Entertainment & Arts
ABC’s new “Day One” aims to become one of TV’s most hard-hitting and international-looking news programs.
March 20, 1993
Archives
“A Current Affair,” the tabloid-style newsmagazine that ran in syndication from 1986 to 1996, is returning to the airwaves Monday.
March 16, 2005
Television
Twelve year veteran, Entertainment Tonight, tops the list among first-run syndicated news and documentaries.
July 23, 1993
It helps to wear a gas mask when watching “A Current Affair.”
June 22, 1988
As if it needed to be articulated, people on the West Coast are different than people on the East Coast.
Nov. 27, 1989
Was Jackson Video Hijacked?”
Dec. 20, 1989
Maury Povich, who since 1986 has anchored the syndicated “A Current Affair,” said he’s leaving the weeknight TV series in June next year to co-produce and star in his own one-hour talk show.
May 18, 1990
Tribune Entertainment Co. has pulled a “Geraldo” program that featured ex-Washington lobbyist Paula Parkinson, who has been quoted in various magazines claiming to have had affairs with noted politicians.
Dec. 9, 1988
Although a Geraldo Rivera special on Satanism or a “reality” program that re-enacts a brutal murder may be OK for Raid bug spray, the people behind Campbell’s Soup, Apple Computers and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes don’t hold the same opinion.
Feb. 9, 1989
There was a time when true believers had to rifle through supermarket tabloids to find out the latest on whether Elvis Presley really died the day a bloated, overdosed body, now buried in the King’s grave, was found in a bathroom in Graceland.
Aug. 11, 1991