NEWS & NOTES : WILLIS RETURNS TO SMALL SCREEN IN STAR-STUDDED `MAD' FINALE.Byline: Daily News Wire Services Big-time movie star Bruce Willis Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the Die Hard series. , who first found fame in the 1980s working alongside Cybill Shepherd Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born 18 February, 1950) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, and former fashion model. Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting in ABC's ``Moonlighting,'' is returning to series TV. For one night, that is. What drew him back? Turns out he's a die-hard fan of NBC's ``Mad About You,'' and agreed to participate in a star-studded season finale, which will air May 20. Besides Willis, the hourlong episode also will include guest appearances by Carol Burnett Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933 in San Antonio, Texas) is an Emmy Award-winning actress, comedian, singer, dancer, and writer and is known for her long and successful entertainment career. Burnett started her career in New York. , Carroll O'Connor John Carroll O'Connor (August 2, 1924 – June 21, 2001) was an American actor, most famous for his portrayal of the character Archie Bunker in the television sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1979) and Archie Bunker's Place (1979-1983). , Eric Stoltz, Estelle Getty and Michael Moore. The finale includes the season-long awaited birth of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) Buchman's baby. Hank Azaria, Hunt's real-life squeeze, also will appear in the episode. For Willis, it'll be his first time back on the small screen in a series since ``Moonlighting'' was fully eclipsed in 1989. The `Darndest' special: Bill Cosby and Art Linkletter, two of TV's most kid-connected crowd-pleasers, will team on an upcoming CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. special, ``Kids Say the Darndest Things.'' Cosby will host the May 16 program, with Linkletter, the long-time host of ``Art Linkletter's House Party Art Linkletter's House Party or House Party was an American daytime TV variety/talk show which aired on CBS Radio from January 15, 1945 to October 13, 1967, CBS-TV from September 1, 1952 to September 5, 1969, and on NBC-TV from December 29, 1969 to September ,'' making a rare appearance. The hourlong show will include segments with Cosby talking with children, and kids caught on tape doing funny things. Linkletter will preside over a segment featuring clips from his 30 years on the small screen. His ``House Party'' series, which ran on CBS in daytime from 1952 to 1969, included a daily segment in which four kids offered answers, often hilarious ones, to simple questions. The segment's title? ``Kids Say the Darndest Things.'' Linkletter, in fact, went on to write a best seller with that same title. For the new special, the producers have rounded up some of the kids featured in the classic clips from the Linkletter show. Short stuff: ``Forrest Gump'' is coming to broadcast TV for the first time. Tom Hanks' Oscar-winning mega-smash will air on 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. on May 4 ... CBS has renewed its daytime fave fave Informal n. One that is preferred above others or likely to win; a favorite. adj. Favorite. [Short for favorite.] ``The Price Is Right'' for next season, keeping its streak going as the longest-running game show on TV. Next season will be the series' 26th straight on the air, and it enjoyed a substantial run before that in another incarnation, dating back to 1956 (with Bill Cullen as host). Bob Barker, who has hosted the show through its entire current CBS run, will return as host next year ... ``NYPD Blue,'' which was shelved by ABC several weeks ago to make room for some spring tryouts, will return April 15 at 10 p.m. ... Lori Petty (``A League of Their Own'') and Joan Severance (``Wiseguy'') guest-star on the two-hour season-ending episode of NBC's ``Profiler'' on May 10. |
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