Almost Perfect, a CBS comedy starring Nancy Travis: "This is a four-star show. I like the way that name comes out. I get a vibe of a couple trying to get involved and make a life together."
New York News, a CBS drama about a Manhattan newspaper starring Mary Tyler Moore: "I get a 100 percent positive feeling about this one. It sounds very mind-stimulating and exciting."
The Home Court, an NBC comedy with Pamela Reed as a judge: "It sounds very honest and open, something that people will want to see."
Go ahead, laugh if you want. But if Zena's picks are right, she'll be a network programming chief by October.
The Cartoon Network (Fridays, 11 p.m. ET)
B+
Scientists now predict that if current trends continue, soon everyone on the planet will have his or her own talk show. That time can't be far away, judging from the success of Space Ghost, a long-forgotten Hanna-Barbera cartoon superhero from the '60s, who since last year has been reincarnated as the world's most bizarre host.
His weekly 15-minute show is entirely animated, except for a screen featuring a celebrity guest (this week it is Sandra Bernhard). Space Ghost prattles on about everything from Gilligan's Island to his love of croutons, while occasionally pausing to do battle with his bandleader and archenemy, a giant mantis named Zorak. Coast to Coast is like some hysterical hallucination for grown-ups, a show that makes oddball cartoons like Ren & Stimpy seem as tame as Muppet Babies
TNT (Sun., Aug. 6, 8 p.m.)
B
There's no shortage of lawyers on television these days, but this made-for-TV movie based on the William P. Wood novel Court of Honor is a cut above the rest. Tom Selleck stars as a goody two-briefs Seattle judge who is coerced into acting as an informant for two federal investigators (William Atherton and Elizabeth Mc-Govern) probing judicial corruption. The movie's noirish visual style and its refusal to find easy answers to ethical questions make Broken Trust seem more thoughtful and innovative than the usual courtroom thriller.
(David Hiltbrand is on vacation.)
>TUBE: A psychic picks the fall season's hot shows; superhero Space Ghost finds new life on Coast to Coast; Tom Selleck shines in Broken Trust
SCREEN: It's splashdown time for Waterworld; Sandra Bullock seems trapped in The Net; What the heck's the matter with Kids today? 12
SONG: After 7 shows sibling power; Jimmy Somerville dances through the pain on Dare to Love; Jeff Healey's gritty guitar work graces Cover to Cover 16
PAGES: Anne Rice puts a new bite in the Vampire Chronicles with Memnoch the Devil; Phillip Margolin will keep you up After Dark; Everett Weinberger chronicles his series of misadventures in Hollywood 27
Saved by the Bell Reunion
The hookups, the meltdowns, the memoires
The case reveals what was really going on what they think of each other now!
