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f A-4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, T«ui, Friday, Saplamter 20,1901
Entertainment
By The Associated Press
It's the last year for Cosby and his TV family
NEW YORK (AP) — This Thursday, “The
Cosby Show,” armed with a new executive pro-
ducer and new writers, started its eighth NBC
season with an engagement announcement that
shocked the Huxtable household
It will be the final season for the show. Cosby's
fourth senes and easily most successful, one that's
made the tormer Navy corps man. Temple Univer-
sity graduate student and comedian one of the
richest stars in television.
Next season. Cosby and his truncheon-sized
cigar aie going into game show country to co-
host a new syndicated version of NBC's old “You
Bet Your Life.” hosted circa 1950-1961 by that
noted stogie man Groucho Marx
Cosby already has taped several installments of
the new daily senes in Philadelphia, which he
says will be its home base.
Why Philadelphia?
“It's mv hometown," he said "And it!s time
Philadelphia got back on the map." There was a
pause He chuckled “Ask me that question again.
‘Why Philadelphia?’ ” The question was asked.
“ ‘Cause there ain’t... nothin ... wrong with it,”
he said. 4
* “I have other things to do,” Cosby said simply,
when asked why he’s closing his hit family sit-
com. in which he plays an obstetrician and Phyli-
cia Rashad plays his wife, an attorney
He'd like to produce a new sitcom starring his
TV son. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, he said.
He gave no details, but puckishly added he’d
also like to do a sitcom starring 4-year-old Raven-
Simone, a “Cosby Show” cast member
“And I can't do those things doing the Huxta-
bles every week.” he said.
“Cosby” has been hailed for its warmth and
ability to escape the traps of the usual family sit-
com, m which Old Dad almost always is a boob.
Its awards include the Peabody and a Humanitas
prize, in addition to the usual Emmys.
But it initially was rejected by ABC when
offered without a pilot or script by Cosby and col-
leagues Marcia Carsey and Tom Wemer. Poor
ABC.
The show s arrival in fall 1984 became one of
the main causes of NBC's rise to first in the rat-
ings
Usually in the Nielsen Top Five and frequently
atop the weekly ratings lists in past years, “The
Cosby Show " ended last season as the fifth most
watched series A slight dip, but fifth isn’t shabby
at all.
The show probably could go on for several
more years, and “still gel respectable numbers.”
said Richard Kostyra, executive vice president of
the J. Walter Thompson USA advertising agency
here
“Unfortunately, it may no longer be able to
support the cost of what NBC has to pay for it,”
he said, referring to the millions NBC pays Cosby
and Carsey-Wemer Productions in licensing fees
for each season’s shows.
But Kostyra said he thinks money isn’t the
main reason the show is ending: “I think primar-
ily he wanted out.”
Maury Povich starts over with syndicated show
NEW YORK (AP) — When last heard from.
Maury Povich w^ not being seen on the fifth-
year special retrospective of “A Current Affair,”
the tabloid TV' series he anchored until being sue
ceedi d by Maureen O Boyle last October.
‘ Affair’ officials said no slight was intended
He d made great contributions to the senes: they
said, but wasn't the reporter on the stories shown
in the retrospective.
It should be noted he’d left the show to start
life anew in syndication as host of "The Maury
Povich Show.” On Monday, his new program
started ns weekday run on a respectable 130 sta-
tions
Povnh professed not to be miffed by the
“Affair affair “Their life goes on,” he said
“Quite frankly, you can’t fool the public. I was
only theic for four years.”
His new one hour series, a talk show, is sort of
“Nighlline" Lite, with a studio audience. It does
two real life stories per show, prefacing each with
a news feature report on the subject being dis
cussed.
“Like a ‘Nightline’ background report, we do
a piece, then bring the major players of the story
on the set.” Povich said. Then the questioning, by
Povich and members of the studio audience, com-
mences
There also will be a mix of celebrity stories, he
said.
One of Monday's scheduled segments was a
tale of two beautiful women who’d fallen prey to
a man who apparently had attended the Universi-
ty of Flim-Flam. One woman wed him and and
off they went to New York for their honeymoon.
But there, he meets Beauty No. 2 standing in
line somewhere and “suddenly he’s gone for two
hours," Povich said.
“The next thing you know, he marries the sec-
ond woman while he's still married to the first
one.”
The segment also booked an appearance by a
girlfriend of this man. She got wise to his act and
refused to let wedding bells ring, Povich said.
All wanted to go on the show “because they
want him found, quartered and strung,” he
explained
All of his show's feature stories “will be
straight, standard, basically news-oriented
pieces,” Povich said He added a vow: “There
will be sensational topics, but we re not going to
make it sensational We re not going to goose it
or juice it the way a lot of the tabloid magazine
shows do.”
The lanky, 52-year-old broadcast veteran said
70 percent of the stations carrying his show have
scheduled it in the afternoon, so the subject matter
has to appeal to the predominantly female audi-
ence watching at that time of day.
“So for the most part we’re going to do stories
on relationships, those kind of relationships that
appeal to women at home,” he said.
Povich professes not to be concerned about
starting a talk show at a time when they’re multi-
plying like rabbits.
Two other newcomers, Ron Reagan Jr. and Jen-
ny Jones, also are joining a gabby crowd domi-
nated by Phil, Oprah, Sally and Geraldo.
Povich, who during his “Affair” endured the
slings and arrows of outraged critics with a
breezy good nature, is married to Connie Chung,
the CBS News star.
She made headlines last fall by chucking her
scheduled series to try to have a baby before her
biological clock ran down.
“We’re still trying,” he said.
“We haven’t been successful so far. But we’re
not discouraged. CBS has been terrific in giving
Connie this lighter schedule. So until things work
or don’t work, we re just going to continue down
the same path.”
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Concern has grown about the risk
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surgery patient with HIV — the virus
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1,000 hours in the operating room.
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infected with HIV.
—The risk of transmission of HIV
infection from a surgeon to a patient
after a single puncture wound is 1 1/2
per 1,000 incidents.
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