ABC's "The Bachelor" returns with a new season shot entirely in Rome that stars an Italian prince, Lorenzo Borghese, 34, a cosmetics entrepreneur who lives in New York City. One of the women vying for his love (or the reality TV facsimile of love) is Heather Sneed, 34, a registered nurse from Aliquippa.

	Bob D'Amico/ABC Heather Sneed of Aliquippa makes a tipsy impression on "The Bachelor: Rome," premiering Monday night. Click photo for larger image. Related articles Rob Owen's Tuned In Journal

Don't be surprised if fans online immediately nickname her "drunk girl," because some of her 24 competitors for the prince's love (or the reality TV facsimile of love) pretty much call her that in Monday's season premiere (9 to 11 p.m., WTAE).

"The prince is absolutely to die for!" Sneed raves during a cocktail party in the show's first hour. "I'm ecstatic."

Not long after, she exhorts, "We are freaking in Italy! Let's go!"

"They're not kissing," speculates one of the competitors while Sneed has some one-on-one time with the prince. "She's throwing up on him!"

She's not.

Sneed tells viewers she thinks she has an advantage over the other women.

"The fact I'm older, well-educated. I am beautiful," she says. "I don't want to sound conceited in that way, but I am."

Does she mean she is beautiful or she is conceited? I'm so confused.

"Heather was pretty drunk," says Jeanette, another one of the contestants. "For an older woman, she didn't really present herself so well."

On a conference call with reporters Wednesday, the prince refused to respond to a query "Survivor" host Jeff Probst never has trouble with: offering his initial impressions of a contestant.

"Huh," he said, pausing to let a publicist chime in that the prince, who claims he is now "in love," couldn't talk about contestants specifically. "Every single girl is extremely beautiful and fun and energetic, and I enjoyed every one of them. You can say that for Heather."

She's a goner.

A&E shelves 'MI-5'

After just two weeks in a new doomed-to-failure time slot (11 p.m. Fridays), A&E has pulled British spy drama "MI-5" from its schedule. Fans will be able to see the remaining episodes of season four in a marathon on Oct. 21, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Season five, currently airing in England, will undoubtedly need to find a new network home in America, if it will air here at all.

By scheduling "MI-5" in such a suicidal time slot, A&E all but acknowledged it had squandered the show's audience. "MI-5" is one of the last vestiges of a time when the network was known for its quality programs, including the "Horatio Hornblower" movies and the "Pride & Prejudice" miniseries. A&E abandoned that audience with its turn to reality junk like "Dog the Bounty Hunter," so it comes as little surprise that few viewers would show up for "MI-5" -- its audience stopped watching A&E long ago.

CMT joins TV grid

After many cries from readers, we've managed to squeeze CMT into the prime-time listings grid on this page. On Oct. 8 it will debut in TV Week in prime time, along with other alterations we've made to the grid (mostly network name changes, including OLN, which became VS. this week).

Below is a list of the new names for cable channels in the TV grid followed by the old names in parentheses:

HBO2 (HBO Plus)

FOXSC (FOXSW)

FSN-P (FOX SP)

GSN (GAME)

i (Pax)

SC (DSC SCI)

STARZ-E (STARZT)

VS (OLN)

Channel surfing

Former WPGH reporter Ari Hait has begun doing freelance work for WTAE-TV. ... Today is WPXI meteorologist Steve Teeling's last day on the air at Channel 11. He's leaving for a job with a TV station in Albany, N.Y. ... ABC Family has canceled low-rated family drama "Three Moons Over Milford." ... Comedy Central has renewed "The Showbiz Show With David Spade" for a third season of 13 episodes to begin airing in February.

TV Q&A

This week's TV Q&A responds to questions about local TV, "Close to Home" and "Jericho." You can read it at www.post-gazette.com/tv.