In the biggest programming purchase in its 19-year history, the TV Guide Channel has inked a three-year deal to broadcast reruns of VH1 "Celebreality" series Flavor of Love, The Surreal Life and My Fair Brady, to start airing in July.... On DVD May 1: An Officer and a Gentleman: Special Collector's Edition streets, featuring all-new bonus material that includes a fresh interview with Richard Gere.... Vote for your favorite King of Queens episode and get a chance to win a $4,500 shopping spree. Go here for more.... "Tiny Bubbles" singer/onetime Brady Bunch guest star Don Ho died on Saturday of heart failure. He was 76.
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Don Ho still hits the stage every week in Hawaii, singing "Tiny Bubbles," raising a glass to the vacationers and exclaiming, "Suck 'em up!" But it's the laid-back vocalist's 1972 Brady Bunch appearance (the one where Greg wore that spooky necklace) and a surreal daytime variety series, The Don Ho Show (with Ho more interested in his drink order than talking to his guests), that secured his spot as the tiki god of lounge culture. Next up, the King of Waikiki teams with a cartoon legend in Aloha, Scooby-Doo!, an animated adventure (out this week on DVD) that's almost as colorful as the 73-year-old island icon himself.TV Guide Online: How long have you been performing?Don Ho: I've been doing it for 44 years and I'm going to keep on doing it until I get it right! [laughs] Doing the show at the Beachcomber Hotel is good for my health. Really, I think it's good for me, the singing, the socializing with the crowd and the laughing.
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