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Being single in the city takes on a new twist in “#1 Single,” a new series following Billboard-topping singer Lisa Loeb on her quest to have it all: love, success, a career and family. The performer’s one-of-a-kind approach to life will be the subject of the new eight-part series, which is set to premiere on E! Entertainment Television in January 2006. Newly single, Loeb is moving back to New York, where she will dip her toe into the dating pool for the first time since college. —Starpulse News Blog

It’s Gotta Be Des’ree

This reality show follows Des’ree’s rarely publicized battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. “It came from my over-demanding parents,” the one-hit wonder recently said. “Nothing was good enough for them. It was always, ‘You gotta be this, you gotta be that. Y’know, you gotta be bad, bold, wiser, hard, tough, stronger. Cool, calm. I just couldn’t take it anymore.” Having spent the last 12 years in seclusion, Des’ree is ready to return to society — and the spotlight. See her group therapy sessions, her visits to the drugstore for pharmaceutical assistance, and her burgeoning romance with Phillip — a bass playing mental patient suffering from Asperger’s syndrome. She just might learn that love will save the day.

Cooking with the Crash Test Dummies

This weekly show will feature some of the Canadian folk quintet’s favorite recipes from open-face bison sandwiches to maple-roasted bacon poppers. Best of all, each show starts and ends with a song. Master Chef Brad Roberts will have your mouth watering with his delicious dishes and your rectum vibrating with his nonsensically bassy vibrato! So come for the music but stay for the food that’s always mmm, mmm, mmm, mmm, good!

Philosophical Dissertation with Edie Brickell and Joan Osborne

Sure, within the confines of a three-minute pop song we learned that philosophy is a walk on a slippery rock and that religion is the smile on a dog. And yes, for a moment, we even pondered if God were one of us; a slob on a bus, if you will. But now, these two singing theological and philosophical powerhouses will get a two-hour weekly show to expand fully on their theories regarding life, religion and the universe. Each episode will also devote half an hour to the High Times “Bud of the Month.”

Alanis Morissette’s Anger Management

Who’s an angry Gen X-er? Not Alanis. She’s abandoned the negative energy that comes from trying to blow older men in movie theaters and she’s got a whole new look…on life! Meet the new Alanis: Quiet. Bland. Acoustic. And available at a Starbucks near you.

This Old Mullet with Billy Ray Cyrus

Currently in development.

A Sublimely Blind Melon

The consequences of drug abuse are examined in this reality show following the surviving members of Sublime and Blind Melon. We watch as they deal with the fatal overdoses of their respective lead singers. Grief takes many forms: from engaging in minimum-wage temp work to afford food and shelter to pissing on Shannon Hoon’s grave, screaming, “Why?!”

The series ends on a cruelly ironic note, when celebrity guests give the guys advice they simply can’t follow. Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience suggests acquiring royalties from multiple hits before allowing your lead singer to overdose. Whereas Dave Grohl, former Nirvana drummer turned Foo Fighters frontman, suggests actually having talent instead of tying your future to fragile prima donnas with monkeys on their backs. A show for the whole family, this should get Junior to start studying for his SATs.