SNLinueps + tvbarn.commentary 7/10

[Thomas Heald]

THIS WEEK AT THE TV BARN
http://www.tvbarn.com
July 10-16, 2000
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Answer: Other than news programs, this type of TV show
will most likely attract an older audience.

What is, "game shows"?

Correct. As you may have read recently, not even a
television phenomenon like "Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire" has proven immune to the curse of aging
that befalls nearly all game shows. In time, younger
viewers tire of the game and move on and the program
becomes the province of older viewers, which advertisers
are far less interested in reaching.

It doesn't take Dick Van Dyke to figure out that this
diagnosis is murder on game shows. Which is why, for
years, most producers didn't even try floating a
game-show concept. Unless it is able to sustain the
enormous popularity of "Jeopardy!" or "Wheel of
Fortune," a game show simply doesn't stand a chance in
today's young-skewing TV marketplace. (As "Millionaire"
grows older, at least one rival broadcaster, NBC's Bob
Wright, has predicted that Disney will migrate it to
syndication, where "Jeopardy" and "Wheel" have thrived
for more than a decade.)

Over on the cable side, however, at least one game show
appears to be bucking that trend. It's the Comedy
Central favorite "Win Ben Stein's Money" and get this --
its audience is getting *younger.*

According to figures from Comedy Central,
the nasally, sneaker-clad actor-speechwriter-diarist has
been drawing more younger viewers than older. In 1998,
72 percent of his audience for "Win Ben Stein's"
late-night (11:30 p.m.) edition was under the age of 50.
Today, that figure has risen to 84 percent.

Likewise with the early edition -- which in many markets
actually competes with "Jeopardy" and "Wheel." Stein's
7:30 nightly telecast has raised its under-50
concentration from 64 percent in '98 to 73 percent in
second quarter 2000.

Is it the shoes? More likely it's the offbeat
contestants (none of whom seem remotely close to
retirement age), the naughty title cards on the
questions and the banter with Stein and sidekick Jimmy
Kimmel. The latter is a trouble sign, since Kimmel is
leaving the show this fall to focus on his other
endeavors. His place will be taken by a female
comedian.

But the star of the show is Stein, as he himself is
always happy to remind people. Comedy Central has given
him a talk show, "Turn Ben Stein On," and encourages his
staff on "Money" to mess around with the format. On July
20, "Win Ben Stein's Money" airs a special "Blair Witch
Project" edition complete with shaky handheld cameras,
flashlights, spooky fog, tattered leaves, a tent,
and chirping crickets.

Speaking of Comedy Central, I'd be remiss if I didn't
mention the channel's new Friday late-night schedule.
Starting at midnight, watch reruns of "Strip Mall,"
"Strangers With Candy," "The League of Gentlemen" and my
favorite, "Upright Citizens Brigade."

***

Public broadcasters' problems close to home

Those of you still recovering from your network's
affiliates meeting may have felt a pang of envy upon
reading reports of the recent PBS love-in -- I mean,
national meeting -- in Nashville.

There, public TV station managers cheered the new PBS
president, Pat Mitchell, as she announced the first
rejiggering of the network's lineup in 20 years and
unveiled a rousing set of promos with the new PBS
slogan, "Stay Curious."

Mitchell is exactly the kind of president stations
wanted: a successful programmer. She's walked the talk.
And so when she said, "We have to be bold, to take
risks, to work together," those in attendance responded
as though she actually meant it.

Hence the upbeat mood of many of those who departed
Nashville. But beneath the surface, it was clear that
the meeting only began to address the one issue that
troubles local stations more than any other. It's the
same issue that's worrying most of you on the commercial
side: localism.

With all the attention focused on PBS, it's easy to
forget that public broadcasting is a locally-owned,
community service. Yet as with the network affiliates,
public stations have an identity crisis. In the eyes of
too many viewers, they are little more than extensions
of the single national provider that fills most of their
schedules.

And that's a real problem, at a time when several of
PBS's classic franchises -- nature, science and British
entertainment -- have been completely co-opted by cable.
Witness last week's annual EquiTrend report that found
the PBS brand now ranked behind nearly every cable
channel that has sucked its blood over the years.
Discovery led the list, followed by TLC, History and
A&E.

