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Kristen Bell To Co-Star In Showtime's 'House of Lies' Comedy Pilot

Former Veronica Mars star Kristen Bell has been tapped for a lead role opposite Don Chaedle in Showtime's dark comedy pilot House of Lies. Written by Matthew Carnahan based on the book by Martin Kihn, the project centers on Marty (Cheadle), a self-loathing highly successful management consultant from a top-tier firm who is never above using any means necessary to get his clients the information they want. Bell will play Jeannie Van Der Hooven, a razor-sharp, Ivy-League graduate who works at Marty’s firm. Bell joins previously cast  Dawn Oliveri as Marti's ex-wife, Josh Lawson as Ben Schwartz as his co-workers, Glynn Turman as Marty’s psychoanalyst father; and Donis Leonard Jr. as his young son. Jessika Borsiczky is executive producing the pilot, which will be directed by Stephen Hopkins. Production is slated to begin in February in New York and Los Angeles. Bell's last regular TV role was on NBC's Heroes. The actress, repped by CAA and Brookside Artist Amanagement, will next be seen in the features Scream 4 and Everybody Loves Whales.

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Monday 31st January

8:00PM

Human Target	7.80 Million
Chuck	5.76 Million
90210	1.76 Million
Pretty Little Liars	3.19 Million

9:00PM

Lie To Me	7.00 Million
The Cape	5.30 Million
Gossip Girl	1.50 Million
Being Human	1.50 Million
Greek	0.909 Million

10:00PM

Harry's Law	11.00 Million
Skins	1.45 Million

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NBC Picks Up 2 More Comedy Pilots

NBC has greenlighted two more comedy pilots, both from sibling Universal Media Studios. One hails from former Scrubs executive producer Tad Quill and one from former Saturday Night Live writer Emily Spivey, with SNL boss Lorne Michaels producing.

Bent, which Tad Quill wrote and is executive producing, is a single-camera romantic comedy about a recently divorced “type A” single mother who tries hard not to fall for the sexy “surfer-dude” contractor she hires to re-do her kitchen. The project stems from Quill's two-year overall deal with UMS.

The untitled Emily Spivey project, which has received a cast-contingent order, is a co-production with Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video.  It is described as an irreverent look at parenthood through the POV of an acerbic working mother, who never thought she’d be a mom, along with her stay-at-home husband and opinionated parents. Spivey, who now works on Parks & Recreation, wrote the script and is exec producing with Michaels.

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ABC Picks Up Washington D.C. Drama

Add Josh Schwartz to the list of drama heavy hitters whose projects were picked up to pilot by ABC today. The network has greenlighted  Georgetown (formerly Inner Circle). The hourlong project, written by Remember Me scribe Will Fetters, is described as a sexy soap centered around the young people behind the power brokers of Washington, DC. It hails from Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire and Warner Bros. TV. Schwartz, Myers, Savage and Fake Empire's Len Goldstein are executive producing, with Fetters co-executive producing. Journalist Ashley Parker serves as consultant. This is Fetters' first foray into TV. On the feature side, he also wrote the Zach Efron starrer The Lucky One, which just wrapped, and his rewrite of A Star Is Born recently attracted Clint Eastwood as director and Beyonce as star.

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CW Picks Up Four Drama Pilots

The CW got on the board today with its first pilot orders this season. The network has picked up 4 drama pilots, including Awakening, the spec script the CW bought just last week.

CW entertainment president Dawn Ostroff had made launching medical, legal and cop franchises on the network a priority and her pilot picks reflect that. Three of the 4 pilots are procedurals - one medical (Hart of Dixie), which comes from Gossip Girl co-creators Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, one police drama (Cooper and Stone), and one legal (Heavenly), which has supernatural elements. Additionally, zombie drama Awakening has a legal drama element, as the central character is a public defender. Here are descriptions of the 4 CW pilots:

Awakening, written on spec by William Laurin & Glenn Davis, centers on two sisters who come of age and face off against one another amidst the beginning of a zombie uprising. In centers on the older one, who is a public defender. Reveille is co-producing the pilot with Warner Bros. TV, where the script has been laid off. Laurin, Davis, Howard T. Owens, Carolyn Bernstein and Todd Cohen are exec producing.

