Eli Stone, the visionary lawyer, returns tonight with a few high-profile friends to provide insurance against a verdict of low ratings.

By Martha Waggoner WILMINGTON, N.C. -- When "One Tree Hill" debuted in the fall 2003, creator Mark Schwahn remembers, the ratings were so low that "even my mother didn't know we were on the air.""We didn't even know if we would get a season two," Schwahn says.

Shreveport, La., police said this week they have video of a bar fight in which members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie - including actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright - were arrested.

By Robert Bianco and Gary Levin As a show and a character, ABC's Eli Stone is back from the dead. And coming along to boost the long-term chances of survival: guest star Katie Holmes. It's a reunion of sorts for Holmes and Eli producer Greg Berlanti, who worked together on Dawson's Creek.

U.S. actress Katie Holmes is to guest star in an episode of the TV drama Eli Stone, ABC announced Wednesday. The actress is to play a non-profit attorney whose mysterious fate leads her to Eli in a Season 2 episode of the show called Grace, the network said. Jonny Lee Miller plays Eli Stone.