European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse To briefs next year on to dogs kids cops a and or. Ruth Gerry Yandel Cox news service great minds May think alike. To programming executives certainly do. What they re thinking of for next fall Are animals animation and of course More detectives. Last week the big three networks announced the shows they have in development. Few of the projects have a firm commitment but the networks have Given the Green Light to several producers and ideas. The networks Are counting on the popularity of feature films to win fans for possible television series. Lbs has series in development based on big steel magnolias and Uncle Buck. Abc is copying look who stalking True believer k-9 and in a Gonna git you sucka. Orion pictures John Candy and is spinning off the witches of Eastwick Ferris bueller a Day off and parenthood. Another trend thanks to Fox broadcasting a the Simpsons is the animated prime time show. Abc has a prime time cartoon special the Jackie Bison show which features the voices of Stan Freberg Pat Paulsen Jayne Meadows and Rose Marie. He Mem pass the Popcorn and the Channel changer. Other programs that May eventually make their Way through the airwaves to a Den near you or. Ruth a House a or. Ruth Westheimer the diminutive sex therapist turns up As a House Mother who dispenses advice to five College coeds. Sounds As if someone should Wake the censors. Cop Rock a producer Steven Bochco offers another cop show but this one has a twist the cop stories Are interspersed with music ranging from rap to Rock. Gabriel a fire a a role created especially for James Earl Jones who plays a Man released from prison after 20 years. Human target a a Vietnam vet a highly trained killing machine saves people. Co starring Rick Springfield and Clarence Clemmons. Yep he s the big Man from Bruce Springsteen a band. Hammer Slammer and Slade a Bernie Casey Isaac Hayes and Jim Brown reprise their roles from in a Gonna git you sucka As Over the Hill crime fighters. Check ered Flag a a drama set in the world of Auto racing. Plymouth a citizens of a Community ruined by toxic waste relocate to the broken badges a a cajun cop works with eccentric police officers on psychiatric leave. Shangrila Plaza a a weekly half hour operetta tells a Story in music and dance set in a shopping mall. Really. Bar girls a two female attorneys Start their own practice after their firm goes belly up. Shore patrol a Rick Schroder plays an idealistic naval officer. Sporting Chance a a former Star athlete solves criminal cases in the sporting ii tentative title a John Candy will Host the premiere of a one hour comic Send up of television. Sisters a it la show four women and their relationships with one another their widowed Mother and their friends. The boys Are Back a an italian Mother orders her four adult sons to come Home and straighten out their lives. Mama Mia. Have a Nice Day a the �?~70s As seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old. Sounds sort of like the wonder years with zits. Pumpernickel a a jewish widower runs a Deli assisted by his Black housekeeper s two other to news a atm television distribution group will produce 90 new episodes of Warp in Cincinnati. No word from atm on who will Star in the new version. The original Warp which ran from 1978 through 1982, still can be seen in syndication and atm Hopes to Combine the old and new episodes As a syndication package for the 1991-1992 season. A responding to criticism and growing Public concern Over the safety of events depicted on americans funniest Home videos will incorporate tougher on air warnings when it solicits homemade videotapes from the Public. The program debuted in january and has been the Only instant megabit on network television so far this season. But the show which is supposed to feature people in unrehearsed funny acts captured by Home video cameras has been criticized for scenes that could be dangerous if viewers tried to duplicate them and for making Light of serious accidents. A Sharon Gless who played a cop in the Long running Cagney and Lacey series will Star in a new one hour dramatic series for lbs beginning next fall. Tentatively titled renewal the series will have Gless playing a newly divorced woman in her 40s who re enters the Job the following were the top 10 ranking television shows in America on the week ending april 22, As compiled by the . Nielsen co. The season to Date ranking is in parentheses or an a a a Quot for first time showing and the final figure is the rating which notes the percentage of the nations 92.1 million Homes where people watched the show.1 cheers 3 21.9 rating. 2 americans funniest Home videos 4 . 21.7. 3 the Cosby show 2 21.1. 4 America s funniest Home videos special x 20.9. 5 a different world 4 20.8. 6 Roseanne 1 19.87 wings 9 19.0. 8 wonder years 8 . 18.4. 9 unsolved mysteries 13 16.8. 9 empty nest tie 9 168 a and these Are the 10 least watched shows the ones at the Bottom of the Nielsen ratings. 81 in living color 122 Fox. 5.8. 82 life goes on 103 5.7 82 True Blue tie 82 . 4.9. 84 magical world of Disney. 100 4.8. 85 Booker 127 Fox 4.7. 86 alien nation 125 Fox 4.6. 86 21 jump Street tie 122 Fox 4.6. 88 Afi Salute sir David lean x . 4.0. 89 outsiders tie 122 Fox 3.8. 90 Tracey Ullman show 128 Fox 3.7. What they re watching Page 4 to plus sunday april 29,1990
