Season 1988

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

Hollywood as nightly news, invented before social media could do the job for free. Mary Hart's durability, red-carpet stand-ups, and the grammar of the entertainment newsmagazine — tease, clip, smile, next — still run every awards-season broadcast. Appointment gossip infrastructure: the industry talking about itself, on purpose, every weeknight.

TV Flash files Season 1988 of Entertainment Tonight (1981–present) on Syndication as a mid listed season (1988; 5 of 36) — 19 listed hours, 1988-05-16–1988-10-21 from “Jimmy Stewart” (S1988E01) to “Timothy Dalton” (S1988E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S1988E01 Jimmy Stewart

   Jimmy Stewart is a landmark booking: appointment gossip treating old Hollywood as news, the smile still the transition.