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Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has agreed to provide the voice for two characters in the first feature film to come out of Nike chairman Phil Knight's animation studio, located here in Portland, OR. The movie is called Coraline, and it's an adaptation of a children's novel by Neil Gaiman. Hatcher will voice the roles of two mothers in the show. Dakota Fanning has already agreed to play the starring role of Coraline. Knight says the movie will be distributed through Focus Features and is expected to be released in 2008.

(S07E17) This must have been the hardest episode for the cast to film. How do you even go about filming the onscreen death of a beloved character when the equally beloved castmate also died in real life?

NBC is fond of calling their comedies "Must See TV." But this was truly the one must see episode of any NBC show in quite a while. Leo dies, and the election goes down to the wire, all in one episode. Must see, but not handled as well as it could have been. Some good scenes with Josh, and some nice moments in the White House between Bartlett and C.J., but they really should have given Margaret more to do, get more of a reaction from her besides one shot of stoic tears.

And...no Toby?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

This one is about a troubled paramedic working in my hometown of Portland, Oregon. The execs at TNT really liked the pilot and have ordered 12 more episodes, to be shot this spring. Not sure if they actually shoot this thing in Portland but, if so, I'm totally going on a Tom Everett Scott hunt. He plays the lead character, described as "flawed' and "three-dimensional." Can't we all use those words to describe ourselves? The series, called Saved, made the cut among three new dramas that TNT was considering adding to its summer line-up. Saved is the third original drama for TNT, which found huge success last year with The Closer and Wanted.