Even as Mitchell is promising innovation, she surely
knows that PBS can no longer hold onto any original idea
for long. The most popular program on PBS, "Antiques
Roadshow," has already inspired a flurry of knockoffs on
Pax, HGTV and even VH1.

What PBS needs is ideas commercial broadcasters can't
steal so easily. To do that, it must expand the
distribution pipe and start taking ideas from its
members -- all of its members, not just the handful of
stations that have dominated PBS prime time for decades.

I was reminded of that during a recent visit to nearby
Topeka, Kan., and the PBS member station there, KTWU.

"There's been a top-down philosophy," said KTWU's
general manager, Eugene Williams. "Stations like WGBH
see themselves as providers of content, and the small
stations have seen themselves as the receivers of that
content. The truth is, we're all providers of content.

"I've worked in all markets -- small, medium and large.
There's no difference in the stories we tell, though the
flavor might be different."

So how do you get good ideas to percolate up within a
system that knows only how to drip down?

That's the dilemma of public TV, and it's exemplified by
the story of "Mental Engineering." This freewheeling
half-hour panel show out of the Twin Cities is rapidly
catching on in public-TV circles (WNET just picked it
up). It dares to violate one of TV's last taboos: the
sanctity of commercials.

The show's creator and moderator, John Forde, doesn't
simply rate a TV spot's entertainment value. With the
help of four funny, provocative panelists, he pries out
the moral and societal values clenched within ads --
like the Honda ad that plays on liberal guilt by making
fun of an old Volkswagen bus, or the old guy in a Tide
ad who absolutely must have his shirts whiter than white
(one panelist pegs him as a "walking superego").

You can't come up with a concept better suited to
non-commercial TV. Yet "Mental Engineering" is being
picked up by PBS stations nationwide only because Forde,
who launched his show on cable access two years ago,
sunk his $50,000 life savings into the venture and
pitched station managers directly. KTCA, the station
where "Mental Engineering" is taped, is not officially
presenting the show to PBS, according to Forde.

"KTCA told us we were better off without (a presenting
station) because, if Cargill (a major underwriter)
objected to one of our shows, they could pick up the
phone and put pressure on the station," Forde said in an
interview last week. "Now that we've been picked up by
WNET, the largest public television station in the
country, things are falling into place nicely."

Good for him. But "Mental Engineering" underscores a
serious dilemma for public TV. Local underwriters are
often happy to pay for nostalgic, feel-good shows, but
they grow skittish when current affairs and controversy
are raised. Yet those are precisely the shows that can
help set local public stations apart.

Another problem: Some of the best local program ideas
don't have an aftermarket. No pledge potential, no home
videos, no PBS pickup. "It's very costly to do that kind
of work on a unique single-market basis," admitted Wick
Rowland, general manager of KBDI in Boulder, Colo., and
a former dean of the journalism school at the University
of Colorado.

"A good example of that, something that's lurked in the
breast of every good public television maker over the
years, is local performance theatre work. Why don't we
do it? Because it is very costly."

The only way to scale these two hurdles, the managers I
interviewed said, is the creation of independent
programming fund that isn't controlled by Congress. It's
a worthy idea, worthily advanced by activist Jerry Starr
in his new book, "Air Wars: The Fight to Reclaim Public
Broadcasting."

Starr has been dismissed by some as a left-wing crank.
But I've read a number of critiques of public TV from
both liberal and conservative critics. "Air Wars" is
more than that. It's a compelling story about a group of
citizens, including Starr, who waged a spirited, and
ultimately successful, campaign to hold Pittsburgh's
WQED accountable to its original mission.

Starr now heads up Citizens for Independent Public
Broadcasting. Its advisory board is stocked with veteran
producers and executives of public television. The only
L-word that unifies them, said Starr, is localism, and
that means returning public TV stations to their roots.

"When you think about how public broadcasting is
supposed to survive in a multichannel universe, it has
to do the things those cable networks can't do," said
Starr. "Be local. Be connected to the issues. Be
connected to their communities. Those are the things the
Discovery Channels and A&E won't do because they don't
make money. But if public broadcasting just tries to
make a better 'Biography' or better travelogues or
better nature shows, they will eventually be seen as
superfluous."

