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VIDEO, Page 95Canned SoupJackie Mason gets the hook
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.