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Network affiliates, Other Brotha/Funkee Finger Productions present "Denials without Confessions," a fresh, exciting and controversial soap opera for this spring. Here is a rough promotion/synopsis of first episode: Supa producer, TV talk-show host, herbal Viagra distributor, root doctor and investigative journalist Mo'tel Williams seeks the "buckey nekkid" truth within a scandal-ridden nation in denial.

Follow our hero as he investigates the correlation between sexual assault and the state of Colorado. He asks Kobe Bryant and the University of Colorado football team: "Is it the water or the effects of high-altitude living?"

Mo'tel's search for the truth continues in upstate New York. He notices that Martha Stewart has gone underground disguised as a third-shift crew chief at a local Taco Bell. Instead of ordering a "Three Piece Bean Burrito Gas Pack" with extra cheese sauce, he asks, "Baby, where the dollars at?"

And while investigative journalist Mo'tel continues to comb this scandal-ridden nation in denial for the truth, Robert Blake of the '70s TV show "Baretta" is chillin' with Huggy Bear; Michael Jackson is a recluse in Neverland; the "BEAT" goes on in Cincinnati, Ohio; the middle class transforms into the working poor; the poor got plenty of nuttin'; and you know the rest.

Tune in next time when LeVar Burton gets to the "roots" of why PBS canceled his literacy show for children, "Reading Rainbow." This has been "Denials without Confessions," the soap opera that works diligently to tell the people what they need to know.

Ken Stiggers is a TV producer in Jackson.