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Look for changes -- big changes -- in "Dirty Sexy Money" when the ABC series returns to the tube for its second season on October 1. "We're retooling the show," reveals Peter Krause, who stars as the morally corrupt lawyer of a scandal-plagued family led by Donald Sutherland in "Dirty, Sexy, Money." "Basically," he says, "we want to make it juicier than it was, and we're reshooting the segments we shot last May and June with the hope of making it easier for new viewers to join the show.

Peter Krause Reveals "Dirty Sexy Money" Changes And Reshoots (Image: Wenn)

"Last week," he says, "We were shooting three episodes at the same time. It hasn't been easy. The original plan was to have 13 episodes in the can by the time we go on the air for the second season. Now we'll be lucky to have seven, maybe eight."

Kraus, who starred in the critically acclaimed HBO "Six Feet Under" from 2001 to 2006, blames the crunch on the recent writers strike and says, "We're now trying to make up for six months of lost time." He's hopeful, he says, that when "we get up and running, he'll have time to squeeze in some movie work between "Sexy Money" demands.

He was supposed to start the big-screen "Jack and Addie" with Kristin Davis last July, and is now hoping the comedy romance will finally go before the cameras next spring. There's also a script based on a book he hopes will soon head to screen and another film project in the works.

Krause would also like to earmark some time for vacation. He and Roman, his seven-year-old son by ex-girlfriend Christine King, traveled to Vermont and Squaw Valley this year. Peter says he likes space and is also partial to Montana backpacking.

He has Roman with him on weekends and says that he and King "co-parent beautifully."