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Kim Delaney is joining a pilot for the Lifetime television network. It's called Army Wives and it's about a sassy woman (Sally Pressman) who marries a soldier and moves her kids to the military base where she meets some interesting military wives. Delaney's character is the strong wife of the colonel, whom everyone looks up to. Filming begins later this month in South Carolina.

Delaney has had a weird career, to say the least. She was very popular when she was on NYPD Blue but then sort-of disappeared. She was a co-star on CSI: Miami but abruptly left the show and has never really explained why. She showed up on season two of The O.C. looking different and... uh, puffy. Not sure what her story is.

One of the cameramen from the NBC affiliate in Greenville, South Carolina is blogging behind-the-scenes of the Olympics. It's actually a neat little window into the way NBC works for its local affiliates. Yesterday, JL (AKA Little Lost Robot) spent most of the day running the camera for back-to-back live shots with the NBC Newschannel reporter who does live reports for affiliates across the U.S. every five minutes. He says the same lead-in and on camera tag for the same video package every for four hours straight. Nuts! JL even tried to mess with the guy (scroll down to the bottom of the page to see what he did).

While in Torino, JL has also blogged about some celebrity sightings of Brian Williams and Italian sports hero Alberto Tomba. He's an entertaining writer who takes some pretty candid (and funny) photos, so I would highly recommend bookmarking his website for the duration of the Olympics.

"Somebody has lost their mind."

That quote from an angry Columbia, SC fan of 24 pretty much sums up this situation. Some genius over at WACH, Columbia's FOX affiliate, decided to start the news on time on Sunday night... cutting off the last 10 minutes of the season premiere of 24. For East coasters, 24 started about 10 minutes late on Sunday night because an NFL playoff game went over the time allotted. Apparently no one who works at WACH actually watches the programming there, because they just flipped over to the news right at ten o'clock. Even if they weren't watching 24, the newsroom should have known to slide their programming by 10 minutes because FOX usually notifies all of its affiliates over an audio "black box" when schedule changes occur.