Former Voyager scribe Bryan Fuller's latest series, Dead Like Me, bows tonight on Showtime at 10 p.m. The 75-minute premiere introduces us to Georgia "George" Lass, an apathetic college drop-out who dies and is taken in by Rube (Mandy Patinkin), the leader of a group of grim reapers. The show is already winning critical raves. Variety calls Fuller's writing "frisky, freaky and funny" and says the show "has the potential to be Showtime's finest series." The Hollywood Reporter, meanwhile, notes that Fuller "infuses the teleplay for the premiere with an engaging sense of the absurd as well as an abundance of conflicting emotions that arise when we contemplate mortality — ours or anyone else's."

Fuller has since left the show, citing creative differences. He worked on the pilot and the first three episodes following the pilot and is currently working on the Fox mid-season replacement series Wonderfalls.

Mulgrew Takes "Tea" to Florida

Good news for Floridians who couldn't make it to previous runs of "Tea at Five." Playbill Online reports that Kate Mulgrew ("Kathryn Janeway") will take the Matthew Lombardo-penned show to West Palm Beach for a run before embarking on a national tour. The play, which features Mulgrew as screen legend Katharine Hepburn, will run at the 400-seat Cuillo Theatre in downtown West Palm Beach. Call 561-835-9226 for more information. "Tea at Five" ends its off-Broadway engagement July 13.

Dorn "Wings" It

Michael Dorn ("Worf") will appear on the Discovery Wings Channel series Celebrity Wings on June 30. Check this page for rerun times (all times listed are ET). In other flight-related news, Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was ranked at #71 on Aviation Week and Space Technology's list of the Top 100 aviation pioneers.

Rated "Arrrrr..."

He just finished shooting the first two days of the third season of Enterprise — now he's going to Disneyland! Saturday night Scott Bakula ("Captain Archer") will be among the throngs of high-powered celebrities at an extravagant world premiere of Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl," the first such event at the theme park's 48-year history (appropriately enough, given that the movie is based on an attraction there). The film will be projected on a massive 90x40-foot screen set up on Tom Sawyer's Island. The massive guest list also includes Teri Hatcher ("Lt. B.G. Robinson" in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Outrageous Okona"), Corbin Bernsen ("Q2" in TNG's "Deja Q") and Ed Begley, Jr. ("Henry Starling" in Star Trek: Voyager's "Future's End"). More about the occasion can be found at the Orange County Register. "Pirates" opens July 9. It's actually rated PG-13.

Talk Show Reruns

If you missed 'em the first time around, check out these Trek personalities on next week's talk show reruns. Jolene Blalock ("T'Pol") appears Monday, June 30 on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, while William Shatner ("James T. Kirk") appears Wednesday, July 2. Late Night with Conan O'Brien features a rerun with Patrick Stewart ("Jean-Luc Picard") on Monday, June 30.

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