TELEVISIONWinkler, Carlin Get Air Dates: Henry Winkler...

TELEVISION

Winkler, Carlin Get Air Dates: Henry Winkler returns to series television for the first time since he played the Fonz on “Happy Days” when Fox sneak previews his “Monty” Jan. 9. The comedy, featuring Winkler as a right-wing talk show host, then moves to Tuesdays at 8 p.m., bumping “Roc” back to 8:30 p.m. The critically acclaimed but low-rated “Bakersfield P.D.,” which was airing Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m., will be taken off the prime-time schedule until summer, when Fox can concentrate on a heavy promotional campaign for the off-beat comedy. . . . Fox’s “The George Carlin Show,” the series debut for the Grammy-winning comedian, also has a premiere date: Jan. 16 at 9:30 p.m. Carlin plays an opinionated New York City cab driver. Emmy winner Alex Rocco (“The Famous Teddy Z”) co-stars.

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HBO Film Tops Networks: HBO’s debut Saturday of its Daryl Hannah film, “Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman,” topped all four broadcast networks in HBO homes, drawing 26% of the TV-watching audience with the pay cable station. In all, more than 3.3 million homes tuned in to the broadcast. The ratings make the movie the highest-rated HBO Pictures debut of 1993.

THE ARTS

Liza Gets First Music Hall Star: With Liza Minnelli getting the first honor, New York’s Radio City Music Hall unveiled its “Sidewalk of Stars” Tuesday. Stars were also unveiled for Tina Turner, Frank Sinatra, Julio Iglesias, Bette Midler, Barry Manilow, Michael Crawford, Whitney Houston, Ray Charles, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Diana Ross and Shirley MacLaine, plus the dancing Rockettes and the theater’s “Christmas Spectacular” show. “This is our national hall of entertainment,” Minnelli said. “Every star wants to play the Music Hall.”

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Guggenheim Gets $10-Million Gift: New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has received a $10-million donation from developer Samuel J. LeFrak and his wife, Ethel. In honor of the gift, the largest individual cash donation received since 1959, the museum will rename its landmark Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building as the Samuel J. and Ethel LeFrak Building. In addition to the cash donation, the Fifth Avenue museum said it was having discussions with the LeFraks about receiving “the ultimate gift” of their collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. A statement from museum director Thomas Krens said the gift “virtually guaranteed” the museum’s future.

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Hail to Haydn Sonatas: Six lost piano sonatas written by 18th-Century composer Franz Joseph Haydn have been found in Germany, a discovery hailed Tuesday as one of the greatest musical coups this century. The sonatas came to light when an elderly woman in Munster showed the manuscripts, which she had owned for some time without realizing their importance, to a local music teacher who submitted them to Haydn experts. Scholars have long known that sonatas dating from the middle of Haydn’s life, probably from 1766-1769, were missing, because the composer compiled a catalogue listing the first few bars of each piece. The Austrian pianist Paul Badura-Skoda will give the first modern performance of the sonatas at Harvard University Feb. 12.

POP/ROCK

Pearl Jam Skips MTV Show: It was supposed to be the hottest grunge show of the year, but one of the headliners didn’t make it. MTV taped its New Year’s Eve “Live and Loud” special, which was to have featured a double bill of Pearl Jam and Nirvana, in Seattle Monday night--a locale chosen for the convenience of Pearl Jam. But Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder called in sick with the flu just hours before the show, MTV said. The show went on, with Nirvana performing more than 15 songs before about 2,000 fans.

QUICK TAKES

CBS will switch the time periods for its comedies “The Nanny” and “Hearts Afire,” beginning Dec. 29. “The Nanny” will move to 8 p.m., while “Hearts Afire” will follow at 8:30. . . . Theater producer Alexander Cohen, who opens two plays with Al Pacino at his Stamford Center for the Arts in Connecticut next week, is now wooing another Hollywood actor--Robert De Niro--to give what would be his first public stage performance in several years. De Niro’s last theater stint was in 1986 in a play called “Cuba and His Teddy Bear,” at the late Joseph Papp’s Public Theater. . . . A Los Angeles prosecutor has filed 18 more misdemeanor counts against actor James Farentino, who already is charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend, Tina Sinatra. The additional counts involve telephone calls the actor allegedly made last summer to Sinatra, the daughter of Frank Sinatra, after she got a restraining order barring him from contacting her. . . . Rep. Fred Grandy, (still known for his role as “Gopher” on TV’s “The Love Boat,” has officially entered the race for governor of Iowa, attempting to take the job away from fellow Republican Terry Branstad.