Ready for another celebrity reality show? Self-professed “Fat Actress” Kirstie Alley is getting in on the trend with the introduction of a 10-episode half-hour weekly docudrama about her decade-long struggle with weight. Kirstie is thisclose to inking a deal to star in a reality show for A&E that will premiere in 2010, Variety reported Tuesday.

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Lost’s Naveen Andrews will guest star on an upcoming episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

The 40-year-old actor –best known for his role as Sayid Jarrah on the ABC series – will begin shooting his scenes in the next week in New York, according to TV Guide.

Details of Naveen’s role are still under wraps, but his episode is scheduled to air in January 2010.

30 Rock is hardly a hit in Germany. The Emmy-winning comedy scored a 0.0 rating in its debut on German TV Sunday night, meaning fewer than 5,000 viewers tuned in. The digital niche channel, which is run by public broadcaster ZDF, had made 30 Rock the flagship entry in a relaunch promising more cutting-edge programing for a younger demographic. But so far, no one young or old, is tuning in.

No word yet on whether ZDFNeo will continue airing 30 Rock. The show is currently in its fourth season on NBC.

Sorry Heroes fans, it appears you’ll be bidding farewell to one-half of the Petrelli Brothers before year’s end. According to E!’s Kristin Dos Santos, Adrian Pasdar’s on-screen alter ego Nathan Petrelli is the major character death happening on Heroes later this season.

As part of the new TODAY Show series TODAY Gets A Laugh, on Monday, hostess Meredith Vieira took a less than glamorous gig working the drive-thru at a surburban McDonald’s! Check out some of the hilarious reactions to Mer’s rude comments….

Oxygen has ordered a second helping of the popular weight-loss show, Dance Your Ass Off.

“We loved watching as contestants danced off nearly 500 pounds,” Amy Introcaso-Davis, Senior Vice President of Original Programming and Development for Oxygen Media, said in a statement Monday.

Dance Your Ass Off, which premiered earlier this year, paired a dozen professional dancers with overweight contestants, who competed to dance off the most weight by the end of the season.

The hit series will return for a second season in 2010.

Jay Leno’s jump to 10 p.m. has been anything but smooth, and now the comedian is airing his frustration in an interview with Broadcast & Cable. “I’m not having a bad time at 10 o’clock now,” the 59-year-old tells the trade journal. “I look at this as a job, and now I’m faced with a challenge, and it’s a challenge I find difficult but interesting.”

Leno takes most of the blame for the poorly-rated Jay Leno Show, but also reveals that the earlier time slot was not his idea.

“Would I have preferred to stay at 11:30? Yeah, sure. I would have preferred that,” Jay says. “Right now we’ve reached a level [and] we’re not going below that. The numbers seem to tell us people [who] are watching the show are staying the whole hour; that’s a good sign. I’m told if we can keep a 1.5 [rating], they make $300 million a year; this is what they say. So we’re a little above the 1.5, we’re doing OK.”

Nobody puts Jessica’s baby sister in a corner! Singer-actress Jessica Simpson is fuming over younger sister Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s unceremonious eviction from Melrose Place — and she’s venting her frustration with the CW show via Twitter.

“CW catching up on MP.who writes this crap?i have had bad scripts to work with,but this?thank God my sister is amazing and got you some press,” Jessica Tweeted on Sunday night.

Late last month, the network announced that Ashlee and co-star Colin Egglesfield would be dropped from the Melrose cast in January following the end of the “Who Killed Sydney?” storyline.

While the move may have come as a surprise to fans, executive producer Todd Slavkin claims it was in the cards all along.

Elementary, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes has stepped up to sponsor next Sunday’s Family Guy special.

The upcoming Warner Bros. film will be the sole sponsor of Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show. Last week, Microsoft abruptly backed out as sponsor of the half-hour comedy-variety program, amid complaints of offensive themes and language. A sneak preview from the December release, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, will air during the broadcast.

Southland has found new home! The gritty cop drama canned by NBC last month, thanks to the addition of The Jay Leno Show, will beginning airing on TNT in January.

On Monday morning, the cable network announced that it plans to re-air the series’ original seven episodes plus the six new hours that NBC ordered but chose not to air. Southland will air Tuesday nights @ 10PM on TNT.

“This is a perfect opportunity for us to introduce the series to new viewers,” said Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, in a statement released today.