CBS has lined up an award-winning cast...

CBS has lined up an award-winning cast for an eight-hour adaptation of Larry McMurtry’s novel “Lonesome Dove.” The drama, about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana, will star Academy Award winners Robert Duvall (“Tender Mercies”) and Anjelica Huston (“Prizzi’s Honor”) and Emmy Award winner Tommy Lee Jones (“The Executioner’s Song”). The project is filming in Texas under the direction of Simon Wincer (“Bluegrass”).

George Carlin is making a “Disney Sunday Movie” for ABC. He’ll be seen in the title role of “Justin Case,” playing a detective who comes back from the dead to find the man who killed him. Molly Hagan co-stars as the woman who helps him. The film was written and directed by Blake Edwards (“The Great Race,” “10,” “The Pink Panther”). . . . Edwards, incidentally, will be given the Lifetime Creative Achievement Award at the second annual American Comedy Awards, to be broadcast on ABC May 17.

“The $25,000 Pyramid” is returning to the CBS daytime lineup, beginning April 4. It will replace “Blackout,” which premiered Jan. 4. Dick Clark will be back as host of the Emmy Award-winning “Pyramid.”

Eric Roberts, who starred in the film “Runaway Train,” has the lead role in “To Heal a Nation,” a movie for NBC about the movement to build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Roberts will play Vietnam vet Jan Scruggs, who first proposes the memorial. Glynnis O’Connor portrays his wife, and Laurence Luckinbill and Linden Chiles are on hand as U.S. senators.