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Paris to bring her wonk-eye to Larry King

Dealing with jail time for driving offenses was difficult, but now Paris Hilton faces the aftermath.

The 26-year-old heiress is expected to be released from a Los Angeles County women's jail early this week, and will give her first post-jail TV interview to "Larry King Live," Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET (Thursday 0900 GMT, 1700 Hong Kong time).

Hilton has professed in letters and phone interviews to want to change her partying ways. No doubt the trail of photographers who constantly pursue her will show the world if she's serious...

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Networks fighting over Paris's Insight...Ratings desperation hits all time low

NBC has agreed to pay as much as $1 million for Paris Hilton's first after-jail interview, which will appear on the "Today" show, The Post has learned.

Sources told The Post the sit-down will be conducted by Meredith Vieira the day after the heir-head is sprung some time next week.

The deal has infuriated ABC executives, the sources said, because they were banking on Hilton's first remarks as a free woman going to Barbara Walters, who has become close with Hilton's mom, Kathy...

Read more on NBC pulling the rug from under ABC, HERE

Not Likely to Be Shown In Movie Theatres

Paul Reubens returns, again.

He and his perennially adolescent alter ego Pee-wee Herman vanished from public view a while back. Legal troubles, you'll recall.

But, Pee-wee re-emerged this month for the first time in 15 years, making a surprise appearance at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards. And Reubens began his latest resurgence last summer with a stint of TV guest-star and film roles that have drawn kudos from critics.

"I feel like I'm on my third or fourth comeback at least," says Reubens, whose close-cropped haircut and twinkling eyes belie his 54 years.

Read more about Reuben's rebirth, here

Desperate Times...NBC to get a boob job

No, I will not get my mind out of the gutter — it was never there to begin with, PopWatchers. The above headline is a reference to the Colombian telenovela Sin tetas no hay paraiso (or, Without Breasts There Is No Paradise), the rights to which new NBC chief Ben Silverman purchased last week. (Way to put the 'bra' in 'brash,' dood!)

Anyhow, while the show's plotline sounds like an exercise in deliciously trashy camp — an impoverished woman becomes a prostitute and gets involved with a narcotics dealer in her quest to save enough money for breast augmentation — should we really leave it to network brass (look, another 'bra' word!) to cast what could wind up being the next great serialized drama? Of course not! That's why it's up to all of us to start the brainstorming process.

To help brainstorm casting, check out Entertainment Weekly

The Ice Is Thawing in Hell's Kitchen

This afternoon, the chef once dubiously featured on the TV show Britain's Unbearable Bosses isn't quite living up to his title. Gordon Ramsay — who's notorious for demoralizing his kitchen staff and was even arrested in 1999 for allegedly beating up his pastry chef (the charges were dropped) — briskly strides onto the L.A. set of his Fox series Hell's Kitchen (Mondays at 9 p.m.) as if he were a cheery Londoner on holiday. While servers and assistants scurry about the soundstage, anxiously prepping for tonight's taping of the reality cooking show, Ramsay calmly sips a mug of hot, milky tea and enthusiastically holds forth on such topics as restaurants in L.A., Napa Valley wines, and California sunshine. ''Malibu is like Aix-en-Provence,'' the well-tanned, 40-year-old Scot gushes. ''Next year I'm going to bring the kids over and get a tutor. I love it.''

The read more on Ramsay's change, click here!

"Tarting" the News with Katie Couric? Riiiight

Former CBS news anchor Dan Rather escalated a feud with the network Tuesday, saying CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves "doesn't know about news."

Moonves had said earlier Rather's remarks that CBS was "tarting" up its newscast with Katie Couric, Rather's successor, were "sexist."

The spat started Monday when Rather, speaking by phone on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program with Joe Scarborough, said CBS had made the mistake of taking the evening news broadcast and "dumbing it down, tarting it up," and playing up topics such as celebrities over war coverage.

Read more about the most boring celebrity feud in history, HERE

Don't Mess With The Mouse

Starring on one of TV's hottest series is an actor's dream, and Isaiah Washington fought hard to keep his role as Dr. Preston Burke on "Grey's Anatomy." But after twice using an anti-gay slur, Washington was doomed to lose the biggest role of his career because of timing, a track record of volatile behavior and pressure within the industry.

