Parker Posey picks "Jezebel" comedy pilot
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Indie movie mainstay  Parker Posey is venturing into series television with "The  Return of Jezebel James," a Fox comedy pilot from "Gilmore  Girls" creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.
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In the latest round of pilot pickups, NBC has given a cast-contingent order to the comedy "I Love Faron Hitchman," Fox has greenlit the drama "Murder Book," while UPN has given a nod to the drama "The Lot."
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Lifetime Television has acquired exclusive cable reun rights to the CBS comedy "Still Standing," which stars Jami Gertz and Mark Addy as a married couple grappling with the stresses of parenthood.
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Marisa Tomei will play  the title role in CBS' comedy pilot "The Rich Inner Life of  Penelope Cloud."
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LOS ANGELES  - Mimi Rogers will co-star  in Fox's untitled comedy pilot about a guy who becomes the  first among his college friends to get a real job.
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CBS has picked up additional episodes of its freshman comedies "Listen Up" and "Center of the Universe."
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TBS has given a pilot  script order to a half-hour family comedy starring Bill  Engvall, one of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour comedians.
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LOS ANGELES  - The always fierce  competition among comics to land a gig on NBC's "Saturday Night  Live" is set to become the basis of a reality series for the  network.
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Fox has ordered two comedy pilots, including one from a pair of "Simpsons" alumni.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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Krista Allen is set to  co-star opposite Jack Carpenter in Comedy Central&#39;s half-hour  pilot &quot;Held Up.&quot;
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Rob Corddry, former  senior correspondent on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," is  the latest funnyman joining the cast of "Semi-Pro," a sports  comedy starring Will Ferrell.
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LOS ANGELES  - Comedy Central has   picked up "The Showbiz Show With David Spade" for a third   season.
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Amy Sedaris may be best known for triggering laughter, but the actress says she's not a personal fan of comedies.
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LOS ANGELES  - It's been a busy afterlife for "Arrested Development" creator Mitch Hurwitz's ABC comedy pilot "The Thick of It."
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LOS ANGELES  - Michelle Trachtenberg is set as the female lead in an untitled ABC comedy pilot set in Washington, D.C.
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Rob Corddry is a really funny guy. With his gift for looking shrewd yet silly, with his balding head and that phantom forelock, he was the perfect pundit on Comedy Central's "Daily Show" fake newscast.