TV & VIDEO - Nov. 21, 1990

‘Lifestories’ Up in the Air: “Lifestories,” NBC’s low-rated but critically praised medical drama, has stopped production and will be pulled from its 8 p.m. Sunday slot after the Dec. 2 broadcast. But the network said Tuesday that it will try out the series in a new time period--Tuesday, Dec. 11, at 10 p.m.--before determining its fate. Contractually, NBC has until Dec. 15 to re-order new episodes. Producer Jeffrey Lewis said that the Dec. 11 episode is likely to be one that deals with the physiology of heterosexual love and sex. An episode dealing with AIDS had been scheduled for Dec. 2, but NBC replaced it with one about a bone marrow transplant, saying it was “more appropriate for the 8 p.m. time period.”