About this season
WIOU is an American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show is set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign is WNDY, but which is nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's perennial financial struggles. The show stars John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also includes Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay, Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson, Phil Morris as aggressive reporter Eddie Bock, Jayne Brook as reporter Ann Hudson, Kate McNeil as reporter Taylor Young, Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, and Wallace Langham as news intern Willis Teitelbaum. According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.
Episodes (13)
1. pilot
Aired 24 October 1990 • 60 min
2. Appearances
Aired 31 October 1990 • 60 min
3. The Inquisition
Aired 7 November 1990 • 60 min
4. Do the Wrong Thing
Aired 14 November 1990 • 60 min
5. One Point, No Light
Aired 5 December 1990 • 60 min
6. They Shoot Sources, Don't They?
Aired 12 December 1990 • 60 min
7. Diamond Dogs
Aired 19 December 1990 • 60 min
8. Mother Nature's Son
Aired 26 December 1990 • 60 min
9. Ode to Sizzling Sal
Aired 2 January 1991 • 60 min
10. Labored Relations
Aired 9 January 1991 • 60 min
11. Bleeds, It Leads (a.k.a. Without Prejudice)
Aired 4 March 1991 • 60 min
12. Pair o' Guys Lost
Aired 13 March 1991 • 60 min
13. Three Women and a Baby
Aired 20 March 1991 • 60 min