ENTERTAINMENT

‘Supernatural’ Pop Chart Stay: Santana’s “Supernatural” success continues this week as the veteran rock group holds the No. 1 spot on the nation’s album charts for the second straight week. “Supernatural,” with 184,000 copies sold last week, is the group’s first No. 1 collection since 1974. The Backstreet Boys, Creed, Lou Bega and Britney Spears round out this week’s Top 5, according to SoundScan.

Documentary Winners: “On the Ropes” and “A Place Called Chiapas” will share the feature documentary prize at the International Documentary Assn.’s 1999 Distinguished Documentary Achievement Awards, to be held Friday at the Los Angeles Center Studios. Other honorees in various categories include “Still Missing,” “The Dragons of Galapagos,” “Beyond the Sea,” “Justice for All,” “The Murder of JFK: A Revisionist History” and “Where the Sky Meets the Land.” In addition, the IDA will give its 1999 Career Achievement Award to filmmaker Michael Apted (“Seven Up”).

KNBC News: KNBC-TV has promoted reporter Michele Ruiz to anchor the station’s 4 p.m. newscast, beginning Monday. Ruiz, who will anchor with Chuck Henry, replaces Asha Blake, who recently joined NBC’s “Later Today” as a co-host. . . . In other KNBC moves, the station is turning its news segment “4 Your Health” into a weekly half-hour series, premiering Nov. 6 at 4:30 p.m. Kelly Mack and Dr. Bruce Hensel will host the program, which will feature 13 to 15 health-related segments per episode.

Network Notes: NBC has pulled its low-rated Brooke Shields comedy “Suddenly Susan” for the important November ratings sweeps, with its Monday time slot to be filled by “Friends” reruns. NBC says “Susan” will return on Dec. 6. . . . Gregory Hines will join NBC’s “Will & Grace” in a recurring role as a “slick attorney,” starting Nov. 30. . . . CBS has picked up a full season of its new Friday night drama, “Now and Again,” about a middle-aged man who gets a new life in a 26-year-old body. . . . UPN’s “Moesha,” the WB’s “Felicity,” Fox’s “Party of Five,” NBC’s “Sunset Beach” and MTV’s “Loveline” were among those receiving 1999 SHINE Awards from the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Media Project during ceremonies at the Skirball Cultural Center Tuesday night. The awards honor “outstanding portrayals of family planning, sexuality and reproductive health” in TV programs.

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The New York Public Library has acquired a 370-piece video archive of the work of the late dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Included are tapes of the soon-to-be Russian defector as a student at Leningrad’s Kirov Ballet. . . . Martha Stewart has settled her $10-million libel suit against the National Enquirer over a 1997 story: “Martha Stewart Is Mentally Ill.” Settlement details were not disclosed.