The "8th Annual A Home For The Holidays With Rod Stewart," a new entertainment special to be broadcast Friday, Dec. 22 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS, includes moving performances by Grammy Award winner Rod Stewart and special guests Five for Fighting, John Legend, Katharine McPhee and Mary Mary. Comedian Cedric the Entertainer, Miley Cyrus, Angie Harmon, Melina Kanakaredes, Rene Russo and Jeri Ryan present inspirational stories about adoption.

An obsessed Star Trek fan flew all the way from Germany to Los Angeles just to dine at his favorite alien's new restaurant. The young Trekker was flown to Hollywood for dinner at actress Jeri Ryan's French restaurant Ortolan as an 18th birthday gift.

* Law & Order star Sam Waterston, Desperate Housewives' Doug Savant and James Denton, Joely Fisher, Martin Short and pop star Drew Lachey will be pitting their wits against Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, on an upcoming two-week celebrity version of Jeopardy, which begins on November 8.

Jeri Ryan is "scoping out" venues in France's Loire's valley for an intimate June 2007 wedding to fiancé Christopher Eme. The German-born actress has fallen in love with the French countryside and has set her sights on staging her nuptials there next summer.

James Woods, Jeri Ryan, Sam Page, Sophina Brown, Alexis Cruz, Sarah Carter and Danielle Panabaker star in the new drama series Shark, premiering tonight (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on CBS. “Shark” follows the professional and personal life of Sebastian Stark, a charismatic, supremely self-confident defense attorney who, after a shocking outcome in one of his cases and a personal epiphany, brings his cutthroat tactics to the prosecutor's office.

CBS today announced plans to make TV history by partnering with TiVo Inc. to launch a new Fall show in an entirely original way -- not via a network premiere, a DVD, or the Internet, but on the TiVo service. TiVo subscribers will be the first in the nation to see the hot comedy CBS show The Class as early as a full week before its premiere on live TV.

Jeri Ryan is engaged to her boyfriend, French chef Christopher Eme. The two are partners in Ortolan, an award-winning West Hollywood, California, restaurant where Eme is the head chef. The 38-year-old star announced her engagement while promoting her new TV series "Shark" at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California.

ABC will present the season finale of its hit legal drama, Boston Legal, on Tuesday, May 16 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) in a special two-hour block. In the first part of the broadcast, "Spring Fever," Denny Crane and Alan Shore travel to the Los Angeles office of Crane, Poole & Schmidt for business and wind up unexpectedly taking on a case with a decidedly Hollywood flavor.

Jeri Ryan will guest star in the two-hour season finale of Boston Legal, Tuesday, May 16, on ABC. Ryan will play Courtney Rae -- the beautiful, sexy hostess of "The Phoenix," a fictional reality television series. Courtney is charged with attempted murder after shooting a member of the paparazzi who was stalking her.