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NEW YORK Bob Stahl reports:
Wide Wide World cameras will skip around the country Sunday, Dec. 18, to show how we prepare for Christmas Day celebrations. Producers scratching heads over New Year's Day (Sunday), though. With the holiday being celebrated on Jan. 2, it seems there'll
be nothing special going on se Ce es is telecast.
Entire TV industry engaged in behind-the-scenes worry about the poor reception, from both viewers and critics, of many of the new season's shows. Networks, sponsors and talent agencies fear that, on the basis of early rating returns, few of the new shows will last out this season. * & & More viewers watched the MARY MARTIN-NOEL COWARD show on Ford Star Jubilee recently than the competing JIMMY DURANTE show, according to Trendex. But both GEORGE GOBEL and Your Hit Parade
topped it in the final hour . . . And The fePry Como Show is beating the DORSEY BROTHERS! Stage Show consistently. Joe and Mabel series now scheduled to debut Jan. 3. This poses a problem for CBS, because Meet Millie, which retained its Tuesday night time period when Joe was
eS this fall, has been climbing higher and highr in the ratings.
* * * OZZIE and HARRIET NELSON formed Stage 5 Productions to produce a feature-length movie based on their TV show. . . And
VANESSA BROWN wants to do a movie of My Favorite Husband, which would co-star her with her ay SUsben, BARRY NELSON. * * After a five-month layoff to film a movie version of Forei Intrigue, producer SHELDON REYNOLDS is launching Seca cian of a new Intrigue telefilm series . . . TOM EWELL, of "Seven Year Tech” fame, stars on G.E. Theater Sunday, Dec. 4, in a comedy-mystery titled ihe Case of Mr. Pelham." * * *
Some Hollywood telefilm producers are worried that Hollywood actors are becoming too familiar to TV audiences. Ziv-TV, for one, is tapping the pool of East Coast acting talent for some of its shows . . . ARNOLD STANG, added to The Goldbergs cast, recreating the role of Seymour, Jake's shipping clerk, that he played originally on radio. ‘ et €
Robert Montgome Presents dickering for ESTHER WILLIAMS to play a Seaiane dramatic role in an upcoming production. So far, MONTGOMERY hasn't found a play suitable for the actress . . . Universal-International releasing to TV its "Secret Agent X-9," a Saturday matinee-type cliff-hanger serial.
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