Bill Cosby’s baby ‘Rudy’ gets Oxygen feed

The Cosby Show has to be among the most popular creations ever shown on US TV, and now one of its stars is about to return to the medium to enchant us some more:

Women-friendly cabler, Oxygen, has just announced that Keshia Knight Pulliam, best known as ‘Rudy’ from Bill’s
TV brood, is now in talks to create and star in a reality show in which she and entrepreneur boyfriend, Kaseem Penn, will let us share the lives of two single, young rich kids in downtown Atlanta, according to the Associated Press. The show’s to be titled “Keshia and Kaseem,” but the air date is still undecided.

And that’s not the end of the feast: Since being acquired by NBC, the channel has been eager to attract young, trendsetting women as viewers, and this Summer sees the debut of four all-new series aimed right at that demo;

First comes a dance-themed reality show, called, “Dance Your Ass Off,” in which contestants will show their best moves as they try to lose weight – like “Dancing with the Stars,” but with stretch marks. And the talent doesn’t stop on the dance-floor – the show will be hosted by Marissa Jaret Winokur, whose Broadway debut in Hairspray in 2003 caused such a sensation, she won a Tony award at just 29.

Close on those sequined heels will come a new show called, “Addicted to Beauty,” which the press release calls a “docu-comedy,” offering an intimate glimpse into day-to-day life at a cosmetic-surgery clinic in California. And if you can hold down your breakfast after TiVo’ing that, there’s also “The Naughty Kitchen, with Chef Blythe Beck,” in which the Dallas-based diva who, so her MySpace page tells us, regards  ‘Naughty’ as a central philosophy, shows off her prowess with what may well be more than a Wok.

And let’s not forget the long-promised fourth chapter in the televised lives of Tori Spelling and her hubby, Dean McDermott. Already filming that show, Tori, 36, is also in talks to create a movie, a makeover show and an online expansion of her new book, “Mommywood.” which the publishers modestly refer to as, “The hilarious and humbling stories of life as a Mom in the limelight.”

The mind simply boggles!? Stay tuned, boys and girls — This Summer’s TV is showing real promise.