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     *BET debuts its new interactive series, “The 5ive,” on June 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT. The half-hour show promises to keep viewers caught up on the latest happenings in the world at any given time. Host Alesha Renee will count up the most talked about and desired people, places, events, gadgets, and Web sites ... ranging from must-haves like the new blue tooth virtual laser keyboard to the environmentally-charged call to go green.

      *The Broadway-bound new production of The Wiz will be featured in San Francisco's Best of Broadway season along with the recent Broadway hit, The Color Purple. Billed as a "pre-Broadway engagement," The Wiz run will build upon the production that director Des McAnuff and collaborators began last fall at La Jolla Playhouse. "We are reinventing The Wiz with a multiracial cast and a wired Web sensibility,” said McAnuff in a statement. “This will be theatre that you enter rather than watch."

      *Ludacris will make a guest appearance on the big 400th episode of “The Simpsons,” which is scheduled to air this Sunday at 8 pm on Fox. The episode follows Homer, Bart and the rest of the family as they take a chaotic trip to the dentist. Ludacris appears as "Luda-Crest," the star of a video designed to get teens to brush their teeth.

      *The video for Timbaland's new single "Throw It On Me" will debut on the May 21 episode of WWE's "Monday Night RAW" on the USA Network, according to a press release. The clip features cameos from WWE Divas. "The reason I asked the Divas to be in my video was because I didn't want the typical casting for this," said Timbaland. "I wanted women who mean something. The Divas have a fan base of their own. They're all stars. Each in their own way, they all mean something."

            *It’s Chris Rock’s turn to sit in the hot seat opposite Cathy Hughes on a brand new “TV One on One,” premiering Sunday (5/20) at 10 p.m. ET, and repeating at 1 a.m. Rock tells Hughes that even as a kid riding around in his grandfather’s cab, he was planning to be the very best.  “I wanted to be the president of the United States.  [But] because your parents grew up in this whole civil rights thing, they really don’t want to hear you say you want to be the president. ‘Oh, God, no, somebody’ll shoot you!’  So, me and my all-or-nothing personality [said], “I can’t be the president?  Well, I ain’t goin’ to school.  I’m gonna make people laugh.’”