Show Oo 00 O BY JOEY SASSO CONFIDENTIAL REPORT ABCs ABC's answer to eliminating old violent shows adding no new ones and toning down the violence in such shows as and Hutch is to add a little more sex to its schedule schedule- The Mary Hart- Hart manish continuing series Soap is doing just that With last years year's success of Roots and Rich Man Poor Man Manas as examples this seas season season n the networks are spending millions of dollars to develop similar continuing series Several dramatizations of novels are in the works at all networks Specials will wilt be big this year starring Barry Manilow Natalie Cole Gabe Kaplan and Shaun Cassidy to name a few The day of the traditional network schedule is over explains NBC president Robert Success in television today develops from strong series combined with event programming programming best best selling novels adapted for television series mini specials and the like Consequently most of the dramatic fare presented this season will either be on TV V movies series mini-series or novel dramatizations dramatizations- Most of the regular programs will wilt be comedies comedies- In 11 the TV industry handbook its it's common knowledge that the network with the best comedy shows comes out on top And all the networks are adding comedies in an effort to be No t I Rock star Gregg Allman says that he never loved Cher Char and that he knew he made a mistake as soon as the ceremony was over I was sorry that I had done it it he told me One Ore Sunday morning I woke up and she Cher said I got this Lear jet and Nevada aint too far away Why dont don't we get married And I said saidI I dont don't know if it Im I'm j ready to get into this but OK OK OKlet's lets let's do it We came home to from the wedding got off the jet and I was gone for two days I just couldn't handle what I had done Allman said IL i. i that their first major separation came about because of his drug use and that the second one was caused by Sonny Bonos Bono's handling of Chastity daughter of Sonny i and Cher and various money problems More on the Cher front Americas America's most famous navel will be in the hospital again to pad her than less bosom Could be beCher beCher beCher Cher didn't think once was enough EY EYE E ON TV Marriages are made in heaven they say but Angels have marital mantal trouble Charlies Charlie's Angels anyhow Now Cheryl Ladd the latest Angel and her husband actor actor actor ac ac- tor David Ladd are living apart It looks as if it besides in inheriting inheriting inheriting in- in the job formerly held hed down by Farrah Fawcett- Fawcett Majors Cheryl has inherited her kind of life home-life problems problems problems lems as well The long hours on the set sometimes 14 to 18 hours a day and the pitiless spotlight of publicity are murder on domestic harmony David is staying at his mothers mother's home in Beverly Hills Cheryl told me me This isn't anything to be worried about Were We're having our problems A lot of it has to do with my schedule schedule- Were We're still very much in love and we need some time to work things out We hope to be together again shortly TV V BACKSTAGE Paul Michael Glaser Glasar the sexy star of and Hutch reveals hes he's having trouble coping with his image because deep down inside hes he's afraid of women women- A part of me views women as manipulators as emasculators confides the year old bachelor I 1 grew up with two older sisters and a mother who although they loved my father always presented an example of how to get their way with him So I saw how women handled men and it put a great fear of women into me Ive I've had to deal with that fear even though it hasn't kept me from having close relationships with women |