Flip by Kevin Cook

Author:Kevin Cook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

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A flustered assistant brought Herb Schlosser a sheaf of pages fresh from the Xerox machine. “You need to see this.” The NBC vice president scanned rows of numbers copied from the new season’s first ratings book. He’d expected solid ratings from The Flip Wilson Show. Schlosser thought Flip might win his Thursday-evening time slot against the twee CBS sitcom Family Affair and a new medical drama on ABC, Matt Lincoln, starring Vince Edwards of Ben Casey fame. He thought Flip might even have a chance to crack the Nielsens’ top twenty for the week. Instead he saw The Flip Wilson Show dominating its time slot. Flip had done more than crush his Thursday competition; he had won the night and even the week. Flip’s show was the number-one new program of 1970. And the reviews were as strong as the numbers. According to The New York Times’ influential Jack Gould,

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