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[06/01/12 - 11:01 PM]
Development Update: Friday, June 1
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:

Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!


AND IN OTHER NEWS... - "Lost" co-creator Damon Lindelof is on track to sign a three-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television (Deadline.com); Andy Samberg will join Kristen Wiig as the latest cast member set to depart "Saturday Night Live" (NYTimes.com); Vanessa Redgrave will guest on USA's "Political Animals" as the first openly gay member of the Supreme Court (Deadline.com); Greg Malins, most recently a consulting producer on "2 Broke Girls," has inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television (Deadline.com); former "The River" executive producer Zack Estrin has reupped his overall deal with ABC Studios where he'll join "Zero Hour" as an executive producer (Deadline.com); NBC is reportedly revisiting its untitled Kerry Ehrin western following the success of History's mini-series "Hatfields & McCoys" (Deadline.com); actress Charlize Theron, writer John Glenn and producers Dawn Olmstead and Beau Flynn likewise are shopping their own modern-day take on the feuding families from the Oscar winner's ABC Studios-based Denver and Delilah Productions (THR.com); Rumer Willis will guest on "Workaholics" as a "seemingly cool and generous" drug dealer (EW.com); Diane Neal and Erinn Hayes are the latest faces set to visit "Suits" (THR.com, TVLine.com); Catherine Tate has been upped to series regular for "The Office's" ninth season (TVLine.com); and former "Grey's Anatomy" co-star Chyler Leigh has released a statement about her departure from the series (TVLine.com).






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· 2 BROKE GIRLS (CBS)
· DEVELOPMENT UPDATE (TFC)
· GREY'S ANATOMY (ABC)
· HATFIELDS & MCCOYS (HISTORY)
· LOST (ABC)
· OFFICE, THE (NBC)
· POLITICAL ANIMALS (USA)
· RIVER, THE (ABC)
· SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (NBC)
· SUITS (USA)
· UNTITLED KERRY EHRIN PROJECT (NBC)
· WORKAHOLICS (COMEDY CENTRAL)
· ZERO HOUR (ABC)





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