TODAY’S NEWS, TOMORROW’S TELEVISION : It’s Garry Shandling again at the Grammys; ‘Simpsons’ clan grows

Garry Shandling will return to host “The 33rd Annual Grammy Awards,” airing Feb. 20 at 9 p.m. on CBS. This is Shandling’s second consecutive year hosting the awards, which honor excellence in the recording industry. The Gramms will be broadcast live--seen on tape-delay in California--from Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Country artists Clint Black, Kathy Mattea and George Strait will host “The 26th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards” special, airing April 24 at 9 p.m. on NBC.

Jessica Steen has taken over the role of Trisha Alden McKenzie on ABC’s soap “Loving” while actress Noelle Black is on maternity leave.

Richard Moll, David Faustino, Fred Willard, Danica McKellar, Miss USA 1990 Carole Giste and Kimmy Robertson are among the celebrities who will guest star this season in episodes of the syndicated daytime children’s series “Wake, Rattle & Roll.” The series airs Monday-Friday at 7:30 a.m. on KTTV.

“Studio 22,” KCBS-TV’s weekly entertainment magazine program hosted by Steve Kmetko and Dorothy Lucey, will be syndicated nationally beginning September 1991. The series, which airs locally Sundays at 5 p.m., already is seen on CBS-owned television stations in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami.

Danny DeVito supplies the voice of Herb, Homer’s long-lost brother, on the Feb. 21 edition of Fox’s “The Simpsons.” Ringo Starr will play an animated version of himself on a spring episode of “The Simpsons” entitled “Brush With Greatness.”

CNN’s Larry King will host “The Larry King Special...Inside Hollywood,” an entertainment-magazine special scheduled to air April 1 on TNT. The show will feature King and three celebrity guests in “intimate, entertaining and informative discussions.”

“Darkwing Duck” is a new Disney Channel animated series premiering April 8. The half-hour animated series follows the adventures of Darkwing Duck, a winged crusader against crime.

Teen tunester Debbie Gibson guests as herself on an upcoming episode of the Fox series “Beverly Hills 90210.” The episode will air in February.