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Vinyl Cafe' on CBS' Pilot Menu
(Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 11:14 AM)
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - "Everybody Loves Raymond" creator Phil
Rosenthal is opening a "Vinyl Cafe" at CBS.

Rosenthal will serve as an executive producer of the animated show,
based on stories by Canadian author and radio personality Stuart
McLean, the Hollywood trade papers report. The show will center on an
offbeat family that owns a record store in Toronto.

McLean's CBC radio show includes vignettes about -- Vinyl Cafe owner
Dave, wife Morley and kids Sam and Stephanie -- and he's also written
several books of short stories about the family.
Rosenthal will write the pilot with "Raymond" colleague Steve Skrovan,
actor-director Saul Rubinek ("Frasier," "Jerry and Tom") and Elinor
Reid. All four will serve as executive producers. CBS has ordered a
pilot presentation for the show from Paramount TV; if it gets a series
order, "Vinyl Cafe" would likely debut in midseason next year.

The order of the pilot presentation is not connected to the fate of
"Raymond," which CBS is hoping to bring back for a ninth and final
season in the fall.

CBS' history with animation in primetime is spotty at best. The network
aired the much-derided "Fish Police" for two weeks in 1992; the
following year, the Tim Burton-Steven Spielberg collaboration "Family
Dog" aired for about a month. Since then the network has stuck with
live-action fare
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Maybe the sun will go nova to prevent this really bad idea
from taking root.

And then I saw the date, "(Tuesday, March 16, 2004, 11:14 AM)",
and I started to breath again.
I mean TV would ruin a sewage plant.

Terry