Inqlings | Givens, Amick film TV pilot here

Robin Givens

and

Madchen Amick

are in town to film a TV pilot.

If Lifetime bites on

The Verdict

, the drama series will be shot here, says

Gary Goodman

, an executive vice president of Lionsgate, the production company. He says camera crews will set up all over downtown, including City Hall and Old City, tomorrow through Dec. 12.

The Verdict

, not to be confused with the 1982 Paul Newman movie, stars Amick - most recently on the short-lived CBS drama

Viva Laughlin

after turns on

ER

,

Joey

,

Twin Peaks

and

Gilmore Girls

- as a newlywed, newly hired assistant district attorney from a blue-blood family. The plots will twist on the battle of "old money against new society," Goodman says.

In the plot, Amick's character (Christine) prosecutes an Oprah Winfreyesque TV personality named Ayira (played by Givens) who is accused of murdering her lover. Director

Mark Piznarski

most recently did the pilot for the CW's

Gossip Girl

.

"Philadelphia works creatively, economically and visually," says Goodman, citing the help of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office and the state's new tax incentives for producers. Writer

Jon Maas

had situated the story in New York, Goodman says, but Pennsylvania made it more attractive.

An advertising blimp owned by O'Neill Properties Group flew from its mooring at the Lofts of Valley Forge last week, and developer

Brian O'Neill

has gotten lots of media mileage out of his search. O'Neill posted a blog (

» READ MORE: http://blimpbounty.blogspot.com

) offering $100 rewards for the first five photos of it, $2,000 for the first video, and $2,000 for the actual blimp, whose banner reads, "NEW APARTMENTS" followed by a toll-free number. On Wednesday, a man called from Amesbury, Mass., but he said it blew away; the story made it to the Daily News of Newburyport, Mass. On Thursday, after O'Neill appeared on Fox News Channel, he reported getting a call from a finder in Florida - but the caller hung up.

Though

John Bolaris'

final weathercast on New York's WCBS will be Saturday, he's already settling in here. A moving truck pulled up Friday outside his Washington Square apartment. Next week, Bolaris will begin taping promos for his new station, Fox29. His exact January on-air starting date has not been announced.

Look for the on-air debut of CBS3 meteorologist

Doug Kammerer

to be on or about Feb. 19. He's still sitting out a six-month noncompete clause from his former station, NBC10.

After a slow start, 6ABC's

Action News

again won the November Nielsen ratings "sweeps." In the key 11 p.m. newscast,

Jim Gardner

and company (with an 8.5 rating and 16 "share") topped

Larry Mendte/Alycia Lane

on CBS3's

Eyewitness News

(7.5/14, for a strong second) and coasted past

Renee Chenault Fattah/Tim Lake

on NBC10 (5.2/10). Each rating point equals about 30,000 households, and each share is the percentage of TV sets in use. At 10 p.m., Fox29 drew a 4.5/7 and MyPHL had a 2.1/3.

Action News

, by the way, was the only 11 p.m. newscast to add viewers from prime time. At 10:45 p.m., 6ABC's average lead-in audience was a 7 rating/12 share, while CBS3's was a 10/17 and NBC10's was 6.4/11.

Marc Howard's

retirement party at CBS3 on Friday afternoon featured tenor

Tony Pugliese

, who sang "Vesti la Giubba" from

I Pagliacci

. In the aria, the tenor sings about how the show must go on despite his broken heart. "And now, I'll do that for the last time," said Howard, an opera fan, on his way to the anchor desk.

Don Imus

will return to radio tomorrow on WABC (770). The outlet closest to Philly will be Atlantic City's WTAA (1490).

Phil Boyce

of syndicator Citadel says talks continue with a Philly station he won't identify. Imus' former outlet, WWDB (860), now carries

Mancow

.

A who's who of the restaurant community will gather at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Finnigan's Wake (Third and Spring Garden Streets) for one of the city's larger Toys for Tots events. Last year's outing raised $7,000 in cash plus 650 toys. Admission is $20 or a new, unwrapped toy.

South Jersey teacher

Jennifer Grocki's

illustrated book

From A to Zamboni

is designed as a way to teach Flyers hockey to children. ("'E' is for elbows that can't get too high," etc.) Proceeds from the book, available through the Flyers Wives office and at the Wachovia Center ($16.95), will go to the Comcast-Spectacor Foundation.

The woman at Phillies shortstop

Jimmy Rollins'

side at his most-valuable-player events: girlfriend

Johari Smith

of Mount Airy. They met a few years ago when she was an intern with the Phillies; she's now athletic trainer at Springside School in Chestnut Hill. Smith brought J-Roll to Springside earlier this year to raise money for melanoma cancer research.

Rollins managed to brighten the day of presidential hopeful

Rudy Giuliani

. The Phillies'

John Brazer

, whose father-in-law is GOP rainmaker

Bob Asher

, asked J-Roll to sign a ball for the former New York mayor. At a Giuliani fund-raiser that night, Brazer handed it to him. Giuliani noted that when he was mayor, the Yankees won four World Series.

Martina McBride

flew in and out Tuesday to perform for select listeners of WXTU (92.5) at World Cafe Live. Joined by husband

John McBride

, 2-year-old daughter

Ava

, and the family Scottish terrier, she told those backstage that she needed to return to Nashville for her two older daughters' basketball games the next day.

A burst pipe - that's the official line - forced postponement of G Lounge's grand opening Thursday. The lounge, beneath Davio's at 17th and Chestnut Streets, will try again this Thursday. The rescheduling created additional work for the lounge's PR firm, Cashman & Associates - which was knee-deep in another crisis the same day: the broken pipe that shut down PhiladelphiaPark Casino.