MEGASTUNTS - "HIGHWIRE OVER NIAGARA FALLS - LIVE!"
ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET
It’s been decades, literally, since Johnny Carson made jokes about the Flying Wallendas – but here’s one of them, daredevil Nik Wallenda, doing a live stunt in which he walks a tightrope across Niagara Falls. It’s a stunt that was banned more than 120 years ago, but here he goes… albeit on a wire so thick he likens it to a sidewalk, and with a harness that will prevent him from falling. Unless he removes it, which some advocates of live TV are rooting to happen. My guess, though, is that any contracts signed with ABC have already added built-in clauses to prevent, or punish, that sort of liability. For a local's look at the event, see the latest from our Buffalo-based correspondent, Alan Pergament, in his Still Talkin' TV column HERE.