FX's plastic-surgery drama Nip/Tuck broke network ratings records last December with the season 3 finale, but turned off critics with its ludicrous plots (neo-Nazi romance) and controversial serial-killer story line. So will the show continue to muck in CSI: Nip/Tuck territory? ''Last year, we tried a much more gothic, darker approach,'' says creator-exec producer Ryan Murphy. ''As well as it did, I thought it got away from the point of my show — how people transform and fix the wrong things.'' As September's season 4 premiere nears, Murphy tells EW that he's concentrating on the right things: sex, comedy...and Rosie O'Donnell.
Now that the knife-wielding Carvers (murderous siblings Bruno Campos and Rhona Mitra) have absconded to Spain, the focus will return to the core characters: Sean (Dylan Walsh), Julia (Joely Richardson), and Christian (Julian McMahon). ''This year we're making it much more about the family,'' says Murphy. Sean and Julia will learn to deal with their handicapped newborn, while their sexually confused teen son, Matt (John Hensley), becomes entangled with a newly spiritual Kimber (Kelly Carlson). As for Christian, the resident horndog encounters two femmes fatales — guest stars Jacqueline Bisset and Sanaa Lathan — and still finds time to frolic like a soft-core gay-porn star in a shower with Saved by the Bell's Mario Lopez. (As we know, A.C. Slater always enjoyed some man-on-man wrestling.)
The rest of the season promises to be as celeb-heavy as a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon's office. Kathleen Turner appears as a phone-sex operator who wants a ''voice lift.'' Brooke Shields (playing Christian's therapist), Catherine Deneuve, and Larry Hagman are all featured within the first six episodes. Our favorites: The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage as the baby's night nurse and The View cohost-to-be O'Donnell as a patient. ''Rosie is this white-trash gal who wins the Powerball lottery and brings her entire family in for plastic surgery,'' says Murphy. We can't wait to read the Nip/Tuck-inspired haiku on rosie.com.
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