‘Ink’ Will Hit The Small Screen Oct. 21

Sat., Aug. 31, 1996

New York Daily News

Ted Danson’s much-heralded return to broadcast television is being postponed for a month, CBS announced Thursday.

Danson and his wife, Mary Steenburgen, had been scheduled to make their debut in the sitcom “Ink” on Sept. 16.

However, because of quality problems with the series pilot and three episodes already shot, CBS and producer DreamWorks have decided to go back to the drawing board and start again.

“I think the quality of the program was not what we expected it to be,” CBS Entertainment President Leslie Moonves said. “The general quality was OK, but we needed more than OK.”

“Ink” will now debut on Oct. 21. For five weeks CBS will air “Pearl,” a sitcom starring Rhea Perlman, in the 8:30 p.m. slot on Mondays that had been reserved for “Ink.”

“Pearl” will then move back to its originally scheduled spot on Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m.

In “Ink,” Danson and Steenburgen play a divorced couple running a small newspaper.

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