TV tonight: Grammy special; ‘Hot in Cleveland’ returns; ‘The Exes,’ ‘Teenage Daughter’ debut
Adele performs in Chicago in May. Photo credit: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune
Music specials and comedy premieres are generating the most attention on tonight’s schedule.
The Grammy nominations special, at 10 o’clock on CBS, should be a big night for Adele. Her “Rolling in the Deep” looks like a shoo-in for Record and Song of the Year. Other top contenders Lady Gaga, the Band Perry and Rihanna are set to perform. The other performers include Jason Aldean, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco and Sugarland. Two other top contenders, Nicki Minaj and Katy Perry, are among the presenters. LL Cool J is the host.
“Christmas in Rockefeller Center,” at 8 o’clock on NBC, has lined up a starry cast to celebrate the holiday season. The talent includes Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Justin Bieber, Michael Bublé, Cee Lo Green, Faith Hill, Carole King, Katharine McPhee, Javier Colon, Big Time Rush and the Radio City Rockettes. The hosts are Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie of “Today.”
If you prefer scheming instead of holiday cheer, CBS offers a new episode of “Survivor: South Pacific” at 8. If you prefer your singing turned into a competitive game, Fox counters with a 90-minute “X Factor” at 8.
“TNT Mystery Movie Night” delivers its second presentation at 9: ”Ricochet” is based on Sandra Brown’s novel and stars John Corbett, Julie Benz and Gary Cole.
Comedy is making a comeback, but two newcomers tonight won’t add to the resurgence.
“I Hate My Teenage Daughter,” debuting at 9:30 on Fox, is a coarse, grating exercise. The premise: Two terrible teenagers bully their hapless mothers. The show wastes Jaime Pressly and Katie Finneran. Oh, the pain.
“The Exes,” premiering at 10:30 on TV Land, is a tired variation on “The Odd Couple.” Three divorced men, who have little in common, share an apartment. Finicky Stuart (David Alan Basche) annoys playboy Phil (Donald Faison) while Haskell (Wayne Knight) delivers zingers. Too bad the show isn’t built around Kristen Johnston as a brassy divorce attorney. What a woman.
TV Land has paired “The Exes” with “Hot in Cleveland,” which starts its third season at 10 p.m. Wednesday. That series may be a variation on “The Golden Girls,” but the actresses make it sizzle. Betty White leads the way. She has fine foils in Wendie Malick, Jane Leeves and Valerie Bertinelli.
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Michael Jackson: No-remorse Conrad Murray gets a tongue-lashing
In this CNN screen grab, Dr. Conrad Murray listens in court today. Photo credit: Pool/Getty Images
In sentencing Dr. Conrad Murray to four years in prison, Judge Michael Pastor ripped Michael Jackson’s physician in an electrifying display of fury today.
Oh, it was something to see.
Pastor condemned Murray’s “unacceptable, egregious” departures from medical ethics and “horrible medicine” in treating Jackson. Murray had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer’s death.
The judge declined to grant probation to Murray and described him as a danger to the community. Pastor blasted Murray’s “failure of character,” saying the doctor abandoned Jackson and treated the singer as an experiment.
There was a media angle as well: Murray’s words in a recent documentary came back to haunt him. Pastor criticized Murray for saying, in the film, that Jackson was responsible for his death.
“Talk about blaming the victim,” Pastor said. “Not only isn’t there any remorse, there is umbrage and outrage on the part of Dr. Murray against the decedent.”
What happens next to Murray?
On CNN, criminal defense attorney Richard Herman explained that the four-year sentence would be reduced immediately, under California law, to two years in county prison. Herman added that Murray is entitled to home confinement for several reasons: prison overcrowding, no criminal history and the listing of involuntary manslaughter as a nonviolent crime. County prison officials will determine Murray’s confinement, Herman added.
On CNN, legal analyst Sunny Hostin said Pastor’s “scathing, scathing” comments to Murray were something she hadn’t seen in a long time. “Quite a message sent from the bench today,” Hostin said.
Murray will probably spend months in county jail, Hostin predicted.
