Production is under way on “Fall From...

Production is under way on “Fall From Grace,” an NBC movie based on the story of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker starring Kevin Spacey and Bernadette Peters. The drama, expected to air this spring, will explore the personal story behind the rise and fall of the couple’s evangelical dynasty beginning in December, 1980, with the dream of Heritage Village and ending with their ouster from P.T.L. in May 1987.

A diverse group of musical guest stars, including country’s Tanya Tucker, pop’s David Crosby and punk rock’s Iggy Pop, will appear in an episode of NBC’s new drama series “Shannon’s Deal,” set to premiere this spring. Film director and writer John Sayles, who wrote the episode titled “Words to Music,” will guest star as an abusive husband.

Terry Kiser, Meagan Fay, Richard Kind, Jeremy Piven and Anita Barone have joined Carol Burnett as regular cast members of NBC’s new half-hour comedy series, “Carol & Company.” The show, due this spring, will feature guest stars each week and be performed before an audience on a specially-built stage at Disney Studios.

HBO’s anthology “Tales From the Crypt,” based on the 1940s comics of the same name, will return in March with 18 new stories of supernatural suspense, including an episode featuring actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s directorial debut. Returning to direct new episodes will be film veterans Richard Donner, Walter Hill and Robert Zemeckis.

The cable channel TNT is developing a TV movie about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The drama will focus on the experiences of Robert Gale, an American doctor who went to the Soviet Union to help treat victims of the nuclear accident.

George Burns, Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Sammy Davis Jr., Angie Dickinson, Herbie Hancock, Patti LaBelle, Smokey Robinson and Dionne Warwick all gathered around the Motown microphone to record “Forgotten Eyes,” a song to benefit the degenerative eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. A music video of the recording session is expected to air on the cable music video channel VH-1.

In March, the Disney Channel will introduce its first original weekly drama series, “Avonlea,” based on the stories of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. The series stars 10-year-old Sarah Polley, Colleen Dewhurst and Patricia Hamilton.