Revenge

In an annual rite known as Upfront Week, NBC, Fox, ABC, CBS, and the CW just presented their lineups for the 2012-13 TV season to advertisers in New York. The ceremonies took place in some of the city's most august concert Halls (Carnegie, Avery Fisher, Radio City Music) over four days. The broadcast companies introduced only 20 new series for the fall (down from 27 last season). NBC led the pack with six new shows. Fox and the CW had half that many. Like it or not, an awful lot of familiar faces will be returning in the fall.

The new Fairmount Park Commission has barely had time to get their seats warm. Still, the commission will now have to referee yet another messy Philadelphia political fight. This fight card features former Congressman Tom Foglietta vs. long-time rival State Sen. Vince Fumo and a group of Korean war veterans. The veterans recently unveiled a new Penn's Landing memorial in honor of those who died in the Korean conflict. One problem: They want the plaza where the memorial is located renamed from Foglietta Plaza to Korean War Memorial Plaza.

The middle-aged man still speaks fervently of the rage he felt toward the airline that delayed him, his wife and their exhausted infants on a night flight across the country. Five hours late, their plane finally landed at 3 a.m. at an airport miles from their intended city of arrival. As a final insult, the airline hadn't even bothered to arrange transportation to carry the passengers to their destination. But the man, an air-traffic controller in a large California city, said he found revenge after the airline cavalierly rejected his request for compensation.

Malik Jackson was only 15 when three guys entered his North Philadelphia home and began spraying bullets at a group of his friends. After a girl and a boy, both 14, were wounded on July 15, 1994, Jackson grabbed a gun and ran outside seeking revenge, said Assistant District Attorney Richard Sax yesterday. He wound up shooting and killing one of the teen-aged intruders, Sax said. When the gunmen fled in a pickup truck, Jackson, now 17, of Taney Street near Montgomery Avenue, ran to the corner of 26th Street and Ridge Avenue, and opened fire.

A West Philadelphia man was sentenced to a 10- to 25-year prison term yesterday for kidnapping and sexually molesting the 8-year-old daughter of his landlord in 1983. Assistant District Attorney Wendy Demchick-Alloy said Anthony Reid, who lived near 57th Street and Girard Avenue, said the attack on the girl was an act of "revenge" on the landlord who was trying to evict Reid. The prosecutor said Reid had been ordered out because he was late in his rent payments around the time of the offense on Aug. 29, 1983.

Some things are a given: the pocket protector and horn-rimmed glasses, the high-waist chinos and low-tide Oxfords. The mark of a truly imaginative portrait of a nerd is the original detail. Lewis, Booger, Lamar, Poindexter and Wormser, the title nerds of the 1984 "Revenge of the Nerds" and now of its sequel, "Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise," have quite a few. As the film opens, the nerds are packing, on their way to represent their Adams College Tri Lambda chapter at a national fraternity conference in Fort Lauderdale.

THE WINGS LOSt in sudden-death overtime, 16-15, to the West Division-leading Colorado Mammoth on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center. The Wings could have clinched a playoff spot with a win or a Washington loss, but were denied when the Stealth earned a victory over Minnesota. Colorado clinched with the win. Mammoth rookie Adam Jones scored the winning goal in the extra session, ruining the Wings' rally. The Wings were trailing, 13-7, early in the second half, but scored six unanswered goals to climb back into the game.

When Cornelius Albert didn't show up on Valentine's Day, his girlfriend Margo Woodward sought revenge by telling police they could find his credit card counterfeiting equipment at her home. She wasn't kidding. Police and U.S. Secret Service agents found embossing machines, a magnetic card writer, a tape with real credit card numbers, counterfeit credit cards and computer files. Albert and another convicted California con artist, Lonnie C. Jackson, yesterday could appreciate the adage that, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

With two straight losses behind them and with the District 1 Class AAAA playoffs looming, Conestoga's Pioneers needed to put a good game together. And that's just what they did Friday night. Conestoga got 27 points from senior guard Chris Perillo and knocked off visiting Springfield (Delco), 69-62. The Pioneers are 12-5 in the league (14-9 overall) going into tonight's regular-season finale at Haverford High. The district playoffs open Friday. "It sure was a big win," said Conestoga coach Pete Fredrickson.

