In about three months, Tori Spelling will have a new man in her life.
The former “Beverly Hills, 90210” star and her husband, actor Dean McDermott, are expecting a son together, reports People.
“We are thrilled to be having a son together,” says Spelling. “Little boys are a ton of fun. We love talking to him. We play tunes for him and watch him kick. He already loves the Dixie Chicks. We went to their concert and he kicked the whole time.”
Having a boy gives Spelling a way to honor her late father, TV giant Aaron Spelling.
“Yes, his middle name will be Aaron,” she says. “Dean and I feel it’s the perfect way to honor the memory of my father.”
A first name still hasn’t been chosen.
Spelling, 33, and McDermott, 39, met on the Ottawa set of the TV movie “Mind Over Murder” in 2005. Both were married to other people at the time – Spelling to actor-writer Charlie Shanian, and McDermott to Canadian TV personality Mary Jo Eustace. Divorces soon followed, and the new couple married in Fiji in May.
The baby will be Spelling’s first child. McDermott has a son, Jack, with Eustace, with whom he also adopted a daughter right before meeting Spelling. He is no longer the girl’s legally adoptive father.
“Now Jack will have the baby brother he’s been wanting,” adds McDermott.
Spelling is best known as the virginal Donna Martin on “Beverly Hills, 90210,” which was produced by her father, the late Aaron Spelling. Her other credits include various TV movies, the short-lived sitcom “The Help,” “The House of Yes,” “Trick,” “Scary Movie 2” and the prophetically named “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” She most recently starred as a fictionalized version of herself on VH1’s “so noTORIous” and held a yard sale so she could downsize and make room for all the onesies and diapers she’ll need.
Orlando Jones climbs ‘Trees’
John Amos’ character on “Men in Trees” has previously mentioned having a son – not counting the one he just found out about. Soon, we’ll get to meet him, and he’ll look a lot like Orlando Jones.
Jones, who starred in another ABC series, “The Evidence,” earlier this year, has signed on to guest-star on “Men in Trees” episodes later in the season. He’ll appear in two episodes, playing George, the estranged son of Amos’ Buzz.
George has been corresponding with his newfound half-brother, Patrick (Derek Richardson) – the product of a long-ago tryst between Buzz and Celia (Cynthia Stevenson), the police chief in Elmo, Alaska, and decides to head north to meet Patrick. We’re guessing the news doesn’t go over that well with Buzz.
There’s no word yet on when Jones’ guest arc will air.
Jones played San Francisco detective Cayman Bishop on “The Evidence,” which had a brief run last spring and summer on ABC. The former “MADtv” star and 7-Up pitchman has also appeared in “Drumline,” “Unbreakable,” “Office Space” and “Runaway Jury.”
He’ll next be seen on the big screen in the thriller “Primeval,” due for release next spring.
’30 Days’ back on FX calendar
He’s tried to live on minimum wage and had himself thrown in jail, and now documentarian Morgan Spurlock will get a few more chances to see how the other half lives.
FX has picked up a third season of Spurlock’s series “30 Days,” in which he and other subjects live for a month in a way that’s far outside their comfort zones. The show will go back into production in the spring; there’s no word on a premiere date yet.
Spurlock, the director and subject of “Super Size Me,” will take part in two of the experiments in the coming six-episode season. He and his fiancee spent one of the first season’s installments working in minimum-wage jobs, and last season he spent time in a county jail.
“Everyone at the network is proud of the high level of quality of “30 Days,’ which is the tentpole of FX’s unscripted programming,” says Eric Schrier, who oversees alternative programming at the network. “The producers did a terrific job last season and have some intriguing story ideas for the upcoming season.”
FX isn’t saying what those ideas are. Past episodes of the show have had a member of the Minutemen live with a family of illegal immigrants and followed an atheist as she lived with a family of evangelical Christians.
Spurlock executive produces the series with R.J. Cutler (“Black. White.”), Ben Silverman (“The Office”) and H.T. Owens.
Spielberg brings two dramas to Fox
Big screen titan Steven Spielberg is suddenly all over the television marketplace as well.
Already executive producing Fox’s spring reality series “On the Lot,” Spielberg has now brought two scripted shows to the network. DreamWorks TV and 20th Century Fox TV will produce both one-hour dramas.
The first drama comes from Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” star Ed Burns and Burns’ wife Christy Turlington. According to the Hollywood trade papers, the project is set in the world of fashion and will follow five friends trying to make it behind-the-scenes in the industry. Burns is expected to direct the pilot if it goes forward.
R. Scott Gemmill (“E.R.”) is writing the other pilot, which focuses on two World War II-era physicists who find a way to travel forward in time to 2007. Their mission is to bring back technology and help the war effort, but one of the researchers falls in love with a 2007 woman which is just bound to cause problems.
TNT just announced last week that Spielberg and DreamWorks TV will produce an adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub’s “The Talisman.”
On the big screen side, Spielberg’s last directing effort was the Oscar nominated “Munich.” He most recently produced Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of our Fathers”/”Letters From Iwo Jima” double-bill.
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