If not for NBC's America's Got Talent, mere reruns of CBS's NCIS would have ran away with the ratings plum on its Tuesday slate, with 8.8 million viewers, some 1.5 million more than a special clip-show edition of ABC's Wipeout.  However, it looks like the NBC show has got a stranglehold on the top spot, with 12.4 million viewers, more than 3 million ahead of NCIS.

As previously reported, much attention has put NCIS's Pauley Perrette after the controversial string of videos that her deranged hubby Coyote Shivers put out in YouTube.  Basically, Perrette accused the rocker of harassing her and raping and sodomizing another girl.  Shivers countered on the said YouTube videos that all the allegations are part of a grand scheme to discredit him, throw him in jail because she wasn't able to get the arrangement she wanted after the bitter divorce proceedings.

All these controversies have put the spotlight on Perrette, who plays the funky goth forensic examiner Abby on NCIS.  According to sources, the NCIS writers have borrowed a lot from Perrette's background, from her “goth-loving, tattooed, techno-geek character.”  Both Perrette and Abby hail from New Orleans and studied sociology, psychology, and criminology, along with a master's degree in criminology.

In real life, Perrette is 39, a published poet, a photographer, writer, spoke-word artist, an animal rescue and gay rights advocate, and the former front woman for a Los Angeles-based band called Lo-Ball.  In 2007, she produced a documentary about Mark lane, civil rights attorney and author, while currently, she is working on an indie film called Satan Hates You.

The new season of NCIS returns September 23 on CBS.


-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: New York Times, Creators.com
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