Another staple of television will soon leave the tube. Dick Van Dyke, television personality through and through, has announced that he plans to retire from television after this season of “Diagnosis Murder,” The Associated Press reports today.
“It’s time for me to go to pasture,” Van Dyke told AP Radio. “Tastes have changed. Television’s going, as far as I’m concerned, downhill, and I’m an anachronism.”
Van Dyke is of course known for his wildly successful “The Dick Van Dyke Show” of the 1960s. His latest show, the CBS detective drama “Diagnosis Murder,” began airing in 1993.
‘TUCKER’ OUT; ‘DADDIO’ ON HIATUS: That pretty much sums it all up. “Tucker,” NBC’s rookie family comedy starring Katey Segal (“Married … With Children”), is the first series to get the boot from the new fall season lineup, Daily Variety reports. NBC decided to pull the plug on the show after a four-week run. And “Daddio,” another NBC family comedy which airs before “Tucker” on Monday nights, had been put on broadcast hiatus, meaning that it might return at a later date.
‘BOSTON’ LOOKING GOOD: There’re losers and there’re winners. And Fox’s “Boston Public” happens to be in the latter category. Variety says that the high school drama was the highest-rated show of its timeslot when it debuted Monday.
‘HIGH’ SCHOOL ROCKS: Just to show that people recognize a good show when they see one: “American High,” the acclaimed TV documentary series that got the shaft from Fox last season, has just got a new home on PBS, The Hollywood Reporter says. The series, a reality TV-type show about a group of suburban Chicago high school students, will begin its run with PBS in April.
