For 'Super Millionaire,' a Ratings Jackpot

Yesterday, ABC announced it would test four episodes of its midseason legal drama, "The D.A.," on consecutive Fridays at 10, starting March 19.

"Special editions" of "20/20" will air on two Mondays, March 22 and March 29, at 10, and will return to its regular time slot on April 16, the network said.

An ensemble drama, "The D.A." stars Steven Weber -- and who knew he could act? -- as the Los Angeles district attorney.

Three in 10 Americans polled last month think that if Osama bin Laden is caught, his execution should be televised.

Of course, 5 percent of respondents to the poll taken by Harris Interactive for the Trio cable channel said they thought Scott Peterson's execution should be televised and, last we checked, he was innocent until proven guilty and still on trial for the murder of his wife except, of course, in that USA Network teleflick, in which he was clearly guilty as all get out.

Yes, the question had that little qualifier "if found guilty and sentenced to death," but it looks pretty bad for Scott Peterson being lumped in with Osama bin Laden, don't you think?

Lucky for him, far more people -- 18 percent of those who responded to this bizarre poll -- thought Saddam Hussein should be executed on TV.

More good news for Peterson: When asked which televised execution they would be most likely to watch, if they were shown only on pay-per-view, only 3 percent of respondents said they'd pony up to watch him fry, compared with 21 percent for bin Laden and 11 percent for Hussein.

Only 37 percent volunteered the response that they didn't think executions should be televised.

Who says we're not a violent culture?

Harris Interactive interviewed 1,017 Americans 18 or older at random Jan. 24-26 for this poll and gives the margin of error for the sample as plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Among the many things that CBS has done in the wake of its Super Bowl Halftime Debut of Janet Jackson's Right Breast, is to order the producers of "Survivor: All Stars" to enlarge the pixelation over the groin area of clothing-challenged contestant Richard Hatch, "Survivor" host Jeff Probst informed Ellen DeGeneres during a recent edition of her extremely informative and newsworthy syndicated show (seen on WRC at 11 a.m. weekdays).

Enterprising trade magazine TV Week took it one step further and found that increasing the size of Hatch's blur adds a couple of hours to post-production of each "Survivor" episode, according to a "post-production source."

Pixelators have to work frame by frame to increase not only the size but also the number of pixels in each frame to record levels, the weekly reported, demonstrating just how committed CBS is to cleaning up its act.