Theater companies cut Shakespeare to reflect casting, to indulge shortened attention spans, or to center the play on a director's artistic vision or insight, among other reasons. Curio Theatre's current production of The Tempest proves that a bit of risk lies in any of these approaches. And, like any gamble, it also hints at large, if quick, rewards. The Tempest's traditional three-hour run time presents one of Shakespeare's most straightforward plots. Courtly treachery dethroned Duke Prospero (Brian McCann)

NEWARK, N.J. - The mood was light inside the Prudential Center on Monday night as children screamed with delight at a local superhero and well-dressed adults sipped spring water and downed hors d'oeuvres. It was the Boys & Girls Club of Newark's 24th annual Evening of the Stars, and city native Shaquille O'Neal was being honored. The future Hall of Famer also took on some big donors in a free-throw competition. Lewis Katz was one of them, and he wasn't taking the competition lightly.

THE WINGS LOSt in sudden-death overtime, 16-15, to the West Division-leading Colorado Mammoth on Sunday at the Wells Fargo Center. The Wings could have clinched a playoff spot with a win or a Washington loss, but were denied when the Stealth earned a victory over Minnesota. Colorado clinched with the win. Mammoth rookie Adam Jones scored the winning goal in the extra session, ruining the Wings' rally. The Wings were trailing, 13-7, early in the second half, but scored six unanswered goals to climb back into the game.

"SEEKING Justice," this week's movie starring Nicolas Cage, starts intriguingly, turning the "Death Wish"-formula inside out. Will (Nicolas Cage), a high school English teacher, is distraught after his wife, Laura ("Mad Men's" January Jones), is beaten and raped and left clinging to life. In the hospital waiting room, a sharp-dressed man named Simon (Guy Pearce) approaches Will with an offer he can't refuse. Instead of having to wait for the cops to apprehend the perp - if they ever even catch him - and enduring a drawn-out trial that could result in a lenient sentence, Simon offers to track down and dispose of the cretin, completely free of charge.

THE PUCK rimmed around the boards, a weak clearing attempt by the Flyers' defense after a turnover by the Red Wings deep in the Philadelphia defensive zone. Jakub Voracek glanced once, quickly, to find Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall. And then the Wells Fargo Center fell silent. As Voracek turned his head to corral the puck, it was immediately met by a thunderous shoulder from Kronwall - one that sent Voracek into next week. Voracek's helmet was jarred loose as his head slammed into the ice. His hands were frozen in the air for a second until he regained his surroundings and somehow tried to get to the bench.

Holy Ghost Prep's two keys for gaining redemption against Octorara were handling defensive pressure and limiting second-chance opportunities. The top-seeded Firebirds fared pretty well in both categories, and surprisingly whipped the second-seeded Braves, 56-33, Saturday at Haverford College for their second PIAA District 1 Class AAA boys' basketball crown in three seasons. "We came in with a lot of motivation after losing to them in last year's final," said Tom Heston, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound senior forward.

This one was personal. Before last month's game at Temple was over, St. Joseph's guards Carl Jones and Langston Galloway said they were prepared for the rematch. "The way they did us at their place, it wasn't right," said Jones, recalling the 18-point setback. "At the end of the game, they were up probably 20 [points]. They were still throwing [alley]oops, shooting threes, and just disrespecting you. "So we felt really disrespected. So we really felt like we had to win this game.

* REVENGE. 10 p.m. tomorrow, 6 ABC.   NOTHING SAYS romance like an engagement party that ends with a body on the beach. Or so goes the thinking at ABC's "Revenge," which has taken 15 episodes to get back to the point where it began last fall, managing to plop that pivotal hour into the middle of February sweeps and into a week dominated by hearts and flowers. Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp) couldn't have planned it better herself. The true architect of one of the season's guiltier pleasures, though, is executive producer Mike Kelley, and according to Gabriel Mann, who plays Nolan Ross, the Internet billionaire who's doing everything he can to help Emily avenge her late disgraced father, Kelley doesn't give much away.

WESTERLY, R.I. - For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast. Now, researchers from the U.S. Navy are hoping to confirm what the men who discovered the wreck believe: that the sunken ship off the coast of Rhode Island is the USS Revenge, commanded by Oliver Hazard Perry and lost on a stormy January day in 1811. "The Revenge was forgotten. It became a footnote," said Charlie Buffum, a brewery owner from Stonington, Conn., who found the shipwreck while diving with friend Craig Harger.