Hart of Dixie, from WBTV and Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire, is a comedic drama centered on a young New York City doctor who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town inhabited by an eclectic and eccentric group of characters. Leila Gerstein penned the script and is exec producing with Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. This is Fake Empire's second pilot this afternoon, along with Georgetown at ABC.

Heavenly, written by Richard Hatem, is from CBS Studios and Fineman Entertainment. It centers on a dedicated young female attorney and a former angel, Dashiel Coffee, only recently turned human, who tackle cases together at the attorney's legal aid clinic – she saves clients’ butts while he saves their souls.  As an angel, Dash never experienced feelings or emotions, and his “awakening” is a big part of the series, sometimes to hilarious effect. Hatem and Ross Fineman are exec producing.

Cooper and Stone, from writer-exec producer Laurie Arent and CBS TV Studios, is about two smart young female detectives on Chicago’s North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music, pop culture as they are solving homicides.

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Tuesday 1st February

8:00PM

NCIS	22.84 Million
One Tree Hill	2.35 Million

9:00PM

NCIS Los Angeles	17.70 Million
V	5.25 Million
Hellcats	1.90 Million

10:00PM

The Good Wife	12.00 Million
Parenthood	6.20 Million
Detroit 187	5.40 Million
The Game	4.82 Million
White Collar	3.46 Million
Southland	1.81 Million
Lights Out	0.864 Million

10:30PM

Lets Stay Together

2.69 Million

Huge numbers for NCIS & NCIS Los Angeles, that has honestly made my day.

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CBS Picks Up Comedy Pilot From 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Veteran

CBS is back in business with Tucker Cawley, former executive producer of the network's hit Everybody Loves Raymond. CBS has greenlighted to pilot Cawley's multicamera comedy The Assistants, a young ensemble about four assistants who work for a celebrity couple. CBS TV Studios  and studio-based Tannenbaum Co. are producing, with Cawley, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum exec producing. Cawley win 3 Emmys for Raymond, two best comedy series statuettes, which he shared with the rest of the show's producing team, and one for writing one of Raymond's most memorable episodes, Baggage. Post-Raymond, Cawley created the short-lived ABC sitcom Hank and recently joined his Raymond buddies Ray Romano and Mike Royce on their TNT dramedy Men of a Certain Age.

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Wednesday 2nd February

8:00PM

American Idol

24.80 Million

9:00PM

Human Target

10.10 Million

9:30PM

Cougar Town

6.60 Million

10:00PM

Blue Bloods	11.20 Million
Law & Order SVU	8.70 Million
Off The Map	5.30 Million
Are We There Yet	3.20 Million
Hot In Cleveland	2.35 Million

10:30PM

Are We There Yet	2.90 Million
Retired At 35	1.43 Million

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Exclusive: Scrubs' Dr. Cox Gets Lucky

Scrubs fans are in luck: John C. McGinley is headed back to the tube.

The erstwhile Dr. Cox has landed a recurring role in Luck, HBO’s upcoming horse racing drama from David Milch and Michael Mann and starring Dustin Hoffman. The highly anticipated series promises to take viewers inside the provocative world of horse racing, with a specific spotlight cast on the owners, gamblers, jockeys and diverse gaming industry players.

McGinley will play a genial swindler working in cahoots with his daughter.

Luck is slated to premiere in late 2011 or early 2012

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NBC Picks Up 4 More Pilots: Drama From 'Lone Star' Creator, 3 Comedies

UPDATED: NBC has picked up to pilot REM, the spec by Lone Star creator Kyle Killen which was taken out by 20th TV a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, the network has given the green light to 3 more comedy pilots: Free Agents, LoveLives and an untitled project from Dan Goor.

