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TELEVISION

Pamela Must Pay: Pamela Anderson Lee’s former manager, Robert D’Avola, has won a judgment granting him 15% of the “Baywatch” star’s earnings from the series dating back to March 1994, plus interest, legal fees and other costs. The judgment, rendered Thursday in L.A. Superior Court, approves an earlier arbitration decision and asks Anderson Lee to give D’Avola’s attorneys a complete accounting of her earnings to determine the total value of the award. “I got her the jobs and then she blew me off,” said D’Avola, who represented Anderson Lee in 1991 and 1992 when she made deals to star as the first “Tool Time” girl on “Home Improvement” and for “Baywatch.” Anderson Lee could not be reached for comment.

KCAL Purge Moves On-Air: Despite promises by Young Broadcasting Co. that on-air talent at KCAL-TV Channel 9 would not be affected when it took over ownership of the station from Disney last month, KCAL’s main male anchor, a sports anchor and two reporters have been booted. Veteran anchor David Jackson, who’s been with the station since 1989, sports anchor Gary Cruz, and reporters Bill Gephardt and Barbara Matt have been taken off the air, effective immediately, executives said. Also ousted was Dennis Farrier, the station’s environmental reporter who had been working on a freelance basis. Jackson’s contract, which expires at the end of the year, is not being renewed, while the others will continue to be paid under the terms of their still-pending contracts.

Uh, Like, a New Schedule: Fox will revise its prime-time schedule in January, introducing “King of the Hill”--an animated comedy series from “Beavis and Butt-head” creator Mike Judge--in the Sunday 8:30 p.m. time period after “The Simpsons” while moving “Ned & Stacey” and the Ed O’Neil series “Married . . . With Children” to Mondays, in the 9 p.m. hour following “Melrose Place.” Under the new schedule, Fox will air various specials at 7 p.m. Sundays, where the network had drawn fire for running “Married” episodes. Meanwhile, a revised version of the show originally scheduled to occupy that time period in September, “L.A. Firefighters,” has been put on the back burner, with remaining episodes not likely to air until next summer.

MOVIES

Auction Will Proceed: A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Friday denied an 11th-hour request by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to bar Christie’s from auctioning off Clark Gable’s best actor Oscar for “It Happened One Night” on Sunday. Citing its goal of keeping Oscars off the open market, the academy claimed Gable signed a 1957 contract giving it “right of first refusal”--a chance to buy the Oscar for $10 if it was ever to be sold. Christie’s, however, claimed the signature was a forgery, and called the motion an attempt to “sabotage” the auction. In the end, however, Superior Court Judge Robert O’Brien wasn’t swayed by either side’s arguments and instead denied the motion because, he said, the defendants did not receive “proper” notification of the hearing. The Oscar is being sold by Gable’s estate.

DRAMA

‘Whistling’ a Mixed Tune: “Whistle Down the Wind,” the new musical by producer-composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, opened at Washington’s National Theatre Thursday to mixed reviews. The Washington Post’s Lloyd Rose panned “a drab, stuttering book” and a Louisiana setting that “has about as much cultural reality as a street in Disneyland.” But Benedict Nightingale of the London Times said theatergoers “thrill to the sound of true music, authentic drama,” despite a few cuteness and credibility problems. The Baltimore Sun’s J. Wynn Rousuck called it “an affecting curiosity,” with a second act better than the first, while Paul Harris of Variety found “plenty to like,” especially in the first act, including the words of Meat Loaf lyricist Jim Steinman and director Harold Prince. Former L.A. “Phantom” Davis Gaines drew generally favorable comment as a convict who’s discovered in a barn and mistaken for Jesus.

POP/ROCK

And a Black Crowe in a Pear Tree: House of Blues Entertainment continues to disperse its “12 Days of Christmas” presents for Internet users today when it broadcasts a prerecorded No Doubt concert on its Web side, https://www.liveconcerts.com. Other concerts scheduled during the series, which runs daily at noon through Dec. 23, are Orbital & Electric Skychurch (Sunday), Outkast (Monday), Me’Shell Ndegeocello (Tuesday), Hootie & the Blowfish (Wednesday), Goldfinger (Thursday), Black Crowes (Friday), Tina Turner (Dec. 21), the Blues Brothers (Dec. 22) and Cracker--with a special performance by Stone Temple Pilots (Dec. 23).

QUICK TAKES

“Scoop With Sam & Dorothy,” the syndicated talk show hosted by KTLA’s Sam Rubin and KTTV’s Dorothy Lucey, has been canceled due to low ratings. The show, which airs locally on Channel 5, will cease production Friday and have its final telecast later this month. . . . ABC may pull the plug on James Belushi’s planned comedy series “It’s Good to Be King.” The network would only confirm that there were “ongoing discussions” about the show’s status after it was decided to rework the pilot episode. The series had been planned for midseason.