While series creator and executive producer Shonda Rhimes wept when she got on the phone last Thursday to tell Washington he was out, the decision was a coolly calculated move by Rhimes' bosses at the network and ABC Television Studios. His "pattern of behavior" represented a potential liability that was too much risk for the Walt Disney Co.-owned companies, a source close to the production said. The source was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Read more about the drama that just refuses to go away, here

Keep Your Skin Protected

The Entertainment Industries Council, Inc. (EIC) has teamed with the Sun Safety Alliance (SSA) and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) to launch a public service announcement (PSA) campaign about skin cancer prevention.  The NAB will be providing the PSAs to its local television stations via satellite in June as the sun begins to scorch outdoor enthusiasts.

The sun safety PSA campaign features a young woman who overexposes herself to the sun and develops skin cancer.  As she speaks to the audience, her face ages dramatically, and it becomes obvious that her skin is sun damaged.  The campaign consists of three separate PSAs: 30 seconds, 15 seconds, and 10 seconds. The spots were piloted in late night timeslots during The Late Show With David Letterman on CBS last fall and now will receive their community-based launch.

EIC, a non-profit organization, was founded in 1983 by leaders of the entertainment industry to bring the power of the industry to bear on health and social issues. Among the issues EIC addresses are: drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and addiction; firearm safety and injury prevention; sun safety; human trafficking; terrorism and homeland security; mental health and bipolar disorder; post traumatic stress disorder; diabetes; and HIV/AIDS prevention. EIC’s website is located at www.eiconline.org.

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Timothy Busfield, Jenilee Harrison, Wil Horneff and Frances O'Connor.

A Living Legend Steps Down

...Blowing kisses to the camera, Bob Barker signed off on 35 years on "The Price Is Right" and 50 years in daytime TV in the same low-key, genial fashion that made him one of daytime TV's biggest stars.

Barker, who had said before the taping on Wednesday of his final appearance that he would try to act as if it was "just another show," stuck to that promise. He ended the program as he always has, signing off with the words: "Help control the pet population, have your pets spayed or neutered. Goodbye everybody."...

For more on this legendary host, click here

The Sanjaya effect: Fans now run the show

OKAY, "JERICHO" fans. You just demonstrated your great power. But are you ready for the great responsibility that comes with it?

Late yesterday, CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler posted a message on the CBS.com message board an nouncing she had ordered an ab breviated seven-episode second season of the canceled post-apocalyptic Midwestern drama. The decision came only after CBS' offices were deluged with phone calls, e-mails, and tons and tons of nuts. This last was in reference to a character in the season finale saying "Nuts!" to an offer to surrender, which was in turn a reference to Gen. Anthony McAuliffe's response to a similar demand from the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge. (At the end of her message, Tassler asked, "Please stop sending us nuts.")

Read more on studios getting pushed around here

Score one for Obscene Language on TV

Wherever Bono is today (Preparing to tout his fight against AIDS and third-world debt on Wednesday's Nightline? Getting started on the new U2 album? Polishing up a tune for that Spider-Man musical?), I bet he's smiling. I certainly know I'm wearing a broad grin after reading this morning that a federal appeals panel has struck down the Federal Communications Commission's policy of punishing television networks when they broadcast "fleeting expletives" — a policy which began after NBC showed Bono (pictured) using the phrase "f---ing brilliant" onstage at the 2003 Golden Globes. (NBC wasn't fined for that incident, since it predated the new rule, but laws passed two years ago by Congress meant that the commission could smack networks with a massive $325,000 penalty for each use of an "indecent" word.) The judges found that the FCC had "fail[ed] to provide a reasoned analysis justifying" this harsh new stance, adding that they "question whether the FCC's indecency test can survive First Amendment scrutiny." For me, at least, this amounts to stating the staggeringly obvious; the FCC's constitutional authority to censor artists' expression based on its own arbitrary notions of "decency" is highly dubious at best...

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Today in History

In 1980, CNN made its debut.

NATPE Birthday To:

Lisa Hartman Black, Jason Donovan, Morgan Freeman, Andy Griffith, Taylor Handley, Heidi Klum and Peter Masterson.