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On New Year’s Eve, the backseat of a taxi is the only place you need to be for a healthy dose of sex, drugs and rock “n’ roll.

Bravo will premiere three episodes of HBO’s “Taxicab Confessions” on Friday, followed by a New Year’s Eve marathon of the Emmy-winning docudrama.

The long-running HBO series featured producers posing as taxi drivers in cab-friendly cities such as New York City or Las Vegas. Using a hidden camera, the show would tape the passengers’ confessions, which ranged from sexually explicit revelations and relationship problems to past traumas and heartwrenching sob stories.

“‘Taxicab Confessions’ was ground-breaking as one of the original reality series,” says Bravo’s Executive Vice President of Programming and Production, Frances Berwick. “This award-winning show was raw, moving and shocking while at the same time poignant in its portrayal of urban lifestyles.”

Some highlights of the upcoming Bravo special include two besotted lesbian strippers who participate in a drive-thru wedding; a veteran pilot of the Spanish Civil War who remembers losing his best friend; and a couple that adds to places “they’ve done it.”

The Dec. 29 premiere runs from 11 p.m.-2 a.m., while the New Year’s Eve four-episode marathon begins on Dec. 31, airing 12:30-4:30 a.m.

Bravo, the home of “Project Runway,” “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” and “Top Chef,” acquired nine episodes of the critically acclaimed series in a deal with HBO. The first episode originally aired on HBO in 1995 and went on to win the Emmy award for outstanding informational special.

Fillion races against two actors with ‘Drive’

“Firefly” star Nathan Fillion will have his hands full with two more competitors on his upcoming series “Drive.”

Fox’s midseason drama has signed on Kevin Alejandro and Mircea Monroe as co-stars in the chronicles of an underground race across the U.S., according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The two actors will replace the pilot’s Andres Saenz-Hudson and Taryn Manning as race participants. Manning will likely stay with “Drive,” but playing a different role.

This is just the latest substitution. Fillion replaced Ivan Sergei in the lead as the confusingly described “rogue landscaper.”

The pilot’s Alan Ruck and Shahine Ezell will also soon be replaced. The originals who’ve stayed on include Melanie Lynskey, Emma Stone, Kristin Lehman and Rochelle Aytes.

Fillion was last seen in the Sci Fi Channel’s “The Lost Room” miniseries and as a guest star on “Lost.” On the big screen, his credits include “Serenity,” “Slither” and the upcoming “White Noise 2.”

Alejandro currently guest stars as baby daddy Santos on “Ugly Betty” and is also known as Benny Velasquez from Showtime’s “Sleeper Cell.”

Monroe appeared on “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and in “Cellular.”

De La Hoya punches in with ‘Lopez’

Oscar De La Hoya is planning another TV appearance, but it won’t be on pay-per-view.

The boxer will unlace his gloves to guest star on ABC’s “George Lopez,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

De La Hoya, 33, will play a trash-talking doctor in a future episode, of which the airdate is yet to be determined.

The sitcom, starring comedian George Lopez, will premiere its sixth season on Jan. 24.

The “Golden Boy” of boxing has previously played himself on “The Simpsons,” “MadTV,” “Arli$$” and the quickly forgotten reality show “The Next Great Champ.” He’ll be his usually punching self on a May 5 HBO pay-per-view fight to defend his junior middleweight championship against welterweight champ “Pretty Boy” Floyd Mayweather Jr.

‘Anatomy’ actress’ divorce official

Sandra Oh, who plays the relationship-impaired Christina Yang on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is now officially single again.

The 35-year-old Golden Globe winner and “Sideways” director Alexander Payne’s divorce decree went through on Dec. 21.

According to the documents found on TMZ.com, the marital dissolution status was granted in the best interests of both parties, who wanted to file their taxes separately.

Other financial matters, however, must still be resolved, including their retirement/pension plans for the Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Pretty Intelligent Girl Productions, Inc. Profit Sharing and Lopez Roofing.

The couple announced that they “mutually decided to separate” in March 2005 and Oh filed for divorce the following month. Payne, 45, and Oh, 35, met six years ago and have been married since 2003.

Payne, who recently won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay with Jim Taylor for “Sideways,” is also the writer-director of “Citizen Ruth,” “Election” and “About Schmidt.”

Oh’s film credits include “The Red Violin,” “Waking the Dead,” “The Princess Diaries” and “Under the Tuscan Sun.” A regular on HBO’s now-defunct series “Arli$$,” she currently stars in the ABC medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”

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