-When and where will we see “The O.C.” again? When will the third season come out on DVD? And does Mischa Barton have any plans for the future? –Thomas Scholz, Brookfield, Wis.
The Fox series is slated to start its fourth season Nov. 2. Except for the summer when the show premiered, the network has waited until its coverage of the baseball playoffs and the World Series is over to launch each of the drama’s new years. Just in time for the show’s return, Warner Home Video releases its third season on DVD this Tuesday, Oct. 24.
As for Ms. Barton, whose character Marissa provided the series with its biggest season-ending shocker last spring, she has completed a couple of films slated for release next year: “Closing the Ring” (directed by the esteemed Richard Attenborough) and “Virgin Territory,” a revision of “The Decameron” with “Star Wars” alumnus Hayden Christensen. Barton also has committed to a New Orleans-set supernatural tale called “Hexxx.”
– While watching “Dancing With the Stars,” I spied George Lopez rooting for Mario Lopez and his partner. Are George and Mario related, or do they just share a surname? –Gail Blevins, Baltimore
Apparently, it’s only the surname — and their presence in the ABC show — that they have in common. We can’t find evidence of anything more.
– In “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” the Jordan McDeere character reminds me of an old show no one else seems to remember, maybe from the 1980s. It was about a young, female television executive or producer played by an actress with long, brown hair. Can you help me? –Shona Williams, Chicago
We’re pretty sure you’re thinking of “W.E.B.,” which had a brief (as in one month) run on NBC in the fall of 1978. Pamela Bellwood, who would start a much longer television run several years later as Claudia on “Dynasty,” starred as a fearless programming executive loosely modeled on the role that earned Faye Dunaway an Oscar in the 1976 movie “Network.” Richard Basehart (“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”) and Alex Cord (“Airwolf”) also were in the regular cast.
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