Nbc: "Must See" Again?

NBC, which has been running dead last in the ratings among the major networks for most of the year, returned to the winner's circle last week among adults 18-49, the demographic most courted by advertisers, thanks to its weekend telecasts of the female Olympic gymnastics trials, the season debut of America's Got Talent, and a shift in the Sunday timeslot of Dateline NBC from 7:00 p.m. (opposite CBS's 60 Minutes) to 9:00 p.m. The Talent ratings results appeared especially impressive since they were scored opposite the final game of the NBA championship series -- which itself drew an audience that was nearly two-thirds larger than last year's for the final game and ended up as the most-watched show of the week. Among overall viewers, CBS continued to hold the lead, averaging a 4.3 rating and an 8 share. NBC was close behind with a 4.2/7. Fox placed third with a 3.8/7, while ABC trailed with a 3.6/6. The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: 1. NBA Finals Game 6, ABC, 10.7/19; 2. America's Got Talent, NBC, 7.8/13; 3. 60 Minutes, CBS, 6.2/12; 4. Two and a Half Men, CBS, 5.8/10; 5. CSI: Miami, CBS, 5.5/10; 5. (Tie) CSI: NY, CBS, 5.5/10; 5. (Tie) Dateline Sunday, NBC, 5.5/9; 5. (Tie) Deal or No Deal, NBC, 5.5/10; 5. (Tie) House (Monday); 10. Million Dollar Password, CBS, 5.4/9.


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Obituary

   
Artist: Obituary

   Genre(s): 
Metal: Death,Black
   

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Discography:


   
 Xecutioners Return

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Frozen In Time

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10


   
 Anthology

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 20


   
 Live In Montreal Quebec (Bootleg)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 Live Dynamo Open Air, Eindhoven Nl (Bootleg)

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 14


   
 Back From The Dead

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 11


   
 World Demise

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 16


   
 The End Complete

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11


   
 Cause Of Death

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 9


   
 Slowly We Rot

   Year: 1989   
Tracks: 14

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Possessed and Death may consume brought destruction metal to life, only Obituary brought it to fruition. After cathartic some demos as Xecutioner as far back as 1986, the five-man band debuted as Obituary on Roadrunner Records in 1989 with Lento We Rot, and in a book, the record album was landmark. The previous forays into what would quickly become tagged as death metal -- principally by the above-named bands, Possessed and Death, along with grindcore innovators Repulsion and Napalm Death -- were exercises in inexorableness. These bands took the breakneck desert of Slayer's Reign in Blood one stone's throw further, to the spot of plain, sometimes even pathetic musical abandon. Obituary, on the other hand, wide-ranging their pace well -- and did so at the absolute height of speed metallic element withal. Yes, the dance orchestra could playact at breakneck velocity, simply within the same vocal, guitarists Allen West and Trevor Peres could sluggish the pacing down pat to dirge-like levels in a moment's notice, all the patch keeping the euphony as laboured as hell thanks to down-tuned guitars and the snarling vocals of John Tardy. As a result, Tardily We Rot made rather a splatter back in 1989, influencing an integral legion of destruction metal bands in Florida: Morbid Angel, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Cannibal Corpse, and numerous others at present forgotten among the thousands of outside bands that followed. In a way, Tardily We Rot was the prototypal last metal album, establishing a template that would add up to define the vogue (one that is discrete from grindcore or calamitous metallic element, it should be pointed out). A few albums followed -- Lawsuit of Death (1990) and The End Complete (1992) both besides very influential -- simply by the mid-'90s Obituary had run its class and the band splintered, reuniting now and then. Yet level as the bandmembers went their seperate slipway (most notably West going on to often success as the guitar player of Six Feet Under), Obituary continued to stand tall as unmatched of the definitive death metal bands, if non the authoritative (a distinction that credibly goes to Death, whose James Murphy actually was a bandmember for a patch). Their in style, Xecutioners Return was released in August 2007 on the Candleight label.

Everything Is Made In China

   
Artist: Everything Is Made In China

   Genre(s): 
Indie
   

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Discography:


   
 Everything Is Made In China (EP)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 6

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Vladimir Cosma

Kate Beckinsale - Beckinsale Prefers Sex To Cooking

British actress KATE BECKINSALE isn't bothered she can't cook - because she makes up for it in the bedroom.

The Pearl Harbour star admits she is a terrible wife because she cannot cook a decent meal for her husband Len Wiseman.

But she insists she makes up for it in other areas.

She tells British magazine Glamour, "I'm the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can't be good at food and sex, but you can always order the food in.

"I'd rather he didn't order in the sex."

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