Wallenda Walk Across Niagara Falls

Nik Wallenda makes history by being the first person that walk across Niagara Falls on a wire.

Wallenda calmly walks one step at a time as he stared down into the churning waters 60 meters below. Nothing can beat that view he said. “Just staring at the falls from here is breathtaking,” Wallenda said after successfully completing his daredevil act.

Nik Wallenda Geoff Robins/AFP/Getty

And although Nik Wallenda's 1,800-foot trip over the roaring waters of Horseshoe Falls, the largest of the three falls, secured him some serious bragging rights, the daredevil seemed more interested in the estimated 112,000 people who gathered to witness the spectacle (and the millions more who tuned in on TV).

“The most amazing part was when he was on the line and he was waving at the people,” said eight-year-old William Clements. The boy, who came with his family from Dresden, Ont., jumped up and down with excitement as Wallenda knelt down on the wire toward the finish, took a hand off his balance bar and waved.

ABC televised the walk and insisted Wallenda use a tether to keep him from falling in the river. Wallenda said he agreed because he wasn't willing to lose the chance to perform the walk it took him well over a year to win permission from two countries to do. Such stunts are normally illegal. ABC's sponsorship helped offset some of the $1.3 million cost of the spectacle.

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Dallas

TNT reboot the classic TV soap of the 1980s, "Dallas". After 21 years, "Dallas" returned to primetime Wednesday night on TNT just as outlandish and over-the-top as ever. But for some TV critics, that's not a compliment. The show is essentially picking up where it left off, with Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy reprising their roles as J.R. and Bobby Ewing, respectively. ( Linda Gray's Sue Ellen is back as well.)

Like his dad, John Ross is ambitious and wants to stick with the family business: oil. But Christopher, who was adopted by Bobby and his first wife Pam, is seeking an alternate energy source in methane mining, which goes in line with the wishes of his late grandmother, Ellie Ewing, who declared in her will that there would be no drilling on the family's iconic ranch, Southfork.

“Dallas,” which originally was broadcast from 1978 to 1991, managed just under two million viewers in the most important group to advertisers — viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 — which means the show tended to attract older viewers. That had been an expected demographic pattern for the revival of a series that is more than 20 years old.