European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Television Lone a Jackeen episode air by Sarah Bottorff imagine Ini Kee transplanted from the set of 227and wiggling around a health club. Imagine jacket1, the Mae West of the 1980s, As the assistant manager of a club full of steam rooms juice bars and men. Imagine Jackee a like Madonna a lady who does t use a last name a camping it up playing it to the Hilt. That s the Only Way she seems to know How to play it. Apparently somebody at Abc thought it All sounded like a Good idea for a series and so a new to show called ackee was born. Apparently however somebody else at Abc did t think it was a Good idea. And Jackee the series lasted exactly one episode. That one show airs wednesday on Supe Stalion an at 7 30 . Central european time 6 30 . In the United kingdom. Its Worth watching a and wondering. There have been far worse series on television Why was this one scratched 227 is a Broad Humoured almost slapstick sitcom revolving around Marla Gibbs once the maid on the letter sons. She Days a meddling trouble prone woman named Mary surrounded by teen agers a bemused husband and a Bunch of Wacky neighbors. Of All the campy charac ters Jackee s Sandra Clark is the Campnest. She does t walk so much As undulate. She does t talk so much As alternately squeal and moan. She s always on the Lookout for a Good looking Man and transplanting her from 227 to a new York health spa seems perfect 11 Ere Are men galore for Sandra Clark to do double takes double entre Ndres and Down and dirty jokes about Quot i Luu Uve new York Quot she murmurs. And then along comes a muscle bound swedish looking Type Quot i m sorry a she says As she realizes she s been gaping at him. Quot i was just thinking of suitable names for Blond haired Black its a fairly Good script. It s a fairly Good show. It s kaput. Too bad. Jackee airs on Southern european broadcasting the week of May 6. Then As on Aen the week after next it s Back on the Block to 227, dump Bryant Cumbil it Alt Aen and seb get both Abc s today show and lbs this morning via satellite from the armed forces radio and television service but air Only the today show. Now minus Jane Pauley today has plummeted in the stateside ratings is it Lime to go to lbs this morning no says Tom Baxter chief of broadcast operations for an. Every Lime today was unavailable in the past an viewers complained when they got lbs this morning instead he says. Today has Only been in a decline for about eight weeks now Baxter says and Quot we be got to look at the Long if it continues to decline for a Long period he adds Quot we d have to consider Quot changes Mem says Denny Mckell programming executive at seb. He says seb has considered lbs this morning so uninteresting that the station was about to propose that arts Stop sending it and use the valuable satellite time for something else. Now with the today show ratings change says Mckell Quot Well that s interesting. We Haven t even discussed meanwhile Back at Southfork the battling ewings Are Back for year 11 on superstition an. Dallas returns at 9 30 . Monday having left off at the Point where sue Ellen was shooting . And that other fellow of hers was falling off the Balcony two movies at least Are definitely Worth seeing on an this week. Mask the Story of a hideously disfigured teen Ager Eric Stolz and his biker Moll Mother Che comes just to the Edge of too weepy but does t go Over. It airs at 11 30 . Get and 8 30 . Get thursday. Blue Thunder does go slightly Over the line a of the ridiculous special effects category. Still it s neat to watch this Story of Roy Scheider and a super combat helicopter buzzing los Angeles skyscrapers. It s on at 10 40 . Get Friday. The docudrama easy prey was described by several stateside reviewers As repulsive but Gerald Mcraney is Brilliant a Well Worth watching As successful businessman Playboy Christoper Wilder who suddenly abducted a Southern California girl and went on a Cross country killing spree. It airs at 11 40 . Get thursday. Lensman the secret of the Lens at 1 . Get saturday has nothing to do with photographers it s a cartoon about space age warriors. Child s cry at 8 . Get wednesday is a fairly slow look at a social worker and an abused child with Lindsay Wagner. The sleeping car murders is a fairly unusual offering for an it s Black and White and dubbed from the original French but still a Good murder mystery starring Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. It airs at 8 30 . Tuesday. All of the above air on seb in late april and Early May. The highlight of seb s week is Paradise coming