'Private Practice' returning with answers

Tonight, fans of "Private Practice" will see the resolution of a cliffhanger in which a deranged former patient was about to cut open pregnant psychologist Violet (Amy Brenneman) and take her baby.

The season debut at 10 tonight picks up about 20 minutes after the harrowing attack.

Will Violet survive? Will the baby live? How will it affect the relationship between Pete (Tim Daly) and Violet? Let's hope Violet survives, because Brenneman makes this show worth watching.

Series creator Shonda Rhimes says the new season will find Addison (Kate Walsh) "painfully and comically celibate for a while."

FLASH SCORES: ABC executives are giddy with joy over the big opening Sept. 24 for the sci-fi thriller "FlashForward" (12.5 million viewers).

It topped all the competition during the 8 to 9 p.m. hour. The second episode airs at 8 tonight.

The opener set up the premise: Everyone on Earth blacks out for a couple of minutes, and many see a vision of themselves six months in the future. Those who see nothing may not be around in the future.

There was chaos, lots of special effects and a lot of plot pipe being laid in that first hour. Now the story settles into a complicated mystery as people try to sort out what it all means and if the future can be changed.

WEDU CHIEF RETIRING: Richard "Dick" Lobo announced Wednesday that he will retire as president and chief executive officer of WEDU, Channel 3, as soon as a replacement can be found.

Lobo, 70, came out of retirement in 2002 to take the helm of one of Florida's largest and most successful PBS stations. He told the station's board of directors Wednesday that it is time for him to retire again.

Lobo, a former senior level broadcast executive for NBC and CBS, came onboard when the station faced a financial crisis and was laying off employees. He says WEDU is "well positioned for the upcoming fiscal year." The station's board of directors has set up a committee to conduct the search for a successor.

QUIZ WHIZ: Jenni McKay, a graphic designer from Wesley Chapel, will be a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" at 4:30 today on WTSP, Channel 10.

She is originally from Palm Harbor and is a 1999 graduate of East Lake High School. Liz Bollinger, an entrepreneur from Valrico who won $5,000 on the show in September, is one of McKay's "Phone a Friends."

McKay was seven months pregnant when the show was taped, and she revealed that the baby will be named Carter Glen McKay.

FORMER FRIEND: There is life after "Friends" for Matt LeBlanc, who has been typecast as a dumb lug after playing dim bulb Joey for all those years. LeBlanc will be playing himself in the new Showtime comedy "Episodes."

It's about a British couple whose hit UK show is turned into a dumbed-down American sitcom starring LeBlanc. "I am so glad I got the part, seeing someone else play Matt LeBlanc would have been devastating," joked LeBlanc. Six episodes are being filmed for airing in 2010.