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Baseball's All-Star Game is tonight, and for a change the summer classic has some competition on other channels. NBC's coverage begins at 8 p.m. opposite ABC's Regis Philbin and CBS' "Big Brother." But give baseball its due: It was the original "Celebrity Millionaire." And purists can wring their hands over the lack of good pitching and all those home runs, but tell me: Who serves up more puffballs than Regis?

While we're at it, tell me which show is more "reality-based": Is it "Big Brother," where 10 people try to act natural while cameras peer over their shoulders? Or is it a game that any group of Americans can play, whether TV is there to cover it or not?

Play Ed Bark's All-Star Game trivia quiz

Babylon and on

by John Zipperer

So did anyone not hear the fat lady sing for the late science fiction series "Babylon 5"? Was that not her belting out a tune when the TNT network retired the show after its five-year run? Wasn't that the dame doubled over the grave of the short-lived "Babylon" sequel series, "Crusade," wheezing out a final aria?

Well, some people think the lady was just lip-synching the song. They keep spotting signs that the show is alive, or could be resurrected, once again. The latest doubters include our friends at Backstage Pass, who share a report that Jerry Doyle, who portrayed Security Chief Michael Garibaldi on "Babylon 5," is trying to raise money to produce a new "Babylon 5" series. Reportedly, J. Michael Straczynski, who wrote and produced the original series, has been asked to write but not produce the revival series. 

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in 1987, where wolf? There wolf. Fox unleashes John York as fugitive lycanthrope Eric Cord in the 2-hour premiere of "Werewolf." Cord has been bitten by another werewolf and must now track down "the source of the bloodline" — 1,600-year-old Janos Skorzeny (Chuck Connors) — to free himself of the curse. Bounty hunter Alamo Joe (Lance LeGault) is always hot on Cord's tail for the alleged murder. The show's February 1988 finale allows Cord to finally catch up with Skorzeny but learns his journey has been a wild goose chase. Skorzeny is not "the source," an even older werewolf Nicholas Remy (Brian Thompson) is. Throughout the season, viewers can keep tabs on Cord, and learn more of "the true history of werewolves" by calling a promotional 1-800 number set up by Fox. -- Tom Heald

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