As Jason Garrett gets settled in as interim coach of the Cowboys, Albert Breer of NFL Network sprays a little rain (or possibly a less clear liquid) on Garrett's parade.

Breer reports that he hears a majority of the players in the locker room "don't like [Garrett] at all."

Of course, it's not a popularity contest. As one league source told us on Sunday morning regarding the current head coach of the Vikings, "Brad Childress is disliked by all."

And yet when the players had an opportunity to lay down late in Sunday's game against the Cardinals to ensure Chilly would be fired, they chose winning.

So who cares if the players don't like Garrett. They apparently liked Wade Phillips, and that was good for one win in eight games.

As Jason Garrett gets settled in as interim coach of the Cowboys, Albert Breer of NFL Network sprays a little rain (or possibly a less clear liquid) on Garrett's parade.

Breer reports that he hears a majority of the players in the locker room "don't like [Garrett] at all."

Of course, it's not a popularity contest. As one league source told us on Sunday morning regarding the current head coach of the Vikings, "Brad Childress is disliked by all."

And yet when the players had an opportunity to lay down late in Sunday's game against the Cardinals to ensure Chilly would be fired, they chose winning.

So who cares if the players don't like Garrett. They apparently liked Wade Phillips, and that was good for one win in eight games.

After weeks of rumors and scouring the streets for a cast, VH1 has announced the lineup for the fourth installment of Celebrity Rehab.

Signed on to work with Dr. Drew Pinksy are: Party of Five star Jeremy London, model/reality star Janice Dickinson, Jason Wahler from The Hills, Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel (who is also wanted for Celebrity Apprentice), musician Leif Garrett, Frankie Lons (mother of singer Keyshia Cole) and oil heir/socialite Jason Davis.

The group will undergo 21 days of detox and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Episodes are set to premiere later this year.

After weeks of rumors and scouring the streets for a cast, VH1 has announced the lineup for the fourth installment of Celebrity Rehab.

Signed on to work with Dr. Drew Pinksy are: Party of Five star Jeremy London, model/reality star Janice Dickinson, Jason Wahler from The Hills, Tiger Woods' alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel (who is also wanted for Celebrity Apprentice), musician Leif Garrett, Frankie Lons (mother of singer Keyshia Cole) and oil heir/socialite Jason Davis.

The group will undergo 21 days of detox and treatment at the Pasadena Recovery Center. Episodes are set to premiere later this year.

In making the raunchy sitcom Call Me Fitz, there was no humiliation Jason Priestley would not endure.

Playing a slimy used-car salesman, for three months he was slapped, kicked and called every filthy name in the book. To top it off, he spent the better part of his time during filming in Nova Scotia forced to prance about in tighty whities decorated with tractors and cars.

And he loved it. He revelled in the lewdness – downright relished playing a bad-boy loser with a potty mouth, a drinking problem and a dysfunctional family. In fact, the B.C. native describes Call Me Fitz one of the most entertaining and challenging acting experiences of his 20-year-plus career. “You know what they say, dying is easy … comedy’s hard,” says Priestley, who at 40 still has the boyish good looks that brought him fame in the early nineties as do-gooder Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210.

“The hardest thing for me was finding the right comedic moment, and holding onto it: playing it straight, keeping it real,” adds the actor, dressed in a brown sweater, jeans and construction boots, and sharing a table at a Toronto restaurant with Call Me Fitz writer/producer Sheri Elwood. “Getting kicked around and crashing cars was the easy part. Hell, I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to walk.”

It was Priestley, Elwood is quick to add, who came up with the idea of having the lay-about lead, Richard Fitzpatrick, strut about in nothing but his gitch – which were the brand Ginch Gonch, an underwear manufacturer in Montreal. “Ginch Gonch helps to symbolize the little boy that Fitz really is,” Priestley says. “They’re perfect for Fitz, a guy who is arrested as an adolescent, and has never really progressed past 15.

