3.2.06 - TVGuide.com: Per the Hollywood Reporter, Ted Danson is in final talks to star in the ABC comedy Help Me Help You (playing a psychologist) as well as to appear in seven episodes of NBC's Heist (as a cop).

1.5.06 - Ted Danson was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for his role in "Knights of the South Bronx." The 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony will be on January 29th, 2006, and will air live on both TNT and TBS.

12.4.05 - Zap2It.com: Danson Plays Chess with 'South Bronx' An actor's career decisions can be as strategic as the moves in a chess game. Whether or not that's the reason Ted Danson signed up for his latest television project, chess figures in anyway. The Emmy-winning "Cheers" and "Becker" veteran plays an inner-city educator who galvanizes his students by teaching them the game in "Knights of the South Bronx," a fact-inspired A&E Network movie directed by Allen Hughes ("Menace II Society") and debuting Tuesday, Dec. 6. More...

12.3.05 - Ted Danson will be on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Tuesday, December 6th.

10.7.05 - Bid on this Hand-Signed, Limited-Edition Lithograph by the late caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, (number 49 of 100) of the cast of his show Becker to this auction benefitting the ACLU of Southern California. It measures 25 x 21 inches. It is signed by both Al Hirschfeld and Ted Danson. Last I checked, the starting bid was $500 and the auction is over the morning of October 11th. Go to eBay

9.15.04 - Bid on this hand-signed, limited-edition lithograph by the late caricaurist Al Hirschfeld, of the cast of Becker, donated by Ted Danson to benefit the ACLU of Southern California. Last I checked, the starting bid was $500 and the auction is over the morning of September 21st. Go to eBay

5.21.04 - Nancy Travis will play the fiancé of Bradley Whitford's (The West Wing) character in a new movie called "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," an adaptation of the best-selling Ann Brashares book. The film is being directed by Ken Kwapis (Malcolm in the Middle) and is an adaptation by Delia Ephron and Elizabeth Chandler. It's a coming-of-age story revolving around four friends during the first summer they spend apart. They vow to keep in touch by circulating a magical pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of them perfectly. Whitford plays the father of one of the girls. Also starring are Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia), America Ferrera, Blake Lively, and Jenna Boyd.

5.18.04 - Ted Danson has been tapped for the lead role in "Our Fathers," Showtime's adaptation of David France's book about the Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal. He'll play the Boston lawyer who represented the first victims to come forward.

3.2.04 - Alex Désert has been cast in the ABC drama pilot Harry Green & Eugene (Frequency Films/Littlefield Co./Paramount) which stars Mark Valley and Jason Segal as brothers - one smart, the other not so much, who own a P.I. firm.

2.3.04 - Ted Danson, along with his wife, Mary Steenburgen, will be on The Ellen Degeneres Show on Friday, February 13th.

1.28.04 - TV Guide Online: Ted Danson Ends Becker

Last summer, Becker was brought back from the dead with an eleventh-hour renewal for a sixth season. But don't expect it to happen again, even though CBS hasn't officially canned the series. "They never really cancel things," says star Ted Danson. "They just let them disappear. I think canceling is bad juju, so [series] just don't show up again."

The Becker finale airs tonight at 9:30 pm/ET, and the episode title is "DNR" — as in "Do Not Resuscitate." He admits it's a not-so-subtle message to the network that the Becker set is closed for good. In it, grumpy Dr. Becker finds happiness. "But," Danson says, "he's morose over the fact that he's happy. I love that."

Danson's grateful for the chance to end the show "with some degree of grace," even though the cast and crew knew, going into Season 6, that they "weren't the flavor of the week" and would be gone by mid-season. As for shooting the wrap-up, he says it was "very sweet. We'd already gotten through the disappointment of being canceled."

However, the actor won't be gone for long. Next month, he'll costar with wife Mary Steenburgen in the CBS movie It Must Be Love. Danson calls the story "a valentine," written especially for them by Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart). It's about a married couple on the verge of divorce, yet rediscovering their love for each other. For you cynics out there, he insists, "It really captures love in a very non-manipulative way."