***

Tom Heald's TEST PATTERNS
<tom...@aol.com>

July 10: in 1950 "Your Hit Parade," already a hit on
radio for 15 years, comes to television. The Hit Parade
Dancers perform elaborate production numbers of
America's top seven songs "on sheet music and phonograph
records, the songs most heard on the air, and most
played on the automatic coin machines in an accurate
tabulation of America's taste in popular music." A fine
idea until 1955, when America's taste for ballads and
standards is replaced by a hunger for rock 'n' roll. The
show airs until 1959, then is revived as a nostalgic
series in 1974 with singer Chuck Woolery.

July 11: in 1987, where wolf? There wolf. Fox unleashes
John York as fugitive lycanthrope Eric Cord in the
2-hour premiere of "Werewolf." Cord has been bitten by
another werewolf and must now track down "the source of
the bloodline" -- 1,600-year-old Janos Skorzeny (Chuck
Connors) -- to free himself of the curse. Bounty hunter
Alamo Joe (Lance LeGault) is always hot on Cord's tail
for the alleged murder. The show's February 1988 finale
allows Cord to finally catch up with Skorzeny but learns
his journey has been a wild goose chase. Skorzeny is not
"the source," an even older werewolf Nicholas Remy
(Brian Thompson) is. Throughout the season, viewers can
keep tabs on Cord, and learn more of "the true history
of werewolves" by calling a promotional 1-800 number set
up by Fox.

July 12: in 1990, CBS strands a young Jewish doctor at
an exotic locale with the chance to pay off his medical
school bills. Among his fellow survivors in the sparsely
populated Cicely, Alaska, are a cranky old real estate
developer/former astronaut, a retired adventurer, a
former cheerleader, a tomboy-ish air-taxi pilot, an
elderly female shopkeeper and a hunky young disc jockey.
Though the young doctor wishes he could be voted away,
he'll stick around four years to enjoy the "Northern
Exposure."

July 13: in 1971, "Hee Haw" heads for the hills and
success in syndication, after tonight's last airing on
CBS. Like "Green Acres," "The Jim Nabors Show" and "The
Beverly Hillbillies" have all been canceled as CBS looks
for younger (and "less rural") viewers. That's all!

July 14: in 1951, CBS coverage of the Molly Pitcher
Handicap at Monmouth Park in New Jersey becomes the
first color telecast of a sporting event.

July 15: in 1996, NBC and Microsoft combine forces for
an all-news channel named MSNBC, replacing NBC's all
talk-show channel "America's Talking" on cable systems.

July 16: in 1998, for the first time ever, the "Late
Show with David Letterman" tries to put an audience
member to sleep on purpose, as North Dakotan Gary Zick
is hooked up to sleep monitoring equipment. It's such a
large network "Time Killer" that the scheduled debut of
"Pat and Kenny Read Oprah Transcripts" (featuring "Delta
Burke") is delayed a week.

{Correction: SURVEY SAYS... Our previous item on the
debut of Ray Combs on "Family Feud" was in error. July
4, was the debut of the show at a bloated hour's length
on CBS. Combs actually started with the show on June 28,
1988.]

[Thanks to Brooks, Marsh, MacNeil and David Tanny. Tom
Heald would be engrossed in "Big Brother," but he's
spending all his time trying to figure out this week's
TV Guide crossword puzzle.]

***

THE LINEUPS
with Sue Trowbridge <http://www.interbridge.com/>
and Tom Heald

LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, CBS

Mo 7/10 John Travolta, the cast of "Kiss Me Kate" (R 5/9/00)
Tu 7/11 Kim Basinger, Oasis (R 5/2/00)
We 7/12 Michael J. Fox, Richard Harris (R 5/22/00)
Th 7/13 Salma Hayek, Ray Romano (R 4/27/00)
Fr 7/14 Richard Simmons, Sarah Vowell (R 5/12/00)

Mo 7/17 Will Ferrell, Elliott Smith
Tu 7/18 Marilu Henner, Dixie Chicks
We 7/19 Ben Folds Five
Th 7/20 Jeff Daniels, Bob Sarlatte

THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO, NBC

Mo 7/10 SeaWorld's Julie Scardina, Willie Barcena, Everclear
Tu 7/11 Richard Simmons, Nicole Sullivan, Billy Gilman
We 7/12 Spencer Breslin, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Th 7/13 George Clooney, Padded Lillies synchronized swimmers, Dogstar
Fr 7/14 Alec Baldwin, Natasha Lyonne, Don Henley