“Fitz always just does what he thinks is his next-best move, without ever thinking about the future consequences or ramifications. But he’s fun. And he’s doing the best he can, like all the rest of us who are just trying to muddle through.”

Shot in the Annapolis Valley village of New Minas, N.S., the 13-part Call Me Fitz – slated to air on The Movie Network and Movie Central this summer – begins after Fitz botches a test drive and puts his customer in a coma. He then encounters a new salesman on the lot, Larry (Ernie Grunwald), who serves as Fitz’s moral conscience. Carnage ensues.

“If you put The Hangover on the psychiatrist’s couch, that’s what this show is,” says Elwood, who also wrote and produced the CTV series Defying Gravity. “It’s a raunchy show that is really about eviscerating this man’s psyche. Larry forces him to take a look at what’s going on in his life, and Fitz doesn’t like what he sees.”

Elwood, who grew up on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, wrote Call Me Fitz several years ago as a comedy sample. Approached several times to turn the pilot script into a series, she balked until now because “all the pieces never quite fit.”

When TMN signed on, even finding the right Fitz was a dilemma – one Elwood didn’t resolve until she happened upon a YouTube interview of Priestley with CBC Radio’s Jian Ghomeshi. “I think you’d stumbled in from the night before, in an old T-shirt and a couple days’ worth of growth,” she ribs Priestley. “It was filmed with a hand-held camera and posted on the Internet. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s my guy.’

“The writers and I tried our damnedest to embarrass Jason during the shoot, but nothing fazes him,” says Elwood of her star, who also plays in multiple sex scenes (including one where he is exuberantly spanked). “This is a true cable show in every sense of the word. And TMN gave us the artistic freedom to take it far as we thought it needed to go. So we [went] for it.”

Since 90210 went off the air, Priestley has worked consistently in Los Angeles – as an actor, director and producer – on shows such as My Name is Earl, Hollywood & Vines (Priestley is a real-life wine lover who has a stake in the Okanogan, B.C.’s Black Hills Winery) and The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

He says he took the part of the bumbling Fitz because Elwood’s script was laugh-out-loud funny. “The show also has a lot of heart, a lot of pathos, so it was a pretty easy decision,” adds Priestley, who came up to Nova Scotia to start filming last October, accompanied by his wife, Naomi Lowde, and their two young kids.

“The locals loved us,” says Priestley, adding that 1,500 auditioned for various parts. “It was refreshing to come to a place where people were actually happy to see you. So often now, people see the trucks roll in and they say, ‘Crap, traffic’s going to be backed up.’ Here, they appreciated the business, and the work.”

Elwood says she brought her show home to the Maritimes for a simple reason: It “made the most financial sense.”

But there were other factors that made it appealing as well. “We found a wonderful location in a small, working-class town that fit perfectly for our ugly/beautiful aesthetic. Plus, my mom got to stop by with her homemade cookies, made with 17 pounds of butter, that the cast and crew devoured.

“All except you,” she adds, jerking her head at Priestley. “Because you had to be in your underwear all the time.”

Much as he loved those Ginch Gonches, Priestley says, he left his 20 pairs with wardrobe. It was a gesture not of generosity but of convenience, he explains: “I’m going to wear them when I go back for season two.”

In making the raunchy sitcom Call Me Fitz, there was no humiliation Jason Priestley would not endure.

Playing a slimy used-car salesman, for three months he was slapped, kicked and called every filthy name in the book. To top it off, he spent the better part of his time during filming in Nova Scotia forced to prance about in tighty whities decorated with tractors and cars.

And he loved it. He revelled in the lewdness – downright relished playing a bad-boy loser with a potty mouth, a drinking problem and a dysfunctional family. In fact, the B.C. native describes Call Me Fitz one of the most entertaining and challenging acting experiences of his 20-year-plus career. “You know what they say, dying is easy … comedy’s hard,” says Priestley, who at 40 still has the boyish good looks that brought him fame in the early nineties as do-gooder Brandon Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210.

