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POP/ROCK

Weiland Sentenced: “If you violate your parole, you’re going to jail. Please get your life together.” That was the edict from L.A. Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler to Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland, as the latter pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony heroin possession charge and was sentenced to three months in a Ventura County drug treatment facility. Fidler warned that Weiland would not be allowed to leave the Impact Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center “for any reason,” adding: “He is not to go to work. He is not to make record albums and he is not to perform a concert.” Fidler also placed Weiland, 30, on three years’ probation, and ordered him to submit to regular drug tests and register as a narcotics user. Weiland, who has had three drug arrests since 1995, said after court that he was “very happy about the opportunity the judge has given me.” He had faced up to 40 months in County Jail.

TELEVISION

Shari Lewis Tribute: KCET-TV Channel 28 will pay remember the late ventriloquist and children’s TV star Shari Lewis with an Aug. 20 tribute featuring a brief video memorial put together by the puppeteer’s daughter, Mallory Tarcher. Included in the 10:30 p.m. tribute will be the last musical number Lewis recorded for KCET’s “The Charlie Horse Music Pizza,” which happened to be titled “Hello, Goodbye”; rare family photos and archival footage; and Lewis’ favorite “Charlie Horse” episode, “Drum Show.” A KCET spokeswoman noted that the tribute was aimed at “boomers with children,” not at children themselves. Lewis, who ceased production on her show in June after being found to have uterine cancer, died Aug. 2 at age 65.

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‘Public’ Shut-Eye: CBS has ceased production on Bryant Gumbel’s “Public Eye” newsmagazine, with the final episode to air Sept. 16. The program has fared poorly in the ratings and was not included on CBS’ upcoming fall lineup. However, a network spokeswoman said the show could still return at midseason. “Public Eye” premiered last September after CBS signed the former host of NBC’s “Today” to a five-year contract at an estimated $5 million a year. As for what Gumbel might do next, he said: “It’s a really good question. But I won’t be focusing much attention on it until mid-September. After that, it will consume me.”

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Black Romances: In what it is calling “the largest single production order involving African American feature-length films,” cable’s BET has tapped filmmaker Roy Campanella II (PBS’ “Brother Future”) to produce 10 upcoming TV movies. The screenplays will be based on stories from the Arabesque line of African American romance novels.