America Online Members to Name Mimi's Baby for Special February Episode of 'The Drew Carey Show'.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com BURBANK, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2001 America Online's 27 million members will have the opportunity to help choose the name for Mimi's soon-to-be-born baby boy on Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Television's "The Drew Carey Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marines and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show Show" (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. , Wednesdays, 9:00-9:30pm PT/ET). Stars Drew Carey and Kathy Kinney Kathy Kinney (born November 3, 1954) is an American actress. She is a versatile character actress who gained considerable popularity in the late '90s for playing Mimi Bobeck, the outrageously made-up, flamboyantly vulgar, and vindictive nemesis of Drew Carey on the sitcom will select the baby's name from the online entries submitted during the baby-naming contest, which runs February 1-15 at AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Keyword: Mimi's Baby. (Official rules and entry form can be found at the site.) The winner will be awarded round-trip coach class airfare for two to Hollywood, hotel accommodations for two nights, an official VIP tour of the Warner Bros. Studios, and tickets to a taping of "The Drew Carey Show." On the Valentine's Day episode of "The Drew Carey Show," Drew's sister-in-law and nemesis Mimi (Kathy Kinney) will go into labor, with the baby arriving with the kind of twist that only "The Drew Carey Show" can deliver. Kathy Kinney (as Mimi) will chat with "Drew" fans about the birth on the same night, Wednesday, February 14 (5 pm PT/8 pm ET, AOL Keyword: Live). Fans can then tune in to "Drew" the following week (for the February 21 episode) to discover the baby boy's new America Online-given name. This contest follows "The Drew Carey Show"'s tradition of involving online audience members in the show with behind-the-scenes bonuses. For instance, last year's "Drew-Cam" TV episode was enhanced by simultaneous elements available only on the Internet. Produced by Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television is the television production and distribution arm of Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment and The CW Television Network (in which Warner has a 50% ownership stake). , "The Drew Carey Show" airs Wednesdays 9:00-9:30pm (ET/PT) on the ABC Television Network. Bruce Helford, Drew Carey, Robert Borden (episodes1-13), Holly Hester (episodes 14-26) and Deborah Oppenheimer are executive producers. The series was created by Bruce Helford and Drew Carey. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.020101/bb4 |
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