GUEST STARS IN THE NEWS

Gerald McRaney (Scars) has been cast in an untitled ABC comedy pilot about an average guy who becomes the star performer at his family's lounge. McRaney will play the guy's dad.

Major Dad" Gerald McRaney will play a dad, but not a major, in ABC's untitled comedy starring Dan Finnerty. The show centers on a guy (L.A. lounge performer Finnerty) who becomes the star of his family's lounge band. McRaney plays his father.

Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr., welcomes actress Delta Burke and her husband, actor Gerald McRaney, to the city at his office Friday afternoon. Burke is starring in a pilot for the WB Network based on Jill Conner Browne's book, The Sweet Potato Queens, and is visiting Jackson to participate in today's Mal's St. Paddy's Day Parade.
Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. presented the key to the city to Burke on Friday. Her Mississippi-born husband, actor Gerald McRaney, attended the 3 p.m. ceremony. Burke is taping a pilot for a sitcom based on Browne's books.
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Discovery Health Channel has announced that Tracey Gold (Misbegotten) will host "Cutters: Self-Abuse," a series examining a disorder that causes teen girls to cut themselves.

The series will look at two young women who cut themselves several times a day but are in treatment and are trying to stop.

Gold -- a former star of the long-running ABC comedy "Growing Pains" -- made health news headlines herself when she was treated for a relapse into anorexia when she was in her late teens.

The new series premieres on March 27.