Reality show for models returning for third season

NEW YORK -- "America's Next Top Model" is heading back to the runway. The UPN reality show has announced the cast for its third season of supermodel boot camp. The new season debuts Sept. 22. Under the mentoring of Tyra Banks, 14 aspiring models will compete in tests of catwalks, fitness and publicity skills. The contests, according to the show's Web site, will be judged for "both inner and outer beauty." The models' poise will likely be tested while they live together in a New York City loft under constant surveillance from the show's cameras.

Prison officials forced to turn off 'Nip/Tuck'

PENDLETON, Ore. -- "Nip/Tuck," which had won fans among inmates for its surgical gore and sexual innuendo, has been pulled from the airwaves at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution. "We decided it was all too much," Doug Harder, a spokesman for the medium-security prison in Pendleton, said recently. "Way too graphic." During one episode of the FX show -- which chronicles the racy escapades of two Miami plastic surgeons -- inmates gathered in a TV room kept "eyeballing," whistling and shouting catcalls to a female corrections officer, Harder said. The officer filed a complaint with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, and the prison banned the show, Harder said.

Cast and crew of 'ER' preps real-time episode

NEW YORK -- "ER" is taking a note from "24" by doing a real-time episode, and is bringing actor Ray Liotta along for the ride. The episode, to air Nov. 11, will follow every moment of guest star Liotta's hospital visit. He plays an alcoholic ex-con with cirrhosis of the liver and a host of other problems. The real-time narrative is a first for the NBC emergency room drama. "ER" has previously experimented with different structures, but the series' famous live broadcast in 1997 wasn't in real time. The season premiere of "ER," which continues last season's cliffhanger car accident ending, will air Sept. 23.

Swarming moths join 'Weird Al' for concert

DUQUOIN, Ill. -- Things got hairy for parody singer "Weird Al" Yankovic as a flock of unwanted fans rushed onstage during his performance at a state fair in Southern Illinois. Green moths swarmed Yankovic, some nesting in his trademark long curly locks. "My band asked me if I could find a concert where we would be attacked by insects," Yankovic told his audience Wednesday at the DuQuoin State Fair. "I said I would see what I could do." Yankovic didn't seem bugged by the uninvited guests, though, as he plugged along with songs and costume changes.

-- From wire reports