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ER doc Alex Kingston gave birth to a 6 lb, 11 oz daughter Wednesday. The actress's husband is freelance journalist Florian Haertel... TNN has acquired rerun rights to CBS's hit forensics drama C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation for $1.5 million per episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter... The trade paper also reports that former Home Improvement star and current Harvard freshman Jonathan Taylor Thomas has been cast in the Fox drama pilot American Soap as, appropriately enough, a freshman at an elite New England college. — Michael Ausiello with Daniel R. Coleridge

TV GuideNews March 30, 2001 at 12:00 a.m. PT