Exclusive

Television news anchor, an ex-alcoholic on her second marriage, is asked by her boss to step up her game and go back to investigative reporting; she's skeptical until she receives a life-or-death phone tip which leads her to an L.A. bar full of dead bodies. It never ceases to amaze me what a polished actress Suzanne Somers is; she's comfortable on camera and is capable of creating a dramatic character strong enough to help you forget she's a former sitcom star. The fact that Somers cannot get quality roles shouldn't be held against her (it's the nature of the business), but she herself co-executive produced this TV-movie for ABC (alongside her husband, Alan Hamel) and it's a flimsy crime-thriller which wastes her efforts. Cheap production, false scares, sloppy editing, clumsy exposition and an unconvincing news-station milieu helps to sink "Exclusive", though Somers still manages to deliver a performance. Think what she could do in a decent movie!