In the Works: The Contender Fights On, and More

The Contender courtesy ESPN
ESPN on Sept. 4 will reenter the ring with a third round of
The Contender, the first to feature full and uncut fights on ESPN2. Sugar Ray Leonard will again host, says the
Reporter.... CBS has given a greenlight to the pilots
Worst Week (a half-hour comedy based on the U.K.'s
The Worst Week of My Life, and to be penned/exec-produced by
Scrubs' Matt Tarses), as well as a medical drama from
Kasi Lemmons (
Talk to Me) and
Mark Gordon (
Grey's Anatomy)....
Peter Berg (
Friday Night Lights) and scribe Sheldon Turner are developing for FX a dark drama about two cops undercover with the Russian Mafia, says
Variety. The series is being eyed as a successor to
The Shield.