NBC borrows babies

Would you lend your baby to a TV show?

If so, you might be interested in the forthcoming NBC "reality" series "The Baby Borrowers."

It's the latest British reality show being translated to American TV. Teenage couples will care for an infant for a few days; then they'll take care of a toddler, a pre-teen, a younger teen and even a senior citizen. It's supposed to teach them what real life is like — and entertain the masses.

The producers insist that there are all sorts of safety measures in place so that the kids won't get hurt, and — barring some evidence to the contrary — I'll take them at their word.

But what kind of parent would essentially abandon their baby for several days for a TV show?

Maybe we'll find out when the show premieres on Monday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m.

THE JOURNEY appears to be over for "Journeyman."

Nobody likes to use the world "cancel" in TV these days — networks don't want to tick off studios, writers, producers and actors they might want to work with again — but NBC didn't renew the series about a time traveler. And the network's option on "Journeyman" expired earlier this week.

NBC originally ordered 13 episodes, and the 12th and 13th will next week in the regular "Journeyman" time slot on Monday at 9 p.m. and on Wednesday at 9 p.m.

The reason? Ratings, of course. Bad ratings.

The show had a loyal core audience, but there weren't enough viewers in that core to make it viable.

And, as a result, nobody will ever really know what the heck was going on in "Journeyman." At least we'll never see an episode explaining why or how the title character (Kevin McKidd) was traveling through time.

"MEDIUM" WILL RETURN in January. Just not on Sundays, as NBC had originally planned.

The drama about a psychic (Patricia Arquette) who solves crimes is scheduled to air Mondays at 9 p.m. beginning Jan. 7. Which, oddly enough, is the time slot the show occupied for its first two seasons before it was moved to Wednesdays last season.

The big news for Season 4 of "Medium" is that Oscar-winner Anjelica Huston will appear in six episodes, playing an investigator who strikes up a bargain of some sort with Allison (Arquette).

JUST WHEN RELATIONS between the United States and France were improving comes this news — MTV's "The Hills" is going to France.