt total votes turned out to be NBCb Chung. (Her contract a up in May Forrest Sawyer'S real total was one reader vote. concluding episode of the successful series, which also airs on the Public Broadcasting System in the United States and is a sequel to the earlier Kids Of Degrassi Street, rads with quite a bang. The school in whim the adoles- average although It's difficult to imagine either service would abandon the rated series if it was extend in some form.

So; taking a page from the "Who Shot JJLr chapter in the Dallas book of epic TV cliff-hanger Schuyler and Hood have left Degrassi fans out on a limit not Just with respect to the continuation of the show itself, but also with respect to the resolution of the dilemmas that still perplex many of the, young characters. Its Rushton and Suzuki IB jdou-bly bitter taste at finality to it; the graduating class, among the most popular kids on TV, is apparently disappearing from the screen with the series end, and the familiar -hails and. schoolrooms in which they, were nurtured and taught seem now to be gone as wel Best beta tonight not be getting exnect when 0 surgery. On Monitor. how patients mi treatment TV Talks Bade More and more new TV shows are about TV.

The phenomenon, which began with The Mary Tyler Moore Stow and manifests itself now in Newhart, Murphy Brown and TV101, may be a form at industrial navei-gaz-lng, or a aerious observation of the influence TV exerts on contemporary life. The debate between CBCs David Suzuki and University of Western Ontarios Philippe Rushton, over Rushtons controversial racial theories, starts at 9 p.m. on Channel 19. Two news shows rate a took. On atyPvlse, political reporter Colin Vaughan asks is "Paradise Lost?" as he reports on racism in Toronto in a five-part news serial on Channel 57 at 6.

Later, "Whos Holding The Knife? examines Trash TV gets trashed by Mur- iir at 9 on Channel 1 4, tries to have Bergen stars as the fearipss host of the fictional news shew F.Y.L who tackles the sensational istic competition. a a- w-tii-1 ABtOUl ZCftHpl CORIN NCMEC: Hwro of Whom Alois Watching, tonight on Channete 4 and 8. for-TV musical called Soul On lee) and irony (TV itself is mercilessly (fed in a documentary series Mr. Ed thst features vignettes by comedians George CarUn and Shelley Berman). Whether viewers will stick with this whacky, stacked TV invoke remains to be seen.

But if tonights 60-minute pilot is any indication. Whats Alan Watching is rivet-ting, daring stuff, as irreverant ana disquieting as its unwitting forebear, Leave It To Beaver, was conservative and calming. Some ends are tied up nicely in tonights show. We learn whim of Degraads Grade 8 and 9 students pass their final exams, and how many are likely to remain among their peers in the coming years. Wheels (Neil Hope), who missed too much school following the death of his parents earlier the series, is convinced hes about to fail.

But his comeback effort proves more valuable to Us teachers than his actual grades. Spike (Amanda Stepto), on the other, hand, finds the demands placed on a teenage mother are too great a burden and viciously blames her er for an I tiny daughter fo her woes both ways. For the hero, 17-year old Alan Hofstetter (Carta "Csrky Nemeth TV provides both an escape from his normal (In the sense that satirist Jules Fetfier uses the word, as the ugliest of ugly epithets) suburban family ana a living electronic link to-other ids real and fantastic. RUJM a But appearances are deceptive. CSC wifi run out the season with Degrassi Junior High repeats; so the end isnt quite nigh.

Still, it's dear that producers Ma Schuyler and Kit Hood of Torontos Playing With Time Inc. mean to break the Junior. High mold. They and the cast have been purposefully tight-lipped about the possibility at a third aequaL despite rumors that Degrassi Junior High Is scheduled to begin production In the spring with the majority of the current series principals in a new lineup. A nokesman for the producers said last week that no decisions about a sequel have yet been made.

Sduiyler and Hood are; in fact, holidaying in the Caribbean, wres- The FORUM and the CANADIAN AUTO WORKERS Dresenf Of the PREMIERE screening fore deciding to NO LOOKING BACK A Barna-Alper Production I It's a complex, layered loaded with aosurd vuual Jolts (a girl advertising shampoo on TV decides Alan could benefit from a -slow strip-tease while shes In the shower), social satire Oils sister, Gail, is a hopeless gold-digger, her fiance a manic, overstuned TV carpet salesmancelebrity), biting commentary and black humor (singer James Brawn is brought to absurd life by the shows producer Eddie Murphy in a hilarious made- be-continue her academic life as a correspondence student From that we can infer that ike wont be a major player in sequel, if there is one. As for Joey (Pat Mastrslanaf), who's uresa go cockiness and unreliability infuriate his girlfriend Caitlin, and Its only at the last minute; in a touch. At Last: Harry Anderson's alter-ego, Judge Harry Stone, will finally meet his idol, crooner Mel Tonne, Wednesday In the "Strange Bedfellows episode of. NBCs Night Court Torrne has had several COurt guest shots, but due to weird circumstances; Judge Stone has never come face to face with him. NO LOOKING BACK documents the history of one of the most dynamic unions in Canada: historical footle a interviews with pioneers of the union movement an Important document of labour history 1 Special guest BOB WHITE OmtdMMoWMers tling with the possibilities of continuing the show.

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