Corwin was featured on NPR yesterday. I think it was All Things Considered.
David ________________________________ From: Mark J. <[email protected]> To: TVorNotTV <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 10:42 AM Subject: [TV orNotTV] Re: SortaNoTV: Radio Dramatist Corwin Dies at 101 On Oct 20, 5:12 am, JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > He did win an Emmy, according to Zap2It, but the primetime awards > > database doesn't confirm it and there is no similar database for the > > other Emmys: > > My recollection is that when 7:30-8:00 was taken away from the > networks in 1970, one of the shows that Westinghouse showed once a > week was "Norman Corwin Presents". I have no idea if it won any Emmys. Probably not--Westinghouse came up with the idea for prime access, pushed it through the FCC and wanted to show that it was going to offer offbeat programming for its experiment. None of the shows it produced and/or put into syndication in 1971--the Corwin drama anthology, the Britcom "Doctor in the House" (the first Britcom to be shown over here--I'm not counting Sheldon Leonard's "From a Bird's-Eye View"), the "David Frost Revue" sketch show (at the same time as Frost's U.S. talk show, also Group W), something called "Electric Impressions," "The Smothers Prime Time Organic Space Ride" (just Tom, not Dick, but the first series after CBS cancelled the "Comedy Hour") and "Street People" (San Francisco radio DJ Mal Sharpe does hidden camera interviews--based, of course, on a bit he did on his radio show and many ad campaigns)--made it to a second season. (And LWT only made 26 episodes of "Doctor in the House"--the continuations of the series picked up the titles of the book series it was based on.) Finally, only "Doctor" and the Frost show had station clearances in even the high two digits. So until they came up with "Evening/PM Magazine" in the mid-70s, outside of the locally-produced show each of their owned stations were required to do, they were forced to run the same game shows and nature shows their competitors were running, which was not supposed to be what prime access was all about. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
