81. Most of those frescoes vanished long ago, and the altarpiece, reassembled for the show from panels in various museum collections, is fragmentary. 82. Minding my own business, enjoying the show from the wings, I was soon approached by several members of the press. 83. My ranting was cut short, however, when I found a story about the show from the Miami Herald. 84. My solution would require moving a couple of shows from one network to another and changing one hourlong comedy-drama into a half-hour comedy. 85. NBC boasted in the last several years about grabbing three shows from ABC. 86. NBC sees itself as empire building, moving shows from its Thursday stronghold to help build other nights. 87. No other network has removed shows from its schedule this season. 88. Nothing can save this show from having a devil of a time. 89. Of course, failed shows from nearly two decades ago are not typically something the networks jump at. 90. Oates did radio shows from stations in Fort Worth-Dallas, Detroit and Chicago, as well as ESPN Radio and the nationally syndicated Pete Rose Show. |