Mo 7/17 8-year-old opera singer Juan Carlos Hernandez, Kid Rock
Tu 7/18 Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Kina
We 7/19 David Spade, Mena Suvari

LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG KILBORN, CBS

Mo 7/10 Bob Costas, Laura Prepon, Peter Frampton (R 6/20/00)
Tu 7/11 Eddie Izzard, Rick Schroeder, "Survivor" Stacey Stillman (R 6/?/00)
We 7/12 Eric McCormack, Hannah Storm, Luna (R 6/8/00)
Th 7/13 Patricia Heaton, Verne Troyer (R 6/13/00)
Fr 7/14 Duran Duran, "Real World" cast member Melissa Howard (R 6/14/00)

Mo 7/17 Alyson Hannigan, Dule Hill, Travis
Tu 7/18 Jackie Collins
We 7/19 Dedee Pfeiffer, Kerr Smith, David Brenner
Th 7/20 Mena Suvari, Ian Gomez

LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN, NBC

Mo 7/10 Jack Black, Mira Sorvino, Elliott Smith (R 4/21/00)
Tu 7/11 Chris Meloni, Tom Arnold, Jimmy Page, Black Crowes
We 7/12 TBA
Th 7/13 Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Marc Maron
Fr 7/14 Papa Roach, Halle Berry

Mo 7/17 David Duchovny, Kyra Sedgwick, Patton Oswalt (R 4/6/00)
Tu 7/18 Rich Hall, Sonic Youth
We 7/19 Famke Janssen, Steve Earle
Th 7/20 Brian Williams

LATER WITH CYNTHIA GARRETT, NBC

Mo 7/10 RuPaul
Tu 7/11 Jason Isaacs
We 7/12 Shannon Elizabeth
Th 7/13 Kelly Price

THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW, PBS
Please note that Charlie Rose listings are very tentative

POLITICALLY INCORRECT WITH BILL MAHER, ABC

Mo 7/10 Christopher Titus, Gail O'Grady, Betsy Hart, Balthazar Getty
Tu 7/11 Harland Williams, Catherine Coulter, Georg Stanford Brown
We 7/12 David Brenner, Scott Reed, Sandra Oh
Th 7/13 Cory Kahaney
Fr 7/14 Christopher Hitchens, Art Alexakis

Mo 7/17 Corey Feldman
Tu 7/18 Jeffrey Toobin
We 7/19 Molly Sims
Th 7/20 RuPaul, Anthony Falzarano, Jamie Babbit

THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, Comedy Central

Mo 7/10 Anna Paquin
Tu 7/11 J.K. Simmons
We 7/12 Famke Janssen
Th 7/13 Billy Crudup

BILL MAHER: BE MORE CYNICAL
HBO Comedy
We 7/12 4:20 AM
HBO Plus
Fr 7/14 9:30 PM

THE CHRIS ROCK SHOW
HBOZone (11 PM ET, nightly repeats)
Tu 7/11 Rosie Perez and musical guest Esthero (9/18/98)
We 7/12 Wynton Marsalis and musical guest Biz Markie (10/2/98)
Th 7/13 D.L. Hughley and musical rappers Outkast (10/9/98)
Fr 7/14 LA radio talk show host Larry Elder and rapper Jay Z (10/16/98)

DENNIS MILLER LIVE
HBO
Tu 7/11 Midnight HBO Senator Fred Thompson (repeats + Mo 7/10 Midnight on HBO
Plus)
Fr 7/14 11:30 PM Vince Vaughan on "Travel" (repeats Su 7/16 11:50 PM & Tu
7/18 Midnight + Mo 7/17 Midnight on HBO Plus)
Fr 7/21 11:30 PM Michael Imperioli on "The Sopranos"(repeats Su 7/23 12:45 AM &
Tu 7/25 Midnight
+ Mo 7/24 1 AM on HBO Plus)
HBO Comedy (nightly 11 PM)
Mo 7/10 Noah Wyle on Super-consumers (1/29/99)
Tu 7/11 Eddie Izzard on The Death of Eccentricity (2/12 /99)
We 7/12 Roseanne on The End of Accountability (2/19/99)
Th 7/13 Sheryl Crow on Rock and Roll (2/26/99)
Fr 7/14 Ben Affleck on The Need for Reason (3/5/99)

