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...Athens." OK, so maybe this is supposed to be "Melrose Place" to "The O.C."'s "Beverly Hills 90210." Josh Schwartz, the creator of Fox's Orange County soap, brings us this drama, set in a fictional New England college town. The pilot hasn't been shot yet, so instead Schwartz described the setting and cast, which includes, he said using a Seth Cohen-esque coinage, a "Hinjew" - a character who's half-Hindu and half-Jewish...
...Goodman, who voices the lead character in NBC's new family sitcom "Father of the Pride." (He plays a lion there, but still.) "Center of the Universe," says Moonves, went over extremely well with test audiences, though that's usually just a synonym for "somebody famous is in the pilot." (CBS's Charlie Sheen hit, "Two and a Half Men," tested well - but so did "Emeril...
...Extreme Makeover were a benevolent entity, like UNICEF: "They make you laugh, make you cry, and make a difference." Joining the schedule next year is "Wife Swap," in which mothers from two different households change homes for a week to live with each others' families. Scenes from the pilot, in which a crunchy vegetarian from California swapped with a neat freak from New Jersey, got a lot of laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about a show that defines women entirely in terms of their homemaking. I mean, do we really want reality TV to drag women back...
...Lost" all inspired curiosity. In other news, "NYPD Blue" ends after next season, having apparently run out of bad things to make happen to Sipowicz. Oprah Winfrey is producing an ABC movie of Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," starring Halle Berry. Jessica Simpson, whose sitcom pilot got rejected by ABC, has instead signed a deal to do variety specials for two years, for at least one month of which she will still be famous. And "Alias" fans, note - you'll have to wait until midseason, when "Desperate Housewives" ends its run, to get your next...
Technical glitches with the computerized database itself caused students’ records to disappear or to be associated with the wrong school, users of a pilot program complained. And because the system was used to screen for dubious records, the bug-ridden system could have brought hundreds of legitimate students under scrutiny by federal investigators...