“The hardest thing for me was finding the right comedic moment, and holding onto it: playing it straight, keeping it real,” adds the actor, dressed in a brown sweater, jeans and construction boots, and sharing a table at a Toronto restaurant with Call Me Fitz writer/producer Sheri Elwood. “Getting kicked around and crashing cars was the easy part. Hell, I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to walk.”

It was Priestley, Elwood is quick to add, who came up with the idea of having the lay-about lead, Richard Fitzpatrick, strut about in nothing but his gitch – which were the brand Ginch Gonch, an underwear manufacturer in Montreal. “Ginch Gonch helps to symbolize the little boy that Fitz really is,” Priestley says. “They’re perfect for Fitz, a guy who is arrested as an adolescent, and has never really progressed past 15.

“Fitz always just does what he thinks is his next-best move, without ever thinking about the future consequences or ramifications. But he’s fun. And he’s doing the best he can, like all the rest of us who are just trying to muddle through.”

Shot in the Annapolis Valley village of New Minas, N.S., the 13-part Call Me Fitz – slated to air on The Movie Network and Movie Central this summer – begins after Fitz botches a test drive and puts his customer in a coma. He then encounters a new salesman on the lot, Larry (Ernie Grunwald), who serves as Fitz’s moral conscience. Carnage ensues.

“If you put The Hangover on the psychiatrist’s couch, that’s what this show is,” says Elwood, who also wrote and produced the CTV series Defying Gravity. “It’s a raunchy show that is really about eviscerating this man’s psyche. Larry forces him to take a look at what’s going on in his life, and Fitz doesn’t like what he sees.”

Elwood, who grew up on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, wrote Call Me Fitz several years ago as a comedy sample. Approached several times to turn the pilot script into a series, she balked until now because “all the pieces never quite fit.”

When TMN signed on, even finding the right Fitz was a dilemma – one Elwood didn’t resolve until she happened upon a YouTube interview of Priestley with CBC Radio’s Jian Ghomeshi. “I think you’d stumbled in from the night before, in an old T-shirt and a couple days’ worth of growth,” she ribs Priestley. “It was filmed with a hand-held camera and posted on the Internet. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah, that’s my guy.’

“The writers and I tried our damnedest to embarrass Jason during the shoot, but nothing fazes him,” says Elwood of her star, who also plays in multiple sex scenes (including one where he is exuberantly spanked). “This is a true cable show in every sense of the word. And TMN gave us the artistic freedom to take it far as we thought it needed to go. So we [went] for it.”

Since 90210 went off the air, Priestley has worked consistently in Los Angeles – as an actor, director and producer – on shows such as My Name is Earl, Hollywood & Vines (Priestley is a real-life wine lover who has a stake in the Okanogan, B.C.’s Black Hills Winery) and The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

He says he took the part of the bumbling Fitz because Elwood’s script was laugh-out-loud funny. “The show also has a lot of heart, a lot of pathos, so it was a pretty easy decision,” adds Priestley, who came up to Nova Scotia to start filming last October, accompanied by his wife, Naomi Lowde, and their two young kids.

“The locals loved us,” says Priestley, adding that 1,500 auditioned for various parts. “It was refreshing to come to a place where people were actually happy to see you. So often now, people see the trucks roll in and they say, ‘Crap, traffic’s going to be backed up.’ Here, they appreciated the business, and the work.”

Elwood says she brought her show home to the Maritimes for a simple reason: It “made the most financial sense.”

But there were other factors that made it appealing as well. “We found a wonderful location in a small, working-class town that fit perfectly for our ugly/beautiful aesthetic. Plus, my mom got to stop by with her homemade cookies, made with 17 pounds of butter, that the cast and crew devoured.

“All except you,” she adds, jerking her head at Priestley. “Because you had to be in your underwear all the time.”

