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In the news
By Times wires and staff report TV Land is comingTime Warner Cable will add several channels, including TV Land, which airs classic shows, including Gilligan's Island and Get Smart. The network debuts May 1 at cable channel 75, replacing Cinemax's More Max premium channel for analog subscribers. Time Warner will help kick off the debut this month with local media appearances by former Batman star Adam West. The company has already added CBNC World at digital channel 141. To come: Discovery Home and Leisure (this month, digital channel 108), Tech TV (June 30, digital channel 142), HGTV's Fine Living (July 1, digital channel 143) and Lifetime Real Women in September. -- Eric Deggans Berry lucky after accidentHalle Berryhad a scare on the set of the new James Bond movie when debris from a smoke grenade flew into her left eye during one scene. The debris was removed during a half-hour operation at a hospital in Cadiz, Spain, near where the scene was being shot Saturday, London's Mirror said. Berry was left with only an inflamed cornea. "It could have been much more serious," said Dr. Antonio Fernandez, who treated her. A spokesman for the movie said Berry was back filming Monday. TV notesBilly Norris, the 14-year-old film critic for the St. Petersburg Times Xpress section, is scheduled to appear on Good Morning America on Thursday (7 to 9 a.m., WFTS-Ch. 28). The show became interested in the Seminole Middle School eighth-grader after he was contacted by the Late Show with David Letterman, on which he is scheduled to appear tonight (11:35 p.m., WTSP-Ch. 10). . . . Fox is going ahead with another edition of Celebrity Boxing next month, Entertainment Tonight said Tuesday. The first announced pairing: John Wayne Bobbitt and Joey Buttafuoco.
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