CHANNEL SURFING Hurray for Mollywood Former "Good Day Philadelphia" correspondent Molly Mayock has gone from reporting about Hollywood to joining it, as the creative executive for Splendid Pictures. By LAURA NACHMAN Courier Times Former "Good Day Philadelphia" correspondent Molly Mayock has gone from reporting about Hollywood to joining it, as the creative executive for Splendid Pictures. Mayock's job is to work with writers to improve scripts before they go into production. Splendid's next film is "NARC," starring Ray Liotta, and executive produced by Tom Cruise. According to the Philadelphia native, "NARC" already has some Oscar buzz after getting good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. It is scheduled for wide release in January. Mayock said "It will be really wild if, at the next Oscars, I'm with Tom Cruise as an attendee on the red carpet instead of an entertainment reporter interviewing Tom Cruise on the red carpet." Mayock also reports that the next Splendid project will be a Richard Gere movie. "Mollywood in Hollywood" reports ran for five years on the WTXF morning show. The position was eliminated a couple of months ago, but WTXF is looking for somebody based in Philadelphia to handle a combination of Mayock's and former movie critic Bill Wine's job.
Sources at the recent Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards say that
host Bill Boggs was doing more than just reading nominees, as he was
lobbying WTXF general manager Roger Lamay for the "Good Day
Philadelphia" anchor job that will be vacated by Mike Jerrick.
Philadelphia's "Hack," starring Chestnut Hill
resident David Morse, won its Friday 9 p.m. time period for the second
week in a row with almost 12 and a half million viewers. "American
Dreams," which is about a Philadelphia family in the '60s also
posted solid numbers for NBC on Sunday night. Havertown's Tom Verica
plays the father in the show, which features clips from "American
Bandstand." We'll almost forgive Dick Clark for "The Other
Half." On second thought, no we won't.
WBCB 1490-AM's Paul Baroli is now the station's program
director and will do the 10-noon shift. Baroli worked the past three
years as the news director and co-host of the morning drive show with
Jim Foxwell. Eagles play-by-play announcer Merrill Reese is the
station's general manager.
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