“The Godfather Wars,” based on a series...

“The Godfather Wars,” based on a series of articles by New York Newsday reporter Tom Renner, is a four-hour miniseries now being planned by NBC for the 1990-91 season. The drama explores the complex personal relationships and power struggles inside one of New York’s organized-crime families during the 1970s and early 1980s.

Audubon Perspectives: “Fight for Survival,” the new companion book to the Audubon television specials airing this summer on PBS, is expected to hit bookstores this month. The book provides an in-depth look at animal conservation and investigates such hot political issues as oil development in Alaska’s wildlife refuges and the private logging of ancients forests that grow on public lands.

When Veronica Hamel is raped by prominent attorney Judd Hirsch, her nightmare is just beginning in “She Said No,” an NBC movie beginning production this month for the 1990-91 season. After Hirsch is acquitted of the criminal charge on a technicality, he shocks Hamel and prosecuting attorney Lee Grant by representing himself in a multimillion-dollar slander suit against Hamel, forcing her to face him again under cross-examination.