Green Bay Packers receiver Greg Jennings makes his acting debut at 8 tonight on Channel 58 in an episode of CBS' "Criminal Minds."
Jennings plays a lab technician, and he has a few speaking lines with Agent Derek Morgan, played by Shemar Moore, about a serial killer who commits suicide, but leaves clues to the whereabouts of his last victim.
This may not be a one-shot deal for Jennings. He tells Packers.com that he's in talks to make an appearance on BET's "The Game."
The students take over: Saturday is the annual Milwaukee Public TV "Student Operations Day," as students of MATC's Television and Video Production Division program the broadcast day on Channel 36 between 9 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. You can find the schedule of half-hour shows here.
Programming will also be streamed live on mptv.org.
Milwaukee Public TV's two broadcast outlets, Channels 10 and 36, are licensed to MATC.
Speaking of MPTV: In addition to the $1,029,326 total I reported yesterday, the annual auction to raise funds for Milwaukee Public TV yielded a few interesting statistics.
Some 18,000 items were sold in 95 hours; there were 2,500 volunteers, 2,000 donors, and 8,000 bidders; and the 1o-day event featured a 10-minute blackout -- thanks to a lightning strike.
Ooooooh, spooky: Tickets go on sale May 14 for the live "Ghost Hunters" show scheduled conveniently close to Halloween, on Oct. 16 at The Pabst Theater.
The show features a question-and-answer session with Grant Wilson and Jason Hawes of The Atlantic Paranormal Society.
As for the actual show, what's termed the "mid-season finale" airs tonight at 8 on Syfy. Spin-offs "Ghost Hunters Academy" returns June 2 at 8 p.m., and "Ghost Hunters International" at 8 p.m. July 14.
On TV: Now that Conan O'Brien's gone from NBC, the network has turned to Jimmy Fallon as its new go-to guy. Fallon will host NBC's Emmy Awardscast on Aug. 29.
- ABC has added another half hour to the May 23 "Lost" finale, meaning the marathon will run from 8 to 10:30 p.m. It will be followed by a "Lost"-themed episode of Jimmy Kimmel's talk show. It'll be preceded on May 22, a Saturday, by a repeat of the show's two-hour pilot.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week, but as usmagazine.com reports, her name was spelled "Julia Luis Dreyfus."
- Get ready for some drunk non-Muppets in a new game show starting next month on GSN. "Late Night Liars" features puppets from the Jim Henson Company -- no, they're not Muppets -- facing off against human contestants in the show, which debuts at 10 p.m. June 10.
Holy underwear, Batman! The old TV version of "Batman" has been eclipsed by the darker big-screen version. But an elaborate new porn take on the campy television classic may spark renewed interest in the 1960s gang from Gotham City. Maybe.
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
