CBS will air the 43rd annual Grammy Awards tonight at 7 to honor excellence in the recording industry. The program will be broadcast from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and celebrity appearances will be made by Madonna, U2, Destiny’s Child, ‘N Sync, Brad Paisley, Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera, Faith Hill, Nnenna Freelon, Take 6 and Eminem — all with host Jon Stewart governing the activity. Japanese TV nixes ‘Godzilla’ after sub accident The Nippon Television Network Corp (NTV) broke with stereotype by not airing a Godzilla movie last Tuesday, concerned that scenes of the gigantic mythical lizard attacking fishing boats might upset viewers. Due to the recent collision of a U.S. submarine with a Japanese Trawler near Hawaii, NTV postponed the 1998 Hollywood version of “Godzilla” on March 2, according to Reuters.According to an NTV spokeswoman, the company has postponed the airing indefinitely out of sensitivity to the victims of the Feb. 9 incident when the USS Greeneville, a nuclear submarine, surfaced and sank a Japanese fishing boat drowning nine. In the opening of “Godzilla,” the star of the film rises from the murky depths to attack Japanese fishing boats in rough seas.The incident has placed even greater strain on U.S.-Japanese relations making unpopular Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori even more unpopular for his lackadaisical attitude toward the event.NBC lags in ratings due to sportsNBC lost the ratings war last weekend as the XFL and pro basketball failed to draw viewers. The dive was so significant that even FOX was able to compete with the Peacock among young adults in the February sweeps.According to Rick Kissell of Variety, NBC started strong with adults 18-49 through Thursday, but lost nearly half over the next three nights. While FOX made a strong showing on those days, the fault belongs to NBC for failing to attract viewers to Saturday’s coverage of the new football league or a Sunday NBA game that ran over into primetime.The Nielsen ratings showed that Saturday’s primetime XFL game between the Los Angeles Xtreme and Las Vegas Outlaws scored a mere 3.8 overnight rating in the top markets — another 25 percent drop from the previous week’s 5.1, which was less than half of the strong opening week’s 10.3.NBC’s average of 4.8 million viewers is less than half of what first-place CBS drew on the night (11.1 million). NBC is projected to win the week of Feb. 11-18 in adults 18-49 with a 5.2 rating, followed by Fox (4.7), ABC (4.4) and CBS (4.0). CBS will win in total viewers with about 13 million viewers, ahead of ABC’s 12.6 million.Connery accuses Scottish media of gunning for him Most people’s favorite James Bond and a strong supporter of Scotland’s nationalist movement, Sean Connery, 70, accused the Scottish media Tuesday of unfounded attacks, according to Reuters.Connery, who lives in the Bahamas with wife Micheline, told the Daily Telegraph his campaign for Scottish independence is better waged from abroad because the Scottish media do not like him and treat him poorly.”The media is dreadful in Scotland because it’s under foreign ownership, and they have done nothing to encourage a parliament they waited 300 years for,” said Connery. “The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I’m there, so my position is much more affective if I’m outside Scotland.”Connery praised Scotland’s 2-year-old home rule parliament but said he would like the independence movement to be “further down the track” before he returned there to live.The former Bond said he suspected his support for the opposition Scottish National Party delayed his knighthood until last year in spite of his 40-year career in film. “Obviously I had crossed paths with somebody somewhere. I certainly didn’t go to them … but I took nearly a week to make a decision about whether to accept it,” Connery said.— Compiled by Greg Jerrett