Much as he loved those Ginch Gonches, Priestley says, he left his 20 pairs with wardrobe. It was a gesture not of generosity but of convenience, he explains: “I’m going to wear them when I go back for season two.”

A fatal shooting in an Orlando office building has added to the deadly toll of workplace violence in America this year.

Police were able to apprehend the alleged gunman, Jason Rodriguez, a former employee of the engineering firm where Friday's assault left one person dead and 5 injured.

Mr. Rodriguez had been fired by Reynolds Smith & Hills in mid-2007. The investigation into the incident and its possible motivations is ongoing. But after his Friday arrest, he responded to a reporter asking why he did it, saying "They left me to rot."

Ken Jacobson, a top manager and legal counsel at the engineering firm, told CNN that Rodriguez had been terminated after less than a year on the job, after failing to improve his work performance.

"His work was pretty deficient from the start," Mr. Jacobson said. He said the firm had not observed unusual personality traits.

The arrest followed several intense hours during which law enforcement officials from various agencies worked to ensure the safety of workers at the engineering firm and then track down Mr. Rodgriguez. He was found at his mother's home.

Workplace killings are not trending upward, according to annual statistics released by the US Labor Department. But the weak economy has boosted stress levels in many workplaces, and the Florida tragedy Friday came – coincidentally or not – only a day after widely publicized fatal shootings on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

"If you do have a high profile shooting, particularly like the one at Fort Hood that gets a lot of national attention, it may prod someone to act" who was already on the edge of violence, says Steve Kaufer, co-founder of the Workplace Violence Research Institute in Palm Springs, Calif.

The recession means more people are feeling financial or related anxieties, he says.

At the same time, employers have become increasingly focused in recent years on preventing workplace violence, and responding more effectively when it occurs. Those efforts have born fruit.

Overall, workplace homicides totaled 517 last year, despite the recession – the lowest in 16 years of tracking shown in a Labor Department report. That's half the rate seen in the early 1990s.

Most of the incidents, Kaufer says, don't involve co-workers or former employees. More typical is the convenience store robbery that turns violent.

But the risk is significant enough that employers across America have put in place training programs and other safeguards.

Much of it centers around communicating and acting on concerns.

If you see a big change in a colleague, or a lot of small changes, "it's probably a good idea to find out what's going on with that person," Kaufer says. Reporting concerns to a supervisor can lead to responses that typically don't lead to firing, but often help a troubled individual do better on the job.

Everything from badge-swipe access controls to threat-response policies have also helped to improve workplace safety.

Still, the Orlando shootings come on the heels of other high-profile instances of workplace violence this year.

The Fort Hood incident is a case in point, although it also has its own very distinctive circumstances – being at a military base, and with an alleged perpetrator disturbed about US war policies. The alleged killer of 13 people on Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist preparing for deployment to Afghanistan.

Another incident this year involved the murder of Annie Le, a researcher at Yale University, allegedly by a lab technician who worked with her.

A fatal shooting in an Orlando office building has added to the deadly toll of workplace violence in America this year.

Police were able to apprehend the alleged gunman, Jason Rodriguez, a former employee of the engineering firm where Friday's assault left one person dead and 5 injured.

Mr. Rodriguez had been fired by Reynolds Smith & Hills in mid-2007. The investigation into the incident and its possible motivations is ongoing. But after his Friday arrest, he responded to a reporter asking why he did it, saying "They left me to rot."

Ken Jacobson, a top manager and legal counsel at the engineering firm, told CNN that Rodriguez had been terminated after less than a year on the job, after failing to improve his work performance.

"His work was pretty deficient from the start," Mr. Jacobson said. He said the firm had not observed unusual personality traits.

The arrest followed several intense hours during which law enforcement officials from various agencies worked to ensure the safety of workers at the engineering firm and then track down Mr. Rodgriguez. He was found at his mother's home.

