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Fall 2007: Hairspray Headliner Gets Fugly

The latest batch of fall-pilot news, from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:• Marissa Jaret Winokur, a Tony winner for Hairspray and a survivor of Stacked, will star in the CBS comedy Fugly, in which three siblings pool their money to give one sister (not Winokur's character) an extreme makeover.• Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) has joined ABC's Suspect, playing a cop.• Fred Willard is the sports anchor for Action News, starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton.• William Baldwin (not Alec and not the DUI one and not the born-again Christian) is a senator in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.• Brian Benben (Dream On) is one of NBC's Mastersons of Manhattan.• The CW has picked up Hell on Earth, about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets a second chance after getting fatally hit by a bus.

Matt Mitovich

The latest batch of fall-pilot news, from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:
" Marissa Jaret Winokur, a Tony winner for Hairspray and a survivor of Stacked, will star in the CBS comedy Fugly, in which three siblings pool their money to give one sister ( not Winokur's character) an extreme makeover.
" Carrie-Anne Moss ( The Matrix) has joined ABC's Suspect, playing a cop.
" Fred Willard is the sports anchor for Action News, starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton.
" William Baldwin ( not Alec and not the DUI one and not the born-again Christian) is a senator in ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.
" Brian Benben ( Dream On) is one of NBC's Mastersons of Manhattan.
" The CW has picked up Hell on Earth, about a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who gets a second chance after getting fatally hit by a bus.