SMALL SCREEN THE BUZZ ON TELEVISION.Byline: - Compiled by Valerie Kuklenski THIS'LL FLOOR YOU: Anyone who ever has worked for someone else probably has complained at one time or another that the boss is out of touch with the people in the trenches. Well, BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. is making sure that at least a few of the honchos understand. For the six-part series ``Back to the Floor,'' launching Friday on KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology , chief executive officers stepped out of their posh corner offices and got down and dirty with the staff for a week. In Friday's two installments, Dr. Regina Peruggi Regina S. Peruggi (born c. 1947[1]) is an American educator, who is the President of Kingsborough Community College, the first woman to hold that position in the college’s 40-year history. , head of the Central Park Conservancy, wields a pooper scooper in Manhattan's famous park, and Eric Bonnot, chief of Burger King UK, slings patties and drains fries. No word on whether they busted their pay back to minimum wage for the week. BACK TO THE FLOOR, 10 p.m. Friday, KCET. ONLINE IDOLATRY Idolatry Aaron responsible for the golden calf. [O.T.: Exodus 32] Ashtaroth Canaanite deities worshiped profanely by Israelites. [O.T. : Fox says fans can't seem to get enough of those contestants on ``American Idol: The Search for a Superstar.'' The network reports its Web site, www.idolonfox.com, topped 1.6 million hits in the show's premiere week, a record for any Fox program site. At 10 a.m. today, the first three semi-finalist wanna-bes will chat live on the site about their big dreams and notoriously abrasive judge Simon Cowell's potential to shoot them down. GET REAL, ALLY: A survey of business school graduates has found that television does a bad job of showing how the business world really works. The poll of alumni from MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the world's leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, gave a half-hearted thumbs up to ``ER,'' ``Wall Street Week'' and ``The Simpsons'' for their business savvy, while the recently canceled ``Ally McBeal'' led the worst of the worst. ``Does anybody work at that (law) firm?'' commented Lauren Wu, class of '99. Mob drama ``The Sopranos'' made a showing on both the best and the worst lists. Dean Harper, class of '98, explained his endorsement of it: ``It's still all about who you know.'' A STITCH IN TIME
2. lilo - first-in first-out. & Stitch: Adventures in Paradise Adventures in Paradise was an ABC television series which ran from 1959 until 1962. It starred Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. .'' Lilo, who makes her big-screen debut Friday, takes viewers on a home-movie tour of the Hawaii locations that inspired the film's backgrounds. There are appearances by champion surfer Kelly Slater and the King Kamehameha Children's Choir, which performs on the soundtrack. Lilo also gives a pop-culture history lesson, explaining the significance of Elvis Presley's songs in the film. LILO & STITCH: ADVENTURES IN PARADISE, 7 tonight, ABC Family. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) ERIC BONNOT, BURGER KING UK (2) no caption (ALLY McBEAL) |
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