PEOPLE WATCH

Actor Ian McShane, who this last TV season turned the head of Sue Ellen Ewing in his role of director Don Lockwood on “Dallas,” will be back on the tube this coming year as the star of three two-hour movies based on Dick Francis mystery novels. He will play investigator Dick Cleveland in “The Dick Francis Mysteries,” which will air as part of a syndicated “The Mystery Wheel of Adventure” from DLT Entertainment Inc. The “Wheel” will include 10 mystery movies in all, designed to air in prime time against the networks beginning in the fall.