``Yeah! That's right. I'll be watching 'Friends.' Go 'Friends'!'' the fourth ousted survivor mockingly cheered during a recent telephone interview.

``Survivor'' airs at 8 p.m. Thursdays on CBS, opposite ``Friends'' on NBC.

Olson, from New Jersey, says he isn't bitter about his experience on the show, though he says he was more than happy to leave behind the physical rigors of living in the Outback. He doesn't want to be reminded of it.

``I don't have a lot of interest (in watching),'' he says. ``To be honest, whenever I see just the commercials to show what they are doing, it's almost a little sad. I don't want to see what they are doing.''

In Olson's memory, ``there was nothing fun about it,'' he says. ``It was great to meet the people ... but I could never do it again. I'm glad I did it once, though.''

Commenting on the lawsuit brought by former ``Survivor I'' contestant Stacey Stillman, who alleges producers manipulated the show's voting process, Olson says: ``She's somewhat of a sore loser anyway. Nobody said to me, 'This is how you are going to vote.' When I went to vote, I voted as I needed.''

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When last we heard from Tisha Campbell-Martin, she was fed up with the working atmosphere on the Fox sitcom ``Martin.'' Specifically, she wanted a divorce from her TV husband Martin Lawrence.

Now, she's over it and coming back to television as the wife of Damon Wayans in a new ABC sitcom, ``My Wife & Kids,'' coming in March to ABC.

Why do this show?

``It had everything,'' she told TV critics recently, ``and I knew I had to be on it.''

``And I wasn't crazy,'' quipped Wayans, a joke referencing claims by Campbell- Martin that Lawrence was, at best, irrational toward her.

``Yeah. He's right,'' she says.

The story, of course, goes deeper than that, she says. ``I took three years off myself because I've been working since I was three years old. I needed the time to just kind of chill out, be a human, Tisha, a wife.

``I knew that if I ever got into a situation - a situation comedy again - it would have to be the right one, with the right people, with a supportive producer. And here they are. ... It's easier when you have the right supportive group with you when you're working.''

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Frozen in time thanks to reruns and Nick at Nite, actor MacKenzie Astin cannot get away from his childhood past as a cast member of ``Facts of Life.''

``It's a lot of fun for my friends because it gives them plenty of stuff to make fun of me about,'' says the son of actors John Astin and Patty Duke.

``Also, I found that because it airs so late at night, that theme song, if it's on, will catch me at the most inopportune moments, which provides a great deal of humor.''

Being from a legendary show business family, Astin jokes that he had no choice but to be an actor. ``My father held a lit cigar to my arm and said, 'You better be an actor.'''

But Astin confides more seriously: ``The embarrassing truth, the reason that I started trying to do this, was because I visited my older brother, Sean, on the set of a movie-of-the-week that he was working on with my mom, and I saw how much attention he was getting, and I thought, 'Well, I want that.'''

These days, Astin is co-starring in an upcoming ensemble drama called ``First Years'' for NBC.

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If Vicki Lewis' voice sounds lower these days on the NBC hit ``Three Sisters,'' there's a reason. She took up smoking.

``You're catching me in the pilot (episode) having come off ... a six-month run on Broadway doing Velma Kelly in 'Chicago,' smoking a pack of cigarettes,'' Lewis told TV critics recently.

It just isn't the nightly cigarette smoking she did for the play that sent her voice to another range. Lewis says she is lowering her tone to fit the character.