Comcast and Mr. Small's are joining forces to put local rock right on your TV.

Portions of the monthly Sonic Funhouse series at the Millvale venue, including interviews with the bands, will be available On Demand as "Battle of the Bands" under the "Your Town/Local Music" categories.

The March 28 show will feature Derek White & the Monophobics, Soulharmonic, The Speeds and Race the Ghost. Solo artists Anthony Fugate and Caleb Lovely will be among those featured in the April 25 show.

"It's a great step towards the overall mission of the Mr. Smalls family of businesses to promote creativity and the arts, encourage self-expression, and raise community awareness about the abundance of local talent in Pittsburgh," Liz Berlin of Rusted Root and Vice President of Mr. Small's said in a statement.

Coming soon to Comcast will be a "Mr. Smalls" folder that will include concert footage and interviews with the likes of Michael Franti, Rasputina, Anti-Flag, moe., Phat Man Dee, Bill Deasy and Rusted Root. (Scott Mervis, Weekend Mag editor)

Donny and Marie Osmond will host the upcoming Miss USA pageant.

The Miss Universe Organization says the brother-and-sister, song-and-dance stars will perform on the NBC Universal show April 11 from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The network owns the pageant with real estate mogul Donald Trump.

The rival Miss America pageant crowned its 2008 queen in the same casino in January.

Pageant executives say the telecast will represent the first time Donny and Marie Osmond have hosted a prime-time show together since 2000.

Marie recently competed in ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." Donny is appearing in "College Road Trip," a Disney comedy starring Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone. (Associated Press)

NBC is firing up its own take on a cooking competition, ordering a series called "The Chopping Block" for next season.

Like Fox's "Hell's Kitchen," the new show will pit two teams of chefs and would-be restaurateurs against one another, under the watchful eye of a renowned chef from Great Britain. For "The Chopping Block," that will be Michelin three-star chef Marco Pierre White, who served as a mentor to "Hell's Kitchen" host Gordon Ramsay (and replaced him as host of the British version of the show).

"The Chopping Block" will feature two teams of four couples who will run adjacent restaurants in Manhattan. The teams will compete in a variety of challenges, and one couple from the losing team will be sent packing each week, with the winners earning the right to open their own restaurant in the city. White and a panel of judges will determine who goes home each week. (Zap2It.com)

Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's call girl scandal prompted ABC News to give the go-ahead to a two-hour prime-time special on prostitution that includes Diane Sawyer's visit to a legal brothel in Nevada.

The "20/20" special (9 p.m. tomorrow) has been in the works for two years. It was expected to be on sometime in May or June, but ABC moved it up because Spitzer's resignation last week put the topic in the headlines, said David Sloan, executive producer of ABC's newsmagazines.

"It has taken a lot of time and I think it's going to be very provocative," Sloan said.

The special's lengthy gestation did not indicate any cold feet on the part of ABC about airing it, he said. It will be on during the same week that the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear a major case about broadcast indecency.

On "Prostitution in America: Working Girls Speak," Sawyer interviews sex workers in poor neighborhoods outside Philadelphia and in one of Nevada's legal brothels. ABC hurriedly set up interviews with some highly paid prostitutes who work the luxury penthouses in a nod to the Spitzer scandal.

Sloan said the special is structured so much of the racier material is confined to the second hour. He said it was a serious look at the issue, not an attempt to be salacious.

"Behind every prostitute is a story of sex abuse, drug dependency or mental illness," Sloan said. "No one chooses this." (AP)

WTAE Channel 4 took four 2008 National Headliner Awards in competition against local stations across the nation. Among the station's three first-place honors was Continuing Coverage of a Single News Event for Jim Parsons' "State Agency Secrets" series on wasteful and abusive spending of public monies at the state-run student loan agency.

Other first-place winners: (Investigative Reporting) Parsons on loans that were not repaid to the city's Urban Redevelopment Authority and (Environmental Reporting) "Dangerous Drinking Water." WTAE took third place for Feature, Sports or Human Interest Story: Ari Hait on "No Handicap Golf."