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This 90-minute episode focuses on Garrison Keillor, raconteur, poet, populist, and philosopher.

HBO's Six Feet Under ran for five seasons and starred Lauren Ambrose, from left, Michael C. Hall, Peter Krause and Frances Conroy.

You wouldn't know it from her bright-eyed appearance on a chilly Tuesday morning, but Lauren Ambrose has spent the better part of the last month weeping.

EXIT THE KING This is a revival of a dark comedy by the master surrealist, Eugene Ionesco , about a control freak who has misruled his kingdom, but refuses to step down, even though facing death.

William Sadler, who has been seen on Broadway in Biloxi Blues and Julius Caesar , has joined the cast of the Eugene Ionesco comedy Exit the King , which will begin rehearsals Feb.

'Loving Leah,' 8 p.m., CBS. Jake is a young doctor, with a stylish girlfriend and a modern life.

"Loving Leah," is a clever romantic comedy starring "Six Feet Under's" Lauren Ambrose as an Orthodox Jewish widow who finds herself in a marriage of convenience to her late husband's secular brother.

Lauren Ambrose in 'Loving Leah.' To prep for her role as a widowed member of a Hasidic community in CBS ' movie "Loving Leah," former " Six Feet Under " star Lauren Ambrose spent time with women of the devout ...

Jake is a young doctor with a fashionable girlfriend and a modern life. Then his brother, an Orthodox rabbi, dies; Jake is expected to marry the widow Leah or renounce the brother.

Leah was born to be a devoted wife and mother and reared to be a homemaker and religious.

Normally it takes about four hours to get from St. Louis to Kansas City, but in the case of "Loving Leah," it took longer than that.

Lauren Ambrose and Andrea Martin will join previously announced stars Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon in the forthcoming Broadway production of Eugene Ionescoa TMs Exit the King .