THIS WEEK IN THE XENA NEWS....
TWXN 30
10/01/96

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NEWS FROM THE FRONT:
  XMR #18 is about half way through. I am still toying
with some design changes which hopefully will allow me
to release XMR more often.
  WHOOSH #1 has exceeded my expectations and we are
gearing up for Whoosh #2 which will be released on-line
on or about October 17, 1996. If you have an article
about Xena just dying to be published, send it to me at
ktaborn@lightspeed.net by the 10th of this month for
possible inclusion in Whoosh! #2.
  The IAXS (International Association of Xena Studies)
webpage site has become soooo popular that we had to
get rid of carrying the back issues of TWXN on that
site in order to cut down on our bandwidth. Therefore,
TWXN is looking for a home on the web. If you have the
space to carry back issues of TWXN, then please e-mail
me at ktaborn@lightspeed.net.
  And now for the news...


[   ] 09-19-96
   NEW MEDIA MARKETS. 425 words. "Sky 2 Comes down to
Earth with The Simpsons"
   COMMENTARY: XWP was the top rated program for
Britain's Sky 2 for the week ending September 8, 1996.
XWP logged in 214,000 viewers that Sunday at 7pm. The
competition was ST: Deep Space Nine, showing on Sky 1
at the same time, and ST:DS9 logged in 228,000 viewers.


[   ] 09-23-96
   ELECTRONIC MEDIA. Page 32. 707 words. "Askin Taking
Tribune Shows Right to Action" By Greg Spring
   COMMENTARY:  Tribune Entertainment announced
development of two more action hours to join their
previously announced project of Battleground Earth. 
Both will be based upon comic book franchises: "Terry
and the Pirates" and "The Nightman".  Tribune
Entertainment President Dick Askin was reported as
saying he was hoping that those shows will do for the
Tribune Group what MCA's "Hercules" and "Xena" has done
for them.



[   ] 09-26-96
   U.P.I. Thursday. Domestic News. 171 words. "Klingons
top Halloween costume survey"
   COMMENTARY: Paul Blum, owner of Abracadabra, a
Greenwich Village masquerade shop, gave the results of
an informal survey of 150 customers about their early
top 10 list of disguises. The winners were: (1)
Klingons; (2) Darth Vader; (3) Xena; (4) Wonder Woman;
(5) Catwoman; (6) Princess Diana; (7) Ru Paul; (8)
Howard Stern; (9) vampires; and a tie for (10)
President Clinton and Bob Dole.  Mr. Blum stated that
the recent interest in space creatures generated by the
discovery of possible life on Mars and movies like
'Independence Day' may have boosted science fiction
figures like Klingons and Darth Vader to the top of the
list. 


[   ] 09-26-96
   DAILY VARIETY. Production lists.
   COMMENTARY: In an untitled production listing, XWP
was listed after HTLJ: "MCA TELEVISION(818)
777-1242...XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS (synd) (in assn
w/Renassiance Pictures) EXP, Robert Tapert, Sam Raimi;
CO-EXP, R.J. Stewart; SUPR PROD, Steven Sears; PROD,
Eric Gruendemann; CO-PROD, Liz Friedman; CASTING, Beth
Hymson-Ayer."


[   a] 09-26-96
   DAILY VARIETY. 984 words. "Preem Week Presents No
Hits in New Shows Syndie Freshman Start Slowly: Syndies
Struggle" By Jenny Hontz
   COMMENTARY: Callisto (#22), 2nd release, 09/09/96.
Ranked as the 3rd action hour with a 4.5 rating. [HTLJ
and ST:DS9 tied on 1st with a 4.8; and Baywatch placed
4th with 3.4]. [Callisto's 1st release (05/13/96)
ratings: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine tied for 7th in
rank with 5.6, and placed first in the action hours.
XWP ranked 13th with 5.1, and placed 2nd. HTLJ tied for
14th with 4.7, and placed 3rd. No other action hours
made it to the top twenty.]


[   ] 09-28-96
   THE WASHINGTON POST. Saturday. Page D01. 1327 words.
"'Early Edition': Stop the Presses!; Series Is Not Good
News" By Tom Shales
   COMMENTARY: Two passing mentions of XWP in a review
about "Tarzan: The Epic Adventures". Mr. Shales
described the show Tarzan as "slow and serious rather
than crazy and campy, the way the Herc and Xena shows
are". Mr. Shales implied that crazy and campy was good.


[   ] 09-29-96
   THE WASHINGTON POST. Sunday. Page Y03. 425 words.
"The Political Race And 'The Lottery'"
   COMMENTARY: XWP was mentioned as a season return for
Washington D.C., Tuesdays at 9pm on WBDC and Thursday
at 9pm on WNUV.


[   ] 09-29-96
   THE SEATTLE TIMES. Sunday. Page M2. 484 words. "For
Warn, 'Insomnia' Brings Creative Energy" By Anthony
Flinn
   COMMENTARY: In a review of an new book of poetry by
Seattle poet, Emily Warn, called "The Novice
Insomniac", Mr. Flinn started out his review by
stating, "Emily Warn is one tough Seattle poet, tougher
than John Wayne and Xena the Warrior Princess
combined."


[   ] 09-29-96
   SARASOTA HERALD-TRIBUNE. Sunday. Page 1G. 747 words.
"Pride Lights up Screen at Tampa Film Festival. Tampa's
7th Annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival Runs Thursday
Through Oct. 13." By Jay Handelman
  COMMENTARY: In a listing of the films to be shown in
a Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the film "Wing Chun"
was described as "a 1994 comedy-adventure film from
Hong Kong, star[ing] martial arts expert Michelle Khan,
who plays a woman described as 'a cross between Hong
Kong's answer to Sandra Bullock and an Asian Xena:
Warrior.'"

