VIRGIN DIARIES
8 p.m. Sunday
TLC

What is it with folks taking virginity to extremes? I'm not talking about "I'm 17 and I've never gone all the way with a boy." I'm talking: "I'm 32 and have been engaged for three years, but I'm saving not only my naughty bits but my first kiss for my wedding night." First of all, let me just say that I'd like somebody to show me where the Bible says you can't even kiss before marriage. Second: while I personally think the whole virgin-until-your-wedding-night thing sounds like a great recipe for misery — buy a car without a test drive or two, and you probably deserve to get a lemon — I'm cool with it. Your body, your rules has to apply to all, even those who want their honeymoon to be filled with the most awkward and unfulfilling sex imaginable. That said, I never ever want to be in a room with somebody who wants to gush to me how dreamy it will be to lock lips for the first time AFTER the only way out is to hire a lawyer. Luckily, TLC has a plan to keep me far away from those with minty-fresh genitalia with their new show, "Virgin Diaries." Here, young couples and singles who have chosen to keep themselves pure until marriage talk about navigating the treacherous waters of Blue Ball Lagoon with Jesus as their silent wingman. Sounds like it'll be fun for an episode or two, and maybe longer if some of them have a horizontal failure of willpower.

• The Tower Building

"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture," was produced by AETN's Mark Wilcken, with camera work by local lenser Gabe Mayhan. Stops on the tour: the Tower Building in downtown Little Rock, the U. of A's Fine Arts Center, and Hot Springs' crumbling Hotel Mountainaire, one of the state's few remaining examples of Art Moderne style.

Full press release on the jump...

• Angela George

Newport native Mary Steenburgen is headed to "30 Rock" for a guest spot in which she'll play Charlotte, the "highly spirited...uber-WASP" mother of Elizabeth Banks' Avery, EW reports. Steenburgen's character will butt heads with Alec Baldwin's jack.

NBC has yet to set a date for "30 Rock's" return.

On Monday, Steenburgen also begins a four-episode guest stint on HBO's consistently winning "Bored to Death," where she'll play a love interest for husband Ted Danson's George (best role for Danson since "Cheers").

UPDATE: Phil Wrobel, Creative Services Director for KARK/KARZ/Bounce-Little Rock, sent a note to correct me. Turns out Bounce will, at least initially, exists as a sub-channel of KARZ (42.2) only available to those who get their TV signal via a digital antenna. Wrobel said it's become common for local stations to chip away a little of their digital signal to create one of these substations.

Comcast has expressed interest in picking up the channel, Wrobel said.

On Monday, Sept. 26, KARZ 42 in Little Rock will become Bounce TV, an independently owned national network that targets black audiences.

From a news release:

Bounce TV will feature hundreds of motion pictures with African American leads or story lines, including: Jamie Foxx’s 2004 Academy Award-winning performance as Ray Charles in Ray; Denzel Washington’s Academy Award-nominated role in The Hurricane; The Bone Collector, which pairs Washington with Angelina Jolie; Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues; The Nutty Professor I and II, starring Eddie Murphy; Bowfinger starring Murphy and Steve Martin; Michael Jackson and Diana Ross headlining The Wiz; the 1995 comedy Major Payne with Damon Wayans; Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (2005), the 1976 classic Car Wash and more.

Live sports and events will also be part of the Bounce TV schedule and the network has a multi-year rights agreement with Urban Sports Entertainment Group (USEG) to televise both football and basketball games from the nation’s largest African American athletic conference, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA.)

Fort Smith native Brad Neely, who we called "the funniest man on web TV" in a 2007 profile, is headed to regular TV. At 11 p.m. on Oct. 2, his new show "China, IL" debuts on Adult Swim. It brings together characters from his cult-favorite "Neely Comics" series of web videos, including Frank and Steve Smith (A.K.A. the Professor Brothers) and Babycakes, all of which Neely will voice. Indie film star Greta Gerwig ("Baghead," "Hannah Takes the Stairs") provides the voice of Steve's assistant, Pony, and Hulk Hogan voices the university's dean.

