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l , Jot from tiiej Stevenson ‘deal sons. TV le ir emotioi y smile easi', °n of themstiv §ely enoughs; ndents [®it t ed, r ed be cancelled- tied “Nobody ! by the pilot ; judged by the ig British act loan to the fc at work he re- ; as he enter., iding charactei i man whoca y AWOLwhec lents of the ut ilise, vhole group of the scripts os ility often goe* r, ABC shelve: les. “Nobodv- lent. ie filled by tic ector huger in summer re in the ultjnuif i on CBS Ant they are - in eservists called as a four-iMB and they £ protected by a series. Ik I adience tothf United Press International SEW YORK — Hollywood, hkrh mourned John Wayne by say- Bg there would never be another lie him, now is trying to find two more just like him. ABC and CBS both have bought three-hour dramatized television laographies of the superstar and the bunt is on for actors to play Wayne. The ABC project will be pro duced by Batjac Productions, which WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 22. 1979 ictors to play John Wayne sought was Wayne’s own company and now is presided over by his won, Michael, who will serve as pro ducer. The film biography will be called “The Duke,” and son Michael noted there never has been an authorized written biography of his father. The key word is authorized. Maurice Zolotow, who has made a career of writing about Hollywood PBS begins repeats of Shakespeare plays and its stars, wrote an unauthorized but not unflattering biography of Wayne, and that will form the basis of the CBS three-hour drama to be written by Paul Monash. The CBS version, to be called “Shooting Star” and produced by Warner Bros., will begin shooting in September. No one is saying when either drama will go on the air, although it looks like a horse race with the ratings prize going to the network that gets on the air first. The key to a successful John Wayne bio is casting and there Bat jac might have an advantage. The obvious choice to play Big John is look-alike son, Patrick, and his brother suggested he might star in the ABC-Batjac film. CBS, which has a script in hand, could try to snare a hot “name” like Nick Nolte, or could go with an un known. Part of the problem is that everyone who comes to mind to play Wayne is too old or too short or too Eastern. They don’t hardly make ’em like that no more. United Press International NEW YORK — Even PBS has fal len victim to the television rerun disease — but at least that oasis in (be vast wasteland is repeating Shakespeare. In what it calls a Summer Mini- Shakespeare Festival, PBS pres ented three of last season’s BBC- Time-Life Shakespeare plays, start ing with “As You Like It” on Aug. 7, Measure for Measure” on Aug. 8 Henry VIII” on Aug. 9 (check local listings). Romeo and Juliet” and “Julius Caesar” will be reserved for repeti tion during the school year — Oct. Sand Nov. 3 respectively. That leaves perhaps the best of kst season’s Shakespeare plays un- epeated — Derek Jacoby in Eichard II,” and thereby hange the tale of the 1980 PBS Shakespeare schedule. In January the new series will lick off with “The Tempest” and Twelfth Night,” not necessarily in at order. Then will come “Richard II,” making a historically appropriate appearance before “Henry'IV, Part One, “Henry IV, Part Two” and Henry V,” wrapping up Shakes peare’s version of the War of the Roses. Anthony Quayle plays Falstaff. The season will end with Jacoby’s "Hamlet,” which he first will take on tour to Australia, Japan and China. Contemplating the BBC’s con tinuing tour de force with its com plete Shakespeare evokes an irritat- memory of nationalistic com plaints that American public televi sion should shun the BBC produc- ras in favor of American actors. Another repeat of note enters the scene in September, when NBC re peats “Holocaust” on four success- ne nights beginning Monday, Sept. 10. The strategy is designed to lure viewers away from ABC, which opens its new season on that date. NBC and CBS begin their new sea sons on Sept. 17, which is when the A.C. Nielsen Co., officially starts counting in the ratings race. Television viewers are odd about repeats. They will watch a series episode each time it comes around in almost the same numbers they watched the original. ALTERATIONS 1 (N THE GRAND TRADITION OF OLD TEXAS WHERE MOTHER TAUGHT DAUGHTER THE FINE ART OF SEWING — SO HELEN MARIE TAUGHT EDITH MARIE THE SECRETS OF SEWING AND ALTERATIONS “DON'T GIVE UP — WE LL MAKE IT FIT!" AT WELCH S CLEANERS WE NOT ONLY SERVE AS AN EXCELLENT DRY CLEANERS BUT WE SPE- CIAUZE IN ALTERING HARD TO FIT EVENING DRESSES TAPERED SHIRTS. JEAN HEMS WATCH POCKETS. ETC (WE RE JUST A FEW BLOCKS NORTH OF FED MART.) WELCH’S CLEANERS 3819 E. 29th (TOWN & COUNTRY SHOPPING CENTER^ The three network ratings race goes on, even during the summer rerun doldrums, and ABC continues in the lead, trailed by CBS in sec ond and NBC in the cellar. One of the few original summer replacement shows to break up the dreary schedule of repeats pulled a surprise by turning up among the top-rated shows for the past week. The winning sitcom is “ Detective School,” and its star, James Gregory (Inspector Luger on “Barney Mil ler”) is a delight. The top programs in the country for the week ending Aug. 5, accord ing to the A.C. Nielsen Co., were: 1: Three’s Company; 2: Taxi; 3: VVKRP in Cincinnati; 4: M-A-S-H, 5: Lou Grant; 6: Vegas; 7: Detective School; 8: Laverne 6c Shirley; 9: Mork fic Mindy; 10: (tie) Charlie’s Angels and Barney Miller. 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