West 57th

By Patrick Mondout

While NBC spent the better part of two decades looking for a newsmagazine show to compete with 60 Minutes, CBS itself tried to create a version of 60 Minutes for a younger audience. West 57th was only around for parts of four seasons, but that makes it far more successful than any of NBC's clones up to that point.

In order to appeal to the Yuppie crowd, the show featured reporters and correspondents who were all under 40 and featured stories on rock stars, athletes on steroids, designer drugs, and mostly anything that didn't involve international diplomacy or the problems of ageing.

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