Here's the way TLC describes it: "Kate takes a walk down memory lane as she looks back at viewers' favorite moments from Jon & Kate plus 8 and helps the audience countdown some of the best moments on the show."

So, these are going to be the "viewers' favorite moments," huh? How about the viewers who regularly visit this blog? What are your "favorite" moments?

By 11 p.m., the Republicans had raised so many points of order that all conversation besically ground to a halt. Michigan Democrat John Dingell, who held the chair, brought his gavel down repeatedly amid pleas for "commity." You did not need to understand the ins and outs of Parliamentary Procedure to appreciate the battle that was playing out on the floor of the House.

All hail C-SPAN. I went to bed Friday night with the sounds of a late-night debate in the House Rules Committe coming from my bedside radio tuned to CSPN (90.1 FM), and awoke at 7 a.m. to C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" skillfully raising the curtain on the live and historic debate taking place in the House Saturday.

CNN was the second most watched channel, but it wasn't close to Fox when it came to viewership. From Shepard Smith to Bret Baier and Bill O'Reilly, all the newscasters and show hosts dominated in their time period.

From 3 p.m. to midnight, Fox drew an average audience of 3.04 million viewers, while CNN was seen by 1.57 million. MSNBC drew an audience of 820,000. In the key demographic of viewers 25 to 54 years of age, almost doubled CNN's audience and more than tripled that of MSNBC.

Smith's newscasts proved to be among the cable channel's most watched programs. From 7 to 8 p.m., "Fox Report with Shepard Smith" drew an audience of 3.97 million viewers, while Lou Dobbs was seen by 1.52 million on CNN. Chris Matthews attracted 1.06 million on MSNBC.

Scratch that strategy as too expensive in these downsized media days.

Now the game is to get big-name stars and/or controversial guests on your talk shows. Think of Oprah and Barbara Walters with Sarah Palin later this month -- or Diane Sawyer scoring a November sweeps scoop Thursday on "Good Morning America" with Rihanna talking about the physical abuse she suffered at the hands of then-boyfriend Chris Brown. It is the first time she has talked about the widely-reported assault.

The pop star said it was "humiliating" and "traumatizing" to acknowledge that the assault took place. She also said it was "wrong" that she went back to Brown after the beatings. (AP Photo\ABC Ida Mae Astute)

The Clear Channel station that is now packaged as Z104.3 will feature such artists as Britney Spears, Kanye West, Jay Z, Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Black Eyed Peas.

"Baltimore is one of the rare exceptions in top 25 markets to not have a CHR format. It is finally time for listeners to be able to hear all the hits in one place, and Z104.3 is the new home for those hits. Operations Manager Thea Mitchem has put together an amazing music intensive format that Baltimore has asked for and we know they will love." President/Market Manager Hartley Adkins says in a Radio Online report of the shift.

"Kate: Her Story," an hourlong interview of Kate Gosselin by NBC News correspondent Natalie Morales, drew an audience of 3.795 million viewers. That is up from 3 million the week before. But it is long way from the audience on 10 million with which the reality TV show, "Jon & Kate Plus 8," started the season in June. Last March before the tabloid explosion, the regular weekly show was averaging about 3.7 million, as I wrote at the time.

The program was promoted as a special hour of the most "intimate" conversation yet with Gosselin, who seems to have been interviewed a lot about herself in recent months. The only thing "special" about it was the peculiar arrangement of its production that saw TLC hire NBC's Peacock Productions to make the program. TLC appears to have been trying to buy some of the credibility of NBC News for its falling star, Kate Gosselin. Judging from yesterday's online reviews and blog comments, the reality-TV drenched cable channel did not seem to be so successful in that regard.

Let me give you the big picture of what was going on first in this NBC News approved and produced hourlong interview of Kate Gosselin by "Today" show correspondent Natalie Morales. TLC paid for a piece of the credibility of NBC News, and here is the trick that the network producers used to try and deliver the goods.

Instead of performing like a journalistic interviewer, Morales played the role of a defense attorney forced to put her client on the stand because there is so much evidence against the client. So, what Morales did in her defense attorney role is time after time state the charges against her client in such a way that Kate could easily refute them. This is beyond asking softball questions. This is a far more sophisticated manuever that undermines and seeks to dismiss the allegations against a client even as the defense attorney states them.

Typical of the back and forth was this exchange with Morales bringing up rumors of Kate having an affair with her bodyguard.

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This production is part of the same film series that last month showcased Barry Levinson's documentary on the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, "The Band That Wouldn't Die."

The publicity notes promise "the most ambitious, comprehensive and uncompromising account of Bias' life and death ever captured on film." And I will say Fraser seems to have had excellent access to members of Bias' family, teammates, coaches, Washington area media types who covered Bias and even the athlete's girlfriend.

That answer: Not very well.

I also said that while the troubled NBC is probably willing to  live with being a low-cost alternative to the other networks in prime time, affiliates like Baltimore's WBAL (Channel 11), looked as if they were going to be feeling some real pain in the pocketbook from reduced sales on their late newscasts as a result of NBC's bold move. I wondered how long they would be willing to live with it.

After four more weeks, the October ratings are in, and the news is even worse than I predicted for Leno and WBAL in Baltimore. At 10 p.m., not only does Leno get beat by prime-time entertainment programming on the other network owned and affiliated stations in the market, WBFF Fox-45 beats Leno with its 10 p.m. newscast.

I'm talking about the key sales demographic of viewers 25 to 54 years of age, because that is what the stations live or die with in the real world. And when you extend the look at those figures into 11 p.m., the news only gets worse for WBAL.

Those are the story lines behind TLC's weird Monday-night production, "Kate: Her Story," which the cable channel in grand-hype mode promises will be Gosselin's "most intimate interview" ever. Sure.

But the surprising thing to me is the way in which NBC News is risking its reputation on such a dicey character as Kate Gosselin. Natalie Morales, NBC News correspondent, will conduct the interview with the mother of eight.

The one-hour program scheduled to air Monday at 9 p.m. is officially an NBC production, reviewed and approved by NBC News, according to Lauren Kapp, vice president of communications for the network news division.

"NBC news has final approval," Kapp said in e-mail statement Friday to the "Sun" on Friday. "All shows produced by Peacock Productions are reviewed by NBC News management." (AP Photo/Katy Winn)