Filming begins on True Tori
NEW YORK, USA (AP) — Tori Spelling is willing to go there for a second time.
Lifetime says filming began yesterday on another season of True Tori.
On the show, cameras follow Spelling as she works to piece together her marriage after her actor-husband, Dean McDermott, was caught in a cheating scandal late last year.
While McDermott is on the series, True Tori focuses on the 41-year-old Spelling.
In an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press for her ABC Family comedy, Mystery Girls, Spelling said doing True Tori was “a great experience” because it helped get her story out, rather than letting tabloids tell their version.
Season two of True Tori premieres October 21.Networks cutting back on Rice video
NEW YORK, USA (AP) — At least six television networks said yesterday they plan to stop or minimise airings of video showing Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice striking his then-fiancée and knocking her unconscious, footage that has called into question how the NFL disciplines players involved in domestic violence.
The move comes after the video from a casino elevator showing Janay Palmer crumpling to the floor after a punch has already been seen many times on TV since TMZ released it Monday: During the 7:00 am EDT news hour on Tuesday, the video clip aired 37 times on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, according to a count by Media Matters for America.
In addition, the networks aired an old video showing Palmer outside of the elevator nine times, the group said. Media Matters did not have a count on how many times the clip was aired on sports networks. ESPN, CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox News Channel and Fox Sports all said yesterday they would no longer show the video unless there are compelling news reasons to bring it back.
“The video has been seen enough for viewers to clearly know what happened, and make their own judgements about what should happen next,” said Michael Clemente, executive vicepresident at Fox News.
“Our judgement is that continuing to show it is simply overdoing it for shock value, and not for journalistic reasons.” At a certain point, it becomes gratuitous, said Janelle Rodriguez, vice-president of programming at CNN.