Killen's REM, from 20th TV, is described as an Inception-style thriller about a cop who wakes up after an accident to find he is living in two different realities. The project has been given a cast-contingent order. As expected, new NBC chief Bob Greenblatt has been very opportunistic with spec scripts, handing out a significant chunk of his pilot orders to project brought to the network as specs.

Free Agents, from UMS and Party Down co-creator John Enbom, is a single-camera romantic comedy based on the U.K. format  that explores the attraction between two quirky co-workers who are both on the rebound, one from a divorce and the other from the loss of a fiancé. While in the original series, which ran on Channel 4 in 2009, the lovebirds were agents, in the NBC version they will be PR executives. Enbom is executive producing with Kenton Allen from Big Talk Prods., producer of the British series. Todd Holland and Karey Burke are also exec producing through their UMS-based company, with Holland directing. The comedy has been given a cast-contingent order.

LoveLives, from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, is a multicamera comedy about a couple who explore cheating on their spouse and the friends/family members around them who encourage it. Family Guy executive producer Chris Sheridan wrote the script and is exec producing with Peter Chernin and Katherine Pope.

The untitled Dan Goor project, from UMS and BermanBraun, is a multicamera comedy about a young doctor who joins his parents' medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. It was was written by Dan Goor (Parks & Recreation) who is exec producing with Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun.

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Thursday 3rd February

8:00PM

American Idol	21.80 Million
The Big Bang Theory	13.81 Million
Community	4.34 Million
The Vampire Diaries	3.10 Million

8:30PM

S#! My Dad Says	10.50 Million
Perfect Couples	3.06 Million

9:00PM

CSI	13.80 Million
Grey's Anatomy	11.15 Million
Bones	10.10 Million
The Office	7.30 Million
Royal Pains	3.80 Million
Nikita	2.45 Million

9:30PM

Parks & Recreation

5.05 Million

10:00PM

The Mentalist	15.00 Million
Private Practice	6.92 Million
30 Rock	4.80 Million
Fairly Legal	3.60 Million

10:30PM

Outsourced

3.80 Million

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NBC's 'Playboy' Pilot Casts Two Bunnies

Amber Heard (Zombieland) and Naturi Naughton (Fame) are set as leads in the NBC drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV/Imagine TV, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. CAA-repped Heard, who had been in talks for the project, will play Maureen, a new hire at the club, originally an orphan from Fort Wayne, an inquisitive young woman with an untethered sexuality and a dark past. Naughton, repped by Innovative and Luber Roklin, will play Brenda, a stunning African-American Bunny determined to become the first black Playboy centerfold who is Maureen's confidante and roommate in the Bunny Dormitory. Interestingly, she also played a 1960s Black Playboy bunny in the Hands and Knees episode of Mad Men last year. Alan Taylor, who directed the pilot for AMC's Mad Men, is directing Playboy from a script by Chad Hodge.

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NBC Picks Up Period Western Drama Pilot, Gives Formal Green Light To 'Prime Suspect'

NBC is saddling up for The Crossing, picking up to pilot a period Western from Peter Horton. Additionally, the network has officially greenlit its adaptation of the British classic Prime Suspect, which had been rolled over from last season.

The Crossing (form. Reconstruction) was originally developed at FX where it was set up in 2009. The drama, written by St. Elsewhere co-creator Josh Brand, is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and centers on Jason, a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior -- whether he likes it or not. Brand and Horton are exec producing, with Horton set to direct. This is the second period drama pilot ordered by NBC  this season, along with the 1960s Playboy.

Prime Suspect, from UMS and ITV Studio, centers on an iconoclastic female detective who has to make her bones in a tough New York precinct that is dominated by men. The pilot was originally picked up last season but was pushed after difficulties casting the lead. The adaptation was also given a revamp with a new producing team, Peter Berg and Sarah Aubrey of Film 44, and new writer, Alexandra Cunningham, coming on board. The three are executive producing the pilot, with Berg also set to direct. The Crossing and Prime Suspect join an untitled comedy pilot from Kari Lizer, which was picked up earlier today as NBC is wrapping its orders.

