Arts And Entertainment Reports From The Times, News Services And The Nation's Press.

A new Winnie-the-Pooh series, featuring Japanese bunraku Pooh puppets melded with computer-generated sets, will premiere on cable's Disney Channel in January. "The Book of Pooh" will be part of the network's "Playhouse Disney" preschool block. . . . A streaming video feed of the Three Tenors' Vienna Christmas concert will go up on the Internet Dec. 3 at http://www.onlineclassics.com. Steven Mercurio conducts the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra in the concert, which features Christmas classics along with two songs written for the performance by one of the tenor's sons, Placido Domingo Jr. . . . Olivia Newton John has joined the cast of "A Cracked Christmas," Dec. 3 at the Wilshire-Ebell Theatre. Gillian Anderson, Drew Carey, Teri Garr, Kathy Najimi, Kathy Kinney and Ryan Stiles are among other cast members. The annual event benefits the Trevor Project, a national effort to stop suicide among young people questioning their sexuality. . . . Husband-and-wife country singers Tim McGraw and Faith Hill will give a benefit concert in Hampton, Va., next Saturday for the Navy/Marine Corps Relief Society's USS Cole Fund, which will support the families of the 17 sailors killed in last month's ship bombing. . . . Prince Charles got more than just pretty companions out of his dinner this week with "Charlie's Angels" stars Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu: The two have agreed to become ambassadors for his Prince of Wales' Trust.