Up & Coming Weekly

August 13, 2013

Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.

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August  17th  ~  All  Day   Tea  for  2     Over  26  incredible  flavors  of  loose  leaf  tea   Enjoy  a  specialty  treat  with  your  tea   Ask  About  Large  Groups!   Village Coffee House & Bakery The Abominable Kirsty Alley The sitcom veteran makes a memorable villain in Baby Sellers TV by DEAN ROBBINS Baby Sellers (Saturday, 8 p.m., Lifetime) goes inside the criminal operations that provide infants for the adoption market. The TV movie is efficiently written and directed to evoke maximum outrage.   In the opening scenes, Homeland   Security officers with flak jackets and assault rifles surround a truck carrying a cargo of babies in plastic bins. One of the officers (Jennifer Finnigan) is so disgusted by what she sees that she goes undercover to a shady adoption agency, posing as a woman seeking a baby from India. Agency head Carla Chris(Kirstie Alley) tiansweet-n  Mic is all  Ope   Night ness and smiles   in Ope n Mi Augusbut 1 st public, t  3cold cN Augu ,  2 and calculating as013   st 17 ight 6-‐8PM   7-9 p , 2013 Natshenal   with her io deals ale T nt .m. suppliers behind  Scout   on  site!    D on closed doors. 't this  oppo to  miss   I'm usedrtun ity     loving Alley on While you're here check out our designer cakes! the small screen, ck  out  our  designer  cakes!    From  simple  to  elegant,  flashy  to  out  of  the  ordinary,  Randi  can   so it's a shock to Under Newfor  your  event!   Management design  one   see her as a vilUnder  New  Management   lain. And what a villain — cynical, 3037 A Boone Trail Ext., Fayetteville 910-‐484-‐4515   blunt and cruel. 3037  A  Boone  Trail  Ext.  Fayetteville   She makes such a memorable creep that it might be hard for her to go back to playing sympathetic characters. I'm W Weekday Mornings 6-10 a.m. worried that, from now on, even seeing her in Cheers reruns will make me uneasy. 910.484.4515 Good Morning Fayetteville with Goldy & Jim Talk Line: 910-864-6400 Local News, Weather, Traffic & Sports 20 UCW AUGUST 14-20, 2013 Broadchurch Wednesday, 10 pm (BBC America) A quiet English town registers shock when an 11-year-old boy's body turns up on the beach. No one on the local police force has experience in such matters — no one except a new detective in town named Alec Hardy (David Tennant). Alec is haunted-looking and intense, given to outbursts when his partner, Ellie (Olivia Colman), makes mistakes. Ellie's son was a friend of the victim, and she can't help letting her own feelings affect the investigation. This BBC series brings to life not only the two detectives, but a whole community. Everyone knows everyone in Broadchurch, and everyone becomes a suspect in the murder. It's refreshing to watch a crime drama that doesn't feel the need to throw buckets of blood at the screen. Instead, Broadchurch focuses on relationships, some of them almost embarrassingly intimate. "I don't know if I can do this," Ellie tells her husband, expressing doubts about her ability to hold it together and do her job. I certainly hope she can. After knowing Ellie for only a short time, I'm already counting on her. Say Yes to the Dress Friday, 9 pm (TLC) The season premiere features Kristin Chenoweth, the spunky Broadway and TV star, who accompanies her assistant Julie to pick out a wedding dress. It's Julie's big day, but she doesn't get to be the center of attention. Chenoweth steals the spotlight, apparently unable to keep from mugging when a camera is turned on. In a way, Chenoweth is joking when she insists that Julie pick out a dazzling Kristin-style dress rather than one suited to her own simpler taste. But in another way, she's not joking at all. She's used to getting her way, even at someone else's wedding. "Her taste is plain!" Chenoweth snorts, viewing one of Julie's choices. "Snore! Wake me when it's over!" By the end of the episode, Chenoweth has shamed Julie into choosing a flashy number that's outside her comfort zone. Julie says yes to this dress — but I would advise that, at some point during her marriage, she learn to say no to Kristin Chenoweth. America the Wild Sunday, 10 pm (National Geographic Channel) Wildlife expert Casey Anderson returns for a new season of getting way too close to North American wildlife. In the season premiere, Anderson hears about a place in British Columbia where wolves are aggressively attacking humans. For most of us, that would lead to only one conclusion: "Stay away from British Columbia." Anderson, by contrast, makes a beeline to the scene of the carnage. When he discovers a mangled carcass in the woods, he's overjoyed. "The good news," he says, "is that there's wolves very close to here right now." That's the good news?! WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM

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