Teeth on the Dial - TV News

A summary of TV stuff from last week, mostly from TV Tattle.com

"How I Met Your Mother" gives Barney a brother -- Wayne Brady

"Studio 60," "The Nine," "Men in Trees" & "Help Me" have all received orders for additional scripts. While not a full season order, it's good news for these ratings challenged series.

"Sesame Street's" nostalgic DVDs are for adults only!? - The "Old School" DVDs featuring episodes from 1969-74 comes with this odd disclaimer "these early 'Sesame Street' episodes are intended for grown-ups and may not meet the needs of today's pre-school child." It turns out that "Sesame Street" added the disclaimer to protect kids from being distressed at the changes the show has made over 37 years.

NBC resurrects 2-hour Thursday comedy block with "Scrubs" & "30 Rock" - Scrubs is back earlier than planned (it was supposed to come back in January or later), and NBC is putting it's Thursday night comedy block back together again after the past few years have seen The Apprentice and Deal or No Deal filling space at 9pm. The blcok will be starting Nov. 30, and will see "My Name is Earl" and "The Office", followed by "Scrubs" & "30 Rock". Odd note: This leads to the battle of "Scrubs" vs. "Grey's Anatomy", a battle only TIVO can win.

ABC will bring back "Lost" on Feb. 7 - After a 13-week hiatus through the holidays, "Lost" will return Feb. 7 for an uninterrupted run of 16 episodes. The last new episode of "Lost" is Nov. 7th.

"SNL's" 1st season coming to DVD A move that seems to scream "See, we were cutting edge and funny once! This is why there are two primetime shows about life behind the scenes at SNL type shows!"

It's true!: "Fraggle Rock" is coming out with a movie