Upper St. Clair High School grad Amanda Naughton is on "Joe Schmo 2." Click photo for larger image.

Forget Pittsburgh. Just call this place Schmoburgh, because we certainly seem to be crawling with Schmoes.

Not only was the star of the first season of Spike TV's "Joe Schmo Show" from Mt. Lebanon, a second Western Pennsylvania native showed up on this week's "Joe Schmo 2," whose original episodes now air at 11 p.m. Mondays with a repeat at 10 p.m. Tuesdays.

Amanda Naughton, a 1997 graduate of Upper St. Clair High School, was introduced Monday as the good-natured show's latest dupe.

"Joe Schmo 2" parodies "reality" dating shows, most notably "The Bachelor," while making chumps of one man and one woman, the only two cast members who don't know that all the other contestants are actors working from a script.

Naughton, who graduated from the University of Michigan in 2001, joined the show after Ingrid Wiese, the first Jane Schmo, figured out what was going on. In Monday's episode, Wiese was drafted to join the other actors in performing from a script outline for the two Schmos.

"By the time they revealed it to me, I pretty much knew what was going on," Wiese said in a phone interview. She even had a speech prepared, suggesting even more strongly that she knew the show was scripted, but she opted not to use it. "I just thought if I used that, I might not get to the end to find out how it might finish."

Wiese roomed with Naughton, who now lives near Washington, D.C., for the remainder of her time on "Joe Schmo."

"Amanda is great. She's sweet, she is incredibly giving, she's a good listener, and she's above all a fun, fun woman," Wiese said. "Pittsburgh should be very proud of their Schmoes."

(Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV editor)

	Crafton Heights resident Cynthia Weis gets spot on "King of the Jungle 2." Click photo for larger image.

Local on 'Jungle'

In addition to "Joe Schmo" and "The Amazing Race" (last night on CBS) featuring Meadville native Alison Irwin, another local will show up on a reality show later this month.

Cynthia Weis, a 33-year-old Upper St. Clair native living in Crafton Heights, will be one of the contestants on Animal Planet's "King of the Jungle 2," premiering at 8 p.m. July 20.

Weis heard a casting director discuss the show before a casting search at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium earlier this year. She'd never watched the first "King of the Jungle," but, Weis said, she was a fan of other reality shows, most notably "Survivor," although she had never before auditioned.

"I thought it was a great opportunity to see something new," she said. "You don't see a lot of lions in Pittsburgh."

In the series, Weis and other contestants live in a camp somewhere in the United States -- Animal Planet stubbornly refuses to name the location -- and meet animals and then embark on "Survivor"-like challenges. Her love of animals -- Weis and her partner have six cats and two dogs -- was partly responsible for her decision to apply, but it was really what the casting director said in a radio interview that sealed the deal.

"During the interview she was asked if the contestants have to eat any bugs, and she said no, and that's what sold me," Weis said. "As long as I didn't have to eat anything out of the ordinary, I was on board."

(R.O.)

ALF yaks on TV Land

ALF, the alien puppet who had a minor hit sitcom on NBC in the '80s, returns tonight with "ALF's Hit Talk Show" on TV Land (10 p.m.), a pilot for a proposed series.

The fur-faced puppet is intermittently amusing as a talk show host ("Angioplasty? I thought that was an Irish woman," he cracks), but he was funnier promoting the show with Campbell Brown on "Weekend Today" on Saturday (obviously I wasn't watching it in Pittsburgh since Channel 11 doesn't air "Weekend Today").

Guests on tonight's pilot include Joan Rivers, Drew Carey and Dennis Franz. Chances are they'll be ALF's first and last guests.

(R.O.)

A&E biopic adds to cast

Perhaps hinting at its intended tone, A&E's "See Arnold Run" has beefed up its cast and crew with the director of "American Pie 2" and one of the stars of "Son of the Beach." The Arnold Schwarzenegger pic is still in preproduction, with hopes of an airdate at the end of the year.

A&E has recruited J.B. Rogers to helm the project, which is based on a script by Matt Dorff (ABC's "Inside the Osmonds"). In addition to "American Pie 2" and "Say It Ain't So," Rogers' credits include the immortal Comedy Central original "Knee High P.I."

"It's an unusual choice because he's not a real movie-of-the-week director," A&E programming chief Bob DeBitetto tells The Hollywood Reporter. "We went a different route because the project merited it."

The movie cuts between Schwarzenegger's quest for his fifth consecutive Mr. Olympia title and his 2003 run to become California's governor.

Looking for an actor to play the youthful, gap-toothed Austrian bodybuilder, A&E has turned to Roland Kickinger, an Austrian-born gap-toothed bodybuilder. The former Mr. Austria is best known as Chip Rommel from "Son of the Beach."

A&E is still searching for an established actor to play the 2003 version of Schwarzenegger, as well as the perfect Maria Shriver.

(Zap2it.com)