In mid-May, CBS s Early Edition joined the same network s Cosby and ABC s Boy Meets World on the list of family shows that won t be back next season. Of the fall 2000 premieres, only Gilmore Girls , to air Thursdays at 8 on the WB, sounds like a good bet for family viewing. Some speculated that after Sabrina, the Teenage Witch jumped from ABC to the WB, the latter network might pick up the TGIF concept that ABC abandoned. That won t be the case. Sabrina will indeed air Fridays at 8, but it will be followed by Grosse Pointe , which, the New York Times reported, might turn out to be as racy as anything on network television.
Comedians generally address audiences as ladies and gentlemen.
Somehow we must impress upon them that most true ladies and gentlemen do not appreciate tasteless and vulgar humor, said Allen. C-SPAN officials have said the event will probably not be rebroadcast. Well, it's not HBO, Showtime, or Cinemax. A recent Entertainment Tonight cover story reports that Telemundo, the Spanish-language network, has picked up a South American soap opera called Xica , which focuses on a 19 th century Brazilian slave who won her freedom by using her brains as well as her body, and that the series has been drawing huge audiences. Xica pushes the sexual limits on Telemundo, the series' star, Taice, believes it may loosen things up on the major networks as well.