Only on live TV: Wolf Blitzer inadvertently creates priceless moment on CNN during tornado coverage
One of the more priceless exchanges of this week’s Oklahoma City tornado news coverage happened about 5:35 p.m. Tuesday.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was interviewing a young woman named Rebecca, whose husband was traveling when the tornado hit, and who was prepared to ride out the tornado with her 19-month-old son Anders.
Rebecca, who’s from Louisiana, explained that all her Oklahoma-native neighbors and her husband told her to stay in the house because “it never hits anybody.” On Monday, she and Anders grabbed a mattress and got in the tub, watched on a laptop as the tornado approached — then, she said, “I just panicked.”
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07:03 PM ET, 05/21/2013 |
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Broadcast network ratings: CBS wins the season
Now that Nielsen numbers for last week are finally out, and with the TV season almost over (it officially ends Wednesday night), CBS officially pronounced itself the winner Tuesday, snagging the biggest prime-time audience for the 10th time in the past 11 seasons.
CBS had a hefty 4 million-viewer lead over its closest competitor this season — the largest margin of any network in 24 years.
The network also claimed its first win in 21 years among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers who are the currency of broadcast-TV ad sales.
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06:48 PM ET, 05/21/2013 |
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Kelly Rowland and Paulina Rubio join ‘The X Factor’ as judges

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Former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland, and Mexican singer/actress Paulina Rubio have joined Fox’s singing competition “The X Factor” as judge/mentors, the network announced late Monday.
They’re replacing LA Reid and Britney Spears.
Brit and Demi Lovato were added last season, in hopes of jump-starting the show’s ratings, after the first season clocked half as many viewers as creator Simon Cowell had promised.
But last season’s numbers weren’t too hot either and, after last season wrapped, both Brit and Reid announced they had discovered they were too busy to return.
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09:12 PM ET, 05/20/2013 |
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Ang Lee backs out of directing ‘Tyrant’ pilot on FX

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Remember back in March, when FX announced Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee was going to make his TV directorial debut on the pilot for FX’s new drama series “Tyrant”?
Never mind.
Lee has backed out of the project, which would have been his first since “Life of Pi,” for which he won this year’s best-director Academy Award.
“Tyrant,” about an Arab state dictator who dies, leaving his American son to head the country, was created by Gideon Raff (“Homeland”), whose Israeli series “Prisoners of War” was the source material for “Homeland.”
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06:31 PM ET, 05/20/2013 |
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CBS pre-empts ‘Mike & Molly’ season finale due to Tornado storyline

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CBS yanked Monday night’s season-finale episode of its comedy series “Mike & Molly,” owing to the episode’s reference to a tornado hitting Chicago.
“Due to the tragic events this afternoon in Oklahoma, we are pre-empting tonight’s season finale of ‘Mike & Molly,’ which has a related storyline,” a CBS spokesman said in a statement issued to the press.
“A repeat broadcast of ‘Mike & Molly’ will run in the time period. The season finale will be broadcast at an appropriate date,” the rep added.
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