NEWS & NOTES : SPICE GIRLS' PAY-PER-VIEW POWER.Byline: Daily News Wire Services More consumers have paid for this month's Spice Girls The Spice Girls are an English all-female pop group, formed in London in 1994. The Spice Girls, consisting of: Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown, and Victoria Beckham signed to Virgin Records and released their debut single, "Wannabe", in 1996. pay-per-view concert special than for any other pay-per-view music program in more than seven years, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Showtime Event Television. More than 130,000 homes have already purchased the program, which premiered Jan. 17 and has been shown three times with a fourth and final airing set for today. The Spice Girls special is priced at $19.95. According to SET, the number of households ordering the Spice Girls' concert surpasses that for last month's Rolling Stones pay-per-view concert, a 1994 Rolling Stones concert, Woodstock '94 as well as other music specials dating back to the second New Kids on the Block New Kids on the Block (later NKOTB) was a boy band that enjoyed enormous success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Assembled in Boston in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr, the members consisted of brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight, Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, and Danny concert special in December 1990, which drew 154,000 households. (According to the Paul Kagan Association, however, Woodstock '94 ranks higher with 202,000 households, as does a December 1991 Judds concert with 232,000 and a June 1992 Guns N' Roses concert with 140,000.) Schneider back in the swim: Former ``Saturday Night Live'' cast member Rob Schneider will return as host of TNT's Feb. 18 telecast of ``Sports Illustrated Swimsuit '98,'' a one-hour special tied to the release of the magazine's highly anticipated annual issue. As he did a year ago, Schneider, most recently the star of NBC's now-canceled ``Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy, which first broadcast in 1992 on the ITV network, however moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. It was written and created by Simon Nye. ,'' will be seen frolicking with models being photographed for the sexy SI issue, which hits the stands the same day as the TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. special. He'll be joined on the show by MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. ``House of Style'' host and occasional swimsuit-edition model Rebecca Romijn. The swimsuit edition is read - well, browsed through, at least - by 55 million people in the U.S. and is published in 18 countries. CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. sees the coming of `Glory': CBS has ordered a drama pilot from Spelling Entertainment that finds romance amid the Civil War. ``Glory, Glory'' focuses on the relationship between a Union soldier and a Southern belle. |
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