European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Television top rated Cosby show May not return to an by Wendy Bourland bad news the american Force network May not air the. Next season of the Cotys fan America s top rated television program. Tom Baxter chid of to operation at an said the show s producer initially declined to sell broadcast rights to the armed forces radio and television service. However arts is negotiating to acquire Cosby so Cliff Huxtable and family May return. We Don t consider in j Loit cause Baler said. Good a can Elsa Klensch s style n fashion spot Hal is used at various times of Day As a filler has been Cut by an from live minutes to 90 seconds. This is not As Good As removing it completely but it s a Start. Her hair s always bother re me a male co worker of mine confided. A Welcome addition to the an Jit com lineup per scr , which airs on sunday evenings stars Bronson pint hot who stole the acne from Eddie Murphy As i Liing Wrisler Art gallery employee in the movie to Everty hits Cap and Mark Linn Baker. Baiter is a Chicago photojournalism Inchol is his naive Cousin from an obscure Mediterranean Island. Moping to improve his life Inchol corns to America looking up the Only relative he can find. He has n Lollo learn about his new country and gets in one scrape after another. Network Newi Mon an in order to balance its tuesday through saturday network news coverage the broadcasts Are shown the Day after they re receive moved Abc world news tonight from us late night ipod to 6 . On March 1, Abc nightly news went to the noon news Slot while lbs evening news now airs jus be Ore sign Cut usually at 1 30 . From now on the Ihrcke network newscasts will rotate on s regular basis swapping time slots on the first tuesday of each month. However Bobbie Battisita fans can headline news will remain in its 6 . Time Slot tuesday through saturday and the can newscasts shown on sunday and mondays will continue. Not just for Liidi there s a children s program that does t feature people that turn into robots unbelievable superheroes and planets blown into pulp. It s Davey and Goliath a Cluny animation production of the american lutheran Church. Davey is a Little boy Goliath is his dog. Together they learn about caring sharing and other important lessons of life. Of Wey Anil Colima has been around for More than 20 years yet the stories never grow old. Generation after generation can enjoy it. You Don t even have to be lutheran. Kids Are also the stars o tote world s largest concert which airs tonight at 7 . On an the half hour program links schoolchildren across the United Stales via satellite. The concert is being held in conjunction with the music educators National conference and k designed to get children interested in music. Coming up there s some Good stuff to choose from Paul Newman and Sally Field team up in absence of malice the 1981 hit movie. Field is a newspaper reporter investigating the disappearance of a labor Leader. Newman is the son of a dead gangster and discovers that the pen is mightier than the sword when Field Waves it in his direction. The movie airs Friday night. There s Showtime at the Apollo a new series from the Apollo theater in new York. Co hosts of saturday night s episode Are run dec and those paragons of Good taste the beast a boys. Guests include Stephanie Mills breakfast club Madonna s old band comedian Barry Sobul and the Apollo dancers. Next week there s 3 program that fail j utterly in its attempt to entertain. It s an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show. The topic Messy divorces. The guest of Honor is lawyer Marvin Mitchelson who has single hand edly split up jus about every couple in Hollywood. Here he reveals inside stories of celebrity divorces. Tacky Tacky Tacky. Seb part two of the three part miniseries will air on the Southern european broadcasting network saturday right. A woman returns Home in the old Bijos Only to discover the property she owns has been sold. What s a poor girl to do simple marry the new owner. Starring Margot Kidder. Ian Charleston and Victor Lanoux. Sledge Hammer is Funn eee by Jerry Buck associated press David is in his us Siml year .11 that outrageous elective Sfer fee Hammer but it seems few people know about it. The trouble you see that for most of this season in the Stales Rasche s Abc comedy show was opposite Abc s the Cosby show on thursday nights. A nudist Beauty contest would go unnoticed in that Lime Slot. A few weeks ago. Abc moved Sledge Hammer to Friday nights opposite Abc s Miami wee and lbs , that s the time spot where in went unnoticed in its hot year. This show May not be Lor everybody but in the Sledge is Blind to it All like a big dog waiting to be patted after trashing the living room. Immortal words of Sledge himself Trust me this show is funny mate that Funn feel Sledge Hammer is a big lug who like fearless Fosdick shoots first and thinks idler. He talks to his gun and takes it to bed with him. Nothing is sacred on Sledge Hammer. It has parodied suspense films horror films and Elvis Presley . In has poked fun at such Macho figures As Clint Eastwood Charles Branson and Sylvester Stallone. One of the reasons the show s in a marginal position in the ratings is that it lakes a Long time to get it. Sledge thinks guns Are great that women Are bimbos. It s a satire says Rasche. Raschk a one time member of Chicago s second City comedy troupe plays Sledge with a myopic. Vision. He always creates on his Way to a Boullon of the crime. But Sledge is Blind to it All like a big dog wailing to be patted after trashing the living room during Somi spirited play. He s been known to shoot Jaywalker and once blew up a whole building to get a rooftop sniper. This is not about ,1 family Rasche says. We Don t have any cute Pels. U s a spoof. Style is an abstraction. When you play with that people have Logut it Ohl they re doing a parody of the old prison movies. They re doing Hitchcock " on the show. Sledge has been slandering his sex wife for the last two years. She recently made an appearance Anil was played by his real life wife Heather i upion. By coincidence. Sledge Hammer now follows the new Abc comedy the thorns which is produced by Mike Nichols. Mike Nichols is he reason i got into show business Rasche says. He had earned a master s degree in English had studied abroad inight College English for a year and was going to enter divinity school when he decided to try acting. But he was so nervous when he enrolled in a second City workshop that he paid a Friend s tuition to go through it with him. He overcame his nervousness and appeared at second City cabaret with the likes of Bill Murray and Lohn Candy. He appeared in the original production of David Manet s sex Ujj perversity in Chicago next he performed at the organic theater and toured Europe with a repertory company. In 1976, he moved to Mew York and enrolled Althe american place theater to learn How to apply his improves Illonal skills to the Craft of acting. He was in the original cast of Broadway s 7ftt Shadow Box and for the next several years worked on the stage in new Yolk. Rasche had rotes in such to series As the Andrei target Kate loves a my Hety and the daytime Dah of re edit flirt in is regt of Winter. Drama Ryan s Hope. He played a nuclear win him in the to movie special bulletin i i Hank one of the i hangs that led to my getting Sledge Hammer was ceo uses in new York a play about the making of Chr movie Sapota Lytte now Rasche says i played the Art director. I think thai was the closes thing i Ever saw to what making a film is really like. I was also in Best defense with Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy. I got Good reviews for that although it was listed As one of the 10 worst movies of the year. I played an american who sold secrets to the Kab. 1 was a Man on the those two things figured in his casting but Abc had also been wanting him to do a series for several years. One of the reasons i look the series was thai i could t find a play he says. This show seemed like it had a Good Chance. I be played a lot of heavies so this was a Chance to May something about violent shows. In seemed like an Opportunity to say something. There seemed to be a real idea behind it. 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