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He dallies with allies east and west.

A skating star dallies with a tough guy who grabs her husband’s ice palace over his dead body.

Season three premiere of sitcom starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church as divorced couple Frances and Robert, dealing with challenges of their new lives; Frances moves to a city apartment, makes a career change and dallies with new beau Henry, and Robert reveals his fianceé Jackie’s pregnancy to his ex and kids; 10 p.m.

Keith Poulson’s Chris, an insecure former child actor cast as Nick’s counterpart in the play, dallies with both Mona and Esther Garrel’s Thérèse — who plays the Mona figure and seeks out Nick for research.

In the second act, she goes to Vassar, dallies with a fellow student and with a publisher — thoroughly modern Millay — and then Mr. Scanlan’s interest in chronology, never very strong, gives up altogether.