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CBS Picks Up Rob Schneider Comedy Pilot And Sitcom From Jeff & Jackie Filgo

CBS has given the green light to two family comedy pilots, an untitled project starring Rob Schneider and Home Grown, from That '70s Show alums Jeff and Jackie Filgo. This marks the second pilot for the Filgos, who have also come on board Marisa Coughlan's multicamera comedy pilot for ABC Lost and Found as executive producers/showrunners. Both pilots are from Warner Bros. TV.

The untitled Rob Schneider project, from CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum  Co., was written by Schneider and fellow Saturday Night Live alum Lew Morton. It is based on Schneider's life and centers on a solitary guy who marries into a huge Mexican-American family. The project originally landed at CBS in October with a script commitment. Morton, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) are executive producing, with Schneider and his brother John Schneider producing through their From Out of Nowhere Prods. This marks Schneider's first TV series gig in 13 years. He last did a series in the 1996-97 season, NBC's comedy Men Behaving Badly. Schneider has since been focused on films, most recently co-starring in Grown Ups.

Jeff and Jackie Filgo's Home Grown is a multicamera comedy about a blue collar man who wrestles with how to parent his unmarried grown daughter and her 12-year-old son while sharing a house with them, his wife and his recently widowed mother. The Filgos wrote the script and are exec producing. Beth Lacke serves as consultant.

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Friday 4th February

8:00PM

The Defenders	8.60 Million
Smallville	2.38 Million

9:00PM

Fringe	4.30 Million
Supernatural	2.30 Million

10:00PM

CSI NY	9.30 Million
Gods Of The Arena	1.26 Million

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Sunday 6th Feburary

9:00PM

Big Love	0.773 Million
Californication	0.418 Million

9:30PM

Episodes

0.379 Million

10:30PM

Glee	26.50 Million

I take no notice of Glee because it aired after the Super Bowl which was watched by 111 Million people.

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Monday 7th February

8:00PM

House	12.32 Million
How I Met Your Mother	10.11 Million
Chuck	5.42 Million
90210	1.78 Million
Pretty Little Liars	3.14 Million

8:30PM

Rules Of Engagement

9.48 Million

9:00PM

Two And A Half Men	15.13 Million
The Chicago Code	9.40 Million
The Cape	4.56 Million
Gossip Girl	1.63 Million
Being Human	1.43 Million
Greek	1.14 Million

9:30PM

Mike & Molly

12.74 Million

10:00PM

Hawaii Five-O	10.86 Million
Castle	9.26 Million
Harry's Law	9.14 Million
Skins	1.19 Million

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Good rating for The Chicago Code, Harry's Law and House

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it was good ratings but The Chicago Code and Harry's Law demo in the 18-49 category was poor and it has already put them in danger of getting cancelled, plus Chuck got the same demo as Harry's Law in the 18-49 category but I cant honestly see NBC cancel all their shows.

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Rachel Bilson To Star In The CW's Dixie Pilot

Rachel Bilson will reunite with The O.C. creator-executive producer Josh Schwartz this pilot season after all: The actress is close to a deal to star in Hart Of Dixie, The CW’s hourlong pilot produced by the Gossip Girl duo of Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

Hart Of Dixie is a comedic drama centered on a young New York City doctor (Bilson) who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town inhabited by an eclectic and eccentric group of characters.

Earlier this development season, Bilson was attached to star in Ghost Angeles, a supernatural romantic comedy for NBC co-written by Schwartz; that pilot ultimately didn’t go forward.

Bilson previously has done arcs on Schwartz’s NBC dramedy Chuck as well as CBS’ How I Met Your Mother, where she played a love interest for Ted Mosby.

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