Q: I’m enjoying Frances Fisher on “Resurrection.” Where have I seen her before?

— Linda Parks, West Palm Beach, Fla.

A: Many, many places — perhaps most famously in the 1997 movie blockbuster “Titanic,” in which she played the mother of Kate Winslet’s Rose. She also had a standout role in another Oscar winner for best picture, the 1992 Western “Unforgiven,” directed by Clint Eastwood — with whom Fisher has a daughter.

While her initial fame came from her work on the daytime serials “The Edge of Night” and “Guiding Light,” Fisher made a big leap into the prime-time spotlight by playing Lucille Ball in the TV movie “Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter.” Her numerous other home-screen credits have included “Roseanne,” “Becker,” “ER,” “Eureka” and “Torchwood: Miracle Day,” and among her many other movies are “House of Sand and Fog,” “Laws of Attraction,” “The Lincoln Lawyer” and “The Host.”

Q: Why was Brooke Burke-Charvet let go from “Dancing With the Stars”?

— Carol Mitchell, Fayetteville, N.C.

A: Evidently, no one was more surprised than she was, based on what she tweeted shortly after getting the news she wouldn’t be coming back as co-host of the ABC competition. Also the winner of season 7, she’s been succeeded by another past contestant, popular sports reporter Erin Andrews.

That switch wasn’t the only change, since longtime bandleader Harold Wheeler also was replaced — and it all adds up to a bid to raise the ratings. It’s no secret those had fallen off in recent seasons, opposite NBC’s hugely popular “The Voice” posing a challenge.

Q: Will the series “Zero Hour” be rebroadcast or available on DVD? Our DVR crashed, and I missed the last four episodes.

— Steve Russell, Columbus, Ohio

A: It’s always possible a cable network could pick up the existing episodes — Syfy would seem a likely prospect, if it was interested — but it’s certain you won’t see it on ABC, its original network, again. The show was pulled a month into its run there last year, then the remaining episodes were “burned off” on Saturdays during the summer. There are no plans for a DVD release.

Q: Drew Barrymore looked very pregnant on recent award shows, but in her movie-introducing segments on Turner Classic Movies, she hasn’t. How is that?

— Jeff Simmons, Ventura, Calif.

A: The opening and closing segments for a given season of TCM’s “The Essentials” are filmed in a marathon session several months before they start being seen. Therefore, Barrymore — now in her third season of her TCM job opposite channel staple Robert Osborne — would have done the ones that currently are running, which started their telecasts in March, before she started showing so noticeably.

Q: Hugh Jackman will host the Tony Awards again this year, and he’s a Tony winner himself. Which show did he win his for?

— Pam Collins, Glen Burnie, Md.

A: It was for “The Boy From Oz,” in which he played songwriter and entertainer — and fellow Australian — Peter Allen. Jackman had made his mark onstage several years earlier in a London production of “Oklahoma!” that was recorded and is available on home video. (It’s also been televised by PBS.)

Steering the Tony ceremony for the fourth time June 8 on CBS, Jackman was back on Broadway in the fall of 2011 in a show titled … “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway.”

Q: I was wondering what happened to the series “Under the Dome.”

— Fran Green, LeRoy, N.Y.

A: It was intended as a summer show, and its ratings were so good for CBS last year, the network ordered a second season that begins June 30 —with the first new episode written by “Dome” creator Stephen King, no less. The program’s success actually revived the concept of miniseries for all networks, which is why you’ll also see such others as Fox’s “24: Live Another Day” in coming months.

Q: I enjoyed seeing “Dreamgirls” on television recently. I know Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar for it, but had she done any acting before that?

— Sharon Connors, Glen Burnie, Md.

A: She hadn’t, which made the power of her performance all the more impressive. While she has continued the music career for which she’s a Grammy winner, Hudson has returned to film work occasionally.

Her other screen credits have included “The Secret Life of Bees,” “The Three Stooges,” the recent “Black Nativity” — and, in what she told us at the time was a particular challenge for her on many levels in the title role, “Winnie Mandela.”

Q: What happened to the boss on “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”?

— Betty Phillips, Stuart, Fla.

A: It had to do with Capt. Donald Cragen reaching the mandatory retirement age for New York police officers — thus necessitating the exit of actor Dann Florek, whose run in the role dated back to the original “Law & Order” series. The squad on the NBC series has seen its share of changes this season, also including the departure of Sgt. John Munch, played by Richard Belzer.

Q: When will Meredith Vieira’s new daytime show start?

— Sue Green, Ventura, Calif.

A: In September — when her program is expected to replace that of another “Today” alum, Katie Couric, on many stations. Vieira’s recent stint for NBC at the Winter Olympics, where she ended up substituting as prime-time and late-night host for an ailing Bob Costas for a couple of evenings, was deemed an unexpectedly well-timed prelude to her return to the weekday lineup.