Are you ready to see The Brady Bunch in the White House?

        Fox Broadcasting has completed a two-hour TV movie starring Gary Cole, Shelley Long and a new cast of young kids, reports Cincinnati native Teddi Siddall Cole, the actor's wife.

        In the film, Mike Brady (Mr. Cole) tries to return a $67 million winning lottery ticket to its rightful owner. His honesty is rewarded by being selected as vice president. When the commander in chief is forced to resign, the Bradys move into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

        Osama bin Laden might not be around, but President Brady will have his hands full. Daughter Jan Brady will be haunted by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln, while the president leads “all mankind through its worst hour of darkness when . . . a gigantic asteroid is about to smash into Earth and forever obliterate all life as we know it,” according to a Fox publicity announcement.

        Although this is the third Brady Bunch movie, it's not the most recognizeable role for the star of NBC's old Midnight Caller. Ms. Siddall says her husband is best known in Hollywood for the 1999 cult classic Office Space (8 p.m. Sunday, Comedy Central) from director Mike Judge (King of the Hill, Beavis & Butt-head).

        “He gets recognized more from that than Midnight Caller, Fatal Vision and everything combined,” she says. “I keep hoping someone will do Office Space as a TV series. It's a huge hit with twentysomethings.”

        Fox reunions: Fox also will produce a Baywatch Blast! reunion film with David Hasselhoff and Cincinnati native Carmen Electra and a Battlestar Galactica revival.

        Maynard on CBS: The Cincinnati Zoo's Thane Maynard packs up a penguin and heads off to the CBS Early Show Saturday (8-10 a.m., Channel 12).

        He's participating in an Animal Crackers' 100th anniversary promotion in which the public will vote on adding a koala, penguin, cobra and walrus to the cracker collection. Enquirering mind: This Enquirering mind wants to know: Did Dayton's WHIO-AM (1290) really have “technical difficulties” when WLW-AM's Mike McConnell sat in for Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday?

        Or did the Dayton Limbaugh show affiliate just not want to give the Cincinnati talk host additional exposure in Dayton? WHIO-AM ran a local talk show instead of Mr. McConnell that day.

        It's understandable that WHIO-AM folks would be paranoid. Not only does 50,000-watt WLW-AM come booming into Dayton, the WLW-AM newsroom also provides news around-the-clock to Dayton's WONE-AM (980), a sister Clear Channel station. WONE-AM airs promotions in Dayton for WLW-AM, calling it “Dayton news radio, 700 WLW.”

        Channel 12 news: Larry Davis, former WKRC-AM and WLW-AM reporter, has joined WKRC- TV (Channel 12) news as night assignment editor. He replaces Terry Donald, also a former WKRC-AM reporter, who quit last month to make furniture full time.

        Super Pops: Keith Lockhart is going to the Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, and he's taking the Boston Pops Orchestra with him.

        Mr. Lockhart, former Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra associate conductor, and the Pops will perform “America the Beautiful” and Aaron Copland's “Fanfare for the Common Man” (which was composed for the CSO) during the pregame show at the Louisiana Superdome on Feb. 3. The Pops also will play the national anthem for singer Mariah Carey.

        More goners: NBC has canceled Inside Schwartz, the 8:30 p.m. Thursday comedy with former Channel 19 weekend sports anchor Kevin Frazier, and Undercover (10 p.m. Sundays), according to USA Today.

        Christmas list: Today's holiday programs include The Proud Family (6 p.m., Disney Channel); I'll Be Home for Christmas (6 p.m., STARZ); Hart to Hart (7 p.m., Hallmark Channel); Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (8 p.m., Hallmark Channel); Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer (8 p.m., Channel 64); A Home for the Holidays with Mariah Carey, Destiny's Child, Charlotte Church and Josh Groban (8 p.m., Channels 9, 7); The Ultimate Christmas Present (8 p.m., Disney Channel); the 1994 remake of Miracle on 34th Street (8 p.m., Family Channel); SpongeBob Squarepants (8 p.m., Nickelodeon); The Fairly Odd Parents (8:30 p.m., Nickelodeon); One Christmas with Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler (9 p.m., Hallmark Channel); Holiday at Pops! (9 p.m., A&E): 'Twas the Night (9:30 p.m., Disney Channel); Diagnosis Murder (10 p.m., Pax).

        Going blonde: Rachel Sweet (Dharma & Greg, Sports Night) will be executive producer and head writer on ABC's Legally Blonde midseason sitcom. She is a former teen pop star who later turned to acting, appearing in The Investigator and Gypsy.

        Contact John Kiesewetter by phone: 768-8519; fax: 768-8330; e-mail: jkiesewetter@enquirer.com.

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