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Silvcrm stil By Glenn (fowls Gamecock Staff Writer PrpH C i 1 u o r rr? o ? ? * K x/\? k/ l I T V I AAA U A1 . programming genius o television world. He took ( the top, moved to ABC and t same. NBC was the only st< He took it. History has pi always wrong \ It may well be his last. After the fanfare and trei in the video world stopped still remains the least-watc the three networks. Fred ! man's much-ballhooed Sup* series has been pulled fro nignt schedule for what th work deems "major overh Cliffhangers has premierec less than desirable ratin{ reviews. Brothers and S Turnabout and Hello, Larr network's mid-season cc entries, are faring poorly. Now let's give a generoi praisal of the new shows. Br and Sisters remains the mon of the quintet ; Supertrain is ? enough concept if the show m be changed to include comc WPll Hrama nifOionrti mildly amusing for the time Turnabout is a one-joke sho\ limited appeal, and Hello, Ls just plain bad. So which one is the ne keeping? Fred Silverman has anno that Hello, Larry has the chances of any of the shows f renewal. He's telling all of u good the show really is. Forget it, Fred. It's no s that NBC's current albatn their five-vear contract McLean Stevenson. Stevei been in and out of more show possibly any other perforn television history, and his good role was as Henry Bh M*A*S*H. NBC jumped th< when he became available, estimating his talent or pot< Worse, they've given Stev IDunsinane Armou Military miniatures Models, Books, Prin Games. if opening Marcn 10 | 403-B Catawba Ave Off HugerSt. South of Blossom Hours: Wed. 6-9 pn 10am -6 pn I The GAMECOCK is the atu newspaper at the University of S Carolina and Is oubtlsherl threa tim week on Monday, Wednesday and Fi during the fall and spring semesters once weekly during the fall and s| semesters and once weekly on Thurs during both summer sessions with exception of university holidays examination periods. 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Subscription r I are S5 per MirMttw and J2 for summer sessions. ; I 8 Jhlrd cUia postage paid at Colurr an's ga 1 last ir creative control the result is har The creative mast* f the was (and still is ?BS to show under s1 iid the tatorship, whicl jp left, why it has laste Stevenson work roven time and where entertaii "incompetent r nbling was kept close , NBC minor role, hed of But there is Silver- just Stevenson' Ttrain workable nicl m the seems to stem ] e net- Great, into th< auls." behind NBC. wl 1 with understand coi gs or creative pro isters, general. y, the In fact, NBC e >medy solely as a cu company RCA' is ap- Entertainment others little serious th e solid even less consi ? valid company run b] ix can marketing sta Kiy as plains their f srs is likeable enterta being, Showmanship v with that shows up irry is graph beforeh; can even begin itwork company based indeed, that a< unced tertainment ? ( ' best widget factorv. or fall time and time s s how are always \ tertainment is c secret The "survey 5ss is against Mork with could not, of c ison's Robin Williarr s than ler only ike in e gun oversntial. enson ry I tS' 1 I ; 1 1 dent outh 8 B rlday and ! jrinfl [ days 1 i the and OCK ie of -> W1C0 I I i J -il I 1 * r moies t i the ral over the show, and earh dly the product of a The jrmind. M*A*S*H singl , for that matter) a unac rict creative die- pred i explains precisely shov d and possibly why NI ed so well in it. His that 1 time again tha iment is concert liddle-age" routine ere ly controlled as a mat rem more to this than Silv< s inability to find a mar le. The problem get < >ast even Fred The han< 3 corporate ideals ^u tiich do not seem to nedy or how the I i cesses work in I I 0 far seems to exist stomer for parent s video hardware. has been given ought, and comedy deration. NBC is a r businessmen with J tistics, which ex- ^ ailure to provide inment. 1 is not a quantity i An O morl/nfitirt M v/ii u mai ivciiiig ind. Only ratings to allude to that. A on entertaining ? ; itually SELLS en:annot be run like a J History has proven 1 gain that statistics j vrong where en- j oncerned. s" actually went and Mindy (they ourse, account for I is), predicted an Lm . I ~ i - V . r p 7\ * -- Ks ( i 0.5 $L3s t y vl llfjj I Iere are blaze abl;ize. Mail in Baye of madras with tod?n A toast to the axjrdinates her blaz khaki skill, $.'W. Ai collared shiil made Her companioi deserves a toast as duck shorts, $23, ai Ralph Lauren, $18. .? ~ ^ 1MHM ail; INBL. i|| ings !|| / death for a silly thing called ? Mary Tyler Moore Show (a :e woman, surveys said, was vjh| jceptable) while statistics $&i|S icted that Moore's variety V 'y r would be a success. ' IC has learned the hard way their business is based on * t statistics are ied jflll ative instinct, not # Kaj hematics. 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