A hot trend in music these days is the crossover. The term crossover once meant a singer in one genre would have a hit song in another.

Today, crossover also means singers becoming actors. Top rap, country and rock singers now are starring in their own television shows.

Country music queen Reba McEntire enters her third season as star of the WB Network comedy Reba. Billy Ray Cyrus went from being an achy-breaky singer to being a TV star on the Pax series Doc. Ice-T helps solve crimes on the NBC series Law & Order: SVU.

Crossover is not confined to the main networks. Rocker Ozzy Osbourne has opened his life to voyeuristic scrutiny on the MTV reality show The Osbournes.

Snoop Dogg also is on MTV as host of Doggy Fizzle Televizzle. Donny Osmond is host of the syndicated game show Pyramid.

Jessica Simpson, Master P, Lil' Romeo and Roger Daltrey will star in cable television shows later this year.

The reasons musicians give for making the move to television are varied: television reaches millions of potential CD buyers, the exposure can recharge a fading career, or there is big money to be made.