Where the action is at NATPE. (new television programs introduced at the National Association of Television Program Executives' convention)

Broadcasting & Cable, January, 1998 by Schlosser, Joe

Last year was the year of the action hour at NATPE. Big concepts, top names and lots of money. Hollywood film producers and directors including John Landis, Francis Ford Coppola and Jerry Bruckheimer were trying their hand in the weekly syndication act. Many of the big action hours, like Rysher's Soldier of Fortune, claimed budgets of more than $1 million per episode.

Tribune Entertainment introduced Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, and Eyemark Entertainment had Pensacola: Wings of Gold. Plus, there were weekly dramas such as MGM's Fame L.A. and Buena Vista's Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Over a dozen new weekly hours in all came to NATPE a year ago, not including the celebrated off-net hours from Twentieth Television: The X-Files and NYPD...

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