CBS has ordered an eight-hour miniseries based...

CBS has ordered an eight-hour miniseries based on the Larry McMurtry novel “Lonesome Dove,” about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana. The stars will include Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, D. B. Sweeney and William Sanderson.

NBC has two documentaries from its news division scheduled this month. On April 19, Maria Shriver will report on “Women Behind Bars,” a look at women in prison. Then on April 26, Connie Chung will anchor “Stress,” examining how it can affect health and how some people manage it.

Flutist James Galway will be featured on two programs that KCET Channel 28 plans to broadcast April 22. The first, at 9 p.m., is “On Stage at Wolf Trap: James Galway and the Chieftains,” a salute to Irish music, followed at 10 p.m. by “Galway Plays Mancini,” featuring the music of Henry Mancini.

People: Ted Lange, formerly of “The Love Boat,” makes a guest appearance on NBC’s “In the Heat of the Night” Tuesday. . . . Efrem Zimbalist Jr., former star of “The FBI,” plays a multimillionaire on the April 30 installment of NBC’s “Hunter”. . . . Sandy Duncan takes time out from “Valerie’s Family” to appear as herself in the May 2 installment of “ALF,” on NBC.

KCET Channel 28 has received a grant of $130,000 from Bullocks/Bullocks Wilshire/Federated that will enable the station to continue producing its “Videolog” features for the next year. Those are the short pieces about Southern Californians that have been popping up between programs since 1983. Huell Howser will continue as the “Videolog” producer, writer and host.

Debbie Allen, the dancer and former star of “Fame,” will join NBC’s “A Different World” next season--but not in front of the camera. Allen will be both a producer and director of the comedy, which stars Lisa Bonet.

Hal Holbrook and Eva Marie Saint play a married couple hoping to have all their children home for the holidays in “A Rockport Christmas,” a movie for NBC. The film, set in New England during 1944, also stars Courteney Cox, Peter Gallagher, Nancy Travis and Jason Oliver.

Bruce Boxleitner has the lead role, but not the title role, in “The Town Bully,” a movie made for ABC. Boxleitner plays a county prosecutor who insists on pressing a murder investigation even though the murdered man (played by David Graf) was an ex-con whose untimely death was hardly a source of mourning in the community.