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW (nightly at 11:30 PM)
Mo 7/10 "Hank's Wedding" Ed McMahon, Adam Sandler, Alex Trebek (9/8/93)
Tu 7/11 "Off Camera" Gene Siskel, Warren Zevon, John Ritter (9/15/93)
We 7/12 "The Grand Opening" Martin Mull, Burt Reynolds, Jerry Seinfeld, Pauly
Shore (9/22/93)
Th 7/13 "L.A. or N.Y.?" Howard Stern & Robin Quivers, Chris Farley (9/29/93)
Fr 7/14 "Montana" Robin Williams Bernadette Peters
HBO Plus (weekly at 10 & 10:30 PM)
We 7/12 "Next Stop Bottom" Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary Gross, Wendy Leibman,
George Segal; "Arthur's Crises (a.k.a. Artie's Crisis)" Clint Black, Kris
Kristofferson

MAD TV, FOX
Sa 7/15 Academy awards episode with Marc Anthony

THE MAN SHOW, Comedy Central
We 7/12 Midnight Rosie in the Well
+ Sa 7/15 10:30 PM
Su 7/16 10 PM Boy Buys Beer
+ We 7/19 Midnight + Sa 7/22 10:30 PM

MR SHOW WITH BOB AND DAVID
HBOComedy (midnight)
Mo 7/10 "It's Insane this Guy's Taint!"
Tu 7/11 "Eat Rotten Fruit From a Sh**ty Tree"
We 7/12 "Like Chickens...Delicious Chickens"
Th 7/13 "Sad Songs Are Nature's Onions"
Fr 7/14 "Patriotism, Pepper, and Professionalism"

OPEN MIKE WITH MIKE BULLARD, CTV and Comedy Channel
Mo 7/10 "Cold Squad" actress Julie Stewart / "Reel Fishing" host Bob Izumi /
Natalie MacMaster
Tu 7/11 Figure skater Elizabeth Manley / home decorating guru Debbie Travis /
comic Brent Butt
We 7/12 TV critic John Allemang / mad scientist Dr. Joe Schwarz / Alex
Pangman
Th 7/13 Football player Michael "Pinball" Clemons / comic Rob Ross / Martha
Wainwright
Fr 7/14 Tommy Lee / "Cinderella" actress Laura Bertram / Beth Hart

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, NBC
Sa 7/15 Julianna Margulies / DMX (r-2/12/00) A Message from Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Litter Critters/Dinner with the Robins/Blakes, E! Fashion World,
Simmuhduhnuh at Augusta General, Crocodile World, Erectile
Dysfunction/Tootsie Rolls, Savin' It with Jessica Simpson, The Bloater
Brothers try to pick up, William Shatner for Priceline.com

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CLASSIC, NBC's Up All Night
S/7/15 Tom Arnold / Neil Young + Dick Butkus (1992-'93) Wayne's World, Sex &
Peer Pressure At Valley High, Clinton at McDonald's, Super Fans at the
hospital, GED class reunion

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, Comedy Central (reruns)
Mo 7/10 Noon Quincy Jones / Tevin Campbell & Kool Moe Dee & Big Daddy
Kane (1989-'90) Pumping Up With Hans & Franz, Colon Blow, The Bob Waltman
Special, BiziLady, Tonto, Tarzan, & Frankenstein peruse Sports Illustrated's
Swimsuit Issue & perform "We Are The World"
1 PM MC Hammer + Pugsley & Wednesday Addams/Christina Ricci (1991-'92)
Michael Jackson vs. host, Dick Clark's receptionist, Remembrances Of Love
6 PM Jim Carrey / Soundgarden (1995-'96) Spartan Spirits, Roxbury Guys,
Spade in America, The Joe Pesci Show, Jimmy Tango's Fat Busters
Midnight Nicole Kidman / Stone Temple Pilots (1993-'94) Wayne's World,
The Denise Show, Hyperactive Phillip, Sprockets, Ross Perot

