CASTING CALLS FOR COSELL! TNT TO PRODUCE "MNF" MOVIE

          TNT is "developing a TV movie based on the turbulent
     story" behind ABC's "Monday Night Football," according to
     Michael Starr of the N.Y. POST.  Starr cites a report in an
     upcoming TV Guide issue which states the movie will be
     written by N.Y. Times TV reporter Bill Carter.  It will be
     based on his '88 book "Monday Night Mayhem," which was
     written with Fortune writer Marc Gunther.  Casting will
     include finding actors to play Frank Gifford, Don Meredith,
     Howard Cosell and O.J. Simpson.  Carter, on the casting: "I
     think O.J. is kind of a minor character, but Meredith is
     crucial and the big part is Cosell -- that's the guts, and
     if you don't have Cosell, you don't have a movie."  The
     movie deal with TNT "will force Carter to stop reporting for
     a time on any Turner-owned entities to avoid violating the
     Times' strict conflict-of-interest rules" (N.Y. POST, 6/24).