European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 04, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television you la have to stay up late for Derby Day show by Sarah Bottorff a lot of people get a craving for mint around the first week of May. It s a funny craving and for a while you can t quite figure out Why you re thinking of some hairy leafed Herb. Then you remember saturday is Kentucky Derby Day. It s not quite like it is in the Stales of course. There won t be any Long Lazy afternoons sipping mint juleps wailing for the preliminaries to be Over and America s horse race of the year to begin. The live Derby show to be carried by super Lalion an and Southern european broadcasting does t even Start until 10 30 . Central european time 11 30 . In Italy and 9 30 . In the United kingdom. That should t Stop you from having a Long Lazy night. And mint juleps taste the same after dark. The Only tension in the race itself is whether there is any possible Way easy goer can lose this the 115th running of the Kentucky Derby. It s possible that he s unbeatable also ran jockey Jose Santos told the associated press after easy goer took a three length Victory at new York s Aqueduct. That win april 23 improved easy goer s career earnings to $1,240.890. And his record to seven victories in nine career starts including All three As a 3-year-old. Bui  sort of can a lose remark from Santos is bound to Jinx the horse a number of superstitious people have pointed out. They also Point out that the last nine Derby favourites have been upset. So it May be a horse race after All. Not that it mailers As Long As you have plenty of mint a to show producer Stephen Cannell was on the outlay show recently talking about How the networks in the slates Are increasingly putting on shows designed for women because they be already lost Many male viewers to esp and other specialized sports news or business Cable channels. Maybe that explains duet. Maybe this romantic sitcom the Story of a detective novel writer Matthew Laurence and his caterer Girlfriend Mary Page Keller is supposed to Appeal to women. It does remind you a Little of those paperback novels with handsome couples kissing on the covers and a lot of big Type inside. I read books like that myself. But one episode of Duel is enough for me. So it s romantic boy is it romantic. Everything and everybody on this show except the German Shepherd is pastel coloured. But the plot is also Light and faded and so Are the jokes. Lust to give you a general idea one joke on the show is that the Carriage on the writer hero s typewriter Falls off just after he finishes saying what great stuff he s about to write. A Hal say the voices on the laugh track. The heroine caterer told by her sister that she s a wimp says i m no wimp i m a  a Hal the laugh track says again. At one Point the sister spins around and picks up a snorkel mask from the mantelpiece and fits it Over her face. Why is there a snorkel mask on the mantelpiece Why k she putting it on Why is the laugh track laughing Why am i watching an will broadcast duet at 8 . Friday 7 in the . Seb gels it the last week of june. You May be tempted to turn off Marblehead Manor As quickly As duet. I almost did but then after a while i noticed i was doing a lot of giggling. This is a really ridiculous comedy sort of a soap with some Monty Python thrown in. As you can probably guess from the title it s about a dim wilted extremely Rich couple who live in a mansion called Marblehead Manor with a Bunch of idiotic servants. And the show which airs at 7 . Friday 6 in the . Really starts slowly. In fact for a while you May think it s Only going to Appeal to somebody who thinks it s funny to hear a growing pains mom Sells scripts Byle Rybuck associated press the producers of Abc s crowing pains expected Joanna Kerns to Pilch stories featuring her character when she asked to write a few episodes. Kerns co stars on growing pains As Maggie Seaver a television anchorwoman who s married to psychiatrist Lason Seaver Alan Thicke. I think they expected Maggie stories she said with a laugh. We pitched them six stories and none of them were about  one episode the producers approved written by Kerns and Becky Ayers features Jason s Mother played by Jane Powell and the crisis that arises when she tells him that she s remarrying. We got the idea from a few different things said Kerns. I m single and dating and it s difficult to Date with a child who has set ideas about who you should be with. We applied that to Jason a  who should know belter. When his Mother says she s gelling married How docs he react Jason s Mother had been referred to in the show but she has never appeared before. In one episode she slops by to pick up the kids said Kerns. You hear her honking the Horn then screeching lires As she pulls away. Thai gave us the idea that she was a Little More daring than  Kerns and avers met eight years ago when their children were in Nursery school together. Their first writing project was an a produced movie script called Lei it rain which they said was similar to or. Mom the hit movie thai