TV briefs: Bairstow out on 'L Word'

Eric Mabius has replaced Scott Bairstow in the upcoming Showtime drama "The L Word." Bairstow has been charged in Everett with second-degree child rape for allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl in 1998, while living in Mukilteo with his wife and son.

He has pleaded not guilty. A trial date is set for Aug. 15, with a preliminary hearing July 25.

Mabius joins an ensemble that includes Mia Kirshner, Jennifer Beals and Pam Grier.

The plot focuses on a writer who moves L.A. to be with her boyfriend. After meeting the lesbian couple next door, she begins to question her own sexuality.

'Love' lawyer dropped by firm

Rob Campos, the lawyer-bachelor on NBC's "For Love or Money," has been dumped by his Dallas firm, its founder, Sanjay Mathur, says.

The move was in part because of the revelation by TheSmokingGun.com that Campos was pulled out of the Marines' JAG training program for drunkenly groping a female officer.

Furthermore, on the Mathur Law Office's Web site, where Campos's bio once was posted, is a message saying that Campos was never actually an employee. He was "an independent contractor" performing "associate-attorney duties... we have asked him to vacate his office space."