Workplace killings are not trending upward, according to annual statistics released by the US Labor Department. But the weak economy has boosted stress levels in many workplaces, and the Florida tragedy Friday came – coincidentally or not – only a day after widely publicized fatal shootings on the Fort Hood Army base in Texas.

"If you do have a high profile shooting, particularly like the one at Fort Hood that gets a lot of national attention, it may prod someone to act" who was already on the edge of violence, says Steve Kaufer, co-founder of the Workplace Violence Research Institute in Palm Springs, Calif.

The recession means more people are feeling financial or related anxieties, he says.

At the same time, employers have become increasingly focused in recent years on preventing workplace violence, and responding more effectively when it occurs. Those efforts have born fruit.

Overall, workplace homicides totaled 517 last year, despite the recession – the lowest in 16 years of tracking shown in a Labor Department report. That's half the rate seen in the early 1990s.

Most of the incidents, Kaufer says, don't involve co-workers or former employees. More typical is the convenience store robbery that turns violent.

But the risk is significant enough that employers across America have put in place training programs and other safeguards.

Much of it centers around communicating and acting on concerns.

If you see a big change in a colleague, or a lot of small changes, "it's probably a good idea to find out what's going on with that person," Kaufer says. Reporting concerns to a supervisor can lead to responses that typically don't lead to firing, but often help a troubled individual do better on the job.

Everything from badge-swipe access controls to threat-response policies have also helped to improve workplace safety.

Still, the Orlando shootings come on the heels of other high-profile instances of workplace violence this year.

The Fort Hood incident is a case in point, although it also has its own very distinctive circumstances – being at a military base, and with an alleged perpetrator disturbed about US war policies. The alleged killer of 13 people on Thursday, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was an Army psychiatrist preparing for deployment to Afghanistan.

Another incident this year involved the murder of Annie Le, a researcher at Yale University, allegedly by a lab technician who worked with her.

If you put money on Bravo network's television presence continuing to grow and expand, something tells us you'll be continuing to collect for years to come. The Bravo boys seem very eager to give the viewing audience what they want. And what do we want? More drama, of course! Specifically-- more eccentric, multi-tasking Bravo-made mini moguls. Bravo announced three heaping scoops of new Bravo reality programs focused exclusively on Bravo celebrities from past Bravo series. That's a lot of Bravo.
Bethenny Frankel, the single housewife on the series The Real Housewives of New York City, is getting her own solo show, as rumors suggested this summer. The docuseries will center on her successful career as a natural foods chef and nutrition author, as well as her love life, which is surely a bed of roses since she met Jason Hoppy.
A fan favorite and winner of the fourth season of Project Runway, back when Bravo aired the series, Christian Siriano will also star in a one-man show focused on his preparations for a store and markets his clothing line. Count on new catch phrases from the pint-sized designer who is probably to blame for beating "Fierce" into our vernacular.

Finally, former Top Chef contestant Fabio Viviani will star in Fabio: A Catered Affair. Viewers will witness the ups and down Viviano and his business partner, Jacopo Falleni, face when they expand their Los Angeles restaurant and get into the catering game. Good chance there will be some cute waiters in the support cast there.

If you put money on Bravo network's television presence continuing to grow and expand, something tells us you'll be continuing to collect for years to come. The Bravo boys seem very eager to give the viewing audience what they want. And what do we want? More drama, of course! Specifically-- more eccentric, multi-tasking Bravo-made mini moguls. Bravo announced three heaping scoops of new Bravo reality programs focused exclusively on Bravo celebrities from past Bravo series. That's a lot of Bravo.
Bethenny Frankel, the single housewife on the series The Real Housewives of New York City, is getting her own solo show, as rumors suggested this summer. The docuseries will center on her successful career as a natural foods chef and nutrition author, as well as her love life, which is surely a bed of roses since she met Jason Hoppy.
A fan favorite and winner of the fourth season of Project Runway, back when Bravo aired the series, Christian Siriano will also star in a one-man show focused on his preparations for a store and markets his clothing line. Count on new catch phrases from the pint-sized designer who is probably to blame for beating "Fierce" into our vernacular.

