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An international cast headed by Oscar winner Burt Lancaster is currently shooting “Phantom of the Opera” as a four-part miniseries for NBC. Based on Gaston Leroux’s Gothic horror novel about a masked figure who haunts the Paris Opera House to win over his lady love, the production also stars Charles Dance, dancer Teri Polo and Ian Richardson.

ESPN, which broadcasts National Football League games for the second half of the season, will air an eight-week “NFL Dream Season” starting next Sunday. The mythical football series will decide the best NFL championship team over the last four decades. Each game’s results are determined by computer with actual game films edited to show players from different eras competing on the same field.

In USA Network’s remake of “Sorry, Wrong Number,” Loni Anderson will reprise the role portrayed by Barbara Stanwyck in the 1948 suspense film. Anderson plays a bed-ridden millionairess whose husband plans to kill her.

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“Single Women, Married Men” is the tentative title of a CBS movie starring Michele Lee of “Knotts Landing.” Lee plays a divorcee who forms a therapy group for women who are having affairs with married men. The cast includes Jeanetta Arnette, Margaret Avery, Mary Frann, Julie Harris and Carrie Hamilton.

Valerie Bertinelli will play a single mother dragged into a legal nightmare when her 8-year-old daughter is taken from her on abuse charges in “Torn Apart,” a TV movie for CBS.

The Disney Channel will present Walt Disney’s animated classic “Cinderella” in October. The 1950 fairy tale, which took 750 artists six years to create, is the eighth animated Disney classic to appear on the cable TV channel.

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