The West Wing News

Couple of weeks back we broke the news that Fox TV Studios had decided to shoot Jack and Dan -- a new hour-long buddy-cop action-comedy starring Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks -- in Dallas.

The inspiration for Ernestine, the "one-ringy-dingy" telephone operator who delighted in denying customers' requests, came to Lily Tomlin years ago when she was living in New York, working on improv and hating the phone company.

Actor Bradley Whitford stopped by the show today to talk about the Hopenhagen Movement -- an international movement to drive action on climate change at the COP15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December.

Today: Actor Alan Young is 90. Talk-show host Larry King is 76. Talk-show host Dick Cavett is 73.

Emmy-winner Aaron Sorkin is planning to return to TV. The "West Wing" creator has another series after he completes his film work.

I wonder how many men looked at the photograph of Dr Brooke Magnanti who outed herself the other day as the real Belle de Jour, blogger horizontale and thought to themselves, "Yeah ... well I reckon I'd pay 300 for that". I know I did and it's not because I'd pay 300 for that.

Andrew Denton and actor/author Alan Alda, the first guest on the new series of Elders.

Longtime actress, comedian and writer Lily Tomlin brings her act to Medford tonight.

Janis Burklund, head of the Dallas Film Commission, breaks the big news: "We have landed the Fox TV Studios production Jack and Dan ." Which, for those who don't read The Hollywood Reporter , is the latest series from Burn Notice creator and exec producer Matt Nix.

CJ Cregg, the straight-talking presidential press secretary who is said to have inspired Lord Mandelson's possible new role, has some of the West Wing's best lines.

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Such an approach has tangled the Christian faith in a confusion of contradictions.

Colin Hanks has been cast opposite Bradley Whitford in "Jack and Dan," Fox's upcoming 13-episode action comedy series set in Los Angeles.

Janet Jackson will sit for a prime-time interview on ABC in two weeks -- which means the witches of "Eastwick" are getting a sweeps night off.

I don't have a lot to write about this week-it's Monday, and I'm not properly caffeinated.

Apparently, it is whether you win or lose and not how you play the game. True, I usually am a cynic a ' an optimistic gloomy Gus, as it were a ' but what should have been a nondescript 2002 has proven my pessimism with a capital "P." And we're only halfway through.

He's zipping - on a Segway. Using the personal transporter is one way the Democratic politician deals with the effects of multiple sclerosis .

He might get serious roles on TV, but Rob Lowe has specialized in lampooning his handsome self in film.

The sound has been around for many years, and public television is giving it an extra showcase.

Comic and Oscar-nominated actress Lily Tomlin plays the Borgata Saturday in her first Atlantic City performance.