Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Losers hard to pick by Lym Hoogenboom Abc and Fox May have jumped the gun and offered previews of some new fall series As Early As but september is the time when to critics take a look at the new schedules and try to predict die hits and the this the task is particularly difficult individuality take Lenny wednesdays on for its Lenny die comic discovery of die Munfor youll get a better idea Why by watching him on Arsenio than you will watching him on his about a Blu Collar father work ing two jobs to make ends shows some Sparks of but it makes Only half use of Clarkes Tal fresh Prince of Bel air mondays on Abc has an absurd premise a Phila Delphia rapper is sent to live with relatives in a California but its a funny the Best part is die reaction of will Smith of Jazzy Jeff and die fresh Prince to his Hoit Stoity but How shocked will he be Able to act after be has been living with diem six or eight months one of die most eagerly awaited shows is american chronicles saturdays on die latest Effort from David Lynch and Mark Frost twin it examines various unique National such As die new Orleans Mardi Manhattan after and an Al flight truck its Clarice background plays a father trying to make ends visual images Are but it lacks narrative cop Rock wednesdays on Abc comes from a producer with an even stronger track record in to Steven Bochco Hill Street but it looks like a disaster in the this musical police drama cop Rock juxtaposes Law enforcement with musical clumsily forces i songs where they dont fit and carelessly passes up opportunities where music might work theres hardly anyone in the entire show with whom die viewer can the mayor is a die politicians Are and Many of die cops verge on being Gabriels fire thursdays on starring James Earl Jones As a Man recently released from is one of the most promising shows on the Jones exudes a Strong sense of Power and of and die Between him and die minor characters is beautifully but die series Appeal May be too Specia opposite its in one of die toughest spots on die sched sensibility get a life sundays on Fox has a Nice loopy with Chris Elliott As a Man in his Early 30s who sees no reason to be dissatisfied with his Ca reer paperboy or his residence his parents its a terrific but die execution is some of die humor is Side splitting some of it parenthood saturdays on Abc looks at die can twin proposition of being a its Black humor is unusually
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