The episode, "Single Mothers Face Conflict," features Rolesville residents Sonja and Raven Bennett.
Sonja, 44, the mother of 14-year-old Raven, says she's ready to begun dating again for the first time since her husband died 15 years ago, but Raven is intentionally standing in the way. Catch their story and Ablow's advice at 10 a.
m. Wednesday on WRAL-TV.
The temporary service interruption was caused by a work vehicle getting snagged in power and data lines.
WRAL says it'll be fixed tonight .
So if you're DVR'ing anything on CBS or Fox in HD tonight, make sure you or someone at home resets the recording for Standard Definition. .
.. or just walk out of frame.
I knew there was a good reason I never watch "CSI: Miami."
Who needs to anyway, when the "best" cheesy part David Caruso's opening sequence has been compiled in all of its hilarious glory (thanks to for the tip). Here's the Monday-afternoon press release, received a couple of hours after Fox News (owned by News Corporation) broke the story:
New York, NY November 20, 2006 News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch today announced that the company has canceled publication of the book "If I Did It" as well as the corresponding FOX broadcast network special.
Mr. Murdoch said: I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project. We are sorry for any pain this has caused the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown-Simpson.
News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total assets as of September 30, 2006 of approximately US$58 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$26 billion. News Corporation is a diversified entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; and other.
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The people have spoken! You may recall that North Carolina's own was among the first of the Fox affiliates to balk at this tasteless attempt at blockbuster November ratings.
And isn't it funny how the text of the press release (titled "News Corporation Cancels Simpson Book and TV Special") doesn't even mention Simpson's name once? Distance, distance. Check it out, from the Associated Press:
NEW YORK (AP) NBC said Monday it has ordered a full season s worth of Friday Night Lights episodes, its second endorsement in a week of a freshman series that so far has attracted more attention from critics than viewers.
The drama, based on the book and film of the same name, focuses on the coach and football players from the high-school team in rural Dillon, Texas.
We re proud to reward an authentic, poignant series, said Kevin Reilly, NBC entertainment president.
The show has averaged 6.
1 million viewers this season. It stands at No. 81 in Nielsen Media Research s season ratings, or just below ABC s Friday-night rerun of Grey s Anatomy.
NBC said it was encouraged that the show had a bigger audience in the second half hour than the first in its first five showings on Tuesdays, an indication that those who were watching liked what they saw. It also did well among young viewers during a special tryout on Monday, Reilly said.
Last week, NBC also gave a full-season order to Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the Aaron Sorkin series that has thus far been a ratings disappointment.
The decisions mean producers will make nine more episodes following the first 13, to make a season s worth of 22. Not receiving this order is usually a death sentence for a series.
Yeah!
Well, it looks like Fox has officially pulled the plug on its new lawyer drama after a very brief run.
It's too bad, really. "Justice" wasn't the best of the new fall shows by far, but sharky lawyer Ron Trott was a good vehicle for "Alias" alumnus Victor Garber.
There are just too many sharks in the sea right now, I guess. The fictional Tree Hill Ravens basketball team of The CW's teen drama "One Tree Hill took to the RBC Center court Tuesday as assistant to the producer Beth Crookham talked about going up against ABC's "Lost" on Wednesday nights at 9.
We feel pretty good that we have been holding our own against them, Crookham said.
The cast and crew put in three 12-and-13-hour days at The RBC Center last week, filming game scenes for the upcoming ninth episode.
Not surprisingly, "One Tree Hill," which is filmed in Wilmington, can't approach the ratings of "Lost." But it has a loyal following, whose Internet and mail campaign helped save the show when the WB network that aired "One Tree Hill" for its first three seasons merged with UPN to form The CW.
And as Crookham happily pointed out, CW execs really like what they're seeing on the show this year.
In addition to heartthrob stars James Lafferty and Chad Michael Murray, Greenville native Lee Norris, the absurdly young-looking 25-year-old who plays "Mouth' McFadden ("I get carded," he admitted) was there for the shoot. So was Cary native Bevin Prince, a friendly 24-year-old blond who bears some resemblance to Reese Witherspoon.
