PASADENA, Calif. — By night, Gene Simmons goes to work wearing makeup and spitting blood in the heavy metal band Kiss. By day, he's got some downright normal ideas about parenting.

Simmons, his partner, actress Shannon Tweed, and their children — 17-year-old Nick Tweed-Simmons and 14-year-old Sophie Tweed-Simmons — let cameras into their home for the new A&E series "Gene Simmons Family Jewels."

"Our responsibility is to protect our kids, supply the money and the structure and the love," Simmons, 56, said at the Television Critics Association's summer meeting.

Tweed isn't one of those mothers who nag about picking up clothes off the floor, either.

"We focused more on the important things in life, like your schoolwork," said Tweed, 49, Playboy's Playmate of the Year in 1982. "The kids have their priorities straight — staying sober and paying attention."

PASADENA, Calif. — An unremarkable name belies the big-name cast that stars in "Smith," a new heist drama on CBS this fall.Movie actors Ray Liotta ("Goodfellas"), Virginia Madsen ("Sideways"), Shohreh Aghdashloo ("The House of Sand and Fog") and Jonny Lee Miller ("Trainspotting") join Simon Baker, who starred in the CBS series "The Guardian" in the new project by creator and executive producer John Wells ("ER").Wells told the Television Critics Association that he came up with the show's title first."It was just something that I heard from a law enforcement officer who was referring to unidentified suspects as Smiths and it sort of stuck," he said. "The idea being that it's someone who's trying to live sort of anonymously in the world that other people are trying to find."Madsen said the show's script drew her from films onto the small screen.