By DAVE MASON, Scripps Howard News Service

Homicide detective Grace Hanadarko loves booze and sex, but life isn't just one big party. She has had pain, and "Saving Grace" is about how she chooses to deal with it.Holly Hunter, the Oscar winner who plays Grace, said the show's focus is on forgiveness.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Tina Yothers came to think of Michael J. Fox, who played her brother, Alex Keaton, on "Family Ties," as her real-life sibling."When people would go on and on about him, I would say, 'Gross! He's my brother,' " Yothers said, laughing on the red carpet last Sunday (June 8) at the TV Land Awards.

Zachary Levi has traded the sweet life of sitcoms for shootouts, car chases, explosions, terrorist threats and attempts on his life.Levi is enduring all of this drama as the star of NBC's action-packed "Chuck." The assassins going after him may not be real, but the series' shooting schedule is a real killer.

To this day, Tim Conway can't resist playing pranks on Harvey Korman, his friend and the comic he cracked up on "The Carol Burnett Show.""It's because he's all these wonderful things if you want to pick on someone," Conway told reporters during a recent conference call.