SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski ANOTHER TWO BITE THE DUST: CBS' ``Bram and Alice,'' starring Alfred Molina, is the latest casualty of the fall freshman shows. Guess most viewers figured the opening premise of a lecherous lech·er·ous adj. Given to, characterized by, or eliciting lechery. lech  er·ous·ly adv. old man lusting after a young woman who turns out to be his daughter just isn't funny. And Fox's ``The Grubbs,'' starring Randy Quaid and Carol Kane, has been pulled before the starting gate opened. The comedy series about a beyond-dysfunctional family was to have premiered Sunday, the first weekend of the ratings sweeps, but Fox instead has installed a rerun re·run n. The act or an instance of rebroadcasting a recorded movie or a recorded television performance. tr.v. re·ran , re·run, re·run·ning, re·runs To present a rerun of. of ``Malcolm in the Middle Malcolm in the Middle is a seven-time Emmy-winning,[1] one-time Grammy-winning[1] and seven-time Golden Globe-nominated[1] American sitcom created by Linwood Boomer for the Fox Network. .'' ``The Grubbs'' had received some of the worst press of all the fall shows based on its pilot alone. David Bianculli of the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. calls the decision to pull it ``a mercy killing mercy killing: see euthanasia. .'' HAVING FUN WITH GEORGE: With midterm elections just around the corner, in the world of comedy it's open season on politicians. President George W. Bush has been handled rather gingerly since Sept. 11, but this weekend Comedy Central deems it OK to laugh again at our chief executive by running an eight-episode ``Dubyathon'' of ``That's My Bush!'' Timothy Bottoms plays the prez who, in the first episode, invites his college buddies to witness an execution. THAT'S MY BUSH!, 10:30 tonight, Comedy Central. GET-UP AND DANCE: The producers of NBC's ``American Dreams'' are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a new crop of ``American Bandstand'' dancers for the series and have scheduled an open audition for 9:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 16 at Universal Studios Hollywood. Actors from the show, including Brittany Snow, Will Estes, Vanessa Lengies and Joseph Lawrence, will be the celebrity judging panel. Dancers ages 14-25 are encouraged to come in the latest 1964 clothing and hairdos. But don't expect to get picked for your hip-hoppin' new-millennium moves. They'll be homing in on the best demonstrations of the twist, the jerk, the monkey and the mashed potato, among others. Watch the show to pick up a few pointers. Or ask your parents, if you dare. AMERICAN DREAMS, 8 p.m. Sunday, 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. , Channel 4. SNIPER STORY SCORES: There was a lot of carping carp·ing adj. Naggingly critical or complaining. carp ing·ly adv.Noun 1. in recent weeks about excessive television coverage of the Washington-area sniper shootings. But apparently the networks were meeting a public demand. According to Nielsen, the No. 2 show on basic cable for the week of Oct. 21 was Fox News Channel's coverage of the Oct. 24 news conference announcing the arrests of the two sniper suspects. Fox alone chalked up nearly 3.8 million viewers for the evening report. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (Timothy Buttoms as George W. Bush) (2) RANDY QUAID: Wave good-bye to ``The Grubbs'' |
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