Personal Baggage Clogs Cbs’ ‘Ez Streets’

Sat., Oct. 26, 1996

Faye Zuckerman New York Times Syndicate

Sunday at 9 CBS rolls out the two-hour-long pilot to “EZ Streets” (1996), a crime drama that will air weekly Wednesdays at 10. “Streets” more than resembles “Wise Guy” with its dark lighting and story about a police officer who goes undercover. Ken Olin steps into the role of the brooding law enforcer determined to prove that his dead partner was a good cop. Olin plays detective Cameron Quinn, who becomes involved with a gangster (Joe Pantoliano), the gangster’s girlfriend (Debrah Farentino) and an ex-con played by Jason Gedrick.

“Streets” is moody and melodramatic. It focuses too much on the main characters’ baggage, and they each are carrying around a lot of it.

HIGHLIGHTS

“Baseball,” FOX today at 4:30: The Braves and Yankees meet in Game 6 in New York.

“Dark Skies,” NBC tonight at 8: This music-filled sci-fi drama reaches back to 1964 to try to explain the hysteria around the Beatles. Apparently aliens were sending signals to humans, and Loengard (Eric Close) joins up with Capt. Bach (J.T. Walsh) to shut off the crazy-making transmission.

“Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti With Levine: The Three Tenors in Concert 1996,” KSPS tonight at 7: The opera greats are seen in a concert taped at New York Giants Stadium last summer. They are accompanied by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conducted by James Levine.

“The Secret She Carried” (1996), NBC Sunday at 9: This rape tale covers familiar territory. A woman who has been trying to get pregnant is raped and soon discovers she’s pregnant.

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