As someone who's watched pretty much all of "Neely Comics," this new, cleaner look of the characters weirds me out to some degree. But as long as Neely's voice hasn't been sanitized or altered, I'm hopeful.

You can see a behind-the-scenes look at the show (without anything from Neely) here.

Big doings on the fourth-season premiere of FX's biker juggernaut "Sons of Anarchy," last night, including the release of almost a dozen members of the Sons of Anarchy after 14 months in prison and the debut of a key character played by some-time Little Rock resident Ray McKinnon. Somehow the news that McKinnon had been cast as the show's new gubmint villain Assistant U.S. Attorney Lincoln Potter slipped past us (how do we know for sure he's a villain? Because in a show full of Harleys, he rides a British Triumph).

With a debut full of murder, mayhem and backstabbing, it's shaping up to be a hell of a ride, though without having watched a certain online-only prison shanking that wasn't included in the premiere, SAMCRO's vendetta against the seemingly-friendly Russians (as seen last night) might not make a lot of sense.

On Saturday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m., CBS plans to re-air "48 Hours: A Cry for Innocence," their fairly extensive report on the West Memphis Three case. The episode — which first aired in February 2010 — features a rundown of the crime, Jessie Misskelley's confessions, the trials, and the fight to free the WM3. Included are interviews with Damien Echols, Lorri Davis, attorney Dan Stidham, WM3 supporter Johnny Depp, parents of victims and others.

If you don't want to wait until next week, you can also watch the episode online.

BONUS: Rolling Stone has a new article on the efforts (both financial and publicity-wise) of various members of the music community to help free the WM3. Here's the (literal) money quote from Metallica's Lars Ulrich: "The state gave them no compensation, so I think it falls upon our responsibility to help with that side of it."

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• Nick Mangold looks into a 'Hard Knocks' camera.

Yeah, yeah the NFL and the players union agreed to a new collective bargaining agreement and averted ruining Sunday, Monday night and a lot of Thursday nights for everyone. But they messed around with the negotiations so long that they still ruined my favorite part of recent seasons — "Hard Knocks" on HBO. No 4th quarter comeback could ever match the joy I got out of Antonio Cromartie struggling to remember the name of all his children or Rex Ryan cursing hilariously during last season with the Jets. But because there wasn't a sufficiently long preseason HBO skipped it, opting instead for a clip-show of sorts that'll look back at the last decade of "Hard Knocks" season.

The hit that ended Lucas' career that "Hard Knocks" captured in 2002 will be included in the round-up. According to the Little Rock Chamber, the segment will include follow-up with Lucas and his more recent work with D1 Sports Training and Therapy in Little Rock.

"Hard Knocks: A Decade Of NFL Training Camps" airs at 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31 on HBO.

"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills," the 1996 doc on the case by Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger, is scheduled to air Monday, August 29 at 7 p.m. The 2000 follow-up, "Paradise Lost: Revelations," will air the following night at 7 45 p.m.

Sinofsky and Berlinger have a third installment of the series in the works, titled "Paradise Lost: Purgatory," which is scheduled to debut on HBO in January (it was apparently almost finished when a call to get to Jonesboro last week threw a welcome monkey wrench in their plans). Might we suggest another title? "Resurrection" has a nice ring to it.

The video above is a trailer of sorts for a web TV series called "The Cautionary Tales of Jack and Justin."

Jack is Little Rock native Jack Bishop, who also makes music under the stage name Mr. Bear. You might also remember him for his frequent appearances on "Cadet Kelsie."

Looks like "Jack and Justin" have a long way to go before they meet their $8,000 goal.

But maybe this up your alley. For $2,500 or more, you get 3' cardboard cutouts of the pair and an executive producer credit.

The Duggar Clan of Northwest Arkansas are definitely a hot ticket in the American freak emporium these days, what with their popular TV show "19 Kids and Counting" on TLC headed into a fifth season. We know they've finally arrived, however. How? Because people are writing fan-fiction about them. In this case: The Secret Escape Diary of Jinger Duggar.

Jinger, who is Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's sixth child, is the focus of a growing, perhaps tongue-in-cheek Internet movement to Free Jinger.