When NBC's Las Vegas left off last season, Ed (James Caan) looked worried as Danny McCoy (Josh Duhamel) was recalled to the Marine Corps for a mysterious intelligence mission. Just before leaving Sin City, Dan the Man finally made love to his childhood best friend, Mary (Nikki Cox). (Jackpot!) But will the dapper Duhamel be MIA when Season 2 begins tonight at 9 pm/ET?
"We've had so many fans asking if Josh Duhamel is leaving the show," says creator Gary Scott Thompson. "No, he's not! Danny is back in Vegas in the season opener. He will have completed his mission off screen over the summer."
It's not that simple, though. Danny will struggle with post-traumatic stress. "Much like real soldiers returning from Afghanistan after watching their buddies get killed," Thompson says, "it's going to be a difficult adjustment back to normal life." On the (kinda) bright side, Ed and Danny "will be more simpatico" now that they share psycholog
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Circa 2004, Cheryl Ladd is recurring as James Caan's wife — aka Mrs. Big Ed — on NBC's Las Vegas (Mondays at 9 pm/ET). But she'll always be best loved as Kris Munroe from the campy '70s hit Charlie's Angels. Surprisingly, she almost turned down the TV gig that made her famous.
"That is true," Ladd says. "I had come very close to getting the role of the daughter on Family, another of Aaron Spelling's shows. It was a very well-written, prestigious show. I was seeing myself as a serious actress; I didn't see myself in Charlie's Angels. And then, to replace Farrah Fawcett
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Is NBC's Las Vegas turning into a modern-day Love Boat? It would seem so, judging by the growing list of B- and C-list celebs checking into the Montecito. In recent months, singer Wayne Newton, magicians Penn and Teller and actress Mimi Rogers have all made cameos. And next week, Vegas hits the jackpot when Alec Baldwin and Brooks and Dunn pay a visit.
"People are calling and approaching us," boasts exec producer Gary Scott Thompson. "It seems to be the fun show that everyone wants to be on or have something to do with."
Illusionists Siegfried and Roy were booked to appear in a November sweeps episode, but Roy Horn's tiger attack forced Thompson to come up with a Plan B. "It was so Las Vegas," he says of the plot, which was shelved until February. "We're trying to find another [quintes
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