The sentencing was carried live on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Channel. WKMG-Channel 6 broke in its regular schedule to carry CBS coverage.
Liminal City
By Rian Dundon
He says he’s lost his city and his society. We drive past a group of demonstrators protesting land seizures. He points out the scene and the gaggle of police cruisers nearby and grins in English “this is Chi-na”, emphasizing the play-on-words between “Chi” and “Chai” (chai, or ? being Chinese for “dismantle” or “demolish”). He sees the city’s recent prosperity through a filter of isolation, exclusion, and greed. Tells me how the doors are all closed. How peoples’ sense of self worth is determined by the number of contacts in their cell phones. How they are drifting further apart even as they become more connected. And his city is showing growing pains. The dust and traffic from construction is unbearable but it’s the gnawing of something else that gets to him. Something darker and more sinister. M. tells me I don’t understand the real China and he’s right. He speaks of death and the loss of dignity as his country develops itself into oblivion. Into a casket. He says that for every building project and commercial housing development in the city (there are hundreds) there will be a handful of laobaixing who kill themselves over having to leave their homes. Old people who can’t just up and move to the suburbs and who would have nothing there to live for if they did. And the mingong, the migrant workers who labor at these sites day and night? Just last week one plummeted to death 100 meters from his apartment. Was it in the newspaper? Never. This is blasé, everyday stuff. He asks me how can I ever understand this as a foreigner. As an American no less. How can I relate to the violence of suppression and denial that haunt this place. His country. The new culture. And how can he put faith in a society that eats itself to death, let alone the government that watches it happen. Now the city is rushing to clean its image ahead of inspections from Beijing. But what is the price of being classified as a “civilized city”? M. laughs when he thinks about his mothers crumbling public housing complex in Hexi where only the buildings visible from the bridge are being “renovated” with a coat of white paint. “What’s the point of fixing the outside when the inside is what’s rotten?”
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In China’s interior provinces, where the full benefits of economic growth have yet to be realized, negotiating modernity requires hustling for a place within fresh modes of individualized experience and personal redefinition. This project traces its narrative across the diverse geographies of these liminal regions to witness how divergent notions of sex, desire, image, and identity coalesce to help shape a cultural reality not found in dominant media representations of China. Its images form a visual diary chronicling the interpersonal relationships of people living on the fringes of China’s social sphere and the vulnerability I see reflected in a generation of young people coming of age in a society set on fast-forward.
Moving beyond the urban-centric/scenic/iconic structures, which dominate the current visual record of China, this project considers the cultural dynamism of smaller provincial cities and rural prefectures far removed from China’s coastal metropoles. These marginalized spaces, borderlands of China’s rural-to-urban transformation, are a crossroads for individuals finding their own place within a fluctuating and subjective cultural (and indeed physical) landscape. If economic growth has opened new avenues for expression in China so too have resultant ideological deviations affected the way people see themselves and their place in the world. This project looks to provide visual evidence of that reality by focusing on the differentiated actualities of life in an environment of sustained cultural flux.
Rian Dundon is a photographer and masters student in Social Documentation at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is researching and preparing a forthcoming book of photographs from interior China. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions at New York University, The Camera Club of New York, Angkor Photo Festival, and Caochangdi PhotoSpring. Follow him on Twitter @riandundon and see his series “Behind the Scenes with Fan Bingbing” here.
Guy Rawlings leaving WESH for Atlanta; you’ll see more of Pat Clarke
Guy Rawlings photo from the WESH website.
Prepare to say goodbye to Guy Rawlings, the sports anchor at WESH-Channel 2.
He is moving on to WGCL-TV, which bills itself as CBS Atlanta, and where he will be a news anchor, AJC.com reports.
“Guy will be here until a couple days before Christmas,” WESH news director Bob Longo said in an email tonight. “We wish him all the best in his new role in Atlanta.”
Longo said the station has begun a national search for a replacement and hopes to have it wrapped up soon. The station also will draw on longtime broadcaster Pat Clarke.
