RADIOThe BBC’s Holocaust Silence: KCRW-FM (89.9) observes...

RADIO

The BBC’s Holocaust Silence: KCRW-FM (89.9) observes the nationwide Holocaust Remembrance Week with its broadcast at 12:25 p.m. today of “The Unspeakable Atrocity,” a half-hour BBC documentary investigating the BBC’s own censorship role in refusing to air any information about German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Today’s broadcast marks the U.S. premiere of the program, which won a prestigious Peabody Award last week.

TELEVISION

Dixie’s New Pilot: Former “Designing Women” star Dixie Carter will star in “Her Honor,” a CBS pilot to be co-executive produced by Carter and former “Designing Women” head writer and executive producer Pam Norris. The pilot will be the first project for Carter’s newly formed company, Little Lambs Productions, which also aims to produce additional TV series, movies-of-the-week and home videos. Carter says that she formed the company, named after a family term of endearment, to “put together truly entertaining television fare that two or even three generations in the same family can watch together without embarrassment. I don’t believe trashy content is a requisite of a funny or touching or compelling program.”

* Searching for Talker: The nascent NBC-owned cable channel “America’s Talking” continues its nationwide search for an unknown talk-show host with a 10-city “Talk Search” tour that stops in Los Angeles April 27-29. The videotaped auditions for “an average American . . . to become the next national talk-show star” will take place at the Century City Shopping Center. For information, call (800) 988-TALK. The winner will receive a one-year contract to host a show on the network, which launches July 4.

* Colorized ‘Rascals’: Spanky, Alfalfa and the rest of the “Little Rascals” crew will be colorized for syndication by TV producer King World. Originally called “Our Gang,” the series was produced by Hal Roach in the 1920s and ‘30s as films. They were retitled “Little Rascals” and sold to television in the 1950s. King World is also sharing producing chores on Steven Spielberg’s upcoming summer movie, “The Little Rascals.”

* Analyzing Menendez Film: The Menendez brothers have inspired even more television programming. On April 18, Court TV will air an hourlong commentary/critique of Fox Broadcasting’s made-for-TV movie “Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Brothers,” which airs that same night. Court TV’s program will appear at 7 p.m. in the West, preceding Fox’s movie about the brothers accused in the 1989 killings of their parents. The Court TV discussion will follow the film in the Eastern and Central time zones. Terry Moran, who was Court TV’s on-site reporter for the Menendez trial, will do a comparative analysis of the fictional and authentic trial footage.

POP/ROCK

Country Museum Tour: Tex Ritter’s revolver and Loretta Lynn’s guitar are among the items scheduled to tour the nation in the first Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum Traveling Exhibition, a mobile, self-contained 2,000-square-foot interactive country music museum. The tour, organized by the County Music Foundation and Track Marketing, is scheduled to start this fall with visits to a minimum of 30 cities, including Los Angeles. The museum will appear in conjunction with special events such as concert tours and state fairs.

THE ARTS

Quake Recovery Grants Available: Individual artists and nonprofit arts groups who sustained losses in the Jan. 17 earthquake can apply through April 25 for arts recovery grants from the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. Grants of up to $2,000 for individuals and $3,000 for organizations will be awarded to fund the restoration of damaged artworks and studio space; to provide equipment, materials and supplies; to recoup production losses; to find temporary space, and to help with historic preservation and audience development. To date, the department has raised $137,000 for the recovery grants.

QUICK TAKES

Lynn Redgrave’s one-woman play “Shakespeare for My Father,” which had been booked into the Henry Fonda Theatre for an April 19-May 8 run, has been postponed because of continuing earthquake-related repairs at the theater. The new dates are not yet known. . . . Bob Costas will host the 47th annual “Horatio Alger Awards” airing on NBC April 22. The program, offering personal “rags-to-riches” stories of 10 business and civic leaders, will also feature appearances by Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith, poet laureate Maya Angelou, singers Trisha Yearwood and Gary Morris, and the Boys Choir of Harlem. . . . Veteran animator Ralph Bakshi (“Fritz the Cat,” “Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures”) will create up to five seven-minute cartoon shorts to air next season on the Cartoon Network. . . . Country singer Lorrie Morgan is shooting “Loralei Lee,” a potential TV pilot for CBS-TV.