Maury becomes a crimefighter

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Universal Television's Maury did John Walsh proud Friday when the
daytime talk show helped to catch a criminal who had been on the lam for two
years.

On April 18, Maury did a show about brutal attacks and featured
Jamieka Cooper of Florence County, S.C., who had been shot in the face and
blinded by her boyfriend, Reggie McNeil, after the couple had an argument May 6,
2001.

After the segment, in which the producers posted the number to call the
Florence County sheriff's office, viewers began calling in and Friday, April 25,
McNeil turned himself in to Brooklyn, N.Y., police.

In more good news for Maury, the program was the highest-rated daytime
talk show in New York Friday with a 5.7 rating/15 share, beating Oprah's
5.4/14.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.