NEWS & NOTES : USA GIVES WHALE OF A BUDGET TO HALMI FOR `MOBY DICK' FILM.Cable's USA Network has a whale of a miniseries on deck for next season. The network announced that Robert Halmi Sr. (``Gulliver's Travels'') will executive produce a four-hour movie based on Herman Melville's classic tome ``Moby Dick Moby Dick pursued by Ahab and crew of Pequod. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] See : Quarry Moby Dick white whale pursued relentlessly by Captain Ahab; “It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me. .'' USA will spend more than $12 million to produce ``Moby Dick'' - its biggest film expenditure ever. ``People will be talking about these miniseries not just in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. but around the world,'' said Rod Perth, president of USA Networks Entertainment. The seafaring adventure is one of four ``event'' big-budget movies Halmi, the chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, will produce for USA and sister service the Sci-Fi Channel. Are you really watching?: 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. honcho Honcho A slang term describing the leader or person in charge of an organization. Notes: The CEO of a company could be referred to as the honcho or "head honcho." See also: CEO, CFO, COO, Insider, Leprechaun Leader Don Ohlmeyer Don Ohlmeyer (born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer, Jr., February 3, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He grew up in the Chicago-area and attended Glenbrook North High School. railed against ``government meddling'' in TV program content, and against public officials who can't seem to solve real problems but know they can``get their pictures on the front page of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times by coming out against violence on TV.'' At the network's fall-schedule presentation in New York, Ohlmeyer told advertising executives that the TV ratings system now being devised would prove that network shows are almost all ``G'' and ``PG,'' with occasional ``PG-13'' versions of ``R''-rated theatrical films. Ohlmeyer reminded his audience that the government's now-repealed prime-time access rule, which banned network shows from the 7-to-8-p.m. hour, failed to achieve its stated goal of stimulating production of locally produced original programs. |
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