European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Will Success spoil thirty something ? More than just a Bunch of whining Yupp tos the Coal of to s emmy award winning series will be in la lion at a level which reminds me of a television show called the Idoa thai to Havo Elored she currency of Tho political Icbale Ihal s Prelly a Crnkovic said. By Dian Haithman. Los Angeles times. De Zwick and Marshall her Skovil. Creators. And executive producers of Abc s thirty something. Expected Linoir. Show to last or us episodes and Ihen die,1 test audiences complained that Tho Pilot was Ca Hutsing the dialogue As not Inlo Reslink the Chni actors whined arid nothing Over happened. As a insult they Nevei. Had Lima to design a Masler plan Lor whore the series was headed following 1 5 debug m september 1937, last year artistically we wore ring from hand to Mouth it. Was a Miracle we got the shows finished at All Herskovit said. 1. Instead i dying quickly however. an intimate study of the tvs of a group of Griert cos i. 1ho same age group As the producers they Are both. 36captured a respectable Sharo of a. Dome graphically desirable audience during its first i season. Most to critics loved it and even those who hated ii devoted valuable column space to explaining i hair distaste in detail. And Ihen As aug. 28 came an even bigger. Surprise to Malyso Nething won Iho emmy award Lor outstanding drama series of the 1987-88 season. Coupled with plenty of time to prepare Lor their Doc 6 season debut in the United slates delayed because of Iho writers strik Eiho producers now face a now dilemma How does a to show break he Mold twice is it possible to be spontaneous on purpose can a series remain outside the mainstream alter getting to $ Good housekeeping Seal of approval. In Shor i w h begin Lus Wirig to spell. Itself with a capital to there Are Many ways in which the institutionalised. Success of a thing could be Sis artistic 2wick said Only Hall jokingly during a recent. Conversational the show s in. Hollywood. Even Fie word eth has been dragged i into the american vernacular Herskowitz cited a Fec ont quote item vice president got Gerbush there s a to show hat reminds me of what interest tales might be i Irie be morals get in Agai Uherc. Monday november 7. 1938 the stars and stripes ? Andrj Zotck. Who Rofer to Tho shoves acc Celsy acquire re Patina of accept Tinco a i it Wei Tho symptom of a fatal disease acknowledge thai Success could spoil Al they Lei in but they remain determined to stay True to their original goal which was nol to Havo Ono. Las year Tho Bosl thing that happened to us a we did t have a Zwick said. That really begins to speak to in heart of Iho my we want to approach this year. Ii we feel any Ohlig lion. It is to rededicate ourselves to if Ying no Lorms rather Ilian trying to rept Calo Hal first season in some Way simply because to Wero Zwick said that Ito Cas and Crow liked to describe hmm set of Iii year As a lab Oralois a place for works in Allol us that Vijard was really he said thai word nol Only a suits with re Ito pos Sibily o Fai iwo. By Iho probability of occasional Tai Luro added Herskovitz ii we made one Promise to audiences it is Iron Cady. Thai Ono week will Diller from the . We have to allow for failure in some sense to invitoil.". Zwick and i Lor Skovil fervently Hope that second year audiences now familiar with the chata Clurs. Will not gel caught up in tracking plot Points such is whether Iho unhappily married Nancy and Elliot will solve their problem but instead will continue1 to appreciate Iho show As a character study. To re deeply interested in behaviour by i not As much in of vols Zwick said we Are Moro int crossed in what a the show Jas Moio. Deeply and profoundly Aboul Tho Asp cos of How people Deal with Yach the thirty something epic Ore thai was Sci milled Loi emmy Corisis Jerasin for example dead Wilh Ino terminal illness of Michael s Ken Olin father the. Producers in Sisior thai the network do nothing to adv Crisc Xijiu Stury Lino Beloro that show aired the Lisl Tinio to had Tho Opportunity at thai limbs to of ombre h As Iho big show irs Winch Michael s lather gels cancer " Herskovit said. But we Felt Hal a would to a mistake because if we wan each Poison in she audience to deeply enter Michael s lec Lings when he learns that his i Alicr has cancer you can t know it before. We could have gotten a Low extra ratings Points out of in but they would t have experienced the show in that internal way.". The pair also believes thai involving audiences in the characters emotions requires a continuing Experiment wifi new Lorms of storytelling. There Are certain ways of doing television Hal have become conventionalized Over the Zwick said sometimes even hey viewers draw whal to expect and know How to depend themselves against being simulated or against Strong reactions to what they see and part of what we do is to try to subvert that. De likes to say thai television is a Cool medium but the audience s reaction to our show has been anything bul cool.". " Dos pole their worries however Zwick and Hursk Viii want the world to know thai i hey really wanted Hal emmy and they laugh Aboul the Lack that the analytical intros Ellioh to which Bolh they Wysom Effing s. Characters arc prone might sometimes make them sound like Well Haiy yuppies. Of ten people while about us. Occasionally the self deprecating Quality Wilh which to refer to ourselves comes across As sounding very Over anxious and torn enied. Which is really no Wie cast hcr$kovit2 said. we realty manage to have a very Good t Moh said Zwick. L Page 17
