NEWS & NOTES : `WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY' RETURNING TO ABC'S FALL LINEUP.Byline: Daily News Wire Services ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. will return ``The Wonderful World of Disney'' to the airwaves this fall, the network announced. ABC, which is owned by Disney, will air 35 films at 7 p.m. Sundays, including Disney movies such as ``Pocahontas'' and ``The Santa Clause,'' as well as other studios' films, such as ``Babe'' and ``Casper.'' Half of the films will be new projects produced by Disney. The announcement, while not unexpected, means that ``America's Funniest Home Videos'' and ``Lois & Clark,'' two long-time Sunday-night series, will be moved to other nights or canceled. ``Lois & Clark'' already has been renewed for next year. Disney chairman Michael Eisner Michael Dammann Eisner (born March 7, 1942) was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from September 22, 1984 to September 30, 2005. Early life Michael Eisner was born to a wealthy family in Mt. Kisco, New York, and raised on Park Avenue in Manhattan. will introduce each week's movie, just as he did through the mid-'80s. The program, then known as ``Disneyland,'' debuted in 1954 and last aired in 1990. Welcome back: Something happened to the networks' plan to use the two months between the February and May ratings sweep periods as a laboratory for developing new shows: Most of the experiments have blown up. No result was messier than NBC's effort to find a way to give its monster hit ``ER'' a rest this spring. After coming up with a strategy to move its solid police drama ``Law & Order'' to the ``ER'' time period, at 10 p.m. Thursday for four weeks, while filling the vacancy at 10 on Wednesday with a new police drama, ``Prince Street,'' NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. saw its overall weekly audience drop precipitously without ``ER.'' Then it saw ``Prince Street'' founder in the ratings. NBC yanked that show from its schedule after just two weeks and curtailed the ``ER'' experiment. Now ``Law & Order'' will go back to Wednesday and repeats of ``ER'' will be back a week early. ABC has had little more success with its plan to give - temporarily - a promising new drama, ``The Practice,'' the 10 p.m. Tuesday time slot Continuously repeating interval of time or a time period in which two devices are able to interconnect. owned by its hit drama ``NYPD Blue NYPD Blue is an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. It was created by Steven Bochco and David Milch and inspired by Milch's relationship with a former member of the New York City Police Department Bill Clark (who .'' After good ratings the first night, ``The Practice'' sank alarmingly in its second week. But Jamie Tarses Jamie Tarses (born 1964) was head of ABC's entertainment division from 1996 to 1999, the first woman and one of the youngest people to hold such a post in an American broadcast network. She is the daughter of television writer Jay Tarses. , the president of ABC Entertainment ABC Entertainment is a network production company owned by The Walt Disney Company and ABC that created in 1982. It produced shows like America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People, and H.E.L.P.. , said the network had no plans to bail out of ``The Practice.'' |
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