on this weekend at a time to be announced later. It stars Lee Horsley Maff Houston and a Bunch of kids a he s a curmudgeonly Cowboy who gets custody of four nieces and nephews a and the critics could t stand the show when it came out in the states in 1988. Real people liked this family show though and it has survived into a second season. Other series coming this week include the adventures of Sherlock Holmes a pcs show scheduled for a time this weekend to be announced Showtime at the Apollo music and entertainment from Harlem also at a yet to be scheduled time this weekend and american Black forum a Black interview show at 12 30 . Tuesday. Movies include stranger on my land at 1 30 . Sunday in which Tommy Lee Jones is a Vietnam vet fighting air Force plans to take Over his cattle ranch. Tommy Lee Jones is Good in anything a a As is Richard briefly Jackie had her own series. Abc Crenna so try High Price of passion at 9 15 . Wednesday in which he plays a professor smitten with a teen age Call girl. Laurence Olivier s 1948 Black and White version of Hamlet is on at 12 55 . Saturday. Yours mine and ours the prototype for the Brady Bunch and All those other shows about widowers with kids marrying widows with kids stars Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball. It airs Friday at 3 . Finally guess who s Back in Don t raise the Bridge lower the Rived. You got it Jerry Lewis again at 3 . Wednesday. To the Reader who wrote that this columnist s face must be red by now Over the erroneous description of the end of dynasty that appeared in the column in february a yep it s plenty red. It s difficult to say what was incorrect about the description without giving away the plot to people watching seb and other military stations who have not yet seen the last two episodes. Just Don t take my word for what happened i screwed up. The same writer noted that while the series hotel officially called Arthur Hailey s hotel is set in san Francisco the Book hotel took place in new Orleans a so Why did i wonder aloud in my column Why the movie was set in new Orleans Why indeed the Reader graciously failed to mention other errors that have appeared in my column in the last year All i Hope corrected in subsequent columns although the letter challenged my description of George Schlatter s comedy club As somewhat juvenile and full of zip pop graphics. I stand by that. The Reader asked where i get my information. It comes from film and television reference books wire stories from the states handouts from arts handouts from the networks and As much of 92 hours of prerecorded prime time programs As i can watch in an studios before the column has to be written each week. Sometime As in the examples above All that still in t enough ads need new approach study concludes new York times Public service advertising provides some of television s most powerful imagery but the gut wrenching scenes of drunk driving or drug overdose victims in body bags Are not persuading people to make Long term behavioural changes. That is the conclusion of a new study by the Harvard school of Public health. Media campaigns can persuade Young people to adopt healthy lifestyles but Only if the ads shift from scare tactics to the More coordinated sophisticated techniques used by modern marketers this could be done the report says through product placements on television programs corporate sponsorships and the manipulation of print and broadcast news with the focus on Quot Active healthy lifestyles Quot and Consumers desires for love acceptance Security and status. The report is adding fuel to a debate Over How Well Public service campaigns work in persuading people to Stop abusing drugs and alcohol or in educating them about reducing their risk of aids or heart disease. The report recommendations for future mass Media campaigns to prevent preteen and adolescent substance abuse is an analysis of existing data on the Media s effect on behaviour and of new research conducted by the Center for health communication at the Harvard school of Public health. The authors Are or. Jay a. Winsten and or William Dejong their work is scheduled to be published in the summer Issue of health affairs. The study criticizes much current Public service advertising by affirming that Quot there is a substantial risk that a fear Appeal will . The study which took two years cited several pad studies of drug abuse and Media campaigns that found that Strong Quot fear appeals Quot rarely succeed in reason it said is that viewers tend to tune out the message or deny that it is relevant to them. 24 stripes Magazine March 8, 1990
