QUESTION: Can you tell me if “Whitney” will be back? Also, what happened to “Happily Divorced”? Those two shows really made me laugh!

ANSWER: Unfortunately, not enough other people felt the same way. “Whitney,” the NBC comedy starring Whitney Cummings, and “Happily Divorced,” a TV Land comedy starring Fran Drescher, have both been canceled.

QUESTION: Will “The Wendy Williams Show” return this fall?

ANSWER: The daytime talk show began airing new episodes Monday.

QUESTION: Last summer, there was a major media announcement that the ’60s “Batman” TV series is due out on DVDs. It’s over a year later, and I can’t find it. Some of these new “Batman” characters are less-than-to-be-desired role models for kids; they should have a chance to see the old Batman versus the new one and judge who their role models are.

ANSWER: Fans of the 1966-68 “Batman” series starring Adam West hoped there would be a DVD release when 20th Century Fox, which owns the TV show, and Warner Bros., which owns Batman generally, worked out a deal for merchandise tied to the old series. But that did not open the door all the way to a DVD release because getting the rights to the guest stars and other elements of the old show is extremely complicated. So it still seems too soon to expect any such release.

QUESTION: I recently saw a picture in People Magazine pertaining to the new season premiere of “Parenthood.” It looks like there has been a cast change. Have Bonnie Bedelia (Camille) and Miles Heizer (Drew) been replaced?

ANSWER: No. Both actors are still on the show; an NBC rep said the cast as a whole is intact for the new season, which begins Sept. 26 on NBC. (The drama is moving from Mondays to Thursdays.)

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