It's a big day in the Deschanel house. First, Emily finds out that Fox has renewed her series Bones (along with House, no duh) for the 2007-08 season. And now, little sister Zooey, the loveable shopgirl from Elf gets a chance to play with little people of the Munchkin variety as she's signed on for the lead role in the Sci Fi Channel's miniseries retelling of The Wizard of Oz.

Zooey will play DG-- as in "Dorothy Gale"-- a young woman transported from her dull life into the O.Z. (Outer Zone), "a fantasy-filled world of wonder that's also plagued by dark magic."

Alan Cumming has already been cast as "Glitch," the Scarecrow-like character (we'd figure he'd make a better Wizard, no?). Now all we need is Clay Aiken as the Tin Man and Rosie O'Donnell in the Cowardly Lion suit and they'll have a whole other kind of classic to run each year.

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As I mentioned in my recap, TV GUIDE Emmy party served as a platform for the world debut of the band known as Band from TV. With the vocals of Bob Guiney (The Scorned) and Bonnie Somerville (Kitchen Confidential) leading the band, a strong support comes in the form of James Denton (Desperate Housewives) on strummin guitar, Hugh Laurie (House M.D.) tappin' the keys, and Greg Grunberg (Heroes) poundin' out the drums. USA TODAY gives a little insight to the band's genesis and charity work and even offers a short, clear clip of the band rehearsing (minus the members of the band that actually make it worth watching). Here's the thing about this gimmicky, schticky band....they are really good. While there's no original music, the covers are classic and the band members enthusiasm for the music is contagious.

I recorded a few short clips on my camera for personal historical documentation, but it's something so few people got to see, I have to share a bit. I appologize in advance for the audio and shakyness, but it was late, room was dark, and I was drunk. Think of it as Blaire Witch music.

For information on the band and future live performances you can reference their website here. If the link to buy their CD actually worked, it'd be on my iPod by now.

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