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'Will & Grace,' 'Dharma & Greg' wage Tuesday night custody battle (Excerpt)
CNN - September 1, 1999
From Sherri Sylvester
CNN Entertainment News Correspondent
This is the second installment in a five-part series in which we look at plans
for each weeknight of the fall television season.
LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- ABC made
viewers fall in love with "Dharma & Greg."
NBC courted fans with "Will & Grace."
This fall, the honeymoon is over as the couples
go head-to-head, forcing loyalists to choose
favorites. There may be more messy battles on
Tuesday night, as the networks deploy a
divide-and-conquer strategy.
ABC packs a one-two punch with "Spin City"
and "It's Like, You Know ..." Those comedies
are to compete with NBC's "Just Shoot Me"
and "3rd Rock From the Sun."
"Spin City" is adding more ammunition, as it
brings on Heather Locklear as the new
campaign manager. She says it'll be a shift from
her previous role as an advertising executive on
FOX's "Melrose Place," which ended its
eight-year run this year.
"I have to approach my clothes differently as a
campaign manager," Locklear says. "I have to
know a little more politics, because they'll just
write it (the script) and I'll go, 'What does that
mean?'"
10 p.m. skirmishes
It may be "Providence" or the success of that series that puts single white females in
two new dramas at 10 p.m.
Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly lead the cast of "Judging Amy."
"CBS does have an older audience," Brenneman says, "so you have the people
who can relate to Tyne. But then I think they thought it was sexy and fun to have
this younger energy as well."
Sela Ward plays single-and-sexy in "Once and Again," which gets a multiweek
tryout in the "NYPD Blue" time slot.
"Here you have a show that actually is really celebrating age," Ward says,
"celebrating starting over, celebrating another chapter in one's life."
Copyright © 1999 Cable News Network. All rights reserved.
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