Ivan Sergei will surface at Betty’s Bar and Grill in the season finale of Lifetime’s Army Wives says TV Guide. Sergei’s character – Betty’s nephew – won’t arrive with his heart set on a family reunion, however. Rather, he will immediately make waves with Roxy. Army Wives kicks off a string of five new episodes this Sunday, with the Season 2 finale slated for November 2.
Lifetime has locked up exclusive cable rerun rights to How I Met Your Mother says The Hollywood Reporter. The half-hour comedy is set to air as a strip starting in fall 2010, joining a schedule that includes such other off-net comedies as Reba, Still Standing, Will & Grace and Frasier. The show fetched around $725,000 per episode in a highly competitive bidding situation that included at least six interested cable networks. It was considered a hot property because of the diminishing number of off-network sitcoms coming available.
Lifetime’s four-year licensing deal includes up to eight seasons of How I Met Your Mother, should the CBS comedy run that long. How I Met Your Mother had a big fourth-season premiere Monday, jumping 21% in the ratings over last season.
Rumer Willis has landed a guest-starring role on Lifetime’s Army Wives. The daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, she will play the wife of a soldier who has been injured in Iraq. Her episode is slated to air October 12. Army Wives’ second season finale airs November 2. Production on Season 3 (premiering June 2009) starts next week in Charleston, South Carolina.
