While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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Doris Roberts, Our House
After nine years — and four Emmy wins! — as Everybody Loves Raymond's exasperating Marie, Doris Roberts decided to mix things up a bit. She returned to the big screen in the semi-raunchy Grandma's Boy, then switched from tickling funny bones to warming hearts with the Hallmark Channel movie Our House (premiering Saturday at 9 pm/ET). Roberts spoke with TVGuide.com about her real-life-tinged turn as a wealthy widow who opens her manse to the homeless, as well as her upcoming reunion with her TV son, Ray Romano.
TVGuide.com: So after years of making everybody laugh on Eve
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Everybody Loves Raymond's Patricia Heaton, who already has a pilot at ABC, is also in talks to develop a View-like talk show for Buena Vista Television. Hmm, just how hard a bitch-slap can Barbara Walters deliver?
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John Lithgow will star in the NBC comedy pilot Twenty Good Years, about two fiftysomething men who decide to make the most of the next two decades.... Jay Mohr is set to perform Community Service in an NBC comedy about an arrogant New Yorker who gets "stuck" in his quaint Ohio hometown.... Justine Bateman has been cast (and perhaps might even wear underwear) as the sister of Patricia Heaton's recent widow in an as-yet-untitled ABC comedy.... Larenz Tate has joined the Joe Pantoliano-fronted CBS drama Waterfront.
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Clockwise from top left: Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Larry David, Michael Richards, Jason Alexander, Seinfeld
Question: Please help settle a bet between my brother and myself. The loser has to buy tickets to a Braves game. I say Larry David showed up on Seinfeld a few times, but my brother says he didn't. What do you say? Who's right?
Answer: Assuming your brother has to buy a ticket for you, Phil, I say enjoy the game. Your brother may not have recognized him, but David did pop up on the show during its eight-year run, which started in May 1990.
Most fans know that Seinfeld cocreator David (Fridays, Curb Your Enthusiasm) provided the voice of George Steinbrenner on the show. That alone, I'm thinking, wouldn't settle your bet since your bro might try to
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Patricia Heaton
After nine ratings-tastic years as Everybody Loves Raymond's Debra, Patricia Heaton wanted to shake things up with her next, non-put-upon-housewife role. In TNT's The Engagement Ring (premiering tonight at 8 pm/ET), she plays Sara Anselmi, a vineyard owner whose own love life is thrown for a loop when a decades-old marriage proposal arrives in the mail for her mother (played by Lainie Kazan). Heaton shared a few minutes with TVGuide.com to discuss this return Engagement, life after Raymond and her new sitcom dreams.
TVGuide.com: What was your strategy in picking your first post-Raymond project?Patricia Heaton: We had The Engagement Ring in developme
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From Dumb & Dumber to The Hours, Jeff Daniels sure has run the gamut in his acting career. "I like variety," he tells TV Guide Online. "I could never do a 10-year television series." Still, the movie star doesn't mind doing one teensy TV-movie. Next up, he costars with Everybody Love Raymond's Patricia Heaton in TNT's version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (tonight at 8 pm/ET).
"She was a joy to work with," he says of Heaton. "When you're doing comedy, it's good to have somebody across from you who knows what comedy is. She's really good. She knows what she's doing."
Speaking of fun comedy teams, 'tis a shame Daniels and Jim Carrey will never reunite for a Dumb & Dumber sequel. What did he think of last year's prequel — starring two younger unknowns as Harry and Lloyd — we wonder?
"I didn't see it," Daniels shrugs. "Nobody went to see it. I actually walked by the theater an
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