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Smart Guy, the half-hour comedy series about a 12-year-old genius who goes to high school, completed its second season as one of the top-rated programs on The WB and continued a successful run on the international Disney Channels. In addition, The Irish in America: Long Journey Home, a six-hour documentary, was a critical and ratings success on PBS.
Figure skating champion Michelle Kwan agreed to star in at least four specials on her way to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The first of the four, Reflections on Ice: Michelle Kwan Skates to the Music of Disney's Mulan, aired in 1998, with another due in 1999.
Some of Hollywood's most noted directors will participate in an end-of-the-century retrospective produced by Walt Disney Network Television. The series will air on Showtime throughout 1999 and will consist of feature-length documentaries noting the influences that have shaped society during the 20th century. Noted directors Norman Jewison, Barry Levinson, Garry Marshall, Gregory Nava, Robert Townsend and Robert Zemeckis will participate in this ambitious project.
Top Left: Josh Charles and Peter Krausen star in ABC's new Tuesday night show, Sports Night.
Bottom Left: The cast of Felicity, The WB's critically acclaimed new series about a young woman's first year at a New York City university.
Selma Blair stars as Zoe Bean in Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane debuting in January on The WB.
The long-running comedy hit Home Improvement, now in its eighth season on ABC, remains the network's top-rated sitcom. The Tim Allen series will celebrate its 200th episode in 1999.
Boy Meets World remains the centerpiece of ABC's popular TGIF Friday night line-up. New for the 1998-99 season is Sports Night, a half-hour series set in the world of an ESPN-like sports news program. The show was created by Aaron Sorkin, the writer of A Few Good Men, and is produced by Touchstone and Imagine Television.
Also from Touchstone and Imagine is Felicity, an hour-long drama that follows the trials and tribulations of a young girl's first year of college in New York City. The show airs Tuesday nights on The WB.
For the mid-season schedule this year, Touchstone will produce Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, an ensemble sitcom that explores the lives of four Manhattan teenagers, to air on The WB. Another production from Touchstone and Imagine is The PJ's, a clay-mation series from Will Vinton Studios. The PJ's follows the lives of several families living in an inner city housing project. Eddie Murphy serves as executive producer and is the voice of the lead character on the series, which will air on Fox.
