Longtime Ch. 5 veteran Lyn Brown signed off from the station Friday, June 30 – news that was lost in the July 4th holiday weekend shuffle, but shouldn’t have been.
Brown, a familiar local face, first on “Good Day New York” and then on Ch. 5’s 11:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts, toiled at the station for 17 years. She was supplanted at 6 p.m. last January but remained on the 11:30 a.m. newscast and appeared on “GDNY,” which gave her a nice, on-air sendoff June 30.
“These have been some of the best 17 years of my life,” Lyn said that day.
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CBS reporter Kimberly Dozier, critically injured in a Memorial Day car-bombing in Iraq, continues to progress in her recovery, according to an internal e-mail sent last Friday by CBS News president Sean McManus. “Kimberly continues to undergo intensive physical therapy at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, which is very tiring and painful . . . even taking a few steps with the help of a walker . . . ,” McManus wrote in part. Dozier shares a birthday with President Bush, who sent her a birthday greeting last Thursday.
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Singer Taylor Dane appears on tonight’s episode of “Rescue Me” (10 p.m./FX), playing a friend of Tommy’s (Denis Leary) ex-wife who’s a restaurant hostess. Next Tuesday, Taylor plays BB King’s as part of her nationwide tour.
Last, but not least:
* The cobbled-together third season of “Chappelle’s Show” is out on DVD July 25 -hoping to match the stratospheric DVD sales of the first two seasons.
* Mets third baseman David Wright, a first-time All-Star who’s starting tonight’s game, makes his inaugural appearance on tomorrow’s “Late Show” (11:35 p.m./Ch. 2).
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* “American Idol” also-ran Chris Daughtry (right), who finished fourth last season, has inked a deal with 19 Records, run by “Idol” creator Simon Fuller. Daughtry had earlier snubbed an offer to join rock group Fuel.
* Busy guy: Peter MacNicol, who showed up near the end of “24” last season as a nebbishy Homeland Security agent, is joining the show full-time-while continuing his regular role on CBS’ “Numb3rs.”