"Hollywood Off Ramp".First came TV movies based on show business themes. Now E! Entertainment Television is doing an entire series about the biz. "Hollywood Off Ramp," its 26-week anthology series An anthology series is a radio or television series that has a different story and a different set of characters in every episode. Typically, the only constant is the host, who introduces and concludes each program. , can be seen on Monday nights at 10 p.m. "It's really the logical extension of a strategy to broaden and diversify our original programming at 'E,"' said Greg Brannan, executive vice president of programming at the network. "It's programming that fits our niche." Among the stories on "Off Ramp" will be tales about a sleazy gossip columnist Noun 1. gossip columnist - a journalist who writes a column of gossip about celebrities newspaper columnist - a columnist who writes for newspapers who gets a chilling payback for his work; a woman who takes revenge on her producer brother; and the star of a series of slasher slash·er n. One that slashes. adj. Characterized by gory violence: slasher movies. slasher Noun Austral & NZ movies who turns out to be a real serial killer serial killer Forensic psychiatry A person who commits serial murders Prototypic SK White ♂ age 30; 97% are ♂; 80% are sociopaths. See Dahmer, Depraved heart murder, Ice Man. Cf Megan's law, Son of Sam law. . What makes the programming so bold is that anthology series have a history of failure. So does Hollywood fare. Fox's sitcom "Action" was a major flop last fall. "Fox has a different threshold of success than most cable networks," said Brannan. "I'm not sure 'Action' would have failed on 'E.' But we are not going to shy away from Verb 1. shy away from - avoid having to deal with some unpleasant task; "I shy away from this task" avoid - stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" a show because of a network's experience. We are not too concerned about what seems to be conventional for our business." |
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