Editor's note: This story was originally published Sunday. The season finale of 'The Walking Dead' aired Sunday night.
TUNING IN: Former Arkansan Stuart Greer (Mud, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Reaping, Forty Shades of Blue, Homefront, and Remember the Titans) is set to be in the season finale of AMC's The Walking Dead tonight. Look for the character actor and former University of Arkansas at Little Rock student to appear in the role of Roman, a member of the group known as the Saviors.
TUNING OUT? In Touch magazine reports that more advertisers have abandoned the older Duggar girls' spinoff show Jill & Jessa: Counting On on TLC. The cable network earlier aired a reality show focusing on Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's family titled 19 Kids and Counting until the show was canceled last May after the Tontitown family's eldest son Josh admitted to sexually molesting underage girls, including some of his sisters. In August, he said he was addicted to Internet pornography and was unfaithful to his wife -- after his name appeared among millions of others exposed in a data breach as customers of a website that caters to marital cheaters.
The most recent problem? That a total of 15 companies -- including Wrigley, Choice Hotels, and UPS -- have pulled ads from the program, reports In Touch.
CHANGE OF DATE: Dateline NBC, which originally planned to air a special on the disappearance and murder of real estate agent Beverly Carter on March 24, postponed it. Her son Carl Carter posts on Facebook that the show featuring her is tentatively set to air Friday at 9 p.m. He adds that family members haven't seen the segment and were not compensated in any way for their participation. They did so, he writes, as an "act of love."
ON HER TOES: Arleen Sugano of Little Rock recently collaborated with the Lincoln Center to participate in a TED-Ed original on the physics of what's considered to be the most difficult move in ballet, the fouette. In the third act of the ballet Swan Lake the Black Swan spins 32 times for the move. How's it possible? Sugano, a ballet instructor with the Official Ballet School of the Rock City Dance Center in Little Rock explains in a TED-Ed talk narrated by Addison Anderson, and with animation by Anik Rosenblum of Dancing Line Productions.
THE WRITE STUFF: Former Little Rock resident Kathleen Fuller, a Mount St. Mary Academy and University of Arkansas at Little Rock graduate, currently lives in Geneva, Ohio, with her husband and three children. But her family plans to move back to Little Rock in June. Fuller is an author of Christian fiction, including Amish romance novels as well as historical and contemporary romance. To date, she's written more than two dozen novels and novellas published by Avalon Books, Thomas Nelson, and Mountain Brook Ink.
Contact Linda S. Haymes at (501) 399-3636 or lhaymes@arkansasonline.com
Metro on 04/03/2016