NEW YORK (AP) – “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.

“In a way, this is the inverse of that,” co-producer David Zable told The Associated Press Thursday. “We also have never tracked one patient the whole time through the show.”

The trademark “ER” style is one of crosscutting and story lines that intertwine with each passing gurney. The editing allows “ER” to sometimes skip over the uglier or more mundane aspects of emergency room treatment.

Zable, who wrote the Nov. 11 episode, says: “We really had to mine each moment for drama.”

The season premiere of “ER,” which continues last season’s cliffhanger car accident ending, will air Sept. 23.

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – “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, told The Oregonian 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.

Holly Ollis, a spokeswoman for “Nip/Tuck” producer Warner Bros. Television, said she was unaware of another prison in the country that had blacklisted the series.

“It’s an unusual show, and I’ve heard a lot of unusual things,” Ollis said. “But this is certainly a new one for me.”

It’s been about three years since the Eastern Oregon prison pulled a show from its TV schedule. That was a professional wrestling show called “WWF: Wild One.”

Since the behavior problems with “Nip/Tuck” only popped up during group viewings, the ban will not apply to the 10 percent of the 1,621 inmates who have personal televisions in their cells, officials said.

NEW YORK (AP) – “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.

One contestant, Magdalena, 24, says, “I think it’s quite possible for me to lose my temper while living with 13 other girls.”

Kristi, who is 20 and from St. Louis, says, “I was raised really Christian. I have a lot of family that might be pretty disappointed if I end up naked on TV.”

Toccara, a 22 year-old from Dayton, Ohio, is the only plus-size model. She proclaims: “Girls, watch out, ‘cause big is in!”

VENICE, Italy (AP) – Tom Cruise was playing cold and heartless at the Venice International Film Festival in his hit-man role as Vincent, the devil in a gray tailored suit, in Michael Mann’s action-thriller “Collateral.”

But “Collateral,” which isn’t in competition for an award, got a warm greeting Friday at the 61st festival, being held on the small Lido island off central Venice. The festival ends Sept. 11 with an awards ceremony hosted by Sophia Loren.

Cruise plays against type as a psychopathic murderer, while Jamie Foxx is a hapless but goodhearted taxi driver.

Two of the films in competition for the Golden Lion awards – “Rois et Reine” by French director Arnaud Desplechin and “Udalionnyj Dostup” by Svetlana Proskurina of Russia – also were screened Friday.

The incoherent story line of the Russian film led some audience members at a press preview to walk out and others to boo loudly at the end.