The ninth episode will be the second one that Prince appears in this year. Her character, a cheerleader also named Bevin, plays a relatively minor role in the series compared to, say, Sophia Bush's Brooke. But she's beloved by the fans, and her character's romance with Ravens player Skills (Antwon Tanner) has made her even more popular.
It's everybody's senior year in high school on the teen-centered show, which begs the question: Is there a "One Tree Hill: The College Years" on the horizon?
"I hope so," Prince said.
To read more about last week's shoot of "One Tree Hill' in Raleigh, see the Arts Entertainment section of Sunday's News Observer.
When former "Today Show" cohost Katie Couric debuted as anchor of CBS Evening News Sept. 5, it was no surprise that most of the nation's news viewers tuned in that night to check her out (and gawk at pics of baby Suri Cruise).
Since then, Couric's national ratings have fallen and risen inexplicably (well, I can't explain it), putting her at No.
3 one night, then back at 1 the next.
In the 22-county Raleigh-Durham TV market, her viewership has been easier to predict: She's no. 1, even on nights when she's bringing up the rear nationally.
Why? Well, there aren't any polls to back this up, but I'll go out on a pretty sturdy limb here and guess that it has much to do with Couric's lead-in from the mighty WRAL News @ 6 PM.
The night of Couric's debut, CBS Evening News on WRAL was No.
1 with a 17.1 rating. ABC's World News with Charles Gibson on WTVD had an 8.
0, and NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams on NBC-17 had a 2.5.
As for local newscasts that preceded Couric that night, the pecking order is the same.
WRAL News @ 6 PM did a 14.8, WTVD's ABC11 Eyewitness News at 6 had a 10.2, while NBC17 News at 6 had a 1.
6.
On Aug, 29, the previous Tuesday, CBS Evening News did an 11.1 with Raleigh-Durham viewers, while ABC World News did a 10.
6 and NBC Nightly News did a 3.2. Nationally, the order was exactly the opposite: NBC, then ABC, then CBS.
For Raleigh-Durham viewers, the network broadcasts followed the same hierarchy set by local lead-in broadcasts: WRAL's local news had a 14.6, Eyewitness News was 10.3, and NBC17's news had a 2.
0.
Couric dipped to No. 3 nationally on Sept.
11, as viewers apparently preferred to remember the attacks of 9/11 with top-rated Brian Williams on NBC that night. Not so in the Raaleigh-Durham market, where Couric's CBS Evening News did a 13.3 on WRAL, while ABC drew a 8.
3 on WTVD, and NBC did a 3.3 on NBC17.
The next night, Couric was back at No 1 nationally, and she prevailed in Raleigh-Durham as well.
(Thanks to researcher Gerald Belton at WRAZ for local ratings information. National ratings information can be found at Despite protests over alleged defamatory depictions of key players in the Clinton White House as incompetent or worse when it came to pursuing bin Laden prior to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the ABC TV movie The Path to 9/11 is set to air in two parts at 8 p.
m. tonight and Monday on WTVD.
Reports say it'll be altered a bit from what was originally intended, to address concerns over possible inaccuracies.
Also, President Bush also wants to speak at 9 p.m. Monday, so we ll see how that affects programming.
If a fictionalized account of governmental failures to keep us safe doesn t tell you what you need to hear, you may be better off watching TV that recalls the horror and heroism of the day itself without inciting partisan rancor.
For a reminder of how Americans act when they re working together, you could check out 9/11: A Day in Time at 7 and 11 tonight on Time Warner Cable s News 14 Carolina.
The compilation of New York TV station NY1 s news coverage of the World Trade Center attacks includes interviews with camera crew members, reporters and anchors who were on the job that day.
Its images are still as heartbreaking and sometimes inspiring as ever. Katie Couric's debut Tuesday as the CBS Evening News anchor went by as briskly as uneventfully as I figured it would. Yep, a woman did the network news solo.
Whoopa-de-doo. Let's move on now.
In case you missed it, Couric looked a little nervous at first, then relaxed as the half hour went on.
