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The sponsor has canceled and NBC is dropping its Variety Hour at the end of the year because the program seldom beats CBS! Ed Sullivan Show in the Sunday night ratings competition. Best bet to succeed Variety Hour is a new hour-long comedy show spotlighting new comedians and writers signed under NBC's Comedy Development Plan. Not-so-new comedians DEAN MARTIN and JERRY LEWIS will do several more pone in their old spot. * * PADDY CHAYEFSKY's next TV play will be titled "The Man Who Knocked Off Ed Sullivan," dealing, obviously, with the TV industry. It's scheduled for early next
year on NBC's Playwrights '56.
DAVID SHAW has sold his "Double Jeopardy," originally telecast on TV Playhouse, to Columbia Pictures as a starring vehicle for JUDY HOLLIDAY and JACK LEMMON. SHAW will write his own screenplay .. . With GEORGE GOBEL's Christmas Eve show preempted for a spectacular, NBC hopes to build a special one-shot program around him for eee Day.
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This Is Show Business may return to CBS as a halfhour daytime entry Monday through Friday, with CLIFTON FADIMAN back as moderator, No panel as yet... CBS, reportedly ready to drop Name that Tune to make an early evening spot for Let's Take a Trip, may move it instead,
in view of a "phenomena ump in latest Trendex rating. ee %
Forei Intrigue producer SHELDON REYNOLDS will do an hourlong erenateas. TTlmed in Paris, Rome and other European capitals, which he'll personally emcee for ABC . . . NBC building a
special ice rink at its Brooklyn color studios on which DICK BUTTON and BARBARA ANN SCOTT, former Olympic skating champions,
will perform for the New Year's Sunday Night Spectacular. * &
CHARLES BOYER, now filming a movie in Italy with Italian star SOPHIA LOREN, has signed her as his costar for a Four Star Playhouse program . . . ARTHUR GODFREY hosts his annual Christmas party for children of his cast and crew Dec. 21 on Godfrey and Friends.
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ERROL FLYNN signed for a one-shot guest appearance on The Martha Raye Show Jan. 24. FLYNN guested on MARTHA's show last season . . . BARBARA COOK has been added to the cast of MAX LIEBMAN's “Babes in Toyland," now scheduled for repeat pro‘duction Christmas Eve. 5 : tF-%
Super Circus will operate from an authentic circus “ring when it moves from Chicago to New York Jan, l. ABC is building the ring in its New York studios to permit cameras to cover the circus acts from all angles.
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