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TV Notes (ZDTV)
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St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), Dec 15, 1998 pF6
TV NOTES. (Everyday Magazine)(Tv Notes Column)
Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1998 Pulitzer Publishing Co.
ZDTV, the 24-hour Ziff-Davis cable and satellite network
devoted to computer products, news and technology, recently
presented a one-week promotional lottery, in which it gave
away a computer-mounted Netcam every hour to someone who
registered on its Web site. ZDTV got 40,000 registrants, a
large number for such a little-seen network.
ZDTV is available via satellite, and by tapping into zd.com
on the Web.
If you're still lusting after one of those tiny droidlike
cameras, which enable you to send personal V-mails as well
as be seen and heard on ZDTV, the channel still has more
than a year left in its pledge to give away one per day.
Former Channel 11 reporter Victoria Recano is drawing
praise as an anchor on ZDTV.
He was the archetypal television detective. Steely, smart
yet big-hearted, with a nice Slavic chin, Maj. Jan Zeman
always got his guy.
Between 1974 and 1980, Czechoslovak Television produced
"Major Zeman's Thirty Cases," and the series, using the best
Czech actors, directors and scriptwriters, was a critical
smash. Czech viewers, saddled with television best described
as gray, tuned in religiously, giving the innovative,
exciting show stratospheric ratings.
"It was enormously popular," says Jakub Puchalsky, general
director of Czech Television.
Small wonder, then, that "Major Zeman" seemed like a natural
for a nostalgic revival on Czech Television when the idea
was first suggested this year.
But nothing is simple in post-communist Europe - not even
reruns.
Major Zeman, to put it bluntly, was a commie. Thus, some see
him as just another despicable functionary best consigned to
history's dustbin.
Others, including Puchalsky, believe the show - viewed
nearly 20 years after the last episode was made - is almost
comical in its political affectations.
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