She only stumbled slightly on one word I forget what it was then corrected herself. She stood the whole time, either behind the desk, in front of it, or away from it. She didn't smile much, nor did she seem overly harsh or unpleasant.
The correspondents filed strong stories all around. The newscast led with Lara Logan's disturbing report from Ghazni, a Taliban stronghold in Aghanistan that has been reclaimed by those forces after being driven out following 9/11.
Then, correspondent Jim Axelrod (formerly a reporter for WRAL) covered President Bush's speech to the Military Officers Association of America, in which Bush invoked Lenin and Hitler to describe America's current enemies.
Next, on the subject of the war on terror, Couric interviewed NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who characterized Bush's position as: "We're in the fight of our lives, but let's have a tax cut."
Couric didn't challenge Friedman's take on things, not even as a devil's advocate, and there's the "liberal bias" that Couric's right-leaning detractors will complain about on the blogosphere tomorrow.
Speaking of people who politicize everything, the newscast introduced a new feature called "Free Speech" in which the famous and the common people get a chance to vent some viewpoint in the spirit of "civil discourse.
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"Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock kicked off the segment with some commentary on what passes for modern discourse: "Today, news has become just like professional wrestling ...
We're just a country that's buying into the 'smackdown' hype."
Thursday's scheduled speaker in the segment is Rush Limbaugh.
Overall, Couric gets a B.
She could have asked Friedman tougher questions, and she needs to stop cocking her head like a CNN anchor when she asks a weak one. Let's hope she can at least do better than your average CNN anchor.
The newscast itself gets a B minus a little too much fluff.
Who really cares about pictures of Tom Cruise's baby on the cover of Vanity Fair? That kind of waste should also be left to 24-hour cable news.
I watched the second half of ABC's "The View" Tuesday morning (probably the most time I've ever spent watching it) to witness Rosie O'Donnell's much-anticipated debut as Meredith Vieira's replacement.
1. She's big, she's loud, and she's an intimidating physical presence around the other ladies, which I kind of love. Smack `em around, R!
2. Barbara Walters doesn't like Rosie much. It was painfully obvious when O'Donnell apologized for cutting off da boss in conversation (yeah, like that'll never happen again) with dippy Jessica Simpson.
Walters who looked rather frail and osteoporotic as she cowered under the shadow of Big Rosie replied "Whenever we want, we can interrupt each other, OK?" then compounded the sarcasm by shaking Rosie's hand without making eye contact. Me.
Ow.
3. Conservative paneler Elisabeth Hasselbeck's smile during the whole ordeal looked about as sincere as one of the Joker's victims in Tim Burton's "Batman.
" Elisabeth and Rosie that's the smackdown I'd love to see. I guess I'll check it out on youtube.com someday.
4. They should replace Star Jones with RuPaul. In drag.
Then Barbara, Joy and Elisabeth can go take a hike, because they won't be needed anymore. Yup. He did.
Sunday night, the Emmy judges dissed Our Hero by giving Manilow the statue for "individual performance in a variety or music program" instead. (Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman was nominated in the same category for hosting the 2005 Tonys.)
Oh well.
At least Colbert was .
(S)he can dish it out, but (s)he can't take it.
Here's Ann Coulter, from her 2003 book, "Treason," telling us the true purpose (as (s)he sees it) of debating:
"You must outrage the enemy.
If you don't leave liberals in a sputtering impotent rage, you're not doing it right."
Now, storming off the moronic Fox News shoutfest "Hannity Colmes" Thursday night, after imploring Sean Hannity to make the mean Democrat people stop talking (one of them is guest co-host Kirsten Powers, demonstrating a lot more spine and eye appeal, I'll admit it than wimpy, cockeyed Alan Colmes).
Ann "The Man" makes a good point, though.
Where was Hannity when she needed him to get in there to bluster, bully and interrupt? He really let Ann down this time.
By the way, if you're wondering why I snarkily imply that Ann's really a dude (as many others have already), it's because I haven't seen an Adam's apple that prominent since Jimmie Walker was on "Good Times.
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