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- <text id=89TT3027>
- <title>
- Nov. 20, 1989: Canned Soup
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- VIDEO, Page 95
- Canned Soup
- </hdr><body>
- <p>Jackie Mason gets the hook
- </p>
- <p> With such a proposition, who could lose? Take Jackie Mason,
- the veteran Borscht Belt comic. Put him in a sitcom produced by
- the same people who created hits for Bill Cosby and Roseanne
- Barr. Give it the surefire time period following No. 1-rated
- Roseanne. Almost every TV prognosticator in the business picked
- Chicken Soup as the season's big hit. But Mason had a troubled
- autumn. He got bad reviews, both for his acting and for making
- racially inflammatory remarks during the New York City mayoral
- race. More dismaying to ABC, Chicken Soup -- though the
- highest-rated of any new show this fall -- regularly lost nearly
- one-third of the huge Roseanne audience. Last week the network
- abruptly canceled its can't-miss hit. Moral: when it comes to
- TV programming, nobody knows borscht.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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