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Jason Momoa and Nikki DeLoach, the rising stars of "North Shore," will be featured in upcoming photo spreads and interviews in an upcoming issue of the Star tabloid. The photo shoots took place Sunday at the Kahala Mandarin Oriental hotel. Momoa will be in the "Hunk of the Month" section. ("Hawaii" hunk Eric Balfour turned down Star.)

Fox will pre-empt "North Shore" during October for post-season baseball, then return Nov. 1. The drama's last episode, no. 22, will air Jan. 24.

Shannen Doherty's first appearance on the show will be in the episode "Alexandra," airing Sept. 20. She plays the long lost sister of Nicole Booth, played by Brooke Burns. The characters are not fond of one another. In an upcoming episode, Alexandra becomes her sister's boss. Doherty is under contract for three episodes, but depending on ratings and other factors, could do the last six ...

"Lost" stars Dominic Monaghan, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly and Harold Perinneau will attend the ABC Primetime Preview Weekend at Disney's California Adventure on Sept. 11.

Kathryn Morrison, the show's costume designer, says she does "re-engineering and deconstructing" of the show's costumes using a metal file, sandpaper, and Old English furniture polish. There are some six versions of the same item in various states of decay, with salvaged luggage from the plane's fuselage to rely on, and costumes seen in flashbacks of their former lives ...

"Hawaii" co-star Aya Sumika, who plays police officer Linh Tamiya, won't be speaking pidgin until or if the show's writers establish her character's local history. Sumika recently posed for W magazine in Los Angeles, along with two other NBC actresses portraying police officers this season. The Hollywood Reporter says newcomer Sumika, in her first dramatic role, and "affable" Peter Navy Tuiasosopo provide the more interesting characters in the cop show ...

"Greenlighting Proposals: How Proposals Are Judged and Pitched" will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 11 at the East-West Center. Panelists include Frank Blythe, executive director of Native American Programming Telecommunications; Hany Geigomah, Interim Director of Native Studies at UCLA; New Zealand film director Merata Mita; Donald Thoms, VP of Production at the Discovery Channel; Gus Cobb-Adams, Programming Associate at Pacific Islands in Communications; and Tsui Ling Toomer, Associate Dean of Digital Media Production at The Art Institute of Portland.

The workshop costs $25, but is free to Pacific Islanders in Communications supporters ...