`Life' finding new life on MTV

"MY SO-CALLED LIFE" has a new so-called lease on life with MTV announcing that the cable music channel will air all 19 episodes of one of the best new shows of the current season starting Monday at 6 p.m.

The rerun of the entire series every weekday from Monday through May 7 is a way to jump-start the show, which may or may not return to the ABC lineup this fall.

Ted Harbert, president of ABC Entertainment and the man who'll decide if Angela and the gang return to the network, says he's hoping it'll find a new audience on MTV.

Says Ted: "We continue to view `My So-Called Life' as a contender for renewal next season." ABC's 1995-'96 prime-time schedule will be announced in May. The show aired at 7 p.m. Thursdays, opposite "Mad About You" and "Friends."

If the show returns to ABC this fall, the network must put it in a different, preferably later, slot. And they'd better not program it against any of NBC's Thursday night dream team.

KUDOS TO BOB & BRIAN: Those wacky morning guys over at WLZR (102.9 FM) brought in $33,425 for the Leukemia Society after their "radiothon" last week.

After 28 hours cooped up in the Lazer on-air studio together, neither Bob nor Brian will comment on rumors of impending nuptials.

And there's no truth to the rumor that WQFM (93.3 FM) is planning its own radiothon to pay sports guy/funnyman Mark Patrick the $88,000 they promised him when they stole him from Lazer.

WILKOMMEN, TV CREW: Be on the lookout for a crew from Bavarian TV in town to tape some stuff connected with the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

The producer and crew from "Foreign Magazine" arrives Wednesday, will meet Mayor John Norquist on Thursday, and spend Friday at Marquette High School, where they'll interview students and war veterans. On Saturday, they head up to the Experimental Aircraft Association headquarters in Oshkosh.

ANOTHER CONTENDER: In case you missed it, WDJT-TV (Channel 58) has started a 10 p.m. newscast. Well, almost.

"Newsbreak 58" is a seven-minute look at the headlines anchored by Dan Jones, one of our favorite TV reporters and the no-nonsense guy who anchored Channel 58's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Jeffrey Dahmer trial. "Cosby" follows the newscast.

There's still no word on when a full-fledged newscast will debut on Milwaukee's new CBS affiliate.

& THE WINNER IS: "Warner Cable's Kidz Biz," the cable news show put together by kids, has picked up another industry honor. This time, it's the Beacon Award from the National Cable Television Public Affairs Association.

TUNE IN DR. DAVID: David Suzuki is one of the best science TV hosts in the biz, and he turns his considerable talents and approachable style to "CyberSpace," as cable TV's Discovery Channel titles its one-hour look at what we're tired of hearing termed "the information superhighway."

The special airs at 7 p.m. Wednesday and it's repeated at 10 p.m. Wednesday and 6 p.m. Saturday.

We're watching just so we don't sound so stupid when people start talking about surfing the Internet and all that stuff.

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