ON TV LAND: "Carol Burnett and Friends" comes to TV Land with a 48-hour marathon that begins Saturday at 4 a.m. on the cable channel. Beginning Monday, it will be seen weekdays at 2 and 6 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 6 p.m.

JULIE AND CAROL AGAIN? Burnett and Julie Andrews, who co-headlined three network specials (1962, 1969 and 1971), are thinking about a reunion of sorts.

"We're talking about possibly doing a retrospective of the three shows that Julie and I did together," Burnett said. "We would do it kind of the way we did our recent ('Carol Burnett Show' reunion) — Julie and I would take questions from a live studio audience and then we would segue into certain scenes from those shows."

However, it may not come to pass for the same reason you can't see hourlong versions of her variety show on TV.

"It's a very expensive show. That's the problem," Burnett said. "Because it's mostly music. So we'll see."

IN-FLIGHT EMBARRASSMENT: Burnett doesn't have a lot of regrets about a career that stretches back nearly five decades, but there is one thing she would definitely do differently.

"I wouldn't do 'The Front Page.' That was a movie I was in and I was so terrible in it," she said of the 1974 film.

She recalled getting on an airplane once and discovering that the in-flight movie would be "The Front Page." And she wasn't happy.

"I never wanted to see it. Because I knew when I was doing it I was awful."

But she couldn't exactly stop it.

"When the flight attendant announced (the movie), people turned around and looked and waved," said Burnett, who then suffered through the screening. And when it was over, "Not one person turned around to smile at me. . .. So I went up to the flight attendant — I told my husband I was going to the john — and I said, 'Could I just talk on the microphone, just for a minute?'

"And I said, 'Ladies and gentlemen, hi. This is Carol Burnett. I just happened to be on the flight this afternoon and I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to each and every one of you for my performance.'

"It was so cleansing."

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