Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1991 Page 12 Chuck features editor networks feed viewer hunger for real to abcs love and hate Drew viewers Here and in Hollywood reality a when Robin Williams spoke those they were part of a comedy they could just As easily be applied to the state of made fort movies in the though the subject matter of reality based primetime productions int All that in recent to has Deve loped a voracious appetite for drama based on High profile crime and the trauma and tragedy suffered by aver age whenever an event makes head theres a mad scramble by Hollywood producers trying to Pur Chase the Story rights from the peo ple recent movies and miniseries like Blind Small sacrifices and a cry for help the Tracey thur than Story have drawn huge audiences As Well As loud criticism from those who see the form As purely even in fac based dramas Are the Donald Marshall and love and hate were big winners for the Csc the latter also garnered High ratings when Abc aired it in the last and the Peoples net work is expecting similarly big things when it airs conspiracy of silence based on Manitoba Helen Betty Osborne Case later this this Springs crop of Abc movies proves two things that the to Indus try is getting Good at securing rights and turning events into drama in a hurry and that theres no limit to what Hollywood will try to turn into a movie to turn a at this years networks win Ter press the Peacock net work unveiled no less than six fact based movies that will be airing watching to Brad Oswald this most of them Are recreations of recent stories that captured head lines Over a period of Days or weeks some As recent As less than a year including a couple of Mur a High profile trial and the Case of two families whose babies were switched at birth in the Hospi Mal As quickly As except for the 22 minutes when their lives there Doest appear to be any kind of Story stretching this briefly tense happenstance into two hours of to drama by visiting with these people As their paths Lead them toward this spectacular crossing of paths quite really the excerpts of the drama shown to critics Here Drew audible groans and giggles because it was so contrived and the thoroughly annoying part of this which continues to Gen Erate these movies As Well As weekly series like Rescue unsolved mysteries and is that the peo but does that justify Public intrusion into private events but the most curious of the lot is a project titled the which is based on a 1988 incident involving an armed a police Chase and a to news helicopter it must certainly be As thin a premise As has Ever inspired a in the actual event lasted 22 from the time the Denver Pilot and his new cameraman part Ner picked up a Call on the police scanner to the violent conclusion when the copter intervened in the Chase and stopped the gunman truck Long enough for police to catch up and gun him before the everyone involved was living a fairly workaday after it each hoped things would get Back to nor ple who produce them will unashamedly try to Tell you the reason they make them is to serve the Public by exposing the dangers of particular situations or showing How people can protect in a town that fuelled by and Cash it Doest take much of a septic to Start question ing All these Boyscout the truth is much More Likely that the Bottom line Here is Money attracting As Many viewers As pos sible As a generating advertising dollars and one of the simplest ways of achieve that is to Appeal to that difficult part of the human psyche that makes people slow Down and gawk at an Accident the networks say the reason they program this stuff is because theres a Public appetite for perhaps there but does that really justify the continuing intrusion into events that almost without Pri vate tragedies Rwjr Jwj when Abc unveiled its slate of movies and miniseries for the coming it signalled a Clear decision to step away from the 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