| Staying In zard”) convinces the cops that he’s a psychic. Fortunately for him, Shawnis well-equipped to carry outthe illusion because his Police-officer dad scorn Bernsen,“L.A. Law”) has stilled in his son the ability te Notice every little detail of his surroundings. “West Wing” regular Dule Hill also stars as Shawn's best friend andreluctant enabler, Cs. “Big Daddy” writer Steve Franks created the show and will executive produce with Kelly Kulchak and Chris Henze Zap2it.com New York Times DVD/Viideo releases Director Chris Columbus wentfrom back-to-back blockbusters with the first two “Harry Potter”flicks to boxoffice dud with this lame adaptation of the stage musical smash, whichleads a rush of underachieving new releases hitting DVD.“Rent” reunites most ofthe original Broadway cast, including Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal and Tony winner Wilson Jermaine Heredia, with Rosario Dawson leading the newcomersin playwrig] Jonathan Larson’s story of friends,lovers, transsexuals and addicts coping with poverty, landlords and AIDS. Along withfive deleted scenes, the two-disc set packs a documentary examining the life of Larson, who died as the show was goinginto previewsin 1996, andthe phenomenon the play becameafter his death. Columbus is joined by cast members for commentary. DVDset, $28.96.(Sony) ‘The Weather Man’ Nicolas Cagebrings gray skies to this bizarrely dreary comic drama from Gore Verbinski, another director who went from blockbuster (“Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”) to box-office stinker. Cage stars as a weather man who makes a fortune for his easy gig on a ChicagoTV station and has an audition for a network job SPAN YN les, be List HARDCOVER FICTION 1.by CELL, Stephen King 2. THE DA VINCI CODE, by Dan Brown MEMORYIN 3, DEATH,by .D.Robb 4, SEA CHANGE, by RoberB. Parke oe 5. LAST TEMPLAR, by Raymond — HARDCOVER NONFICTION pretty much everything else in his life. The DVD has five behind-the-scenes featurettes whose titles — such as “Atmospheric Pressure: The Style andPallette” and “Relative Humidity: The Characters” —are as clever as anything in the movieitself. DVD, $29.99. (Paramount) ‘Domino’ 1. MARLEY & ME, by JohnGrogan 2. THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman FREAKONOMICS, ‘Steven D. Levitt and StephenJ.Dubner Dubner 4, THE THE YEAR OF MAGICALTHINKING, by Joan Didion a 5. MY FRIEND LEONARD,byJames Frey premiere March 3 on NBC, The week's true bombis this action thriller from director Tony Scott, who sinksto new extremes of excess with the outrageous fictional plot the movie appends to the intriguinglife story of Domino Harvey. The daughterofac- ERIC RISBERG/Associated Press The cast of the film, “Rent,” from left,Taye Diggs, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson,Jesse Martin, Wilson Jermaine peed Anny Rapp, Idina Menzel, and Tracie Thoms. newreleases. Alan J. Pakula’s taking @U-turn to become a bounty hunter. Keira Knightley goes for broke with an superb 1976thriller about the Watergateinvestigation andthefall of a president, previously available in a all-out earnest performance in bare-bones DVD release, gets the title role, backed by Mickey Rourkeas her bountyhunting mentorandpartner, a nice makeoverwith this two-disc set. Thesetfeatures commentary from Robert Redford, whostars as Wash‘ington Post reporter Bob Woodward opposite Dustin Hoffmanas journalistic partner Car! Bernstein. Other DVDextras include segments about the two journalists on Deep Throat, Woodward's as they become swept up in an explosively preposterous casinoheist. Scott teams with screenwriter Richard Kelly for commentary, and the DVDhas ninedeleted scenes, a segment on the real Domino Harveyand a featurette on the movie's lurid visual style. DVD,$27.98. (New Line) ‘North Country’ The best of the week’s new releases still is no prize with its sappy courtroom conclusion, thoughit features terrific performances led by Charlize Theron and Frances McDormand, who earned Academy Awards nominations. Theron stars as a single mom who bucks tradition and goes to workin the mines of Minnesota, where she ends up leading a sexual harassment case over the rotten treatment the company’s handful of female miners receive. Along with McDormand,Theron is backed by a top-notch cast thatincludes Sissy Spacek, Woody Harrelson, Richard Jenkins and Sean Bean. The DVDhas a background segmentanddeleted scenes. DVD,$28.98. (Warner Bros.) ‘All the President's Men’ Thankfully, great stuff from the vaults helps offset the week's unremarkable clandestine source, along with a making-offeaturette. Also included is a 1970s interview with Jason Robards, who wonan Oscaras Post Editor Ben Bradlee. DVDset, $26.99. (WarnerBros.) ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Another Dustin Hoffman treasure from the back-catalog gets a DVD update. John Schlesinger’s 1969 buddy tale stars Hoffman as the manic street rodent Ratso Rizzo and Jon Voight as a naive stud in the big city, the two forging an odd-couple comic drama that wenton to win best pictureat the Oscars. Hoffman and Voight contribute new interviews on the two-disc set, whichincludes segments looking back on the careerof the late Schlesinger and the furor caused by the film, which was rated X backin the day. The packagealso has commentary from producer Jerome Hellman anda set of “Midnight Cowboy”postcards. DVDset, $29.95.(Sony) David Germain The Associated Press butif you use iTunes, you can watchthe show today. NBCsaysit will offer the premiere episode of “Conviction” as a free downloadon the Apple music-and-video service. It began Tuesdayandwill run until the show’s debut. After the show premieres, episodes will be available for the standard iTunes price of $1.99 each. Networks have previewed a few showsonlinein the past, but sneak peeksat showslike “The Office” and “Supernatural” haveusually comein the form ofstreaming video. NBC _ says “Conviction” will be the first series to debut on iTunes beforeits televised premiere. “Conviction”follows a group of youngprosecutorsin the Manhattan district attorney's office, both in and out of the courtroom.The series from “Law & Order” creator Wolf stars Eric Balfour, Milena Govich, J. August Richards, Julianne Nicholson, Anson Mount, Jordan Bridges and former “SVU” regular Stephanie March. Rhames dives into ‘Aquaman’ Thelast time Ving Rhames was a regular on network television,it was in a 1989 ABC dramacalled “Men.” You'd be forgivenif you don't recall it — it lasted only a month. Rhamesis considerably more well-knownnow,thanksto “Pulp Fiction” and the “Mission: Impossible” movies, among numerous othercredits. He's also giving network TV anothergo, signing on to the “Aquaman” pilot at new network The CW. The pilot, which has moved to The CW afteroriginally being developed for The WB,will have Rhames playing a character named McCaffery, the showbiz trade papers report. He’sa lighthouse keeper and a mentorto A.C: Curry (Will Toale), a twentysomethingstartingto discoverhis legacy. Former Miss Universe Denise Quinones(“Freddie”) has also joined the cast, playing a Navy pilot and potentiallove interest for the main character. “Smallville,” creators, Al Gough and MilesMillar, are also behind the Aquamanproject (the title may change). Rhames starred in USA's “Kojak”revivallast year, His moviecredits include “Out of Sight,” “Dawn of the Dead” and “ConAir”; he'll reprise his role as LutherStickell in “Mission: Impossible III” later this year. Zap2it.com 9002 ‘EZ Aienuqay ‘Aepsiny ‘pjesaq Ajieg Damaged detective Adrian Monk will get a little company in the eccentric crime-solver departmentthis summer. USA Networkhas picked up 11 episodes of a crime drama called “Psych,” about a guy who convinces police he's a psychic to avoid being charged with crime, then ends up working for the department. The networksees it as a companion piece to “Monk,” which like “Psych” mixes comedy in with its crime. “The writingis fresh: The chemistry of the cast is extraordinary:It isn’t easy to create a drama infused with comedy, and‘Psych’just knocksit out of the park,” savs Jeff Wachtel, headoforiginal programming at USA. Whenhe's accused of a crimethathe actually solved bycalling in a tip, Shawn Spencer (James Roday,“Miss Match,” “The Dukes of Haz- The new Dick Wolf drama “Conviction” is scheduled to p e USAall ‘Psych’-ed up NBCoffers seu ‘Convicti