In this video, Christopher Knight first talks about the "insidiously difficult" job of hosting a game show, as he does with the brand-new and syndicated Trivial Pursuit: America Plays. "The producers saw something in me," he shrugs. "But it isn't easy."At the 3:15 mark, I ask Christopher about the feud he was subject to earlier this year, when Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson broadcast her disapproval of his choice of wife, former Top Model Adrianne Curry. Reflecting on Flo's rant, Knight says, "I don't know what she was thinking," deeming Henderson determined to "be public with her disbelief of my marriage." In the end, Knight was forced to choose, and he goes into detail about that decision at the video's end. — Matt Mitovich
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Bob Newhart will be returning to the tube this summer in Herb's Murders, a two-hour original movie for the Hallmark Channel. Newhart will play a detective who, with the help of his police-officer daughter, investigates the killing of a publisher.Murders is but one of Hallmark's 30 original movies planned for release this year. Among the other projects are The Ride of Her Life, feauturing 7th Heaven's Stephen Collins, and Ladies of the House , which finds Pam Grier, Florence Henderson and Donna Mills working on a church-sponsored home-renovation project.For those who just can't get enough of funny old ladies, Hallmark also announced that it will begin airing The Golden Girls in March 2009. I've already begun counting the days! — Adam Bryant
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On Monday, Jennie Garth's Dancing with the Stars partner, Derek Hough, blabbed to TMZ that he might next tango with... the erstwhile Carol Brady, who is as hot as ever at age 73. Now all we need is Shirley Jones doing the quick-step. Or is there some other classic-TV favorite else you'd rather see strapping on cha-cha heels? — Ben KatnerLots more DWTS coverage:• Dancing Champ Helio No Longer Paired with Fiancée• Dancing Champ Is Revealed! Agree or Disagree?• Dancing Conspiratheory: Marie Osmond Faked Fainting?• Read Krista's recap of the big finale.• Flip through our photo gallery of sexy outfits.• Check out our list of top 10 moments.• Read Cheers & Jeers' take on Marie's final dance.
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Heroes "flying man" Adrian Pasdar will take a different leap of faith this winter as the book writer for Marcus Hummon's new musical Atlanta, at Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse, says Playbill.com. Grammy-winner Hummon has penned hits for a host of Nashville acts, including Mrs. Pasdar's (aka Natalie Maines') Dixie Chicks. Other Hollywood hotshots gracing the Geffen next season include Emmy winners Christine Lahti (in the West Coast bow of Wendy Wasserstein's final play, Third) and Laurie Metcalfe (in Quality of Life), and Annette Bening (in The Female of the Species).... Florence Henderson bares all in the New York debut of her autobiographical show All the Lives of Me: A Musical Journey, a one-night only event at Joe's Pub on June 11, and featuring a "no-holds-barred Q&A segment." But please, don't trot out that "Brady incest" query again. — Reporting by Raven Snook
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Clyde Drexler thinks he's toast. "I'm out," says the NBA Hall of Famer, looking into his crystal ball and seeing his own elimination on Tuesday night's Dancing with the Stars results show. "I'm off the show. And if this isn't it, I'm gonna break a leg or something."
One week after head judge Len Goodman read the celebrities the riot act about not practicing long enough and hard enough, the DWTS judges seemed in a lighter, more forgiving mood. But Drexler still managed to take significant body blows. Judge Carrie Ann Inaba called him flat out, "the worst dancer in the competition." As a group, the judges seem dismayed that he's not improving and not more like a couple of supe
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