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12 June 2008 10:36 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

It must be summer when a show can dominate two hours of primetime with a 5.4 rating and a 9 share. But that was the case when Fox's So You Think You Can Dance offered its first night of competition Wednesday. A 90-minute Celebrity Circus debuted on NBC with 6.5 million viewers, a respectable number for summertime. But the series finale of ABC's Men in Trees drew only 4.51 million viewers, terrible even in a New York heatwave.

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6 June 2008 10:24 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Latest: Actress Anne Heche has won her battle to reduce child support payments to her ex-husband.

The former Ally McBeal star pleaded poverty in court last month, blaming the cancellation of TV series Men In Trees for her inability to pay child support.

The star was granted a reprieve in the monthly payments of $14,978 (GBP7,489) to her ex-husband Coley Laffoon for their six-year-old son Homer, and now the full extent of her financial win has been decided.

According to an order signed on Friday and obtained by TMZ.com, the actress' monthly payments have dropped from almost $15,000 (GBP7,500) to a more manageable $3,700 (GBP1,850).

Heche will no longer have to pay for all her son's private school fees either - the new order declares she'll share the burden with her ex-husband Coley Laffoon.

The actress has also been ordered to pay Laffoon a lump sum divorce settlement of $275,000 (GBP137,500).

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15 May 2008 9:56 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Actress Anne Heche has revealed that she can't afford to pay the $$15,000 per month that she owes in child and spousal support.

In court papers Heche admitted that the cancellation of her TV show Men In Trees was responsible for her financial troubles.

She said: "Since January 18, 2008, I have been unemployed and had no income from employment except for one very short-term contract for a movie role (Spread) for which I received a total of $$6,500, . . .

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15 May 2008 12:13 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Actress Anne Heche has blamed the cancellation of TV series Men In Trees for her inability to pay child support.

The star was granted a reprieve in the monthly payments of $14,978 (GBP7,489) to her ex-husband Coley Laffoon for their six-year-old son Homer.

But Heche has been ordered by a judge to provide up-to-date income and expense information for the case - as she claims she also can no longer afford to pay Homer's school fees, the mortgage on her house in Canada where Men In Trees was filmed, the rent on her California home, and car expenses.

In court papers, she says, "I am continuing to look for work, but I have no offers pending and the impending strike by the Screen Actors Guild reduces my prospects for work even further,

"Since January 18, 2008, I have been unemployed and had no income from employment except for one very short-term contract for a movie role for which I received a total of $65,000 (GBP32,500) approximately the amount I received for one episode of Men In Trees.

"I do receive some residuals from previous acting work. However, the amounts are nominal and are offset by recurring business expenses that must be paid whether or not I am working."

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14 May 2008 5:00 AM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news

Anne Heche says she can no longer afford to pay the nearly $15,000-a-month in child and spousal support because she's unemployed after the cancellation of Men In Trees. "I am continuing to look for work, but I have no offers pending and the impending strike by the Screen Actors Guild reduces my prospects for work even further," Heche, 38, writes in court papers. A judge Wednesday gave her a temporary break, saying she didn't have to pay her next support payment to her ex Coley Laffoon, 34, covering the month of July. But Superior Court Judge Gail Ruderman Feuer ordered the actress

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