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October 22nd, 2009
The Hollywood Reporter says Fox has ordered three more scripts for “Lie to Me,” the Shawn Ryan-helmed drama that he took over as showrunner for this season.
TV Squad says that despite big improvements in this second season, ratings for the show have dwindled.
Ryan is a Rockford native who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children. He created “The Shield,” co-produced “The Unit” and is involved in shows that have yet to appear on TV: “Terriers” and “Ridealong.”
October 21st, 2009
MegaDrive, according to a Lion Television rep who is helping orchestrate the taping.
It’s a new comedy stunt show. Videographers from Lion, which contracts with MTV, are on the Rock River in Rockford today taping while Bill Zang of Universal Hovercraft of Rockford “flies” over the water and obstacles.
October 16th, 2009
If Congress can fix the higher-volumed TV commercials, it’ll restore my confidence in mankind.
Check out this Poynter story for details.
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How would lowering the volume of TV commercials change your life?
October 13th, 2009
Katie Nilsson is coming back to WREX-13, and Dani Maxwell has been promoted.
Nilsson, who was morning anchor when she left the station two years ago for a marketing job in Rockford, will co-anchor the 13 News 10 @ 10 with Eric Wilson on WREX-13 (Comcast 3) starting Oct. 26. She also will be reporting. She lives in Cherry Valley with her husband, Kyle.
Maxwell had been co-anchor of the 10 p.m. news show for 6.5 years. Maxwell will continue to anchor the 5 and 6 p.m. newscasts with Wilson and recently has assumed the role of assistant news director. She lives in Rockford with her husband, Steve.
WREX made the announcements today.
October 5th, 2009
Will women be less likely to watch David Letterman in light of the unveiling last week of affairs with underlings at work?
Explain yourself in comments if you’d like.
Will women viewers turn away from Letterman?
October 2nd, 2009
Elisabeth von Trapp, granddaughter of the real-life “Sound of Music” Maria and Baron von Trapp, will return to Rockford to perform at 7 p.m. Oct. 22 at First Lutheran Church in Rockford, 225 S. Third St.
It benefits Lutheran Social Services of Illinois programs. Tickets are $15, and a reception with a meet-and-greet for Von Tropp will be after the concert.
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September 25th, 2009
Rockford native Kelly Killoren Bensimon, 40, a former model and star of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York City,” will be featured semi-nude in the December issue of Playboy, according to InTouch Weekly.
Cityfile.com says that InTouch says that her ex-husband, photographer Gilles Bensimon, took the photos several years ago.
September 14th, 2009
Emily Bear, 8, doesn’t watch much TV, especially considering all her gigs with celebrities and local on-stage appearances, not to mention schoolwork.
But the cheery and charming piano player and composer will make time to watch “American Idol,” now that Ellen DeGeneres is a judge, Emily’s mom, Andrea Bear, told me today. Andrea said Emily is expected to make her sixth appearance in two years on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” this fall some time.
By the way, another show about talented Americans, “America’s Got Talent,” which announces this season’s winner on Wednesday, twice came calling for Emily, but the family declined the offers, Andrea said. She said producers of the show had asked Emily to audition. “We were just not sure it was the right thing at the right time,” Andrea said.
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Pianist Emily Bear of Rockford holds her pet Winston, a miniature golden labradoodle, Aug. 18 at Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center in Rockford, where she’ll perform Nov. 19.)
Emily’s schedule is full these days anyway. In the next few months, she’ll:
* Record her fourth CD tomorrow. It is expected to be released in about a month and includes classical and jazz pieces as well as love songs.
* Perform as one of five musical acts at the Oct. 18 first Noble Awards in Los Angeles. (It won’t be televised.) The star-studded event will recognize charities and the celebrities who support them.
* Perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 19 at Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center, 415 N. Church St., Rockford. Cost is $15. Emily will play piano before or after the screening of the film, “Note By Note,” a documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand piano.
September 14th, 2009
Can’t wait to catch Jay Leno’s primetime debut at 9 p.m. tonight, partly to see if he corners musical guest Kanye West on his being outrageously rude to Taylor Swift at Sunday’s VMA awards.
August 17th, 2009
Anyone else surprised by virtually no national media coverage of the arrest Aug. 5 of Katie Stockton of Rockton for allegedly leaving her newborn daughter to die on the side of the road in the middle of winter? And of the discovery of two more dead infants found last week in the trunk of a car that Stockton owned?
I thought for sure that CNN’s Nancy Grace would have had something to say about it.
You can comment here on the lack of national coverage and go to a Register Star comments site here to post or read posts of general interest in the case.
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