“We’re fortunate to have someone with Pat’s Central Florida experience, contacts and know-how, and you’ll certainly be seeing more of him in the weeks ahead,” Longo said.
With AJC.com, Rawlings talked about the reasons for his move. “I’m really excited and a little bit anxious,” he said. “I wanted to try something different, look for a new challenge. A lot of my friends who are sports anchors are unemployed. Local sports seems to be shrinking. This opportunity is a hybrid of news and sports. I had to jump on it!”
Rawlings, a University of Florida alum, joined WESH in 2007 and has worked in Miami, Baltimore, Charleston, S.C., Jacksonville and Gainesville.
His WESH bio reads: “In his spare time, Guy enjoys watching football — especially the Gators — basketball and playing tennis.”
‘60 Minutes’: What did you think of homeless report?
Scott Pelley delivered another first-rate report about the Central Florida homeless crisis on '60 Minutes.' Photo credit: CBS News
With Tim Tebow as an opening act, CBS tonight reminded the nation about the homeless of Central Florida.
The Denver Broncos-San Diego Chargers game pushed the start of “60 Minutes” to 7:55 p.m., nearly an hour late. Tebow, the Florida Gators legend, led the Broncos to victory in overtime. It was thrilling.
Then it was time for a bracing look at the homeless problem in our region. Scott Pelley first highlighted the problem in a much-discussed March report for the CBS newsmagazine. Pelley, the anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” was back tonight with a report on Central Florida children living in their vehicles.
Children talked about the challenges and dangers of living in vehicles. Of all the homeless families in Central Florida, two-thirds are living on the streets, Pelley reported. Another shocking fact: Of all the families without shelter in this country, one-third are in Florida, Pelley told viewers.
The report focused on the Metzger family. Arielle, 15, and Austin, 13, live in a truck with their dad, Tom, an unemployed carpenter. The children have learned to improvise, and they see their situation as an adventure. They study hard, and they participate in community theater.
The children acknowledged that they had to grow up quickly, and Arielle warned that children need to appreciate what they have, because it could be gone very quickly.
Arielle dismissed the notion that she’d be embarrassed about people learning that her family lives in a vehicle. “It’s not really that much an embarrassment. I mean, it’s only life,” Arielle said. “You do what you need to do, right?”
It was another poignant report from “60 Minutes.” Pelley has been tireless in bringing attention to the problems that families face in the Great Recession.
What did you think about tonight’s report?
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How to Get Rid of House Centipedes! 3 Proven Ways to Do It!
If you've ever seen a house centipede, then you know the fear and hatred that these things can bring! Most people that I know can't stand the sight of them. There are some people in our society that are a little off and have decided to try to make these things...PETS! This article is not geared toward them! This article is geared toward those of you who can't stand the sight of house centipedes. Those people that just want to get rid of them! You want to know how to get rid of them, then let's get to it!
1. Exterminators - This is probably your best bet for getting rid of house centipedes. The only problem is that even the exterminators themselves will tell you that they won't be able to get all of them on the first try. So be prepared to shell out more money for them to make a return trip!
2. Dehumidifiers - For those of us that are fiscally deficient, you can try to use a dehumidifier. Why a dehumidifier? House centipedes like to live in damp, wet environments. That's why you usually see them in your basement. Using a dehumidifier will dry up the moisture. Thus making their stay in your home that much more unpleasant.
3. Boric Acid - Boric acid has been used for years. This is the strange little white powder that you saw in your grandmas basement when you were a kid. You know, those little white rocks along the woodwork! Boric acid attacks the insects on two levels. It acts as a stomach poison if they ingest it and it's abrasive to their exoskeleton!
So there you have it. 3 proven ways to get rid of house centipedes. If you are in really dire straits and you can't afford to use any of the above techniques, there's nothing wrong with using your shoe to squish them! But with the average house centipede laying between 60 and 150 eggs, you'll probably be squishing for a long time!
If you really want to know how to kill house centipedes, you're going to have to know the real reason they are in your house in the first place! I'll give you a little hint: It has NOTHING to do with you! To find out more information about the house centipede and the real reason they have chosen your home, make sure that you check out the site.