QUICK TAKES - March 30, 1996

Just days before its premiere, the Family Channel announced Friday that Chuck Woolery will join Christina Ferrare as co-host of “Home & Family,” a new two-hour daytime talk show that premieres on the cable station Monday at 1 p.m. Fellow talker Regis Philbin will be a guest on the debut show. . . . Actress Bernadette Peters will headline “ ‘Ruthless!’ The Concert,” a two-night engagement at Beverly Hills’ Canon Theatre benefiting AIDS Ride/L.A. The April 15-16 show, a concert version of the Canon’s well-received 1993 Hollywood sendup, will reunite members of the original L.A. cast and creative team, including costume designer Bob Mackie and producer Joan Stein. Tickets are $40-$100. . . . Actor Billy Dee Williams, who pleaded not guilty to spousal battery charges for allegedly repeatedly slapping his live-in girlfriend, Patricia Von Heitman, was ordered by a judge Friday to undergo 52 counseling sessions. If he completes the sessions, charges will be dropped, the city attorney’s office said.