TELEVISIONShort Run: “The Jon Stewart Show,” the...

TELEVISION

Short Run: “The Jon Stewart Show,” the syndicated late-night talk series that replaced “The Arsenio Hall Show” nine months ago and is carried locally by KCOP-TV Channel 13, will have its last original broadcast June 23. Kerry McCluggage, chairman of the Paramount Television Group, called Stewart, who had come from MTV, “an extraordinary talent” and said, “We look forward to continuing our relationship with him.” While no official reason was given, a source close to the show said it averaged a 1.1 rating, meaning that about 1 million people across the nation were watching, a low figure since the show was available in 97% of viewing households. Wednesday night, appearing on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman,” the hip Generation X host didn’t bother to wait for Thursday’s formal announcement. When Letterman asked if he was canceled, Stewart joked that he thought it was because of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, who has recently attacked sex and violence in Hollywood productions.

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Imagen Awards: Ricardo Montalban and Norman Lear have been honored with Imagen Awards, which cite positive portrayals on TV and in film of Latinos and the Hispanic culture. The 10th annual awards ceremony Wednesday in Los Angeles was dedicated to the memory of Raul Julia, who died in October at 54. Montalban, 74, received the Life Achievement Award. Lear, 72, known for such TV series as “All in the Family” and “Maude,” produced the sitcom “a.k.a. Pablo,” which dealt with a Latino Los Angeles family and starred Paul Rodriguez.

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On the Move: KCET’s Emmy Award-winning “Life & Times Studio Edition” now is also seen in Sacramento and San Francisco. The show, which focuses on state and national news, airs here Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and Mondays at 7:30 p.m. and midnight. It is now presented on Sacramento PBS station KVIE on Saturdays and on San Francisco’s public-TV outlet KQED on Sundays. It marks one of the rare times a local news and current affairs series has been broadcast in other statewide markets.

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Environment Patrol: Colombia’s Environment Ministry has ordered the partial suspension of a European miniseries being filmed on the Caribbean coast after the film crew cut down trees in a national park. The ministry said it had ordered the British Broadcasting Corp. and Italy’s RAI public broadcasting network to stop filming part of the TV series until they had presented a plan to replace nearly 2,300 square feet of trees in a botanical garden near the port of Cartagena. Albert Finney and Claudia Cardinale are starring in the four-part series, based on the novel “Nostromo” by Joseph Conrad.

PEOPLE

Stressed-Out: Tenor Placido Domingo has canceled all his European engagements for one or two months on doctor’s orders because of vocal fatigue caused by stress from a busy schedule, officials of Music Center Opera announced Thursday. Domingo, who was in town for the opening of Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” Wednesday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, had been singing the title role of Verdi’s “Stifellio” in Madrid last week when his vocal problems began. He is scheduled to sing “Stifellio” in Los Angeles in early September.

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Wunnerful, Wunnerful: A road in Bismarck, N.D., has been named after Lawrence Welk. Gov. Ed Schafer signed a proclamation naming U.S. Highway 83 after the late music master whose “ah-one, an’ ah-two” band-leading refrain became known to millions of TV viewers over 30 years. The road runs through his hometown of Strasburg, east of the farm where he was brought up. Welk died in 1992 at 89.

MOVIES

Spotlight on Prague: Prague’s first International Film Festival is scheduled to open today with the 1994 Oscar-winning Russian film “Burnt by the Sun” and concludes June 17 with “The Madness of King George.” Meryl Streep is scheduled to attend a special screening of “Sophie’s Choice,” for which she won the best actress Oscar.

QUICK TAKES

Sandra Bullock, Anthony Edwards, Arnold Schwarzenegger, his wife Maria Shriver and Jean-Claude Van Damme join host Bob Costas for opening ceremonies of the 1995 Special Olympics World Summer Games in New Haven, Conn., which NBC will telecast July 5. . . . The French Culture Ministry says tests have confirmed that pictures of a bison and two rhinoceroses found in a cave last December are the oldest-known paintings in the world, done at least 30,000 years ago. . . . Writer-director-actor Kenneth Branagh will be honored Saturday by the American Ireland Fund at Jimmy’s restaurant in Beverly Hills. Mayor Richard Riordan has declared Saturday “Irish Arts Day.”