Faith Daniels of ‘Today’ Gets News Program : Television: NBC will scrap ‘Generations.’ CBS is shuffling its Saturday schedule of sitcoms.

A midday news show starring “Today” newscaster Faith Daniels will replace “Generations” at NBC, and CBS is putting in a new comedy, “You Take the Kids,” the networks said today.

NBC, trying to bolster its third-place daytime lineup, said seven other possible news-information series are in development, including “Women’s Diaries,” with former NBC News staff member Linda Ellerbee.

Daniels, who will remain on “Today,” will be host of “A Closer Look,” a half-hour NBC News series that examines social issues. It will premiere Jan. 28, succeeding “Generations,” which began in March, 1989.

“Generations,” which focused on two families--one black, the other white--was third in its time period. NBC said it will explore ways of keeping the NBC-made series in production for sale in syndication.

The series had improved, but “the ratings were not there,” Brandon Tartikoff, chairman of the NBC Entertainment Group, told NBC affiliates by closed-circuit television.

CBS last week said it was axing “The Hogan Family,” an NBC cast-off that it had picked up and put on its Saturday night schedule this season.

Its new sitcom, “You Take the Kids,” is part of its shuffle of four TV family comedies to or from its Saturday schedule.

CBS said today it was taking its new “The Family Man” off the air after Dec. 1 but would bring it back next spring.

CBS said it would return its new “Lenny,’ which began as a Wednesday series, as a Saturday series, starting Dec. 15, when “You Take the Kids” premieres.

The latter, which will begin CBS’ new Saturday schedule, stars Nell Carter of “Gimme a Break” and Roger E. Mosley of “Magnum P.I.” as parents of a blue-collar family in Pittsburgh.