Hallmark Channel Books Bob Newhart for Movie
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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
