Kona told you recently that Benjamin Bratt is coming back to Law & Order for a short time. S. Epatha Merkerson's Van Buren character has been diagnosed with cancer, which always gives shows a chance to bring back old characters. But it also gives a show a chance to bring on new characters, and that's what's going to happen starting this Friday.

Ernie Hudson is joining the show for several episodes. He'll play a guy that's "the love of her life."

Those of you who watched Charmed solely because you had an unyielding crush on Alyssa Milano can come back off the ledge. Your favorite gal has signed on to do a new comedy pilot for ABC, tentatively titled Me and Everyone Else. In the multi-camera comedy, she'll play what producer Dan Bucatinsky (who last worked on Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback) calls "Rhoda with a sex life." In other words, she'll play a strong thirty-something woman trying to make her way in the world. But unlike Valerie Harper's classic role from the seventies, Milano's character, Mia, will have a boyfriend. The show will also look at the lives of the two of them as well as Mia's brother and her brother's boyfriend.

Do all these details really matter, though, to most Alyssa fans? Not particularly. As long as she's there and somehow shows off her chest in every episode, most of them will be happy.

Shannen Doherty is teaming up with the creators of Scare Tactics once again for a new reality show of sorts called Breaking Up with Shannen Doherty. No, the show isn't about people dating and breaking up with the actress, but it is about people in cruddy relationships who aren't sure whether to pull the plug or not. Doherty goes undercover to survey the situation, then deicdes whether to help instigate a break up. Thirteen episodes of the new series will air on Oxygen, though I probably won't watch it since I grew bored with it in the time it took me to type that sentence describing it. Oh yeah, and I should point out that the show won't just focus on romantic relationships, but on any kind of bad relationship.

Despite a recent study conducted by NASA that defined Desperate Housewive's Nicolette Sheridan as one of the most bone-able women in Hollywood, her ex-boyfriend claims she wasn't very good in the sack. Nick Solderblom, who dated Sheridan for eight months, claims they were only intimate six times and that her performances were "boring." Also, she was more interested in her dog than in him. None of this is especially interesting, I just find it comforting that celebrities deal with break ups and changes in their lives with the same maturity as a junior high school student. It makes understanding the microcosm of Hollywood so much easier.