Tu 7/11 Noon Jimmy Smits / World Party + Bob Costas (1990-'91) Chia Head,
Game Challengers, Simon, The Dark Side with Nat X
1 PM Chris Evert / Eurythmics (1989-'90) Colon Blow & Super Colon Blow,
Bush & the Berlin Wall, Bette Davis' will, Evert vs. Martina Navratilova,
Lothar Of The Hill People, Lyle The Effeminate Heterosexual
6 PM Neve Campbell / David Bowie (1996-'97) Suel Forrester, Delicious
Dish, Fun With Real Audio- State of the Union address, Spartan Spirits, Janet
Reno's Dance Party, Hollywood Minute, 20/20, Gossiping Gestapo, Adventures of
the White Trash Disaster Trailer
8 PM Kelsey Grammer/ Dwight Yoakam + Sy Sperling + Manute Bol (1993-'94)
Inhibited Dance Party USA, Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, 20,000 Leagues
Under The Sea, Captain Jim & Pedro, Something Smells Good in Stinkville
9 PM David Hyde Pierce / Live (1994-'95) Amazin' Laser, Tales Of Little
Women, Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly, Perspectives, Internet sex, Movie News
Midnight Helen Hunt / Snoop Doggy Dog + Cindy Crawford (1993-'94) Rockers
To Help Explain Whitewater, Total Bastard Airlines, Coffee Talk, Bennett
Brauer, Profiles in Cowardice, Mike Judge's "Milton" in "Office Space" part
2, Rob Schneider's Girlfriend Theater

We 7/12 Noon Christopher Walken / Arrested Development (1992-'93) Jiffy
Express, Sinead Talks, Pat
1 PM John Goodman / Faith No More (1990-'91) Church Chat, The McLaughlin
Group, Keith Richards, Wayne's World, It's Pat!, Davy Crockett & Son
6 PM Robin Williams / James Taylor (1987-'88) Pumping Up with Hanz &
Franz, Robin Williams at age 60

Th 7/13 Noon Kirstie Alley / Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers + Ted Danson,
Woody Harrelson, George Wendt, Kelsey Grammer (1992-'93) The Friendly
Italians, Coffee Talk, It's Pat!, Look Who Else Is Talking Also
1 PM Ed O'Neill / Harry Connick, Jr. + Maury Povich (1989-'90) BiziLady,
Wayne's World, Lothar Of The Hill People, Dennis Woo's Real Estate Fortunes
The Easy Way, SNL in the 90's
6 PM Elle MacPherson / Sting (1995-'96) The Spartan Spirits, Mary
Katherine Gallagher, The Fops, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Holiday
Special, Australian phone sex
Midnight Sara Gilbert / Counting Crows (1993-'94) HiberNol, Simon, Gap
girls, Blossom, Adam Sandler's "Lunch Lady Land," Rob Schneider's Girlfriend
Theater, EuroDisney, 20 Questions With Bryant Gumbel

Fr 7/14 Noon John Goodman / k.d. lang (1989-'90) It's A Wonderful
Congressional Hearing, Wayne's World, Toonces, The Referee Pitman Show,
Anal-Retentive Chef
1 PM Tom Arnold / Neil Young + Dick Butkus (1992-'93) Wayne's World, Sex
& Peer Pressure At Valley High, Clinton at McDonald's, Super Fans at the
hospital, GED class reunion
6 PM Bill Murray / Sting (1992-'93) The WhipMaster, Frequent Flyer, I'm
Chillin'
11 PM Phil Hartman / Gin Blossoms (1995-'96) Leg Up, Actors Studio,
Roxbury Guys, Spade in America, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer

Sa 7/15 4 PM Damon Wayans / Dionne Farris (1994-'95) Men On Film, Jeff
Foxworthy, Perspectives, "Cirque du Soleil", Christopher Walken for Skittles
6 PM Paul Reiser / Annie Lennox (1994-'95) Road To The Final Four, "Jeff
Foxworthy," Daily Affirmation, Mad About You Aliens, One Brother Restaurant,
O'Callahan & Son Pub

Su 7/16 overnight 2 AM Alec Baldwin / Beastie Boys + Christian Slater
(1994-'95) Joycelyn Elders, L.A. Breast & Penis, Rookie Cop, Young & The
Youthful
overnight 3 AM Martin Lawrence / Crash Test Dummies (1993-'94)Jeff
Gillooly, Daily Affirmation, Hollywood Minute, Thugs

