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Pilot Watch: 'Office' actress to play nurse in NBC series -- "The Office" alum Rashida Jones has joined the cast of NBC's "don't-call-it-an-'Office'-spinoff" comedy starring Amy Poehler.
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Pilot Watch: Network makes 'Friends With Black People' -- President-elect Barack Obama is already bringing about change -- to the world of network TV development, at least.
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Pilot Watch: Comedy conjured up by Criss Angel in works -- Thesp-turned-scribe Chris Moynihan has a pair of projects in the works at the Peacock -- including a comedy conjured up by magician Criss Angel.
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Pilot Watch: Network also greenlights 'Evan and Gareth' -- Comedy Central has started production on two pilots, one a toon spinoff of the network's "5-On" Web series, the other a live-action laffer centered around two guys working at a male-targeted online advice site.
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Pilot Watch: Network to develop legal show -- AMC is developing a legal-themed drama with "Breaking Bad" exec producer Mark Johnson.
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Pilot Watch: Mandalay to produce paranormal procedural -- A&E is developing a paranormal-themed procedural drama with producer Jed Mercurio (BBC's "Bodies"), Mandalay Television and Fox TV Studios.
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Pilot Watch: Actress takes lead in 'Operating Instructions' -- USA Network has tapped Emily Rose for the lead role in "Operating Instructions," bumping the pilot from cast-contingency status.
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Pilot Watch: Writer/director developing ABC, Fox comedies -- Writer-director Luke Greenfield has lined up a pair of projects at the nets, including laffers at ABC and Fox.
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Pilot Watch: Drama pilot stars Tim DeKay, Matthew Bomer -- USA Network has greenlit production on the drama pilot "White Collar" after casting Tim DeKay as its co-lead.
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Pilot Watch: Actor to develop, exec produce half-hour pilot -- Vince Vaughn is bringing his guy?s guy sensibility to a laffer in the works for FoxBroadcasting Co. and 20th Century Fox TV.
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Pilot Watch: Network renews 'DEA' for second season -- Spike TV announced a significant bolstering of its male-skewing nonfiction lineup Wednesday, with the addition of two series and the second-season renewal of "Cops"-like reality skein "DEA."
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Pilot Watch: New legal show given series commitment -- NBC has given a series commitment to a legal drama from vet scribe David E. Kelley.
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Pilot Watch: One of three projects to be produced as series -- CBS has made a deal with Tribeca Prods. to develop three pilots that will be executive produced by Tribeca partners Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.
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Pilot Watch: MRC to produce new drama adaptation -- NBC is developing a new take on "Jason and the Argonauts," which would be produced as the first-ever green-screen drama developed for primetime.
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Pilot Watch: Jones, Bee to co-write, star in untitled comedy -- Married "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee are prepping a jump into the sitcom world.
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Pilot Watch: Dark comedy stars Matthew Perry as TV host -- Showtime has picked up the pilot "The End of Steve," a dark comedy written and produced by Matthew Perry and Peter Tolan, and starring the longtime "Friends" thesp.
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Pilot Watch: Original series follows 'Hollywood wannabes' -- Starz Entertainment is adding another piece to its growing original programming lineup, ordering 10 episodes of the half-hour comedy series "Party Down" for the first quarter of next year.
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Pilot Watch: 'Mean Girls' director signs on for pilot -- "Mean Girls" helmer Mark Waters has signed on to direct the pilot of "Eva Adams," the Sony Pictures TV-produced redo of Argentinean telenovela "Lalola" for Fox.
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Pilot Watch: Network taps Zander to adapt Saunders series -- Fox is developing a redo of Jennifer Saunders' enduring Britcom "Absolutely Fabulous," to be exec produced by Mitch Hurwitz, Eric Tannenbaum and Kim Tannenbaum for Sony Pictures TV, Tantamount and BBC Worldwide America.
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Duo team on homeland security drama -- NBC is developing a new take on homeland security from helmer Antoine Fuqua ("Training Day") and scribe Matthew Carnahan ("Dirt").