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THE WEEK, Page 25ARTS & ENTERTAINMENTMurphy to Dan: Read My Ratings
The latest round in the Brown-Quayle feud kicks off a CBS rout
The ultimate irony of the sparring between fictional journalist
Murphy Brown and real-life Vice President Dan Quayle is that it
serves the purposes of one of America's greatest entrepreneurs:
Murphy Brown TV series creator Diane English. Last week's
season opener, pumped up by weeks of publicity, drew an enormous
44 million viewers to a special hour-long episode. Quayle's
rebuke of the sitcom for supposedly glamourizing single moms was
challenged by such scripted scolding from star Candice Bergen
as, "Perhaps it's time for the Vice President to recognize that
families come in all shapes and sizes."
Murphy Brown, along with the stellar perform ance of new
Monday-night romantic comedies Hearts Afire (courtesy of
Designing Women and Evening Shade creator Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason) and Love and War (the latest from English
herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as
a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night
figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful
Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic
themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new
bridgehead for the Tiffany Network.