Mo 7/17 Noon Patrick Swayze / Mariah Carey + Lisa Niemi (1990-'91) Dirty
Square Dancing, Pumping Up With Hans & Franz, Chippendale tryouts, The
Tonight Show
1 PM Roseanne / Deee-Lite with Bootsy Collins & The Rubber Band
(1990-'91) Mr. Subliminal, MetroCard, Misery II, Pat, Happy Fun Ball, Comedy
Killers Victoria's Secrets
6 PM Teri Hatcher / Dave Matthews Band (1995-'96) Unabomer, Mary
Katherine Gallagher, The Princess & The Homeboy, Spartan Spirits, Spade in
America, Joe Blow news
Midnight Tom Arnold / Tupac (1995-'96) The Life We Lead, Joe Blow, Adam
Sandler sings about his grandmother, Miracles of Science w/Braniac

Tu 7/18 Noon George Wendt / Elvis Costello (1991-'92) Dennis Miller's
last show, Lil' General Fireworks, Mr. No-Depth Perception, Super Fans talk
about the Bulls & the Bears, Pat at the barber, The Carsenio Show, I'm
Chillin', Burger Barn drive-through
1 PM Kevin Kline / Willie Nelson / Paul Simon (1992-'93) Clintons vs.
Dole, Mmmph?, The Flatulent Italian, Don Lapre's How To Find Financial
Freedom, You Like'a Da' Juice, eh... Da Juice is Good?, Criminal Encounter
6 PM Matthew Broderick / Natalie Merchant & Tenacious D + Regis Philbin
(1996-'97) Ladies' Man, The View, Pretty Living, Celine Dion, Tony Blair
8 PM Lisa Kudrow / Sheryl Crow + David L. Lander (1996-'97) Mary
Katherine Gallagher, Suel Forrester, Fun With Real Audio - Perot & Larry
King, Mickey The Dyke
9 PM Courtney Cox / Dave Mathews Band (1994-'95) Matt Foley, Good Morning
Brooklyn, The Gap girls on Jeopardy, Replacement Baseball, His Muse
Midnight Kelsey Grammer/ Dwight Yoakam + Sy Sperling + Manute Bol
(1993-'94) Inhibited Dance Party USA, Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt,
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, Captain Jim & Pedro, Something Smells Good in
Stinkville

TENACIOUS D
HBO Zone
Fr 7/14 9:45pm Episode 1
Sa 7/15 3:10 AM Episode 2

TRACEY TAKES ON...
HBO
Tu 7/11 10 AM Vanity (3/06/96)
HBO Comedy
Mo 7/10 Agents (2/01/98)
Tu 7/11 Age (2/08/98)
We 7/12 Religion (2/15/98) + 11 AM Religion (2/15/98)
Th 7/13 Man's Best Friend (2/22/98)
Fr 7/14 Culture (3/01/98)
Sa 7/15 Sports (3/08/98) + 11:30 AM Sports (3/08/98)
Su 7/16 Dating (1/13/99)
Mo 7/17 Drugs (1/(1/13/99)
Tu 7/18 Scandal (1/20/99) + 8 AM Best of Compliation
HBO Signature
We 7/12 9:45 AM Food (3/12/97)
We 7/12 3:45 PM Food (3/12/97)
Fr 7/14 2 PM Crime (3/19/97)
Sa 7/15 5 PM Food (3/12/97)
Tu 7/18 2:45 PM Food (3/12/97)

TURN BEN STEIN ON, Comedy Central (Thursdays at 10:30 PM)
Th 7/20 Chuck D on The Independent Spirit
Th 7/27 Craig Kilborn on "Life As A Television Personality"

UPRIGHT CITIZEN'S BRIGADE, Comedy Central (Friday overnights at 1:30 AM)
Fr 7/14 The UCB explores the seamy underworld of organized crime.

Also on late nights:
BET TONIGHT WITH TAVIS SMILEY, BET
DIE HARALD SCHMIDT SHOW, SAT.1
EXHALE, OXYGEN
HOWARD STERN, E!
THE HOWARD STERN RADIO SHOW, CBS and syndicated
LOVELINE, MTV
NIGHTLINE, ABC
UP TO THE MINUTE, CBS
TONIGHT SHOW, LATE NIGHT, and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE reruns, NBC All Night
WORLD NEWS NOW, ABC and cybercast at
<http://abcnews.go.com/onair/wnn/index.html>
THE X SHOW, FX

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