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Having already signed on to reprise her role as horny, nouveau-riche plastic surgery addict Dawn Budge in Nip/Tuck's upcoming season, Rosie O'Donnell's primetime prospects continue to grow: First, with an invitation to appear on the Ben Silverman-masterminded celebrity edition of The Apprentice, and now, with an offer from struggling-yet-beloved NBC drama Friday Night Lights. TVGuide.com has the exclusive:

FNL execs are wooing the ex-View lightning rod to appear in an episode this fall. "Rosie's a big fan of Friday Night Lights, as we know from The View, and we heard she was interested in being on the show," executive producer Jason Katims tells me.

"Usually we don't do any stunt casting, but we have a character coming up — six or seven episodes into the new season mdash; of a female soccer coach who is really angry about all of the school's resources going to football. It's a really funny character and I think she'd be perfect for it. [...]

"[I]f she comes out, loves doing it, and wants to do more, she could do it. But initially, it would be just one scene, and that would be the way to get her. Knowing that she could come [out to the show's Austin, Texas, set], hang out, have a scene with Kyle Chandler and then be done could be very appealing to her."

It would, we imagine, be somewhat less appealing to Kyle Chandler. Still, the stunt casting might do wonders for the series's lagging ratings, pulling in millions of viewers eager to watch O'Donnell loudly and tearfully link the football coach's greedy monopolization of athletic program resources to the Iraq War. It promises to be a tour-de-force performance ranking up there with her fine work in Riding the Bus with My Sister, and one that fits well within NBC's rock-star co-chairman's brilliant strategy for reinvigorating their fall schedule with a slew of rageoholic-camera-hog guest appearances.