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The adage that youth is wasted on the young just doesn't hold true for the "Class of 2000" featured at 8 p.m. Wednesday on TNN. This cavalcade of ambitious teenage and 20-something country music stars includes 16-year-old starlet Jessica Andrews, 17-year-old veteran Alecia Elliott, the Clark Family Experience and Plus One, an all-male quintet whose oldest member is 21.

Taped this spring at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville — where most of these artists couldn't get served — "Class of 2000" is hosted by LeAnn Rimes, who got her big break at age 13, and young film hunk Andrew Keegan.

Also tonight, the TV-series version of the 1997 film "Soul Food" debuts (10 p.m., Showtime). Eriq LaSalle of "ER" directed the premiere episode, which tracks the fortunes of three sisters in a tightly knit black family in Chicago.

If this had been an actual emergency, you'd be S.O.L.

It's infuriating broadcasters everywhere: Thanks to a 1998 federal "reform," cable companies are now permitted to erase the over-the-air signal of local TV stations with severe-weather alerts — even when the TV station is doing its own, and presumably more extensive, on-air weather alerts.

Read my story from the Kansas City Star

On this date...

in 1998, for the first week ever, more American households are tuned to basic cable during prime time than the four major broadcast networks combined. Omigod! Kenny killed the networks, you broadcasters! -- Tom Heald

Previously at TV Barn:

• Web sites of doubtful veracity (6/27/00)
• Mediocre grades for educational TV (6/26/00)
• "Dateline's" investigative gem (6/23/00)
• Rundgren rocks CNBC (6/22/00)
• Around the clock, non-stop local news (6/21/00)
• The sci-fi recycling plant (6/20/00)
• "Mission Hill" returns (6/16/00)
• COMPLETE COVERAGE: The 2000 Upfronts (5/15-18/00)

 

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