came two years later. They also collaborated on american pie which has been optioned As a television movie. British born Butler Paxton Whitehead say veddy Gaud saah but then there s a very funny bit with Charo remember the Bombshell on Hollywood squares As a Cook flinging omelettes around and there s this Guy running in and out with a pig in his arms and there s this cop bursting into rooms shouting freeze fish face you get the idea. Seb should be getting this one around the last week of june too. The third new show coming to an this week and to seb in late june is secrets and mysteries. If s being aired at 2 . Sunday 1 in the .but Don t get your Hopes up. Despite its name and the after Midnight viewing time this is no scary show. It does try though in the beginning. You hear a lot of humpty thump music and a Man who sounds like he s speaking from inside a drainpipe says time for our journey to  from there on out though it s a rather Boring account of what happened to the titanic and some of the unanswered questions surrounding it. The next week s episode is on Lack the Ripper so things May perk up. This is the week seb gets to see life in the 1960s through a 12-year-old s eyes in the wonder years at 8 20 . Thursday to see just How disgusting kids can be on double dare at 2 30 . Tuesday and just How undercover cops work in a High school in 21 Lump Street at 9 20 . Wednesday. A new season of crowing pains which could teach duet a whole lot about How to do a Good sitcom is Back on an at 7 . Wednesday 6 in the . Wiseguy the drama which is becoming a cult favorite in the states comes Back for a second year on an at 10 40 . Tuesday 9 40 . . Both general Hospital and guiding Light have Only four episodes this week Uliey were preempted on the fifth Day by who remembers what event in the states some nine months ago. Friday True confessions will air in their time slots. And in the week that brings you the Kentucky Derby you also get Robert Redford in 1986 s Legal fugues with Debra Winger and Daryl Hannah at 10 40 . Friday 9 40 in the . Ayers who is married to actor Robert Rockwell has written a script for growing pains on her own. This one is about Maggie. I wanted to write about the stress of being a working Mother said Ayers. Working alone Kerns has written a movie script called freestyle that tells of two teen age Sisters competing to go to the 1980 summer olympics in Moscow which the United Stales ultimately boycotted because of the soviet intervention in Afghanistan. That script is also under option. The younger sister thinks that if she can win a spot on the team Shell be loved by her father said Kerns. I lie Sisters wind up competing against each  the Story is partly autobiographical. Kerns older sister is Donna do Varona who won two olympic swimming Gold medals in 1964. Kerns was a gymnast who participated in the 1968 olympic trials but placed Mil out of the 28 vying for the team. Ii was a sport i was too tall for said the 5-fool Xvi actress. I really wrote the Story because it took me years to give myself any validation As an athlete. My expectations for myself were so High. When i did t make the team i thought i had failed. My friends say i should Call the script / never swam for my  despite being a Star of growing pains Kerns found in Tough breaking in As a writer. If they Don t know you As a writer your script May or May not get read she said. I even had trouble gutting my own agents to read my scripts. I was just another actress who wanted to write. I think when a writer makes a breakthrough a closet full of rejected scripts Falls  editors note the new season of crowing pins starts on Supe Statton an at 7 . Wednesday 6tn the . The wonder years is a team Effort now Hollywood a Neal Marlens and Carol Black the creators of Abc s the wonder years had plenty of time in its first season to hand draft each episode of the nostalgic comedy. After All there were Only six episodes. The show won favourable reviews was picked up for fall and won an emmy As the season s Best comedy series. But Success is a mixed Blessing for the husband and wife team. Last season we could really do each episode ourselves Black said. Now that we re doing 11, we had to put together a staff involve other people in what we re  they brought in a new co executive producer Bob Brush a comedy Veteran two new staff writers Matthew Carlson and Dave Stern. One of the rare half hour comedies that is neither filmed before a studio audience nor imbued with a laugh track. The wonder years is even More distinctive because it has a narrator the disembodied voice of the adult Kevin Arnold harking Back to his Junior High school experiences in 1968, a time when there were moments of sorrow and  the series stars 12-year-old Fred Savage As the Young Kevin. Marlens and Black say the narrator has been a stumbling Block for free Lance writers. We be found that literally everybody who writes the show for the first time uses the narrator excessively Marlens said. It s such a fun thing to  de Roc note the wonder vean starts on Southern european broadcasting at 8 20 . Thursday. 8 stripes Mega me May 4,1989