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MG! Three million people watched the debut of CW’s “Hellcats” — the first
new-series premiere of the broadcast network’s 2010-11 TV season — because the power of Disney Channel princesses Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka, and the whole cheerleader thing, is totally stronger than TV critics who hate the show! That’s nearly twice as many people as watched the premiere of FX’s new guydrama “Terriers” the same night. We thought “Terriers” would be about cute dogs — we totes love cute dogs — but it turned out to be just some show about a couple of skeevy San Diego private eyes and does not even star anyone from Disney Channel, but TV critics loved it anyway. What’s up with that? “Hellcats” scored hotter ratings
at 9 than CW’s “America’s Next Top Model” at 8, which, like, so never happens! Aly said they “had a killer time shooting the show,” and she made good on her promise to advertisers that “we will not let you down — we love you!” Ashley is so deep, no? “Hellcats” attracted 329 percent more teen chicks than the premiere of
HIGHLIGHTS Lots of networks clear away
for Friday night’s big television event, the one-hour fundraising special “Stand Up to Cancer” at 8 p.m., hosted by network evening newscasters Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer. Airing on the four big broadcast networks and a slew of cable channels (from Discovery Health and the Style Network to TV One and VH1), many celebrity cancer survivors will make appearances, including Michael C. Hall, Christina Applegate, Lance Armstrong and Maura Tierney. Singer Sean Kingston guest-stars on Disney’s “Suite Life on Deck” (at 8 p.m.), and as soon as he hops aboard the boat, develops a crush on the very high-maintenance London. The team on “Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta” (TLC at 9 p.m.) helps a colleague find a wedding dress and assists a woman who could have starred in a Katherine Heigl rom-com, as she’s been a bridesmaid a whopping 15 times. A 911 dispatcher remains
skeptical about a young girl’s claims of an intruder on “Flashpoint” (CBS at 10 p.m.); but by the time the operator realizes it’s not a prank call, the girl’s mother has been shot. “Four Weddings” (TLC at
10 p.m.) starts Season 2 with a variety of ceremonies such as one on a yacht and another that follows Native American
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“I spoke to him off-line yesterday, just after you spent some time with him. “I said, ‘How was it?’ And he said, with a peaceful tone, ‘You know what? I really like him.He’s going to do a great job,’ ” Seabiscuit added patronizingly. Morgan pretty much ignored Seacrest’s off-line (!) anecdote. “I think [King] liked the line I came out with,” Morgan boasted, explaining that he’d told Larry that as for replacing him, “I can only only equate it to the guy who must have been told once, ‘You’re following Frank Sinatra at the Sands in Vegas.’ ” “He repeated that to me!”
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ooh-it’s-Ashton-Kutcher’s “The Beautiful Life” in the exact same time slot last year! We’re so over him. CW says it’s going to rerun the
“Hellcats” episode Friday while all of the other networks are standing up to cancer. No way! Way!
He said, he said Ryan Seacrest thought he was
going to score Larry King’s CNN gig because Larry said he should
traditions. Barbara Walters returns to
“20/20” (ABC at 10 p.m.) for a report on progeria, the rapid aging disease that affects 68 children worldwide. Walters explores the lives of Kaylee Halko and Lindsay Ratcliffe, who were also featured on the TLC documentary “6 Going on 60.” Because hideous outfits don’t
only get donned for award shows, E! is expanding its “Fashion Police” series from sporadically to weekly, every Friday at 10:30 p.m. The show stars omnipresent fashion commentator Joan Rivers, along with reality star Kelly Osbourne, E! host Giuliana Rancic and stylist George Kotsiopoulos. New host Sheryl Underwood
kicks off “Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand Up” (Starz at 11 p.m.) Season 5 with a slew of comedians, including Deon Cole, the former “Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien” writer who gained a following after his skits during the last weeks of the ill-fated show’s run about the “real” reasons O’Brien was departing. “The Tonight Show With Jay
Leno” (NBC at 11:35 p.m.) hosts actor Hugh Laurie, actress Emma Stone and singer Sarah McLachlan.
Broadcaster Terry Bradshaw is a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC at 12:05 a.m.), along with actress Jessica Stroup and musical guest Shontelle.
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get it and he’d filled in for Larry. Well, on Thursday morning, the Emotional Scab Picker hosted Piers Morgan (a.k.a. The Guy Who Got Larry’s Show) on his nationally syndicated radio show, “I’m Ryan Seacrest and You’re Not,” so he could pretend to be the humble runner-up the best way he knew how — by making it All About Seabiscuit. “Lots to congratulate you on. First of all, ‘America’s Got Talent,’ due to the promotion I’ve given
it, is number one,” Seabiscuit told Morgan by way of kicking things off.
“I know how long and painful yesterday must have been for you,” Morgan responded acidly, adding, “Don’t get me wrong, Ryan, you’ve had a good couple of years. . . . You’ve had a good run. Yesterday was a bad day for Seacrest.”
