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Sep 10 2013 Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE We PM 11, 2013 WWW.POST-GAZETTE.COM C-5 C-5 1 6 8 9 10 11 Classic Peanuts By Charles Schulz Hagar the Horrible By Chris Browne Drabble By Kevin Fagan Mother Goose and Grimm By Mike Peters Bizarro By Dan Piraro Lio By Mark Tatulli Garfield By Jim Davis Dennis the Menace By Hank Ketcham call it pasteurized because cows live in Marmaduke By Brad Paul Anderson The Family Circus By Bil Keane I found the nickel I lost. It was in my see what he has trapped this Tundra By Chad Carpenter 6.0 2.9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Network, rating Homes, in millions Source: Nielsen Media Research Sunday Night Football 17.4 NBC, 15.0/24 Thursday Night Football 17.2 NBC, 14.9/26 Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick 13.1 NBC, 11.3/18 Thursday Night NFL Pre-Kick 12.8 NBC, 11.0/18 The OT 11.8 Fox, 10.2/17 Football Night America Pt. 3 9.6 NBC, 8.3/14 Under the Dome Special 7.8 CBS, 6.7/11 NFL Opening Kick-Off Show 7.6 NBC, 6.6/12 NCIS 7.1 CBS, 6.2/10 Got Talent Wed. 7.0 NBC, 6.1/10 Overall 3.8 2.7 0.6 Top 10 TV shows For the week ending Sunday One ratings point equals 1,147,000 TV homes: share is percentage of TVs tuned to a show. prime time ratings KDKA-TV was the local leader in the Mid- Atlantic chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences regional Emmys, which were awarded Saturday night in Philadelphia.

KDKA took home seven awards, followed by WTAE-TV and WQED Multimedia (six each), WPXI-TV (four), Root Sports Pittsburgh (two) and Dijit Media LLC (one). Winners included WPXI for best evening newscast in larger markets, KDKA for station excellence and WTAE and anchor Mike Clark for coverage of the election of a new pope. Jim Cunningham hosts WQED-FM 89.3’s and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, a special Pittsburgh Symphony radio broadcast recognizing the anniversary of The special, first broadcast on the 10th anniversary, features part of the PSO concert performed three days after the 2001 attacks. Other pieces include John Adams conducting his Pulitzer Prize-winning music the Transmigration of Clear Channel Communities and 102.5 WDVE presents the sixth annual Rocks for Radiothon from 6 a.m.

to 8 p.m. Thursday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Saturday. Proceeds benefit Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, with live broadcasts from Maria Sciullo KDKA-TV tops in local Emmys media notes By Rob Owen Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Charleroi native Craig McCracken made his mark in television animation with superheroes Powerpuff and oddball characters Home for Imaginary on Cartoon Network. Now Mr. McCracken, who moved to California at age 7, is embarking on a new series with a science-fiction backdrop, and his first show for the Walt Disney Co. Over (9 p.m.

Friday, Disney Channel) follows an eternally optimistic intergalactic traveler, Wander (voice of Jack McBrayer, who rides atop his loyal, blue-skinned best buddy, Sylvia (April Winchell, Mouse a horse who is as prone to fighting as Wander is averse to it. Mr. McCracken said the series was inspired when he drew Wander in his sketch book. liked the idea of a nomadic, wandering, do-gooder he said. Then he met Mr.

McBrayer, a fan of Mr. put my drawing and voice together and this character developed and I wanted to make a cartoon about Wander and Sylvia travel the universe saving the day when the evil Lord Hater and his army of Watchdog minions show up to wreak havoc. Mr. McCracken, now 42, a self-described kid who grew up in the 1970s, said the sci-fi backdrop gives him freedom to take Wander and crew anywhere. allows us to be as creative as we want to he said.

der can meet anybody and go If Wander is the free spirit, Sylvia is the character designed to help get Wander back on track. other reason we made Sylvia so tough is I wanted Wander to be nonviolent, not hurting anyone with no malicious he said, because being chased by Hater and the Watchdogs, we gave to Mr. McCracken get back to Western Pennsylvania very often because of work obligations, but he has a brother, Dale, in Charleroi as well as aunts, uncles and cousins who still live in the area. Growing up, he never really dreamed of working for Disney as some animators do because at the time animation was primarily fairy tales and fantasy. wanted to make funny he said.

I went to Cal Arts, I worried the only job I would be able to get working in animation was animating deer running in perspective, which what I wanted to But now that Disney Channel has moved into comedy with and Mr. McCracken is happy to work in Mickey house. simple fact that the Disney brand name is on there, it comes with a level of quality in the work that you feel obligated to try to live up he said. in TV animation looking at a more creator-driven model. fun to be in on the ground floor of Disney doing TV writer Rob Owen: or 412-263-2582.

Read the Tuned In Journal blog at Follow RobOwenTV on Twitter or Face- book. Over takes animation to outer space Rick Channel Over creator and executive producer Craig McCracken, right, with series star Jack McBrayer. ander over When: 9 p.m. Friday, Disney Channel. Starring the voice of: Jack McBrayer.

TV PREVIEW By Scott Mervis Pittsburgh Post-Gazette late in the game to make a great post-punk album, but that stop Savages, a British quartet that lives up to its billing with a dark, intense, violent sound frequently compared to Patti Smith, Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Savages, which makes its Pittsburgh debut at Mr. Smalls tonight, formed in late 2011 when French singer Jehnny Beth and British guitarist Gemma Thompson, who had worked in the group John Jehn, hooked up with bassist Ayse Hassan and then added drummer Fay Milton. ever supposed to be an all-girl band from the the drummer says. really the plan, but when it became three of them and they were all female and they needed a drummer, it just felt natural to look for another female, because then got a full Although she originally came from a classical background, the drummer clicked right away with Ms.

Hassan in a rhythm section that provides a muscular backdrop to the jagged guitar and spastic vocals on top. and Ayse have something in common I think in the way we feel music in a really sort of primal Ms. Milton says. necessarily seek to analyze. We just play what really comes to us naturally that locks things Taking its name from of the the quartet got to work on what would become its forceful debut album, which is clearly aligned with three-decade-old post- punk at least to the outside listener.

know, man, I just play the Ms. Milton says. never ever at any point took things from that genre of music. When you look at those kind of bands the New York No Wave scene their processes of coming up with music might have been similar to ours, sort of de-constructing things, pulling things apart. Also, a lot of them had classical backgrounds, which is similar to me.

What we share in common is influences and processes, but none of us ever studied a genre of music and tried to replicate it. interesting that we fall into that she adds. consistently get compared to Joy Division. There are other bands I think we sound quite a bit like. I think we sound like PiL Image That would be a good reference point, but we do get Joy Division and I really think we sound like them.

I read an interview with Peter Hook where he was asked about Savages and he said, heard of them but I think they sound anything like Joy It was really good to read that and have that confirmed for In spite of the great press, this is certainly an album that goes against the grain of popular or plentiful in 2013. just made some music and played it and people like Ms. Milton says. everyone likes it. so many different types of music, when you look at popular really horrendous most of the time.

a different world, it even really 412-2632576. Twitter: Girl power drives British band Savages savages Where: Mr. Smalls, Millvale. When: 8 tonight. Tickets: $15; mrsmalls.com.

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