Finally, former Top Chef contestant Fabio Viviani will star in Fabio: A Catered Affair. Viewers will witness the ups and down Viviano and his business partner, Jacopo Falleni, face when they expand their Los Angeles restaurant and get into the catering game. Good chance there will be some cute waiters in the support cast there.

Jason Frank goes from Power Ranger to MMA fighter
A few years ago actor Jason David Frank was used to hearing the familiar sound of fans yelling, "Go, go Power Rangers!" but now he's ready to hear the roar of a different crowd.
The former action star from the hit series "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" has officially made the move to mixed martial arts, and while training with UFC lightweight Melvin Guillard, he hopes to make his real fighting experience as successful as he did on television.
Frank signed on with Suckerpunch Entertainment recently and hopes to make his professional debut in the very near future.
"I was supposed to fight in 2007, but it fell through. In truth, I've wanted to put the work in until I'm ready," Frank said in an interview from the Suckerpunch website. "I know I have a target on my back. Everyone is going to want to beat up the Green Ranger. But I am no Kimbo; I've been training for a very long time. I wanted to get in there before, but I got injured. But I'll be ready when the time comes."
The actor-turned-fighter is adding a ground game to what he believes is already an impressive stand-up resume, but he knows it's a long road to not only becoming a mixed martial artist, but a successful mixed martial artist.
"My style was missing the ground fighting. I have my blue belt in BJJ from Gracie Baja now, but we needed to have that ground game integrated into Tose Kune Do. There was a blank there. So we added wrestling, BJJ, etc., to it," Frank said. "Melvin Guillard has really helped add the wrestling. I needed to get with someone who could put it all together for me, and that was Saul Soliz. And he's done it. He's a good, hardcore trainer."
Proud of his time as the Green Ranger on the popular television show, Frank is ready to move onto new goals, and he hopes to conquer MMA the same way he did television.
"Just to go out there and do my best, and prove that I'm a real fighter," Frank said about his goals in MMA. "I'm not looking for any titles specifically. Ultimately, I want to give my fans something to watch and be proud of."

Jason Frank goes from Power Ranger to MMA fighter
A few years ago actor Jason David Frank was used to hearing the familiar sound of fans yelling, "Go, go Power Rangers!" but now he's ready to hear the roar of a different crowd.
The former action star from the hit series "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers" has officially made the move to mixed martial arts, and while training with UFC lightweight Melvin Guillard, he hopes to make his real fighting experience as successful as he did on television.
Frank signed on with Suckerpunch Entertainment recently and hopes to make his professional debut in the very near future.
"I was supposed to fight in 2007, but it fell through. In truth, I've wanted to put the work in until I'm ready," Frank said in an interview from the Suckerpunch website. "I know I have a target on my back. Everyone is going to want to beat up the Green Ranger. But I am no Kimbo; I've been training for a very long time. I wanted to get in there before, but I got injured. But I'll be ready when the time comes."
The actor-turned-fighter is adding a ground game to what he believes is already an impressive stand-up resume, but he knows it's a long road to not only becoming a mixed martial artist, but a successful mixed martial artist.
"My style was missing the ground fighting. I have my blue belt in BJJ from Gracie Baja now, but we needed to have that ground game integrated into Tose Kune Do. There was a blank there. So we added wrestling, BJJ, etc., to it," Frank said. "Melvin Guillard has really helped add the wrestling. I needed to get with someone who could put it all together for me, and that was Saul Soliz. And he's done it. He's a good, hardcore trainer."
Proud of his time as the Green Ranger on the popular television show, Frank is ready to move onto new goals, and he hopes to conquer MMA the same way he did television.
"Just to go out there and do my best, and prove that I'm a real fighter," Frank said about his goals in MMA. "I'm not looking for any titles specifically. Ultimately, I want to give my fans something to watch and be proud of."