“I think you have big shoes to
fill,” Seabiscuit jabbed ominously, trying to recover control of the
JESSICA BROOKS/FX OH, HELL:At left, Aly Michalka and Ashley Tisdale in “Hellcats.” At right, Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James in “Terriers.”
interview. “What did [Larry King] say when you met him yesterday for the first time?” Seabiscuit faux-wondered.
But, of course, Seabiscuit already knew because he’d already called up King and talked all aboutMorgan and the meeting, long before this radio interview. Morgan talked about the
meeting. Seabiscuit went in for the kill:
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The pen that Gen. Robert E. Lee used to help end the Civil War. The elegant uniform he donned that day in 1865. The sword he carried to the momentous surren- der of his army. These three iconic relics of the Confederacy, along with hun- dreds of other artifacts of the doomed rebellion, soon will be moving from downtown Rich- mond to a new, $7.5 million mu- seum in Appomattox, about a mile from the farmhouse where Lee surrendered the main Con- federate army and effectively con- cluded the war. The Museum of the Confedera-
cy — technically the Confederate Memorial Literary Society — an- nounced this week that ground will be broken Sept. 23 for its Ap- pomattox site, one of three new locations planned for the 114- year-old repository of Lost Cause
artifacts. The museum believes the Appomattox branch, due to open in 2012, is the nation’s larg- est such building project sched- uled during the upcoming sesqui- centennial, or 150th anniversary, of the 1861-65 conflict. Appomat- tox is about 175 miles southwest of Washington, and 90 miles west of Richmond. The Museum of the Confedera-
cy-Appomattox’s groundbreaking will be the latest step in the mu- seum’s attempt to bring its strik- ing collection to a broader geo- graphic and demographic audi- ence, and thrive. For more than a century, the museum has been housed in downtown Richmond, the heart and capital of the south- ern Confederacy. Four years ago, struggling with falling attendance, financial trou- ble and logistical constraints, the museum decided to build three new sites and spread its vast col- lection beyond the confines of its 1976 headquarters in Richmond.
MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY DESIGN: Rendering of a Museum of the Confederacy gallery.
Museum attendance is around 45,000 a year, down from a peak of 91,000 in 1991, the year it had an exhibit on slavery, said spokes- man Sam Craghead. The museum will maintain the Richmond site. Some people ask, “Are you leaving Richmond?” S. Waite Rawls III, museum presi- dent and a descendant of a soldier
in the 41st Virginia regiment, said Thursday. “The answer is: no. We’re transitioning from a one- museum site to multiple-site sys- tem of museums. . . . We think you’ve got to take the museum to the people.” The museum has on display
only 10 percent of its collection of 20,000 artifacts and 100,000
documents and photographs, Craghead said. Among its hold- ings are 550 wartime Confederate flags, 300 swords and the 10-foot- long Confederate constitution. “We can put stuff in three mu- seums and still have plenty . . . left over,” Craghead said. The idea was to establish branches near Freder- icksburg, Fort Monroe and Appo- mattox, with each site covering special themes of the war. “The museum at Appomattox will be . . . focused on the end of the war and the reunification of the coun- try,” he said. Plans for the other two sites are in the works. “This is an exciting thing for
us,” said Appomattox Mayor Paul Harvey. “It’s a great compliment to the historical park we already have here . . . It’s going to bring out the story of Appomattox even more.” The National Park Service operates the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park. The museum’s expansion also comes with heightened sensitivity
over the role of slavery in the war and what historians say was the Confederacy’s bloody crusade to maintain it. This year, the gover- nors of Virginia and Mississippi sparked controversy by neglect- ing or sounding dismissive of the role that slavery played in the war. The Civil War claimed 600,000 lives, or 2 percent of the nation’s population in the 1860s. Histori- ans say that percentage would equal 6million dead today. In addition to the Lee artifacts, the Appomattox branch will likely display the uniforms of 12 other Confederate generals who surren- dered that day, Craghead said. The ground breaking ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. Sept. 23 on Route 24, about a mile and half south of the surrender site. “It’s a big step for us, and it’s also a big step for the nation,” Rawls said. “Appomattox is a great metaphor for the reunification of the nation.”
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Seabiscuit insisted (no, mine!), in case we had forgotten he, not Morgan, is Larry King’s BFF. “I thought he would,” Morgan snipped. “He loved that line,” Seacrest said, desperate to get in the last word on the subject. But Morgan ended up getting the best of the exchange, when talking about a possible judge replacement for himself on “Britain’s Got Talent” in the U.K. Morgan suggested he’d help Seabiscuit get the job. “I don’t mind coming up to introduce [you] to a British audience, because they’re not really aware of who you are, but I’ll do my best,” Morgan said, oozing sweetness and light.
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