Life happens, in dribs and drabs, on their news magazines. Life is what happens while you're making other plans. Or so they used to say in the hippie-dippie '60s. Trouble is, they seem to be saying it at the Big Three networks today.
Life happens, in dribs and drabs, on their news magazines.
We'll learn all that, and more, this week, as the networks unveil their fall schedules with great fanfare. Helplessly they ponder what their future holds, as viewers keep defecting to other networks or cable. The demand for topnotch talent by the growing number of TV outlets far outstrips the available supply, the Old Guard moans, making it all the tougher to get good shows up and running. And as the Big Three pay unseemly sums to hold on to their existing hits and launch prospective new ones, they wail about expenses soaring out of sight. The show-biz daily noted that next season ''Dateline NBC'' is likely to add its fifth edition, and that ABC may add a fourth hour.