We’ve seen them meet, watched him propose and looked on as they raced around the world before exchanging vows, with camera crews trailing them every step of the way.

So now that Rob and Amber Mariano are at a crossroads in their 15-month-old marriage, they’re inviting the cameras back into their lives. It only seems fitting for one of reality television’s best-known couples.

Unlike their previous televised adventures – various seasons of “Survivor,” “The Amazing Race 7” and “Rob and Amber Get Married” – their new show won’t take place on CBS. Instead, Rob and Amber are turning to the Fox Reality channel for “The Rob & Amber Project.”

“We pride ourselves on bringing original, unpredictable and exciting programming to reality fans who just can’t get enough,” says David Lyle, COO of Fox Reality. “The show, like Rob and Amber themselves, will embrace the spirit of our network. We are proud they chose Fox Reality for their first reality show outside the broadcast world.”

The 10-episode series, scheduled to premiere in January, will follow the couple as they deal with Rob’s ambition to use the couple’s “Survivor” and “Amazing Race” winnings in his quest to become a professional poker player. The idea doesn’t sit all that well with Amber, we’re told.

The show’s cameras will capture Rob as he tries to break onto the poker circuit and the couple as they hash out whether this is really a good idea. Rob is also one of the producers of the show, along with Linda Ellman (Court TV’s “On Native Soil”) and Rob George (“The Ultimate Poker Challenge”).

Sci-Fi’s ‘Eureka’ strikes ratings gold

The Sci Fi Channel’s newest series is earthbound, but the ratings for its premiere still hit some pretty impressive heights.

The two-hour premiere of “Eureka” on Tuesday drew more than 4 million viewers, making it the most-watched episode of an original series in the channel’s history. About 1.7 million of those viewers were in the key adults 18-49 demographic, and 1.9 million fell in the 25-54 age range.

By all those measures, “Eureka” was the top show on cable for the night. It also beat a few of its broadcast competitors, including the premiere of ABC’s reality series “The One: Making a Music Star.”

“Eureka” stars Colin Ferguson (“Coupling”) as a U.S. marshal who stumbles on a small Pacific Northwest town that’s actually a secret government research facility populated by the best minds in the nation. Their research, however, makes the town a place where a lot of odd things tend to occur.

The series, created by Andrew Cosby (“Haunted”) and Jaime Paglia, also stars Joe Morton (“Terminator 2,” “Stealth”), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (“CSI: Miami,” “Antwone Fisher) and Debrah Farentino (“EZ Streets”).

Grammar wins Emmy for ‘Sideshow Bob’

Kelsey Grammer has won his fifth Primetime Emmy Award, and he didn’t even have to appear on camera to get it.

Grammer, who has won four previous times for “Frasier,” picked up his latest honor for his voice-over work as Sideshow Bob on “The Simpsons.” He reprised the long-running nemesis to Bart Simpson in an episode last season called “The Italian Bob.”

The voice-over Emmy is one of a handful of awards that are determined by juries rather than a nomination process. The winners were announced Wednesday by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

In addition to the voice-over award, the academy also announced the winners for outstanding costumes for a variety/music program (Fox’s “MADtv,” ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” and PBS’ “Benise! Nights of Fire”) and individual achievement in animation (a number of winners, including animators on Cartoon Network’s “Robot Chicken” and “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends,” HBO’s “Classical Baby 2” and Nickelodeon’s “Escape from Cluster Prime”).

Grammer joins a long list of “Simpsons” performers who have won the voice-over Emmy. Regular cast members Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria have won it multiple times, and Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, Marcia Wallace and Jackie Mason have also been honored for their work on the long-running Fox show.

Prior to this year, Grammer’s most recent Emmy win came for the final season of “Frasier” in 2004. He’s been nominated as an actor or producer 16 times.

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NBC QUEUES UP NETFLIX PREVIEWS

Can’t wait to see the first episodes of “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” or “Kidnapped”? Put them in your Netflix queue.

The two NBC shows will be available to the 5 million or so people who use Netflix starting early next month – about six weeks before they premiere on television. They’ll be packaged together on one DVD, which will also feature trailers for the network’s other new shows.

“The promotion takes aim at the Netflix demographic-rich entertainment consumer who is looking for this kind of high-end television show, and then is eager to pass the word,” says John Miller, chief marketing officer for the NBC Universal Television Group.

Netflix gets something out of the deal as well – NBC will offer promo time to the movie-delivery service in its prime-time schedule and on its annual fall preview special, which affiliates can air multiple times in the weeks leading up to the new TV season.

“Great TV is an increasingly important and popular component of the 60,000-title catalog Netflix offers its subscribers,” says Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer. “Joining forces with NBC to launch two terrific new series differentiates our service in the area of unique and original content and provides NBC with an innovative platform to promote its fall lineup.”

The preview DVD will function like any other title in the Netflix library: Subscribers can add it to their queue, and it will be mailed to them once it reaches the top.

The “Studio 60″/”Kidnapped” DVD will be available beginning Aug. 5.

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ABC DROPS “TONIGHT’ FROM NEWSCAST

ABC has changed the name of its evening newscast, and not just because there’s a new person behind the desk.

What was once “World News Tonight” will now be called “World News with Charles Gibson.” It will still air at 6:30 p.m. ET, but ABC has 86’ed the “Tonight” from the title to reflect that the newscast is no longer confined just to that spot.

“(“World News’) remains our flagship broadcast, but it has evolved well beyond 30 minutes on television,” ABC News President David Westin says. “We are committed to expanding ABC News and “World News’ into the 24-hour space created by the digital world, and it makes sense for that reality to be reflected in the title of the broadcast.”

Gibson took over as anchor of “World News” in late May following an unsettled period after the death of long-time anchor Peter Jennings in August 2005. Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff were named co-anchors in December, but Woodruff was badly injured while on assignment in Iraq not long after taking the job (he is still recovering but has spent some time in the ABC newsroom recently).

Vargas, who is pregnant, opted to step down but remains with ABC; following her maternity leave, she’ll anchor “20/20” and prime-time news specials.

In addition to anchoring the televised newscast, Gibson also fronts a radio newscast earlier in the evening and contributes to a daily webcast.

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COOK, K-FED SET FOR TEEN CHOICE AWARDS

Hot comedian Dane Cook has signed on to co-host the Teen Choice Awards next month, and Kevin Federline will say “PopoZao” to the world with his live performance debut.

Cook, who currently stars in the HBO show “Tourgasm” and has a comedy special on the network in September, will host the awards with Jessica Simpson – which will no doubt give further fodder to various gossip pages that have romantically linked them in recent months (they say they’re “just friends”). Cook and Simpson also co-star in the Lionsgate movie “Employee of the Month,” due for release in September.

The Teen Choice Awards, which air Sunday, Aug. 20 on Fox, will also see Federline, Britney Spears’ husband, will perform his single “Lose Control” live on network TV for the first time. The song is the first cut from his album “Playing with Fire,” which will hit stores not long after the awards broadcast.

Cook and Simpson are also both nominees in this year’s Teen Choice Awards. Cook is up for the Choice Comedian honor, while Simpson could win the show’s surfboard trophies for Choice Movie Breakout Performance (in “The Dukes of Hazzard”), Choice Hottie (Female) and Choice Red Carpet Fashion Icon.

Teenagers can vote on the awards through Aug. 11 at Fox.com, MySpace.com, IGN.com (all of those being News Corp. properties) and TeenPeople.com.

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