European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 1, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television m a i Al arts caught in budget Pinch Beauty and the beast won t return for year 3by Sarah Bottorff it May to one of the oddest aftereffects of the rapidly thawing cold War Beauty and the beast has been i Anc oled on military television stations. The  Ision not to pick up the third season of the series a we re on year 2 now on superstition an and Southern european broadcasting a is one of several budget cutting moves by the armed forces radio and television service which supplies programs to military stations worldwide. In the general chopping of department of defense budgets in this season of red threat reduction Al its lost a whopping $1.2 million of the $6 million it expected to have this fiscal year to Purchase the rights to television programs. The results according to Ai its an and seb Are wide ranging a Beauty and the beast is an example of programs your average e-3 is probably not dying to watch and consequently will have to go. With limited dollars to buy broadcast rights the Money will go instead to programs that Appeal to the under-25 crowd which makes up so percent of an s audience and similar t hunks of other military station audiences. A programs that rank High in the . Nielsen ratings do not necessarily rank High with military audiences. If top rated programs have to be Cut a and arts Larry Marotta says that is highly unlikely a programmers will probably drop an a older Quot show like murder she wrote to save dollars for such shows As 21 jump Street a an example of a show that s not All that popular in the states but appeals More to the Young military audience a the Lime lag Between when shows air in the states and when they show up overseas is Likely to lengthen. Arts is going to save Money by acquiring shows and sending them on More slowly. Now we might see knots Landing thirty something Dallas . Law and Falcon Crest All in the same week in the future however Only a couple of them Are Likely to air during the same week a although Many of the final budget decisions have not been made arts has definitely decided to Send one less movie each week says Marotta. He Points out though that All the military stations have extensive libraries of films to use and he does t expect viewers to notice that change. What won t be affected is sat net a sports specials and news along with the tonight show saturday night live 60 minutes and other topical shows. What arts sends on its satellite network it gets Gratis and will keep getting Marotta says. He thinks the sat net stuff will fill up the military television schedules so that there will be no need for running repeats or shortening broadcast Days even if arts does Send less videotaped programming. Seb s Mike Mullen agrees. A none of us is too terribly upset Quot Mullen says of the arts cutback plans. A we re using a lot of satellite sports and programming  an s chief of broadcast operations Tom Baxter has a Little More cautious reaction. A there s no Way to really respond now because it s All too vague to draw any conclusions Quot he says. A but arts is our the third year of Beauty and the beast starring Linda Hamilton whose character is promptly killed off and Ron Perlman won t be seen on military stations. An is Midway through the show s second season which is just beginning on seb. Not sole source of programming. If anything is reduced obviously it s going to affect  the $1.2 million budget Cut is the most severe arts has faced in at least eight years says Jerry Fry director of programming at arts at its Headquarters in Sun Valley a Calif. A Well just have to be a lot More careful in what selections we make Quot Marotta sums up a eliminating some of the extras that make to More entertaining but add to the Cost. I think the viewer will see a fairly seamless transition though. There will be programming still and it will be top Quality. It just May move a Little More slowly through the  seb has decided to Start using All three late night shows sent through sat net every night instead of one Only each night. Arsenio Hall late night with David Letterman and the tonight show will All be seen nightly starting next week. Mullen says the station will vary which show goes first. Seb is also going to switch things around in the afternoon putting a adult Quot shows like i love Lucy and take charge on right after the 1 . Today show. The children s programming that now starts at 3 . Will air later in the afternoon a so we can be sure the kids Are Home from school to watch it Quot Mullen says. An is Midway through the second year of Beauty and the beast and seb starts the second year Friday at 7 10 . The year Well be missing year 3, is the one cancelled in mid season by lbs in january. Maybe it s just As Well. The associated press notes that the two hour season opener killed off Linda Hamilton s character Catherine featured much violence and mayhem and proved that Chaste Romance can t last forever As Catherine gave birth to a child fathered by Vincent. The highlight of a quiet week on an May be the super Mario Brothers coming to life if Nintendo characters can be said to come alive on the super Mario Brothers show at 8 50 . Central european time saturday 7 50 . In the United kingdom. Try to imagine Nintendo with a plot slightly weird. Some May say macgyver is a lot like Nintendo with a plot but they clearly Are not fans of the Gadget Happy hero. Richard Dean Anderson and company return for year 4 of Macg Verat 7 . Get saturday. The Best of an s movies this week is . Cab at 10 40 . Get Friday. It s an uproariously funny Story about a group of whacked out cabbies starring or. To Irene Cara and Gary Busey among others. The 700 club starts up at 6 30 . Get sunday. And among the self explanatory documentaries and specials this week Are Beach boys 25 years together at 2 . Get sunday mafia wars at 11 40 . Thursday and Kenny Dolly and Willie something inside so Strong with singers Kenny Rogers Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson at 8 30 . Tuesday. And for an viewers who were left Seething last week when in the heat of the night ended its season by showing the first part of a two part Cliffhanger episode it was t an s fault. Don t blame arts either. The series year ended that Way when it was originally shown in the states and people had to wait All summer to find out what happened next. Here Well have to wait until mid july for in the heat of the night to come Back arts  seb this week Alf comes Back for a third year at 8 . Friday and my two dads starts year 2 on tuesday at 3 25 . Also returning is the science program Nova at 1 50 . Saturday and Christian contemporary television a program of religious Rock videos starts at 8 30 . Sunday. The critically acclaimed Story of murder in a Black soldiers unit in world War ii a Soldier s Story airs at 9 15 . Wednesday. Another Good movie of a different sort is the Audrey Hepburn Peter o Toole comedy How to steal a million at 1 15 . Saturday and Victory at Entebbe is a Good docudrama about the israeli raid on Uganda to free airline passengers held hostage. It airs at 1 30 . Saturday. Not particularly recommended is Iron Eagle the inane adventure Story about a teen Ager flying off to the Middle East in an f-16, Walkman glued to his ears All the Way. It s on at 3 20 . Friday. A Mike Penalo Joe Shaine and Brian Lewis of the stars and stripes new York Bureau contributed to this column. 24 stripes Magazine March 1,1990