IFC is developing for 2008 Bollywood Hero, an eight-episode, half-hour comedy series starring Chris Kattan as a version of himself.... MTV is developing a pair of scripted series: Darius, about the dark and secret life of a seemingly "all-American" teen, and Cheerleader Camp, a horror series pegged as "Heathers meets Scream".... Spike TV is retooling its original-series strategy to target comedy as much as drama, says Variety. As such, the cabler is developing The Factory, a semi-improvised comedy (à la Curb Your Enthusiasm) from Strangers with Candy cocreator Mitch Rouse.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Mena Suvari will play a girl sucked into a modern-day cult in CBS' Orpheus, while Blair Underwood has been tapped to star in another CBS drama, Company Town.... Mitch Rouse has landed the lead in the CBS comedy The Angriest Man in Suburbia.... Josh Meyers is That Guy in a Fox comedy.... Lori Loughlin has joined ABC's In Case of Emergency.... E-Ring's Kerr Smith is onboard for Fox's American Crime.... Rebecca Gayheart now is part of Fox's Vanished.... Patricia Wettig has been added to ABC's Brothers & Sisters family sudser.
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