Channel surfing

Flex, Sept, 2008 by Greg Merritt

* Click to PBS. Top amateur super heavyweight and gregarious bodybuilding ambassador Jerome Ferguson appeared on an episode of the travel series Globe Trekker devoted to Los Angeles. "Hollywood" Ferguson shared pointers with host Megan McCormick when she worked out at the Muscle Beach weight pit. For more information, go to globetrekkertv.com.

* Click to WE. A one-hour episode of Secret Lives of Women focused primarily on the positive aspects of today's female bodybuilding scene. The program profiled four competitors: Emery Miller, Lauren Powers and current IFBB pros Dr. Dena Westerfield and Joan Lopez.

* Commercial break. Bodybuilder Holly Nicholson, 2008 Arnold Amateur middleweight winner, appears in one of the Bud Light "dude" commercials as a Vegas bride.

* Click to Fox. After a nine-episode debut season was hindered by the writers' strike, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will return for a 13-episode second season.

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