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The network has been promoting this miniseries ine ly, as if it were the TV had Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, without whomit would havebeen interminable, ‘Asteroid’ s a pathetic attempt to deliver the samesort of high-octane entertainment. From beginning to end Aster- oid” is out of gas. Director Branford May (Amy Fisher for teroid” er, Indeed, the is anycredit givento a writscript for this sprawling failure could well have been cobbled together rather than created, Take the burn ing of Atlanta scene and its outdoor-hospi tal aftermath from “Gone With the Wind,’ transplant it to Dallas, and that’s what hap: pens in “Asteroid.” Take the buildings blowing up in “1D4" and replace them with dams and other buildings, and you've got Asteroid.” Take the twisters from “Twist er” andreplace them withfloods andfires, and you've got ‘Asteroid AnnabellaSciorra is the star of “Asteroid,” playing the familiar character of the Scientist Who Knows What's Coming. She is involved pene because her young son (Zac B. Charles) andher physician father tAathouy Zerbe) — just like Will 's family in “ID4 — end up at ro when disaster strikes é st as improbably, they survive to be located by their concernedlovedone. In Sunday's opener, a comet deflects a giant asteroid andsends it toward Earth, along with a pairof early-warninglittlesib: lings. There’s a mobilization to figure out wherethe asteroid is heading and what to only. F fically designed to be re may be unsult children under 17 mature themes, profane language. graphic content a simple one-time procedy nateh upthe cable conversionchart printed in the Sunday TV Week. This J have questions al system, please Surprise! ‘Asteroid’ Is All Special Effects, No Brains — You'vegot it — but why would you want it? “Dark 38240 Comedy-Drama) Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly New love a friendship. HOW TOCODE YOUR VCRPlus *® system. If you have VORwith the VCRPlus + ® feature (identi your VCR), all you needto doto record a programis enterits PlusCode number If you have cable. vice, please makesurethat your cable channel numbers are matchedwith the VCR Plus NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The NBC miniseries “Asteroid,” the a beloved imits Movie Jumanji re pi is pavers inmortal oat3 A loneseafarer must ~~avie Ty-¥: Desigied tobe appropriate for all children, age 2 to6. TV-Y7: Directedtochildren, and older. Appropriateforchildren able to distinguish betweenmake-believeand reality TV-G: Suitable for general audienceofall ages BY DAVID BIANCULLI Movi claves Lov of the Mud Peo Vin is accused of kil ling acop. 98 up. injail after ‘Our House 9335462 ff Aecullery muds dreamscone tue aball ©. THH7 Movie ‘Chained Heat 2 B Asp Movie “Saturn (1 andhis robot, 4050627 ‘| 1990 SH Pullman. (6:00) 199887 Lambert. Cr Movie “The Road Killers” 5. Suspense) Christopher Vacationers confront a psy tie driver on an ari id uighway. 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(PA) TV-14 9 5391 Answer 2. “Ihave a For day and late night progrommin WM sae Raed eeWAIN Ce) | 7:00 | 7:30 | 8:00 | 8:30 ON THE OTHER HAND TALK SHOWS Howcan any critic, with even a seintilla ofself-respect, pick a gum-popping, Satur- FOR FRIDAY day-night-at-the-Bijou bonbon over a film Good Moming America: (4) Zem Romantic subject starring one of America’s finest ac- 25733 Today. (5) 7 am — first do no harm,” airing opposite “Asteroid” on ABC Sunday, isn't so much nee, seh hy neeapane srignraana rein an entertainmentas and Re aimer, Gene Siskel. 8628443 Fox ater Breakfast (13] 8 om Moa Moplep rum regi & Kathie Lee: (4) 9 am — Wedding about a serious (as opposed to delirious) tresses? We can't. So we won't an educational drama Mery! Streepstars inastory of a 4-year oldboy (playedbeautifully by Seth Adkins) stricken with pediatric epilepsy and his mother, whomustfight the medical estab lishment andits conventional wisdomto movie i in agar dicing Mowe Actross Laura Linney, gare MoninWena 4) 10 om Bad blind date on Vv XG’ 62840 save her child Leeza: ($) 11. am sandsof little ones, In other words, ChickenLittle wasright Poor Sciorragets stuck with most of the drama’s clunky exposition, while co ence. “It's unapologetically got an agen. da.” That fire and that agenda emanated fromthereal-life story of the film's pro mossy people. 92 Gordon Eillott: (2) 3pm— Lives Michael Biehn andothers play their parts with a straight face — requiring a highlev: Charlie endured thousands of epilepticsei zures several years ago. The child failed to Maury Povich: mot gu respond to accepted treatments including OprahWintoy (4) 4pm Women who are Wisin Reset fie Prone’ doabout it — but what happens, in the end is that one big problem turns into thou el ofactingall byitself ‘Theabsurdities are everywhere. When a major ci y is evacuated, we see — just as in ‘1D4” — anendless traffic jamin the out bound lanes, while the inbound lanes are deserted. What's the downside, inthat situ ation, to driving on the wrong sideof the road? A post-Doomsdaytrafficticket? Someof thespecial effects are good(the Dallas crater, the dam bursting); others are laughable, looking like tabletop towns done in by a basement pyromaniac And the budget restrictions are every where, as when a'T'V correspondent does a live report from the burning oil fields of Wewerefueled by avery personal sort of fire onthis project,” Streep told report ers in California at a recent press confer ducer-director Jim Abrahams, whose son brain surgery until his father found 4 pm Untogetate fr ston. 8153 waneoy romoe but little-used approach knownas the “ke than togenicdiet Streep helped Abrahams shoot @ video aimedat pediatric neurological centers tc get the word out andlater talked about do ing first do no harm’ a feature film But, she said, they decided that only seven people would see it.” So they made it for television instead, thinking, “The best way to get the largest possible audience would be to put it on TV.” Kind of makes you wonder what ABC programmers were in front of a single fire truck. From start to finish, “Asteroid Guess you could say the network wa stuck between a rock and a hard place is Asi Fomilios reunited Wed Lone:GE SiG = Weareas Hrceole through his own research, a controversial ‘Texas, But instead of showing any burning derricks, we seeonly the reporter standing nine Single people and rela: tionship isues. 46240 rosie Donne Se eee Jenny Jones (ay pen es Nick es thinking when they put first do no harm" in harm's way against “Asteroid James End Hartfond Couray n: (2) 10:35 pm Saran Fergu 219 esi Jay Lave: 1) 40:56 Bren Adios Michel hard Sinwn nowt Babyioce: 1.44 3408 70 Jerry Springer: 130} 44 30pm On patrol with a (2) Vile" YomSyd 11137 10870 pm — Moda crite Jon Katy. (Same-day Tape) WAG’ 2041424 ConanO'brien (8) 1207 am Actor Richard ako Johannsen, ‘TV.44 Lsiceny Incorrect (4) 12:96 am Hor tony 7600854 Sent Ohimem 16) bO6 ten as Bence aporay 4740028 | |