Dane Cook is looking likely to land the lead in Bachelor No. 2, about a creep who gets paid to take girls out on dates that are so bad, they go running back to their exes.... David E. Kelley has scored frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing) to direct the pilot for his ABC drama, Life on Mars.... Deadwood's John Hawkes has been cast as the brother of a baseball great turned substitute PE teacher in the Will Ferrell-produced HBO pilot East Bound and Down.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Amanda Peet will reunite with her The Whole Nine Yards costar Matthew Perry, having joined the cast of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme's new NBC comedy about a Saturday Night Live-style sketch-comedy show. Hey, anything that busies them up enough to prevent The Whole Eleven Yards.
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