Per Variety, TV Land has bought off-network rights to Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the cabler's first-ever purchase of a reality series and only the second time it has grabbed a show currently on the air. EM:HE will air Tuesdays at 11 pm/ET, starting Aug. 7.... Out on DVD today: Meatballs: Special Edition, and CHiPs' Season 1 (see Erik Estrada Q&A). Coming soon: Black Snake Moan (June 26) and The Dark Crystal: 25th Anniversary Edition (Aug. 14).
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Jay Bienstock, Mark Burnett's longtime collaborator on Survivor and The Apprentice, has inked a seven-figure deal to develop unscripted projects for CBS Paramount Network Television, says Variety.... Superfans of TNT's The Closer, check this out.... DVD releases have been set for Meatballs: Special Edition (June 5) and Walt Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (leaving "the vault" for the first time on Dec. 11. Yeah, I'm thinking SNL, too.).... Brothers & Sisters' Balthazar Getty and his wife, Rosetta, are expecting their fourth child, says People.... Correction: Greg Grunberg's charity project ("Heroes' Greg Grunberg Proves to Be a Real Superman") is the Pediatric Epilepsy Project.
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Dick Wolf is working on a new legal drama that will examine the impact of a big-time trial (think O.J. or Scott Peterson) on a small town, but — and you'd better sit down for this — it isn't called "Law & Order: This 'n' That." Suddenly I'm very afraid.... Ivan Reitman, who has directed big-screen features from Meatballs to Old School, has begun thinking small: He's developing a sitcom for Fox called That Guy, about a 35-year-old who surrenders to a "second puberty" and begins acting up like he's 21. Kinda like what Big Brother's Howie will be like when he starts to gray.
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