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"Bill Oddie is a different kind of face in daytime," said Ms Sharman, who has been experimenting with programming genres not normally associated with daytime in the past few months.
More than any other programming genre, a successful soap must be truly in tune with its time.
Nonetheless, it was the phenomenal commercial success of Roots that guaranteed the immediate future of the historical miniseries as a viable new programming genre.
Richard Plepler, the co-president of HBO, and Michael Lombardo, the president of HBO programming, said in a statement that Greenburg "helped redefine the sports programming genre and set an extraordinary standard of excellence in the industry".
Fantasy has long been a popular programming genre, as evidenced by shows like "The Twilight Zone," "Kolchak: The Night Stalker," "Beauty and the Beast," "The X Files," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Ghost Whisperer".
LOS ANGELES — For Jeff Gaspin, handed the task of pulling NBC's prime-time schedule out of a long, precipitous slide, the first priority is reality — as a concept, not a program genre.
Rupert Murdoch, the chief executive of News Corporation, said in a news release: "Mike took risks at a critical time and was a pioneering force in shaping the reality programming genre that exists today.
Under increasing pressure to catch up to its rivals in the reality programming genre, NBC has turned to Richard Hatch, the winner of the biggest reality hit so far, CBS's "Survivor," as part of an attempt to create an American version of a British game show.
In addition, the first hit in the alternative programming genre, ABC'S "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," has seen its ratings slump of last season only deepen, at least partly because of being relegated to only the most difficult time periods.
