Crowned Jools

There will be no more rest on the seventh day once NBC's Sunday Night begins beaming into bedrooms (at 12:30 A.M.) this month. The weekly show— co-hosted by ex-Squeeze keyboardist and onetime Police piano man Jools Holland (left) and Grammy'd jazz star David Sanborn—will combine music, comedy, animation, and archival footage of Big Band-era big guns into a walloping anti-slumber injection. Holland, who is a former host of Britain's top-rated The Tube and an ex-MTV jock, impressed Sunday Night's director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and its executive producer, Lome Michaels, with his catchy interviewing style and his Walking to New Orleans special, on which Jools— short for Julian—pawed the ivories alongside Fats Domino. "The whole group reminds me of early Saturday Night Live," says Michaels, "and we've got an obscure enough time to let the show develop unmolested.''

ANGELA JANKLOW