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TV Guide Online reports that Portia de Rossi has inked a deal with NBC to headline her own series. The project will likely be a comedy.
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Robert Downey Jr.'s recovery got a major boost on Friday when drug charges and probation were dismissed against the 37-year-old actor. A judge determined that Downey had stayed clean and sober for 14 months.
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TV Guide Online "Caught in the Act" - Hollywood's newest May-December couple, Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford, try and hold it together at the premiere of K:10 The Widowmaker.

From the German Internet Movie Database: Calista Flockhart is apparently planning to team up with boyfriend Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones movie. Filming on Indiana Jones 4 is due to begin in May 2004, with the film looking more adult than its 1980s predecessors. A source says, "Harrison Ford had only one demand when he was approached about doing a fourth Indiana Jones movie - that Calista be written into the new movie. Luckily, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas loved the idea. They think Calista will be a perfect romantic interest for Indiana." And having the ex-Ally McBeal star on board solved one problem for the filmmakers. The source says, "The Indy team had no idea what to do with Indy for the fourth movie. Bringing Calista on board gave them inspiration and they dreamed up the whole story in just a few hours. Getting Calista into the movie was the kick-in-the-pants the guys needed."NEW 
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Ally McBeal is no longer airing repeats in its old Monday 9pm ET time slot on FOX.
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COMMENT ON LAST EPISODE
Dame Edna Everage appears by arrangement with Barry Humphries. From Mike Most (Visual FX Supervisor): [The day we filmed the final scene] was a pretty emotional day. Because of availability issues, we shot that scene on t he 2nd and 3rd days (out of 8) of production, so a lot of what we spent the next 5 days on seemed a bit anticlimactic. Some final interesting tidbits: The final scene was shot over 2 days. The goodbyes were shot on the first day, a nd because we started to run a bit late the last shot (Calista walking towards camera, on both the crane shot and the closeup/group shot) was shot the next morning. The last day of production consisted of the scene with the psychologist ("Maddie was in a 3-way.."), the unisex scene (Carl Reiner comes in at the end and encounters Dame Edna) - which was Calista and Jane's last scene - and the last scene ever for the show, which was the scene in which Carl Reiner is demonstrating the "cage" apparatus in Fish's office. The final shot was the 2 shot of Greg and Peter looking back at Carl (and a closeup of Peter done with a second camera). After the final shot, David made a short speech to the crew in which he said that when Peter started to feel he might not want to continue with the show (this was a while ago), he was determined to make sure that he not only continue but that he be in the very last shot ever (that was a joke, of course - we didn't know what the last shot would be until we got to it). We got through the last day pretty quickly and wrapped just before lunch. T he company was given a very nice (and large) catered lunch (which everyone, including Calista and Jane stayed for) at which Peter and Greg, David, and Bill D'Elia gave some short speeches. A ping pong table that Greg had bought for the crew months earlier (when he directed an episode earlier this season) was raffled off, and we all said our goodbyes. The wrap party was held a few days later (a week before last Friday) and that was it for most of the crew. Some of us still had to finish post production chores (I wasn't done until last Wednesday), but basically that's how it all ended. Mike Most (formerly Visual FX Supervisor on "Ally" - presently unemployed, but enjoying the rest)
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Angel Passing, a short film Calista Flockhart (Ally) did in 1998 is now available for viewing online. The 28 minute drama stars acclaimed actor Hume Cronyn and Elaine Tse and is set in New York City.
The short follows Cronyn as an Alzheimer's patient who seeks forgiveness from his lost love. It's world premiere was at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and has been at several other prestiges film festivals around the world including Toronto and St. Petersburg, Russia. You can check it out & write a review of Angel Passing Here! Watch it

- Deborah Falconer, the wife of Robert DDowney Jr. has finally filed for divorce. The pair has been separated for six years. Falconer cited irreconcilable differences as the cause of the break-up and is seeking custody of the couples 7-year-old son, Indio.
-Calista Flockhart has pick out a name ffor her newly adopt baby boy. She has decided to call him Liam. Liam is the Irish form of William which means "determined guardian".
-According to the Hollywood Reporter Dowwney has committed to appear in as many as 11 more episodes beyond the 10 he has already completed.

The fourth season brought a new hope for Ally, it's called Larry Paul and he'll be her new boyfriend !

