1.   The show has failed to appear in any TV popularity charts and eight of the original cast of virtual unknowns have been axed since it began last summer.

2.   Although Lazio is a virtual unknown outside his Suffolk County home base, Davis added, he is confident that that will change.

3.   Athletes such as John Henry Lloyd, a spectacular black shortstop that legendary Hall of Famer Honus Wagner called the greatest he ever saw, were virtual unknowns.

4.   Before going from heir to forgotten, Wright was a virtual unknown.

5.   Brady, the virtual unknown, kept starting.

6.   A virtual unknown as an assemblyman, Flores shocked party members when he announced his candidacy last spring, months before other parties had decided on nominees.

7.   After years in the acting business as a virtual unknown, Delroy Lindo seems poised for stardom.

8.   After years in the acting business as a virtual unknown, Lindo seems poised for stardom.

9.   But unlike Garcetti, a highly visible political figure in Los Angeles for nearly a decade, his challengers are virtual unknowns with limited campaigns.

10.   But, having been a virtual unknown before the vote, he had no organization.