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TV lineup this fall m ^ . * -m maybe a little variety By Glen Rawls Gamecock Staff Writar There's an interesting phenomenon going on inside your television set. It's called "indecision." It is not the year of the cops, or the year for single women working in newsrooms, or for large families. In fact, the networks themselves don't even know what it's the year of. That's because, for the first time, television is offering a variety of programming. A variety of programming, you understand, does not necessarily mean a good variety. It simply means that they're trying a little bit of everything until something catches on. THE BIG hits of the season seem to lean toward comic books in one sense. Spiderman, Wonder Woman and The Incredible Hulk have already made their mark. On the boards for future series or already making tentative debuts are The Human Torch, Dr. Strange and Sword of Justice. From another view, sitcoms seem to have the lead. Rhoda struggles on, Barney Miller, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley constantly dominate the top of the ratings chart. So too, however, do Family, Charlie's Angels and 60 Minutes. Fred Silverman's new position as president of NBC has him promising big changes in the way of quality and content. ABC is determined to keep themselves on top by repeating their former successes. And CBS is succumbing rapidly to "popular pressure" with entries like Flying High and People ? shows that they would never had considered in better days. In a way, it's refreshing. Writers and production companies are being given more freedom to create their own shows (and more garbage) instead of churning out grade triple Z imitations of whatever happens to be popular. Actors are all going to make their own individual mark with individualistic shows more than ever. If there was ever to be one big success this year, one big show that really made it, it just might spoil it all. But don't worry. From the looks of the new season, it's not about to happen. /m . iffllMMfcL 1W ft^'yA1i yl 1 ,i1.j{ ' BHr i WI'tliT "i'i 1 \ ' > T' i1 'ATsitmnrL 9 _L 1 CI/ U/l/l f ?/ Acadei to be si The head of the news division (William I Holden, left), a corporate hatchet man 1 (Robert Duvall, center), and the news an- < chorman (Peter Finch) are locked in a deadly power struggle, in4'Network/' the hit I satirical drama to be broadcast for the first ( We want tc (tfimt taQeid ^n\ or would li ^signup V at the$tu< Lower L ^frrwr^ :':';B@ISfM|^^^ lHi j^B^BBB^EB IBI^ ? '^HPfl BiBllBi^BBPP^^^fl 1 ^B^j.- JBH^BHk^ ||| f ny Award winner lown Wednesday Lime on television on "The CBS Wednesday Night Movies," at 9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 4 on WLTX-Channel 19. Finch won an Academy Award for his performance as a television anchorman gone beserk. The movie also won three other Oscars. ?? J> HBBSSflMBflHMBSiHHHIHBHnHBSBIIHHBBMH (cm$ MkH \ coo I + 1 1 / I HlOlb) I If you've got talent I ike to perform in the I annual Homecoming | ilent Showcase, then j > now for an audition I Oct. 2-3,7-10p.m. I dent Activity Center, | evel, Russell House.