FINALLY

Seeing stars: Former Times film critic and arts editor Charles Champlin will get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 11:30 a.m. Friday.

Not ready to close: TNT has renewed its cop drama “The Closer” for a fourth season. It will be back next summer with Kyra Sedgwick continuing in the lead.

Day in court: Five years after he was charged with 14 counts of child pornography, R&B; singer R. Kelly will finally go on trial in Chicago on Sept. 17, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Diversity: ABC, which came under fire from the NAACP for a shortage of minority actors in its new series for this fall, has added Blair Underwood to the cast of its serial “Dirty Sexy Money,” playing a billionaire.