Per the Hollywood Reporter, Disney Channel will debut the new CG-animated Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on May 5.... As part of a seven-figure, two-year deal with Touchstone TV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer show runner Marti Noxon has joined the ABC pilot Brothers & Sisters as an executive producer.... The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe topped the DVD sales chart for the week ending April 9, besting Brokeback Mountain by a nearly 3-to-1 margin.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Bree Turner (Bring It On Again) and Tamala Jones have joined the CW comedy pilot Flirt, starring Wayne Brady as the lone male employee at a women's magazine.... Marisa Coughlan (Pumpkin) and Kaley Cuoco (Charmed) play sisters in an untitled ABC comedy.... Nadia Dajani (Emily's Reasons Why Not) joins Teri Polo and Jennifer Aspen as new moms in ABC's Welcome to the Jungle Gym.
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A Hollywood Reporter survey of pilot orders for the 2006-07 TV season says that ABC, which has by far the most new shows in development, may end up relocating either Desperate Housewives or Grey's Anatomy to a different night. "We have three big shows [Extreme Makeover: Home Edition included] on Sunday, so there will be pressure to spread the wealth," ABC entertainment exec Jeff Bader tells the Reporter. The early faves to land a Sunday berth are Anne Heche's Men in Trees, the family sudser Brothers & Sisters and the workplace dramedy Women in Law.
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Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have inked new, seven-figure deals — $4,815,160 a piece, perhaps? — to continue as executive producers of ABC's Lost for another season, says the Hollywood Reporter.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jonathan Sadowski (She's the Man) has been cast as a part-time baby-sitter in the CBS comedy pilot My Ex-Life.... Chris Johnson (South Beach) has joined CW's She Said/He Said, starring Nick Lachey and Lindsay Sloane.... Scoot McNairy (Herbie: Fully Loaded) has been added to the cast of Fox's More, Patience, starring Jennifer Esposito.
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