Show Page 18 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday October 28 1999 SHERMANS LAGOON 1 3oo Networks hope to sweep potatoes off their couches t: mm cm ym wuMS'cumar ixnt mutmmm immmw NOMKtOM mim By Rob Owen Pittsburgh Poet-Gazet- te Networks are hoping viewers will be swept sway minis-eriby TV this month betting their and movies will draw viewen to the tube during November sweeps Audience viewing is measured during sweeps periods — traditionally held in February May July and November — and the results are used to set advertising rates Usually November sweeps end before but mis year it runs Thursday through Dec 1 Ann Elliot vice president of marietwgcommuni-cation- s at Nielsen Media Research said sweeps dates are set after consultation with organizations like the Television Bureau rtf Advertising cs big-budg- et CATHY 1 a Plate 4 WOSSBUE CLIENTS 21 HOCOUS DEADLINES of hallomeen cupcakes THE CNN AMI C 18 EMERGENCIES UtRE TEAM OF DOERS AND DECISION-MAKER- REACHES AND SCREECHES ID A HALT M FRONT OF L' rw ‘a1 ')) ‘Every once in a while November sweeps includes Thanksgiving This isn’t the lint time it's (been included) by any means” Elliot said “We try to avoid the change to daylight savings time” ITS MOST DIFFICULT OBSTACLE OF THE YEAR Here's what each rtf die networks is planning for the next month Mark your calendars: ABC "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” returns one week from today with Regis Philbin annoyingly asking contestants “Final answer?" The game show will air for IS consecutive days A remake of "Annie" (Nov 7) airs as a presentation of "The Wonderful World of Disney” with Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan ‘Come on Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story" (Nov 13) looks behind the scenes at the pcr- socialities involved in making "The Partridge Family” sitcom Danny Bonaduce one of the stars of the original TV show served as a consultant on this TV movie CBS A year ago this month NBC scored with its miniseries “The Temptations” CBS will try to attract a similarly large audience with "Strike Rattle and Roll” (Nov 7 and 10) the story of a fictional ’50s rock band In need of a disaster movie to make your life seem sane? TW "Aftershock: Earthquake in New York” (Nov 14 and 16) the tale of a quake in Manhattan Tom Skenitt Sharon Lawrence and Charles mini-seri- es S Dutton star in this four-ho“Hallmark Hall of Fame" premieres the third and final chapter in its ongoing TV saga of "Sarah Plain and Tkll HL Winter’s End” (Nov 21) Glenn Close and Christopher Walken are joined by Jack Palance in this family-friendTV movie The Tiffany network also will air several music specials during the month featuring Celine Dion (Nov 24) Shania Twain (Nov 23) and Ricky Martin (Nov 26) Fox Off to n dismal start in the ratings this season Fox will stick with its "ignore sweeps" strategy Rather than pay for big ticket moviea or mini-seriFox chooses to air inexpensive but reality specials such as "Celebrities Out of Control” (8 pjn Thursday) and "Secrets of Street Magic Finally Revealed” (Nov 24) “The (Nov 7) finally has its season premiere and die crossover episode with the can BEETLE BAILEY X GOTTA GO NOW BUNNY I'M THE PE5IGNATEP DRIVER FOR SARGE ANP LUGG HAGAR THE HORRIBLE VJW£ NeHT ur ly PEANUTS WHAT KIND OF AMES5A6ED06 ARE YOU? es ' bound-to-get-a-rati- celed "Millennium” (guest starring Lance Hemik-se-n as Frank Black) is scheduled for Nov 28 Fox will try to draw attention away from ABC's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" with its game show special “Greed” (premiering Thursday at 9 p m also airing Nov 11 and Nov 18) It pits two teama of contestants against each other and later forces fellow teammates to turn against one another in an effort to win a $2 million grand prize NBC Someone make Robert Halmi Sr and Hallmark Fjittnment atop Please The viewing public continues to gobble up even the most awfid dreck they produce (ie “Noah’s Ark") and there's no reason minito think they won't tune in for the four-hoseries “The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns" unless iff course they actually read the (Nov 7-title Randy Quaid plays an American businessman who encounters little green men in Ireland NBC will fight CBS’s “Aftershock” with reli“Mary Mother of gion airing the made-for-TJesus” (Nov 14) Pemilla August (Anakin’s mom in “Star Wars Episode 1”) plays Mary with Christian Bale as the Son of God The Millennium bug gets its own TV movie in “Y2K” (Nov 21) Ken Olin stars as a computer trouble-shoot- er who saves the world With Thanksgiving in the November sweeps period NBC is taking a different approach to turkey night Instead of a movie (usually “Home Alone”) the network will air original Thanksgiving-theme-d episodes of “Friends” (7 pm) “Just Shoot Me” (7:30 pm) “Frasier" (8 pm) “Will ft Grace" (8:30 pm) and the “ER” where Card Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) gives birth The classic film “It's a Wonderful Life" airs Thanksgiving day at noon PBS I still don't understand why PBS insists on competing with the lug boys airing their programs the same weeks as the commercial networks Nothing changes as PBS shows off its ritziest wares in the coming weeks “Hitchcock Selznick ft the End of Hollywood” "American (9 pm tomorrow) airs as a Masters” special Ken Burns returns with his latest opus "Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony” (Nov 7 and 8) a four-hoprofile of the founders of the women's movement rights His brother Ric Bums premieres “New York: A Documentary Film” (Nov 14 13 16 17 and 18) a history of New York City from its beginning in 1624 as a Dutch trading post A final installment win air sometime next year CABLE TBS offers the cable premiere of “The Wizard of Oz” on Thanksgiving night at 8 pjn and the Witch's Ghost" (Nov “Scooby-Do- o 27) already released on video premieres on Cartoon Network along with two new series: "Mike Lu ft Og” (Novi 12) and "Courage the Cowardly Dog” (Nov 12) A new “South Park Thanksgiving Special" (Nov 24) stirs up trouble on Comedy CentraL ur 8) V high-profi- le te ur Dog mystery wins by 10 noses By Pnidenco Haller Associated Prase Writer MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM Book review born and independent She lived for n while with Hank n county sheriff who wants to many her and have kids But their goals don't mesh right now She Bloodhounds" (HarperCollins $24): the plot foe and her women friends discuss their dales and lack awesome things a dog can be trained to do and the of them interesting protagonist Jo Beth Sidden The kearch for the cat is followed by the murder Add to these foe Okefeookee Swamp and its alli- of its very wealthy owner As Jo Beth tries to solve gators Jo Beth raises bloodhounds and trains them for aO it she is distracted by a hunt for a small military that plunged into foe swamp a violent conkinds of operations in which foe plane that ends phen she sometimes takes part The dogs are trained to find frontation with her shoots and kills him and her and conviction trial drugs people (dead and alive) signs of arson and Dog lovers will especially appreciate the passages other things — but definitely not other animals Yet this story begins with a search for a missing cat and in which Jo Beth describes rebuffing her favorite at a very inconvenient time: Jo Beth and her staff bloodhound's devotion to her and bonding the dog are busy with the birth and puppyhood of 10 blood- - with someone else in anticipation of her going to prison ‘ Lanier's book is more than an interesting Jo Beth is in her 30s lives in n small Georgia town near the swamp and is divorced from a physistory As characters and side incidents are complete individual pleasures in themselves cally abusive man who is still after bet She's stub There are three major attractions in Virginia Lanier's new bloodhounds mystery "Ten Little searcb-and-resc- nd FOX TROT MMthMMusr You cut K SCARURfHAN HolfS N I IMouSHT new m RALPH LAUREN SHEETS' crime-and-eoluti- Namesiintheri9Wsssasg Former first ladies honored NEW YORK (AP) — Former first ladies Barbara Bush Carter Betty Ford Lady Bird Johnson and Nancy Reagan have been honored for foeir con Ros-aly- REAL LIFE ADVENTURES i' HAS HAVING CLOSE TO HOME nn tributiona to health and education The Charles A Dana Foundation gave each woman $100000 to be donated to the nonprofit organizations of her choice The foundation created in 1930 has donated more than $249 million to health and education programs Mrs Reagan 68 waa unable to attend foe Tuesday night salute because of a fractured rib But foe others were there "They’re heroines to me” said Mrs Bush 74 “We rarely get together except for a library opening or a funeraL” JiP TRPU&JERECEMNG SO HIT HUSBAND REFORMATTED OUR HARD DRIVE AND RELOADED ALL OUR E-MA-IL By Phib Alder In "Tlmon of Athens” Shakespeare suggested “Men shut their SOFTWARE doors against a setting sun” That’s strenge behavior why not eqjoy foe multicolored iky generated by a setting sun? Like doors in houses entries are vital to n bridge player and most be handled carefully Yet sometimes an entry shortage will give an opponent the chance to produce a clever coup Against four spades West start- ed with his three top dubs East discarding the heart two and South ruffing Declarer drew trumps with honors from hand unblocked the of hearts entered dummy with a trump and played a diamond to his nine It iost to West's king but We was endplayed A heart or dub lead would have conceded a raff-anace-kin- g Wlfo textbook A loade ever kicreeWng many Ittie knowledge la an wpfnelvt tiling d- V discard Yet when West returned a diamond it was into declarer's ace-jac- k teuace How many chances did the diamonds Either way South loses two diamond tricks for one down 01 900 by NEA ha defenders misa to defeat foe contract? The answer is two Pint if West hadn't led out his thud top dub instead switching to either a trump or a heart the eudplay wouldn't have worked Short one dummy entry South cannot both ruff the plub jack and lead a diamond to his nine When in with foe diamond king West can nit safely with the dub queen Second if East is eoying one of his more lncid moments knowing by then that South has exactly three diamonds he will May the queen when die suit is ied from foe dummy This coup kills the contract If declarer ducks East leads another diamond If declarer wins be must e lend away from the of jack-nin- ' IIM I 4 1 4I Li i-i-i'- I LI |