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TV networks pull episodes dealing with timely issues
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — CBS has yanked tomorrow's episode of The Agency because of its tootimely plot: a CIA effort to fight an anthrax threat to the United States.
"We certainly don't want to do anything to add to the country's fears about anthrax," network spokesman Chris Ender said yesterday.
In the past two weeks, anthrax has been discovered in three states and the District of Columbia. Tests have shown that at least 13 people either have the disease or were exposéd to its spores. One person has died.
So far, all of the anthrax appears to have been delivered in letters.
The Agency episode originally was to air Sept. 27. but was pulled
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
It was among a number of changes networks made in the wake of the tragedy.
The anthrax episode was rescheduled to air Oct.11 but was bumped that night by President Bush's primetime news conference. Rescheduled to this week, it has now been postponed indefinitely.
"As anthrax cases and public fears spread throughout the weekend and into Monday, it became clear we couldn't broadcast this episode." Ender said.
Airing in its place will be an episode about American miners taken hostage in Indonesia amid a coup threat.
Trying to be sensitive to the public mood and events is a particularly thorny issue for The Agency and the handful of other
spy and crime shows debuting this season.
CBS pulled the pilot episode for The Agency, which opened with a Middle Eastern scene of a booby-trapped hostage, gagged with a U.S. flag, dying in an explosion.
In the new Fox series 24, about a U.S. counterterrorist unit, the pilot aired after editing of a scene showing a bomb exploding on a plane.
And NBC scrapped a script with a terrorist story line for the new action series UC: Undercover, which focuses on a Justice Department crime-fighting unit.
"It's very difficult to do a serious drama about the CIA without colliding with the headlines in some way, shape or form." Ender said of The Agency.
Pop icons to perform charity show as fund-raiser for WTC victims
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Usually, it's hard to get top pop acts to share the same bill, unless it's an awards show.
But this weekend, dozens of stars including Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Tim McGraw, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys plan to perform at three benefit concerts to raise money for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and raise morale too.
"It's everybody and anybody
"It's everybody and anybody — people that you would never think would take the stage together are coming together for the first time," 'N Sync's Lance Bass said yesterday.
Bass" group is performing at the "United We Stand" concert Sunday in Washington, an eight-
hour marathon that also includes Jackson, the Backstreet Boys, Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. Tickets for the RFK Stadium event ranged from $25 to $75 and have sold out, officials said, raising approximately $2 million. Parts of the show will likely be aired later on television.
Also on Sunday, McGraw, Sara Evans, Trisha Yearwood, Brooks & Dunn and other country stars will take part in a 21/2-hour concert at the 13,000-seat Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville, to be aired live on the CMT cable network and on radio stations across the nation. Tickets range from $25 to $1,000, and are almost sold out.
our chance to make some money for these people and make a difference in what's going on," McGraw said.
"This is what our talent is, and
WEDNESDAY,OCT.17,2001
The weekend concerts kick off Saturday with the "Concert for New York City" at Madison Square Garden. Along with the Backstreet Boys and Destiny's Child, that event features McCartney, Bowie, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, U2's Bono, Marc Anthony and others.
Tickets range from $200 to $5,000 and are still available. The five-hour show will be aired live on VH1 without commercials, and on the radio. Columbia Records plans to release a double-disc CD from the concert, with most proceeds going to charity.
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