REEL DEALS A spoof about an incompetent secret agent -- we've seen that before. But we haven't seen one with singer Natalie Imbruglia. It's called ''Johnny English,'' and it stars Rowan Atkinson, best known as British bumbler Mr. Bean. It also stars John Malkovich as a Eurotrashy bad guy. Hmmm, seen that, too. Maybe Universal could call it ''Bean John Malkovich.''...
Guess those million-dollar shoes she wore on Oscar's red carpet got her noticed. ''Mulholland Drive'''s Laura Elena Harring has won a lead role in New Line's remake of the 1971 horror film ''Willard.'' She'll play the girlfriend of the titular rat breeder, played by fellow David Lynch alum Crispin Glover.
TUBE TALK Looks like the fifth season of ''Survivor'' is fit to be Thai'd. Officials in Thailand are about to grant CBS permission to stage the show on Tarutao Island, a tropical national park whose wildlife includes buffalo, boars, and king cobras. It's also where the dictatorship that ruled Thailand in the 1930s and '40s used to exile political prisoners, dropping them off on the island and leaving them to fend for themselves (sorta like ''Survivor,'' except they couldn't be voted off the island). Environmental activists are already up in arms (as in the African season of the show, also staged at a nature reserve), echoing complaints made about damages reulting from the filming of the Leonardo DiCaprio movie ''The Beach'' on a nearby tropical Thai island. At least the ''Survivor'' contestants won't be allowed to hunt the animals, officials say....
TV nostalgia fans will get more than their fill during May sweeps with several reunion specials in the works. CBS is planning a ''Mary Tyler Moore Show'' retrospective. The one-hour special will air May 10 and will feature Moore interviewing all of her surviving costars from the classic '70s sitcom about their memories of the show. (The late Ted Knight will be remembered in clips.) Also on tap, at ABC, is a ''Laverne and Shirley'' reunion, which is being produced by ''Entertainment Tonight.'' That hour will air May 7, to be followed by a two-hour E!-produced where-are-they-now special on several stars. Two weeks later, on May 21, ABC will reunite the hosts of '80s reality show ''That's Incredible!'' to air an hour of the show's old clips of the strange and unusual. Add these shows to previously announced retrospectives on these networks and NBC and Fox (subjects include Gilda Radner and ''American Bandstand''), and it seems like there won't be any original programming at all in May. Is there ever?
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