TNN Revamps schedule by adding WKRP and Newhart and more!

[Pavan]

Ok this explains why WKRP and Newhart were gone from N@N, maybe Taxi and Wonder Years will leave N@N too...also Miami Vice is now explained!

Beginning Monday, Jan. 22, TNN: THE
NATIONAL NETWORK will revamp its Monday-thru-Friday daytime, fringe and late
night programming schedule. Among the popular off-net series to join the
schedule are: THE ROCKFORD FILES, PICKET FENCES, MIAMI VICE, WKRP IN
CINCINNATI, TAXI, NEWHART and THE WONDER YEARS. In addition, TNN, which
recently acquired 43 popular movie titles from Paramount, will add, for the
first time, a daytime movie Mondays-thru-Fridays at 4:00-6:00 PM, ET/PT in
addition to its already scheduled weeknight primetime movies on Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT).
"We are refreshing the network, with hits of the 80's and 90's to begin
the process of attracting a new audience to TNN, in anticipation of original
programming to be introduced by the network beginning this summer," says Diane
Robina, General Manager, TNN.
TNN will offer a whole new daytime schedule, stripping the newly acquired
series Monday-thru-Friday, with double episodes of each half-hour series in a
one-hour time slot. Beginning at 9:00 AM, two episodes of WKRP IN CINCINNATI
(9:00-10:00 AM, ET/PT) will be telecast Mondays-thru-Fridays, followed by two
episodes each of NEWHART (10:00-11:00 AM, ET/PT), THE WONDER YEARS
(11:00 AM-12:00 Noon, ET/PT) and TAXI (12:00 Noon-1:00 PM, ET/PT). THE
ROCKFORD FILES will telecast in daytime (2:00-3:00PM, ET/PT), followed by
PICKET FENCES (3:00 PM-4:00 PM, ET/PT), which leads into the movie (4:00-6:00
PM, ET/PT). A second episode of THE ROCKFORD FILES will be telecast 6:00-7:00
PM, ET/PT. MIAMI VICE will telecast weekdays 7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT and again at
12:00 Midnight-1:00 AM, ET/PT.
THE ROCKFORD FILES, a hit on NBC from 1974-1980, featured James Garner,
already gaining pop status as "Maverick," in a new role as Jim Rockford, an
ex-con turned private detective. He had a penchant for taking cases that the
police, certain they had been solved, had closed, and counted among his
friends and associates many ex-cons.
In MIAMI VICE, a stylish, MTV-influenced police drama series set against
the pulse of a glamorous resort city, Don Johnson starred as a rough-edged
Miami vice detective, Sonny Crockett. Johnson set a fashion trend with his
expensive pastel sports jackets worn over t-shirts with no socks. The series
attracted many celebrities cameo appearances including James Brown, Phil
Collins, Ted Nugent, boxing promoter Don King, boxing champ Roberto Duran,
comic Tommy Chong and Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca.
TAXI was critically acclaimed for its ensemble cast, featuring Judd
Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd, Tony Danza, Andy Kaufman, Marilu
Henner and Carol Kane, and for the charm and wit of its writing. Telecasting
on ABC from 1978-mid-1982, then on NBC from Fall 1982-1983, TAXI was the story
of the happy cabbies of New York's Sunshine Cab Company, many of whom were
working part-time as they tried to make it in other fields.
WKRP IN CINCINNATI, telecast on CBS from 1978-1982, is set in a
money-losing Cincinnati radio station, full of off-beat characters, including
the new program director Andy Travis, played by Gary Sandy, and the station's
sexy receptionist Jennifer Marlowe played by Loni Anderson, who was twice
nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. The
series catapulted Anderson's career as the sex symbol of the 70's.
PICKET FENCES, a critically acclaimed dramatic series created and produced
by David E. Kelley ("Ally McBeal," "The Practice," "Chicago Hope") for CBS
from 1992-1996, revolved around the strange events in what appeared to be a
quaint, normal town of Rome, Wisconsin. PICKET FENCES was nominated for
12 Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series in 1993 and 1994.
THE WONDER YEARS, which aired on ABC from 1988-93, is a critically
acclaimed series about suburban life in the 1960's and early 70's. A
four-time Emmy Award winner, including Outstanding Comedy Series in its debut
season, THE WONDER YEARS stars Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold, a typical teenager
with all the growing pains associated with high school, parents and siblings
in the era of Richard Nixon, The Rolling Stones and free love.
NEWHART brought Bob Newhart's relaxed style, gentle humor and perfect
comedy timing to the role of Dick Loudon, a New York writer of "how-to" books
who retires to run an historic Vermont inn. Leaving the city for Vermont, he
and his wife Joanna, played by Mary Frann, meet an assortment of eccentric
characters, including three weird brothers, Larry, Darryl and Darryl, the
world's most inept handymen. NEWHART was nominated for 15 Emmys during its
telecast on CBS from 1982-1990.