Jonathan Storm: Vick dog, true to her name, was a sweetie

The Inquirer's Jonathan Storm is reporting this week from the television critics press tour in Beverly Hills. These items originally appeared in his blog, "From the Source," at www.philly.com/philly/blogs/from_the_source.

Georgia the Pit Bull: Saved from Michael Vick.

Georgia Brown gave me a kiss today.

Not just another starlet dragged in for another Television Critics Asssociation session, Georgia's a pit bull, one of 22 fighting dogs rescued from Bad Newz Kennels, on property owned by disgraced Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick.

She and her pals are being rehabilitated at Dogtown, part of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah, and are the focus of National Geographic Channel's

Dogtown

, which returns Sept. 5 with a two-hour special, "Saving the Michael Vick Dogs."

At Dogtown, they figure Georgia's 6 years old, but it's hard to tell, since all her teeth, the most reliable age marker, have been removed. Nobody wanted her biting any of her mates, in the 11 or 12 times she'd been forcibly bred.

No problem eating, though, says medical director Michael Dix. Toothless dogs and cats "just kind of gum it and shove it down."

Abused all her life until recently, Georgia just lay there sleeping as her costars expounded on their show. When the presentation was over, she was nicer to the TV critics than almost all of the human TV actresses who traipse through the Press Tour.

I can't remember the last time one of them gave me a smooch.

George Foreman: A different kind of pit bull.

We've had

The Osbournes

,

Gene Simmons Family Jewels

,

Keeping up With the Kardashians

, and who knows how many other "intimate" inside looks at families of celebrities and the not-so-celebrated.

Now comes

Family Foreman

, premiering Wednesday on TV Land.

Former heavyweight champ and grilling genius George Foreman brought around a couple of his sons, George and George, and gave the TV critics a preliminary look behind the curtain.

Don't expect a knockout.

Why are five of your 10 children named George, Mr. Foreman?

"I tell everybody, when you've been hit on the head by Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield, Muhammad Ali, how many names do you expect me to come up with?"