‘Martha’ opens Stewart’s TV push

Can Martha Stewart come back? We’ll begin to find out today with the premiere of “Martha” at 3 p.m. on KNBC-TV Channel 4, a nationally syndicated lifestyles show over which she will preside in front of a studio audience.

Then, on Sept. 21, she hits prime time with NBC’s “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.”

Having just shed the electronic shackle from her ankle, and with nearly six months of house arrest behind her, Stewart, 64, is eager to move beyond the scandal that began almost three years ago and led to her conviction and a five-month prison term in West Virginia for lying to authorities about a stock sale.

Her hope, she says, is to revitalize her company by getting the public “back on track about what we are and what we do here. Without that, they watch fake shows, like on CBS coming up [Sept. 25] with Cybill Shepherd [as Stewart].”

She hasn’t seen that TV film, “Martha: Behind Bars” -- and doesn’t plan to.