Now that former Andy Dick Show funnyman Robert Blesse has landed himself a guest gig on tomorrow night's JAG (9 pm/ET on CBS), we finally know someone who can give us the dirt on the squeaky-clean military drama.
So, Robert, tell your friends at TV Guide Online: Is it true that David James Elliot hogs all the good junk food at the craft-services table? "Actually, I can't say for sure," the cagey actor replies with a chuckle. Sounds like this up-and-comer is under strict orders to withhold any info about his leading man's gluttonous tendencies. "I didn't get to work with [Elliot], but I'm sure he can have all the Fritos he wants."
Just as we suspected! What about major babe Catherine Bell? Does the crew crank up the air conditioning every time the major hottie arrives on the set? "I can't confirm that, either," Blesse says, slyly adding, "I do hear that it's a very happy time, though."
From the way that he's talking —
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When actress Catherine Bell gave birth to daughter Gemma last year, JAG never acknowledged her pregnancy onscreen. Now that the CBS military drama has entered its 10th — and possibly final — season, Mac may end up in the family way, too!
As last season wrapped, Harm (David James Elliott) reminded Mac of the pact they made years ago to have a baby together if neither was married or spoken for by now. Unfortunately, he didn't know she was facing medical issues of a, well, feminine nature. "It's a slim chance that Mac could have a child," the 36-year-old Bell tells TV Guide Online, "but I like to believe in miracles. It doesn't look hopeful, but you never know. On TV, even when you're told you can't have a child, you have one anyway."
Funny how an eligible bachelorette like Mac has remained unwed this long. Of course, the lovely lieutenant colonel's men do keep dying on her — an issue she'll wisely explore in thera
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When JAG spinoff Navy NCIS debuted last fall, its title caused some head-scratching. If NCIS stands for Naval Criminal Investigative Service, then isn't the Navy part redundant? That's how Don Bellisario — creator of JAG and NCIS — always felt, but CBS overruled him. The network wanted Navy in the name to keep his two military crime dramas connected in viewers' minds. However, that's about to change.
"That NCIS has been labeled a JAG spinoff is good and bad," Bellisario tells TV Guide Online. "It's not remotely like JAG. I hope to God it runs as long as JAG, but it's a completely different show! It does not look, feel, taste or smell like JAG. That's why, next season, we're dropping Navy off the title. It's just going to be NCIS."
Will TV lawmen David James Elliott and Mark Harmon still share the screen in more JAG-NCI
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This week, the cast of JAG stood at attention for paparazzi lenses at Skybar on the Sunset Strip. That's where they saluted themselves for hitting 200 episodes and wrapping filming on the CBS military drama's ninth season. The scene was David James Elliott & Co. sipping cocktails under the stars, while waitresses in geisha-style getups passed out fortune cookies. This was an homage to JAG's "What If" episode, in which Harm and his pals pictured themselves on life paths not taken. As for Party Boy, the dictates of my destiny were clearly twofold: Scarf down Chinese food and serve up May sweeps dish!
The big question of the night: Will this series live to see Season 10? CBS has made no renewal announcement yet. "I'm like a Zen master," Elliott charmingly shrugged. "I just take every day one day at a time. I'm not gonna commit hubris and just assume."
JAG's commander-in-chief — executive producer Don Bellisario R
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