In a painfully compelling segment each week, a panel of pop professionals (mostly industry figures) issued a critique of each contestant before nominating four for expulsion.
In assessing the impact of highlights on viewers, athletes and anchors, ESPN soft-pedals itself, amid an otherwise compelling segment that finds Shaquille O'Neal confessing that the highlight culture has "taken over basketball".
Stacy: I've done literally hundreds of national TV interviews, and when the host can personally relate, it makes for a much more compelling segment.
In the most compelling segment, Romaine Moreton narrates her own story of researching at the National Film and Sound Archive and discovering the building's history as the Australian Institute of Anatomy.
I took my headphones out and continued to puzzle over Sugata Mitra's compelling segment on the TED Radio Hour of "Unstoppable Learning," which suggested that in many ways, teachers are getting in the way of learning.
The forager and nature writer Richard Mabey might also not be a writer people would assume would have an affinity with the tube, but A Good Parcel Of English Soil, his essay on the Metropolitan line, is one of the most compelling segments of Penguin's Underground Lines Box Set, published to celebrate a century and a half of the tube.
Some of the program's most compelling segments come from women who were girls when Fitzgerald came to live in their neighborhood near the hospital.
Nominally the story of healing and mental rehabilitation, of a mountaineering expedition in the Himalayas for 11 wounded and traumatized combat veterans, its most compelling segments deal with the pain, not the triumph.
Pizzarelli graciously credits the wife with carpentering one of the most compelling segments in their couldn't-be-more-musical act: the medleys -- although what they do transcends the connotations of the word "medley" -- or what is now called "a mash-up" on the television series Glee.
