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NBC has canceled Outlaw. This news isn’t particularly surprising on the heels of another low-rated Friday performance (a 1.0 rating with adults 18-49) following an announced production shutdown, NBC will just fill the 10pm hour with another hour of Dateline beginning this Friday, October 15 . NBC had been running Dateline from 8pm-10pm, and with the premiere of School Pride this Friday, will just shift Dateline to 9p-11p. NBC will burn off the remaining four episodes of Outlaw at 8pm over the next 5 Saturdays (preempted on October 30 for scheduled repeats of Halloween specials).

Just read yesterday, that Jimmy Smits will join the 'Dexter' cast, in season 3 for 10 episodes, playing the scion of a rich family - cum investigator, that ends up in an unlikely alliance with Dexter, to hunt down a serial killer. Season 3, will air on Showtime this fall.

http://nbcumv.com/entertainment/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20040827000000-smitsjoinsquotth.html BURBANK, Calif. -- August 27, 2004 -- Emmy Award-winning actor Jimmy Smits has joined the cast of "The West Wing." He will play a three-term Houston congressman with presidential aspirations. He recently starred in Shakespeare in the Park's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" as well as the Pulitzer Prize winning "Anna in the Tropics" and will next be seen in "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith." Smits' television credits include starring roles in "NYPD Blue" and "L.A. Law."