Season 5 Scoop (No Spoilers)

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Here's some Season 5 Scoop from Terry Morrow over at knoxnews.com:

Lauren Hutton, Portia De Rossi, Oliver Platt and Rosie O'Donnell will make guest appearances on "Nip/Tuck" when the venerable plastic surgery drama returns for its fifth season in October. Hutton will play a Hollywood publicist. De Rossi takes on her first role as a lesbian mother whose teenage daughter asks doctors Sean and Christian to do some work on her. Platt will be a television executive, a role that some say spoofs "Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy himself, and O'Donnell reprises Dawn, the unclassy woman introduced last season who hit it big in the lotto.
Here's more scoop:
** When "Nip/Tuck" returns for its fifth season in October, the show's locale will switch to Hollywood, where Sean and Christian will open a new practice and even have a small career going elsewhere on the side.
** Despite rumors to the contrary, Joely Richardson will return. She's doing 15 episodes in the new season.
** "Nip/Tuck" is in production now for 22 new episodes, although it's unclear whether the 22 will be two seasons or considered one long, expanded season. Regardless, the 22 will not run consecutively.
** New sets have been constructed for the season. The set for Sean's and Christian's practice is almost the size of a football field.
** Will Rosie be doing a spin-off? A set insider says the idea has never been discussed, but Rosie keeps talking about it anyway.
** Will Nicole Kidman be doing a cameo? Again, it's never been discussed, the set insider says.
** Platt's character will bring some much-needed comedy to the often-stark drama, sources say.
So far, Julian McMahon approves of the changes for the latest season. He says he didn't like season 3 of the series because it was too bleak and graphic. "Everything was, like, 'yuck.' No redemption for anybody," he told me.
The infusion of comedy in season 5 helps, he says.
However, he and Dylan Walsh are both aware that criticism from diehard fans will be coming -- the show's basic darkness will remain, but much about the show's setting will be different.
Historically, shows that make such dramatic changes this far into their runs usually don't do well. Even "I Love Lucy" changed locale in its later seasons, as rating tended to fall.

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OOOH! A small business on the side? I wonder what that is??