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NEW YORK _.ob Stahi reports:
Considerable speculation about why Pontiac decided to check out as sponsor of NBC's "telementary" series, Project 20, with some guessing the auto company felt it unwise to be associated with the first in the series, "Nightmare in Red"--even though the show is anti-Communist . . . NBC already has another sponsor,
with "Nightmare" now scheduled for sometime in January. s * ££ &
New TV trend: Except for The re! at in the lead position, the shows in the lates eptember) Nielsen Top 10 list are all 60 minutes or longer. Line-up includes: the JUDY GARLAND show, ED SULLIVAN, MARTHA RAYE, Disneyland, Variety Hour, Robert Montgome Presents, Producers! Showcase, Climax! and BERRY COMO, ee ne ey ae eee ee ae eee ERNIE KOVACS may get his own NBC show as a result of his fine work as replacement for STEVE ALLEN recently on TONTANE oe CBS wants comedian JOHNNY CARSON to originate several of his shows from New York this month, Feels it's one way to help him build a bigger rating in the East. * & & HARRY BELAFONTE will star on G.E. Theater in BUDD SCHULBERG's "Formula Fighter," adapted by BILL ATTAWAY . TV's GORE VIDAL signed to adapt "Captain Dreyfus," new bestseller, for an M-G-M movie. . . VIDAL's "Visitor from a Small Planet," on TV Playhouse last season, set for Broadway, with CYRIL RITCHARD repeating his lead role. * & ¥ As one of his first official acts for NBC, LEO DUROCHER will do the color commentary for the Cotton Bowl football game on New Year's Day . . . Both the Cotton Bowl and Rose Bowl games scheduled for colorcasting that day . . . NBC will carry baseball's "Game of the Week" next season, instead of CBS. * & &
THELMA RITTER flew to Hollywood to star in "The Late Christopher Bean" for 20th Century-Fox Hour. HELEN HAYES played the role on live TV about five years ago on the old Pulitzer Prize PAByuoUse..
New York City Ballet Company's production of "Nutcracker Suite" scheduled as an NBC "spectacular" during Christmas week . . . And "Richard III," the SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER movie, now pushed back to next March . . . VANESSA BROWN, of My Favorite Husband, has launched Vanessa Productions to film theatrical movies. She plans to star in "Moll Flanders" as her first.
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VIVIAN BLAINE stars in "Dream Girl" as MAURICE EVANS! "spectacular" on Sunday, Dec. 11... "The Corn Is Green," scheduled for that date, postponed to January .« « EVANS to produce and star in a two-hour version of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in March.
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