Quick Takes: Monkees to skip funeral

The three surviving Monkees aren’t planning to attend Davy Jones’ funeral because it would likely bring too much unwanted attention to his family during their time of grief, the group’s Micky Dolenz said Tuesday.

He and fellow Monkees Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith have talked of attending one of the memorials that Jones’ family is planning to hold in New York and in the late singer’s native England, Dolenz said. And he added he’s considering organizing a memorial himself for Jones’ friends in Los Angeles.

Whether the surviving Monkees would perform at any of the gatherings, or at any other time in the future, is “way too early” to predict, he said.

A private family funeral will take place in Florida this week, Jones spokeswoman Helen Kensick said Tuesday.

—Associated Press

Fox cancels ‘Terra Nova’

The dinosaurs will roam no more: Fox has axed “Terra Nova.”

One of the most heavily publicized new shows of this season, the time-travel epic was also one of the costliest TV shows ever, with a two-hour pilot that cost $20 million.

The premiere drew a respectable 9.2 million viewers, according to Nielsen, but the show never grew or broke through in a way that justified its enormous outlay. The finale in December delivered just 7.4 million viewers.

—Scott Collins

Pantages’ season full of musicals

The new season at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood will feature several prominent Broadway musicals: “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” “Sister Act,” “Catch Me If You Can” and the previously announced “The Book of Mormon.”

“The Book of Mormon” — the Tony-winning musical from the creators of “South Park” — will run Sept. 5 to Nov. 25 as part of a national tour.

The season, announced Tuesday, also will include “Donnie & Marie — Christmas in Los Angeles”; “Peter Pan,” starring Cathy Rigby; and a revival of the musical “Jekyll and Hyde,” starring “American Idol” alumnus Constantine Maroulis.

—David Ng

Country hall adds 3 names

Garth Brooks, Connie Smith and pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins are the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, hall officials announced Tuesday.

Brooks has been tapped as this year’s “modern era artist” inductee, while Smith, who placed nearly 50 hits on the country music charts from 1964 to 1985, fills the hall’s “veterans era artist” slot.

Robbins enters in the category for “recording and/or touring musician prior to 1980,” which rotates every third year with “nonperformer” and songwriter inductees.

“I am astounded and honored to be in the Country Music Hall of Fame,” Brooks said in a statement. “At the same time, I can’t help but feel guilty going in when there are so many deserving artists that came before me who are yet to be inducted.”

Brooks is the biggest-selling country artist of all time and ranks third on the Recording Industry Assn. of America’s list of top-selling artists in all genres, behind only the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

—Randy Lewis

TCM fest will fete Kim Novak

The 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival will honor Kim Novak next month with a series of events including a dedication of her hand and footprints at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

Novak, 79, will also introduce a screening of the Hitchcock thriller “Vertigo” at the theater and participate in a conversation with TCM host Robert Osborne at the Avalon in Hollywood.

The festival, running April 12 to 14, marks a rare public appearance for the actress, who also starred in such films as “Picnic,” “Bell, Book and Candle” and “Pal Joey.”

—Rebecca Keegan

Finally

Coming back: “Justified,” the FX drama starring Timothy Olyphant as a deputy U.S. marshal, has been renewed for a fourth season.