Updated 10/20/01
CBS News and Gossip "THE GUARDIAN" Is a GO!
CBS has announced it's picking up a full season of its own Tuesday-night champ, The Guardian. The drama, starring Simon Baker as a corporate lawyer ordered to go pro bono at a child advocacy office after getting busted for drugs, has won its 9 p.m. time period for the last two weeks and scored its biggest audience Tuesday with 15.1 million viewers. That's made the series a nice fit between CBS' other hit dramas, JAG and Judging Amy.
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EMMY AWARDS
The Emmy Awards show, which has been delayed twice by last month's terrorist attacks, has been rescheduled again for Nov. 4 at the Shubert Theatre in
Los Angeles, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and CBS said today. However, the move could put the telecast in competition with the final game of the World Series on Fox. The Series goes to a seventh game about 20 percent of the time, CBS President Les Moonves noted.
Ellen DeGeneres, who was said to be crushed about the earlier cancelations, will stay on as host, but producer Don Mischer won't plan a third show; he's already committed to producing the Olympics.
New York-based nominees will have to make the trek to Los Angeles; the satellite link from the Big Apple that was set up for the rescheduled Oct. 7 ceremony will not happen now. The original venue was to have been the Shrine Auditorium, which seats more than 6,000. The Shubert, meanwhile, holds only 1,800 people.
The Emmy ceremony was originally planned for Sept. 16, but the show was postponed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The rescheduled show, on Oct. 7, was also called off, when the United States and Britain launched a retaliatory strike against Afghanistan that day.
CASTING NOTES
CBS canceled Daniel Stern's ''Danny'' on 10/09/01.
LEGUIZAMO HEADED TO SMALL SCREEN?
John Leguizamo has come to terms with CBS on a deal to
co-create and star in an hourlong action series -- in the
manner of "Lethal Weapon" -- for CBS. The deal reportedly
makes the star of "Moulin Rouge" and "The Pest" one of the
highest-paid Latino actors on the network. Leguizamo has
done series TV before. He was a cast member on the Fox-TV
sketch comedy series, "House of Buggin;" in 1995. 
Comedian Ray Romano just got a nice fat pay raise. Entertain-ment Weekly's EW.com says the deal is worth $40 million over the next two seasons, meaning the "Everybody Loves Raymond" star will start earning a reported $800,000 an episode.
The salary hike also is said to include retroactive pay boosts going back two years to the show's fourth season.
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