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Ed Asner Emmy winner and stage veteran actor will appear on CBS’ Hawaii Five-0.

Check out details in the release:

Asner will reprise his role of August March, a character he played in an episode of the original “Hawaii Five-0” in 1975, called “Wooden Model of a Rat.” In a first for the series, footage from the 1975 episode featuring Asner and his character’s backstory will be used, showing him as an up-and-coming world class smuggler. Now a reformed man after serving 30 years in prison for murder, March lives on O’ahu and is approached by the Five-0 to assist on a smuggling case.

“It is thrilling to, for the first time, merge the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ and our new show by having the classic, versatile and award-winning actor Ed Asner reprise his role of August March, a character Mr. Asner first played 36 years ago. There is no better way to form a bridge between our reboot and the original series,” said Executive Producer Peter Lenkov.

Asner is perhaps best known for his work on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant.

Hawaii Five-O stars Alex O’Loughlin, Daniel Dae Kim, and Scott Caan.

Erin Andrews, the Espn newsperson and Dancing With The Stars finalist, is attempting to get $10 million in damages over a 2008 incident when a man taped her in the unclothed through a peephole in his Nashville hotel room.

Andrews has lodged a lawsuit against several parties involved in the 2008 incident, according to the Hollywood Reporter. She’s looking for a total of $10 million for invasion of privacy – $6 million from the West End Marriott where the incident took place, and $4 million from the man who videotaped her. That man, Michael Barrett, was sentenced to 2 and a half years in prison in 2010 after pleading guilty to following Andrews and admitting to stalking her to three cities.

One of his videos was published online and later went viral. Erin is seeking the majority of damages from the hotel, claiming they allowed Barrett to know that she was staying at the Marriott while also giving him a room directly next to hers.

Ultimately, Erin claims the ensuing leak of the footage caused her, “great emotional distress and embarrassment”.