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PARIS HILTON will guest-star as herself when "My Name is Earl" returns to the airwaves with the show’s first original episode since the writers strike ended, NBC announced Tuesday.

During the one-hour episode, airing April 3, Earl (JASON LEE) becomes unconscious and various things from his real life begin to bleed into his unconscious mind — with Paris being one of those things in his fevered mind.

"When we wrote the role of Paris Hilton in the script, we weren’t exactly sure who to go with for the role. But after an exhausting search we finally settled on a relatively unknown actress by the name of Paris Hilton," said GREG GARCIA, the series’ creator and executive producer. "I can’t wait to see what she does with the role and I can’t wait for America to discover her."

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Wonder what the stars did during the writers strike? ET is behind the scenes of some of your favorite CBS TV shows to give you the scoop. We’re on the set of "Two and a Half Men" with CHARLIE SHEEN and JON CRYER; "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" with MARG HELGENBERGER and GEORGE EADS,  "Criminal Minds" with THOMAS GIBSON and JOE MANTEGNA and more to get the 411 on their hiatus happenings.

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"Grey’s Anatomy" star T.R. KNIGHT is gearing up to take the stage for "Good Medicine," a concert being held this Friday at UCLA to benefit The Solidarity Fund, and ET is exclusively at his rehearsal — where he admitted he was "scared, very scared," of performing.

The Solidarity Fund was set up by the Writers Guild of America to help crew members who lost work due to the three-month strike. Friday’s benefit will also feature performances from a number of T.R.’s castmates, including KATHERINE HEIGL, SARA RAMIREZ and ELLEN POMPEO as well as "Private Practice" stars AMY BRENNEMAN and TIM DALY, among others. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com.

Meanwhile, T.R. also offered a few "Grey’s" tidbits, set to return to the airwaves April 24 on ABC. "Someone’s going to die," he jokes. "I bet that’s going to happen!"

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The writers’ strike is over … for at least three years.

WGA members wrote a definitive ending to the 14-week writers strike, ratifying the new three-year contract by a considerable majority, according to the Associated Press. When the final vote of 4,060 Guild members in NY and L.A. was tallied, 93.6 percent of the ballot-casters said "yea" to the deal, effective through May 1, 2011.

"This contract is a new beginning for writers in the Digital Age," said PATRIC M. VERRONE, president of the WGA West. "It ensures that Guild members will be fairly compensated for the content they create for the Internet, and it also covers the reuse on new media platforms of the work they have done in film since 1971 and in TV since 1977."

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers added in a statement: "Now that our industry is back in business, our goal is to collaborate with everyone in the industry — writers, directors, actors and stagehands alike — to produce the highest-quality entertainment products without any further interruption."

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"CSI: Miami" will be one of the first shows back on the air with new episodes now that the writers strike is over. The target date for the re-launch is Monday, March 25 — and, in order to meet that date, DAVID CARUSO, EMILY PROCTER, KHANDI ALEXANDER, JONATHAN TOGO and the rest of the cast and crew are back at work.

"It feels pretty good," Caruso tells ET, who is first on the set. "I think it was obvious it was time to come back to work, the audience was beginning to miss us. They said, ‘We love the re-runs but enough.’"

And Procter reveals, "Now that we’re back, we’re going to do eight episodes in seven weeks. It’s going to be such a run and gun."

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