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MUSEUM OF BROADCASTING'S TV FEST `MOONLIGHTING' CREATOR FACES FANS

The Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles, Calif.; Mar 20, 1987;

By: STEVEN LINAN;

Abstract:

So nearly 600 of those inquisitive Moonlighters filled the Leo S. Bing Theater Wednesday night as [Bruce Willis] and "Moonlighting" creator Glenn Gordon Caron fielded their questions for more than an hour as part of the Museum of Broadcasting's 4th Annual Television Festival, which will come to a close this weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Reportedly feeling a bit under the weather, the pregnant [Cybill Shepherd] did not attend.

"We could show you the episode (next) Tuesday," said Caron, but he explained that ABC wanted a new "Moonlighting" installment to use as a lead-in for the network's new "Max Headroom" series. As a result, the next new "Moonlighting" is scheduled March 31, prior to "Headroom's" debut at 10 that night.

Full Text:

When will "Moonlighting" fans get a new episode of their favorite Tuesday night series?

Given the show's penchant for repeating episodes, can those fans look forward to seeing any more new segments of the innovative detective series this season?

Are co-stars Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd really squabbling on the set?

Inquiring minds wanted to know!

And so nearly 600 of those inquisitive Moonlighters filled the Leo S. Bing Theater Wednesday night as Willis and "Moonlighting" creator Glenn Gordon Caron fielded their questions for more than an hour as part of the Museum of Broadcasting's 4th Annual Television Festival, which will come to a close this weekend at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Reportedly feeling a bit under the weather, the pregnant Shepherd did not attend.

Following the screening of an episode from the popular ABC program's first season, a one-hour question-and-answer session yielded a wide range of queries, such as:

-How will the series work around Shepherd's pregnancy?

Said the bespectacled Caron, slyly: "Well, it was planned . . . "

After the crowd's laughter subsided, he added: "We like to think of them (Shepherd's expected twins) as our two little spinoffs."

Caron later explained that "We're still sorting things out. We have plans afoot to deal with the production problems. Creatively, we know some of the answers, but we can't share it with you."

-What was the reaction to last Tuesday's latest rerun, shown in place of the previously announced conclusion to a three-part episode featuring Mark Harmon as Blue Moon agency owner Maddie Hayes' old flame?

"Frankly, it's no fun disappointing people," Caron declared. "We feel particularly bad when we say there's going to be a new episode and it isn't."

-When is the next new episode due?

"We could show you the episode (next) Tuesday," said Caron, but he explained that ABC wanted a new "Moonlighting" installment to use as a lead-in for the network's new "Max Headroom" series. As a result, the next new "Moonlighting" is scheduled March 31, prior to "Headroom's" debut at 10 that night.

-What about the stories claiming there is an off-screen feud between Willis and Shepherd?

"In this town," replied Willis, appearing relaxed and refined in a snappy gray suit, "a certain part of the entertainment business deals with money to be made by trading on someone's name. It sells magazines to say `Bruce and Cybill are fighting.'

"The thought," he continued, "that two people with such great chemistry and who work so well together could be fighting sells (newspapers and magazines)."

Pausing briefly, Willis added, "It's really pretty much nonsense. . . . That stuff just doesn't happen."

-How many more new episodes will be shown this season?

"As many as we can possibly do," Caron said.

"It's difficult to predict. One thing I want you to know is that nobody's sitting by the pool, sipping Perrier and saying, `Oh, they want another one (new episode)? Tell 'em to wait!"

"We try to get as many of them to you as we can and we apologize."

In describing "Moonlighting's" appealing, offbeat blend of farce and drama, Caron said: "It's not (straight) comedy or drama. Ask the Emmy people."

Referring to last season's Emmy Awards presentation at which the series was nominated for 16 statuettes yet walked away with but one, Caron joked, "Next year, we're going in as a children's series."

-And how were Shepherd and Willis chosen for their roles?

"We had a raffle," Caron quipped.

"I lost," Willis quickly added, with an equally straight face.

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