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Monday
Night 1997/1998
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ABC:
Monday at 8pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
Based
on a moderately successful Jean Claude Van
Damme movie, the series Timecop (without
Van Damme) follows the adventures of Timecop
Jack Logan as he travels through time and
prevents time travelling criminals from altering
history
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Where
Have We Seen This Before - The Time Tunnel,
Voyagers, Time Trax, etc.
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Familiar
Faces
None
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Our
Take
Besides
the fact that genre shows are always a hard
sell, there's the fact that FOX owns the younger
audience with Melrose Place while CBS
has equity with the older audience with Cosby.
Accordingly, there may not be an audience
left for Timecop
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Expect
to Hear
“In the past, things were simpler...There's
black and white, right and wrong...There's
good and evil...But, that's history...We're
not allowed to change history”
- Jack Logan
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CBS:
Monday at 9:30pm (Half Hour Sitcom)
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Premise
George
(Bob Newhart) has moved to a small community
to live near his son and his son's new bride
while running a small bookstore. Complicating
his life is the arrival of Leo (Judd Hirsch),
a small-time hoodlum from Las Vegas and his
daughter-in-law's estranged father
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Bob
meets The Odd Couple
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Familiar
Faces
Bob
Newhart (Bob Newhart Show, Bob,
Newhart), Judd Hirsch (Taxi,
Dear John)
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Our
Take
The
show has a strong cast and is positioned in
a good slot in CBS's successful Monday night
lineup
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Expect
to Hear
When
George is looking for his extremely pregnant,
soon-to-be daughter-in-law right before her wedding:
Ted (George's Son): "Dad, it's not traditional
to see the bride before the ceremony"
George:
"It's
not traditional to do a lot of things with the
bride before the ceremony"
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CBS:
Monday at 10pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
Stephen
Bochco (creator of Hill Street Blues,
NYPD Blue, etc.) has created another
ensemble police drama. This time, Bochco is
telling the story of the officers of a Brooklyn
precinct
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Hill
Street Blues, NYPD Blue, etc.
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Familiar
Faces
James
B. Sikking (Hill Street Blues), Michael
Deluise (21 Jump Street, Seaquest
DSV)
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Our
Take
Brooklyn
South benefits from a successful production
team and a time slot that has proven successful
with serious dramas in the past
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Expect
to Hear
<<Unavailable for Preview>>
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FOX:
Monday at 9pm (Hour Drama)
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Premise
Ally
McBeal is a lawyer who finds herself in the
uncomfortable position of taking a job at
a firm run by a man she considers to have
no morals. Adding to her difficulties is the
fact that one of her co-workers is her ex-boyfriend.
Producer David E. Kelley (Chicago Hope/Picket
Fences) has added an interesting twist
by playing out Ally's thoughts in fantasy-type
sequences
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The
HBO series Dream On also featured a
look inside the thoughts of the series star
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Familiar
Faces
Calista
Flockhart (the movie Birdcage)
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Our
Take
The
show, despite the clever pilot, faces tough
competition from proven time slot winners
CBS and ABC. Furthermore, Ally McBeal
will face tough competition from NBC's female
skewing sitcom schedule
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Expect
to Hear
“It's not that I want him back, I just
want him to feel miserable”
- Ally (about her ex-boyfriend)
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