Ally McBeal is gonna have to deal with her neuroses alone for a while. Actress Lisa Nicole Carson, who plays Calista Flockhart's roommate on David E. Kelley's Fox smash, needs some time off to recover from an "undisclosed medical condition." After a few weeks of fielding "inquiries about her not being on the show," producers have revealed that the buxom actress is recovering at home following a two-week hospital stay for treatment for a mystery malady. Carson's publicist, Pat Kingsley, tells Reuters News Service that details of the medical condition are being kept private at the request of the actress' family. "She will be recuperating at home, and then she will come back to the show," she says, adding that producers of the Emmy-winning series "have been writing around her for the last couple of weeks or so." "She hopes the media will respect her privacy and allow her to focus her energies on recovering as quickly as possible so that she can get on with her life," reads an official statement.

Billy's Leaving "Ally McBeal" by Julie Keller Feb 11, 2000, 11:35 AM PT The new man in town is on his way out. Ally McBeal's Gil Bellows, whose character Billy has swung from a straight-and-narrow lawyer and husband to a bleached-blond, woman-hating, chauvinist pig this season, is leaving the hit Fox show. "Gil [Billy] will be leaving the firm," says Fox publicist Jonathan Hogan. "He will be back as a recurring character next season. We'll wait and see how it plays out." Gossip maven Liz Smith, who broke the story in her column today, says Bellows wants to pursue other opportunities in film and TV. Most recently, he appeared with Vanessa Williams in the Lifetime movie The Courage to Love and will be seen opposite Sharon Stone in the fall romantic drama Beautiful Joe. On the show, Bellows plays Billy Thomas, the ex-boyfriend of Ally (Calista Flockhart) and the husband of Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith). In the past season, Billy's cheated on his wife (which led to their separation), hired a set of models to escort him to meetings, bleached his hair and decided all women should stay at home to have children and serve the sexual needs of their husbands. Fox is keeping mum on how Billy's exit will be handled. The most recent storyline, though, may hold a clue: In Monday's episode, Georgia sued the firm for breaking up her marriage.

Thorne-Smith Says Adios to Ally. With Billy (Gil Bellows) leaving Ally McBeal, what's his estranged wife, Georgia, to do? Follow suit.
Courtney Thorne-Smith, whose Georgia has been a romantic rival, colleague, and sometime smooch partner of series star Calista Flockhart's Ally, is leaving the Fox show at the end of this season.
Thorne-Smith is being courted for her own sitcom series for next fall and is currently reviewing scripts from several networks, according to Variety.
Along with Heather Locklear (now on ABC's Spin City), Thorne-Smith is one of the few Melrose Place alums to land on a successful show after that long-running soaper closed up shop.
The characters of Georgia and Billy were created for the short term but grew into an integral part of the surreal legal ensemble, says Ally exec producer David E. Kelley. "We've had a great run with these characters, who we originally planned to use for the first season only. Billy and Georgia will re-occur next season, and new characters will be introduced this year," the prolific TV figure says in a statement.
After leaving Melrose Place, Thorne-Smith had a half-hour sitcom in mind but was convinced to join Kelley's hour-long comic drama for one season. Three seasons and numerous legal wranglings and catfights later, it's finally time for Georgia to leave the building.

James Le Gros will join the cast of "Ally McBeal" towards the end of the third season.
From Yahoo News: The 37-year-old hunky thespian has been cast to play Mark (not Marv) Albert on Fox's quirky hit, and will apparently shake things up as the "good-looking thirtyish" lawyer recruited to the firm by Greg Germann's character, Richard Fish. His first appearance will be on the April 10 show, just in time for May sweeps. LeGros will be joining the firm as an expert in criminal cases, which could allow producer/creator David Kelley to dive into more Practice-like legal issues at Cage/Fish & Associates, not to mention spawn a potential new lust interest for Ally McBeal.
Indie actor James LeGros goes mainstream. The easygoing star of such low-budget faves as Drugstore Cowboy, Living in Oblivion, and My New Gun is joining the cast of Ally McBeal.

Portia DeRossi Films With Teri Hatcher
LOS ANGELES (UltimateTV.com) - Portia DeRossi will spend her summer vacation filming a project with Teri Hatcher. The "Ally McBeal" star will be featured in "Two Girls From Lemoore."