European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 28, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse To briefs Nielsen what they re watching the following Are the latest available rankings of television shows in America listing the top 50 shows As compiled by the . Nielsen co. 1 world series game 2 2 world series game 4 3 cheers 4 Danielle sleet s Kaleidoscope a movie 5 world series game 1 6 world series game 3 7 a different world b the Cosby show 9 americans funniest people 10 Danielle steels Fine things a movie 11 60 minutes 12 Roseanne 13 americans funniest Home videos 14 . Law 15 the Bride in Black a movie 16 grand 17 who a the Boss 18 Simpsons 19 nil monday night football 19 designing women 21 Doogie Howser . 21 Murphy Brown 23 head of the class 24 the Golden girls 25 empty nest 26 lbs world series Post game 2 27 unsolved mysteries 27 coach 29 growing pains 30 full House 31 lbs world series Post game 4 31 married. With children 31 family matters 34 major dad 35 wonder years 36 lbs world series Post game 3 36 lbs world series pre game 1 38 20-20 38 full House special 40 fresh Prince 41 lbs world series pre game 2 41 knots Landing 41 opposites attract a movie 44 lbs world series pre game 4 45 perfect strangers 46 Ferris bueller 47 in living color 48 murder she wrote 49 the love she sought a movie 50 Carol amp company 50 married people old soldiers never die they just go on Cable Jay Sharbutt associated press you consider the discovery Channel or the arts amp entertainment network havens for shows about things that go Boom. Two of the nations biggest Cable networks they re places for the performing arts documentaries science nature and All that Good stuff yes yes. But guess what they re also a military buffs Paradise offering shows that draw a Large mostly male audience series that one discovery official says have been a a locomotives for his networks schedule. The video winds of War come in three categories a grand old to series about world War ii like crusade in Europe or no cd a classic Victory at sea. The latter with its memorable score by Richard Rodgers was shown on a amp a in 1988, and will return next year. A Vietnam specifically Vietnam a the ten thousand Day War now on its second discovery run and a Ampey a the Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite which starts repeats nov. 14 As part of the networks our Century series. A military things in general typified by three series now on discovery wings largely about military aircraft firepower about weaponry new and old and carriers about the history of aircraft carriers. Why so much history particularly military history Cost says former news president Reuven Frank a a it a cheaper to run an old one than make a new one a Frank says. A secondly nobody in the United states is doing that kind of stuff but a a they be been locomotives for the schedule a says Chuck Gingold a discovery vice president a a they be helped a lot the ratings Are and there a thing he notes about the audience for wings the viewers Arentt just a Bunch of old and Middle aged fuds who still can remember when fighter planes and even airliners had propellers. A a we re getting the Young male demographics a Gingold says. A a it a one of our youngest skewing will the shows popularity diminish in time a i done to think so a says an a amp a official a they have been very popular for a number of years. I just done to see Why they continue to be popular. That a our Hope in trying to compete with Baudier Cable the networks have dramatically increased their sexy Patter this season. And they have done so at an hour a 8 to 9 . A that is particularly accessible to Young children an hour once reserved for family viewing. Here is some of what a available a on the premiere of Uncle Buck on lbs a woman suggested to Buck that they a do it under the table. A in an episode of abcs who a the Boss Mona the grandmother told daughter Angela that she was planning to join her Boyfriend at a jazz club. His nickname is Angela a what instrument does he play a Mona a the a the premiere of no cd a Hull High included a storyline about a female student posing nude in the boys locker room for a photography assignment. The same episode also showed boys ogling the wiggly posterior of a sexy female teacher. A the season premiere of abcs the wonder years had the narrator As the teen Kevin reporting that French kissing his Girlfriend Winnie was one of his summer activities. There was also a scene showing Kevin and his friends eyeballing a girl sunbathing with her top undone. A she wants us a one of the boys said. Its not that these excerpts Are All gratuitously Raunchy or necessarily meant to titillate. On the contrary they Range from the a redeeming crudeness of Uncle Buck to the sensitive portrayals of Youthful sexual exuberance in the wonder years. However its the sheer number of these casual often flip sexual references that indicate the front lines in the big three networks War against Fox and Cable have been extended to Early prime time. Howard Rosenberg a los Angeles times a Hull High stars from left Bryan Anthony Carl Payne ii Phillip Demarks and Trey Parker. To plus sunday october 28,1990