As for the future, Danson has no definite plans. "I'm knocking on doors," he admits. "I probably need to give the half-hour [sitcoms] a bit of a rest because, emotionally, part of me would go, 'Why am I doing this? I had one that worked perfectly well.' I trust something will come my way, but at the moment, I have no idea."

1.20.04 - Zap2It.com: Danson Says Goodbye to 'Becker' - Parting is sweet sorrow for Ted Danson. Again. After his 11-year run as Sam Malone on the classic sitcom "Cheers," the Emmy-winning actor is bidding farewell to the role of perpetually cranky New York City doctor John Becker. The CBS series "Becker" is ending after six seasons, with its final telecast scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 28....

11.8.03 - Don't miss the great article on page 54 of the November 8th issue of TV Guide entitled "Perfect Bedside Manners: How Ted Danson and the cast of Becker comforted one writer's dad during his final days."

11.4.03 - Becker is just about done. No, not cancelled. Just done, at least for now. Variety reports when Becker's 13 episode commitment has been fulfilled, the show will close shop for the season and wait to see if it finds its way back on the schedule next Fall. Come midseason, CBS new sitcom series The Stones is set to launch with its 9 episodes on Wednesdays at 930p following King of Queens.

10.14.03 - Jorge Garcia has joined the cast of Becker in the recurring role of Hector Lopez, Jake's long lost friend who will now be hanging at the diner while he searches for work.

9.27.03 - Saverio Guerra was spotted walking down lower Fifth Avenue in New York City with an attractive female companion this weekend. He looks much more suave in real life than he does as his character, Bob. :)

9.19.03 - Ted Danson will be a presenter at the Emmys this Sunday.

8.26.03 - Old episodes of Becker will begin running in syndication on September 15th.

8.26.03 - CBS has extended Big Brother by two episodes, which will push back its grand finale to Wednesday, September 24, when it is scheduled to air at 9pm. That means the King of Queens premiere will be pushed back one week to October 1st, and Becker gets pushed back to October 8.

7.17.03 - Betty Garrett was nominated for an Emmy for her guest role as Mrs. Molly Firth in the episode "Nightmare on Becker Street." The Emmy Awards will be presented live on Fox from the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, September 21st.

7.3.03 - Becker has found its way onto the fall schedule, airing on Wednesdays at 9:30pm following The King of Queens in its new time period. The addition to the sked displaces fall newcomer The Stones, which will now hold until midseason. The reason given for the change is the network didn't want to try to launch a new Wednesday 9-10pm comedy block with half the block a complete unknown, and also wanted to give the 10pm show, David E. Kelley's The Brotherhood of Poland NH, the best shot possible with a known lead-in.

6.29.03 - The first season of Cheers, starring Ted Danson, has recently been released on DVD. Click here to buy it from Amazon.com.

6.24.03 - From TV Guide Online: Ted Danson apparently isn't holding a grudge against CBS for banishing Becker to midseason. The actor and his real-life wife Mary Steenburgen have signed on to star in the CBS telepic Surviving Love, a drama about a married couple whose icy relationship thaws out during a freak snowstorm.

6.17.03 - CBS has ordered 13 more episodes of Becker for next season, and they will begin airing sometimes in the mid-season. With 117 episodes already made, these 13 new episodes will bring the totaly syndication package up to 130.

5.14.03 - Zap2It.com: 'Becker' Missing from CBS Slate - The veteran comedy "Becker" isn't on the fall schedule for CBS, but there's still a chance it could return next season. The show, which wrapped up its fifth season last month, suffered a considerable drop in viewership this season, when it moved to 8 p.m. ET Sunday from the more protected 9:30 p.m. Monday slot. "Becker" averaged about 10.4 million viewers a week this season, down from more than 16 million last year. CBS President and CEO Les Moonves says the network is "still in discussions" on possibly bringing the show back later in the season, but he doesn't sound overly optimistic....