NEWS & NOTES : HAGMAN'S PERSISTENCE PUTS `ORLEANS' SERIES BACK ON TRACK.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The on-again, off-again on-a·gain, off-a·gain adj. Informal Existing or continuing sporadically; intermittent or occasional: an on-again, off-again correspondence. new series, ``Orleans,'' starring Larry Hagman, is on again. Only a few days ago, word was that the series was not going to make it to air because CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. would only order six installments up front, rather than the 13 that producers wanted. When the network refused to budge, the show was thought to be dead in the water. Now comes the update that Hagman was so interested in getting back to work that he convinced the folks at Paramount Television Paramount Television (re-incorporated from Desilu Productions) was an American television production/distribution company that was active from December 1967 to May 28, 2006 and was launched under Gulf+Western. to take over from MTM MTM Medication Therapy Management MTM Minutes to Midnight (Linkin Park album) MTM Mary Tyler Moore (actress) MTM Made to Measure MTM Motoren-Technik-Mayer MTM Methods Time Measurement , and, as a result, the project has been revived. Watch for the hourlong drama about a powerful judge who also is the patriarch of a well-rooted New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded family to arrive as a replacement series some time around December. Hagman, who recently put his $6 Malibu mansion on the market to spend more time in the canyons of Ojai, says he won't mind the extra drive to work because he feels so good about the project, which also stars Blair Brown (``The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'') as a U.S. attorney. Face to face: Carrying the motto ``Live long and prosper'' to its logical conclusion, the Star Trek franchise will use ``Forrest Gump''-like special effects to bring the original ``Star Trek'' crew face to face with the ``Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' gang in a 30th-anniversary episode, ``Trials and Tribble-ations "Trials and Tribble-ations" is a fifth season episode of . It was written as a tribute to the of Star Trek, in the 30th anniversary year of the show : sister series produced a similar episode, "Flashback". ,'' to air on ``DS9'' in November. No word yet on whether this will violate the Prime Directive, but the AWOL cast of ``Friends'' may want to keep a close eye on the technology. |
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