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Good Guys and Bad Guys

May 9, 2008 3:24 PM

And the villains of “Heroes” are…

All of the above.

NBC has released a new promo for “Heroes” and it reveals pretty much nothing. As most diehard fans already know, the third season is titled “Villains.” The promo says, “In every hero there could be a villain” before plastering the words “hero” and “villain” over the face of every major character.

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They're Action Figures, Not Fashion Plates

May 8, 2008 7:30 PM

The NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group will release a set of action figures based on NBC’s hit series “Heroes” in June.

What do these “action” heroes look like?

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Messing Around at Paley Center

May 5, 2008 5:00 PM

MessingThe Paley Center for Media hosted an evening with actress Debra Messing on May 1 in Beverly Hills. Ms. Messing spoke about her acting career, the return of USA Network’s miniseries “The Starter Wife” as a full series and a certain scene that never made it onto NBC’s “Will & Grace.”

Ms. Messing said she grew up with TV, watching funny women including Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman. She aspired to be a Broadway triple threat; although she was admitted to a conservatory to study performing arts, her mother insisted she attend a liberal arts school. She did, graduating from Brandeis University.

After appearing in some New York theater productions, including being the first Harper in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America,” Ms. Messing went to Los Angeles to work on Fox’s “Ned and Stacy” and ABC’s “Prey.” She made a brief return to New York theater and then was approached by her agents with a script for “Will & Grace.” Ms. Messing said she hesitated at first, but a bottle of vodka and a lime later, she was on board.

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Think You Know Something About Golf?

May 2, 2008 12:13 PM

While the Daily Blink is happy to just take a Mulligan or three on the fairway, Juma Entertainment is revving up for part two of “Rules of the Game” on Sunday at 2 p.m. on CBS Sports and CBSSports.com.

The special will continue to test players’ knowledge of the intricacies of golf’s lesser-known rules, with the special using PGA Tour footage to demonstrate the game’s more unusual rules, and challenges viewers to test their knowledge against the pros.

Think you can’t beat the pros in golf? Guess again.

During the taping of the show, hosted by Bill Macatee, special guests and golf pros Bobby Clampett and Nancy Lopez estimated that probably no more than half of the PGA and LPGA players truly know all the rules of the game. In fact, when Mr. Clampett took the quiz from last year's “Rules of the Game,” he got just 7 out of 10 correct.

Last year’s airing on Aug. 17 matched the ratings of its live golf lead-in on CBS Sports. This time around, executive producer Bob Horowitz has brought in Gillette Fusion as title sponsor of the program.

Once again, viewers will get to play along live during the broadcast, testing their golf knowledge by going online to CBSSports.com or RulesQuiz.com and answering questions throughout the show. Those completing the quiz will be ranked according to the accuracy of their answers.

—Chris Pursell