“Law and Order,” a one-hour series for...

“Law and Order,” a one-hour series for NBC starring Michael Moriarty and George Dzundza, has begun filming in New York City. The new drama, which is scheduled for the 1990-91 season, is not a show about cops or lawyers--it’s about both. The continuing stories will cover the entire legal process, from the commission of a crime on the street to its resolution in court.

James Woods and John Lithgow will headline “The Boys,” an ABC movie about two men--lifelong friends and writing partners--who suddenly are confronted with terminal illness. Lithgow portrays an obsessive chain-smoker with a family. Woods plays a loner with a penchant for trendy health foods who is diagnosed with lung cancer--an illness that may be due to breathing his partner’s cigarette smoke for 20 years. The two-hour ABC movie will air next season.

After screening an early cut of “Dreamer of Oz: The L. Frank Baum Story,” executives of the NBC programming department “were so impressed” that they decided to push back the air date of the fantasy TV movie starring John Ritter from its scheduled fall premiere to December. The network said that the holiday season is more appropriate for the special effects-packed family drama about the author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” The movie co-stars Rue McClanahan, Annette O’Toole, Charles Haid, David Schram and Jerry Marin, one of the original Munchkins from the 1939 movie classic.

NBC’s movie “Last Flight Out,” a fact-based drama about a small group of heroic Americans who risked their lives to take 500 Vietnamese civilians and American citizens to safety aboard the last commercial flight out of Saigon in 1975, has received an air date on May 20.

The conniving new couple that has joined the Port Charles cast on ABC’s daytime soap “General Hospital” are both Hollywood newcomers. In their American television debuts, Danish actor Anders T. Hove plays the diabolical Faison and Eurasian actress Chi-en Telemaque portrays the sinister Desiree.