The show will revolve around the Jon & Kate Plus 8 star undertaking a variety of tasks and jobs.

THR.com is reporting that the show will follow Gosselin “trying different jobs and tasks and showing how she performs in the different environments.”

The show is scheduled to begin airing in late spring/early summer.

HBO has announced that there is another comedy revolving around Ricky Gervais - and this time it’s animated.

The pay-network said that a 13 episode series called The Ricky Gervais Show, based on his Guinness World Record breaking Podcasts has been commissioned.

Gervais, the main character in the show, will be joined by frequented collaborators Stephen Merchant and the ever-amusing (but amazingly round headed) Karl Pilkington.

Gervais and Merchant co-wrote The Office, Extras and feature film Cemetary Junction – due to be released next year. The trio have previously worked on the podcasts together along with The Ricky Gervais Show – an XFM radio show which featured Stephen Merchant and was produced by Karl Pilkington.

The show is set to debut on Feb 19 and will be shown on Channel 4 in the UK.

Well, who didn’t see this coming? There have been rumors swirling around that this would be Simon Cowell’s last season on American Idol – - now the reason why has been confirmed….

“THE X FACTOR” TO LAUNCH ON FOX IN 2011

FOX announced today that THE X FACTOR will launch in the U.S. in the fall of 2011. Simon Cowell, who created and launched THE X FACTOR in the U.K. in 2004, will serve as both executive producer and judge on the U.S. version, which will be produced by Syco Television and FremantleMedia North America. 

THE X FACTOR is currently shown in 17 countries worldwide with a global audience of more than 500 million, and is the No. 1 TV entertainment format in Europe. Cowell will continue to serve as both executive producer and judge on the U.K. version. THE X FACTOR format is owned by Syco, a global music, television and film production joint venture between Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment.

“I’m thrilled that we have put a date on the launch of the U.S. version of THE X FACTOR, and delighted to be continuing to work with FOX,” said Cowell. “We have a fantastic relationship, a great team and are all very excited about this.”

Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, said, “We have had a very successful relationship with Simon Cowell for many years, and we’re absolutely delighted to continue our relationship with him. THE X FACTOR has been a massive success around the world, and we can’t wait to bring it to the U.S. in 2011.”

“THE X FACTOR has enjoyed an unparalleled success in its U.K. home market and globally,” said Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of FremantleMedia North America. “We are truly excited to bring it to the U.S. and look forward to building another entertainment franchise in the marketplace.”

About Syco/Simon Cowell

Syco, with offices in London and Los Angeles, is a global music, television and film production joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music Entertainment.

Syco Television produces the BAFTA Award-winning “The X Factor,” which has topped the charts in Europe and in the U.K., where Cowell continues to serve as both executive producer and judge. Syco Television is also the owner of the “Got Talent” television format. Versions of both “The X Factor” and “Got Talent” are co-produced by Syco and shown in more than 40 countries.

“The X Factor” 2009 in the U.K. reached audiences of 20 million (60% audience share), and in Denmark, the audience share reached a record high of 80%.

Cowell also executive produces “America’s Got Talent” and judges and produces “Britain’s Got Talent,” which in 2009 launched the global singing career of Susan Boyle. Her debut Syco album sold over 8 million units in six weeks, making it the world’s biggest-selling album of 2009 and the fastest-selling album in history.

Syco is also the record label home for such diverse international recording stars as Leona Lewis, Il Divo and Paul Potts. Cowell has worked with artists selling more than 180 million albums and delivering more than 150 No. 1 records.

In 2009, Cowell was named No. 1 in Hollywood Reporter’s Top 50 Most Powerful in Reality TV and one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top Entertainers of the Year.

About FremantleMedia North America

FremantleMedia North America (FMNA) is the U.S. production division of global media giant FremantleMedia. Based in Burbank, California, FMNA produces entertaining and innovative programs for network, cable, syndicated and online platforms, including the Emmy-nominated musical/reality phenomenon AMERICAN IDOL (FOX), “America’s Got Talent” (NBC), “Can You Duet” (CMT), “The Chilli Project” (MTV), “Secret Girlfriend” (Comedy Central), “Let’s Make A Deal” (CBS), “Family Feud” (syndicated), and the longest-running game show in television history, “The Price Is Right” (CBS). In the U.K., “The X Factor” is produced by talkbackThames, a division of FremantleMedia, and Syco Television.

ABC Studios has greenlighted the comedy pilot “Women are Crazy, Men are Stupid.”

This move comes after the alphabet gave the greenlight to another comedy,  ”Awkward Situations for Men,”

The pilot is based on a book by Howard Morris and Jenny Lee. Morris and Lee are also writing the pilot script.

“Women are Crazy. Men are Stupid” follows a man and woman, both unlucky in love, who hope this relationship is the one that sticks.

George Clooney has found three actors for a show he’s producing for TNT, Delta Blues. And he used to work in some hospital with one of them…

Abraham Benrubi, Celia Weston and DJ Qualls have joined the cast of TNT’s pilot Delta Blues.

“Blues” centers on Dwight Hendricks (Jason Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother (Weston) and moonlights as an Elvis tribute artist.
Benrubi will play Sgt. J.C. Lightfoot, a 6-foot-5 Caucasian man with a braided ponytail who is only one-eighth Chickasaw but lives by his tribe’s wisdom and dispenses sage quotations to the rest of the Memphis detectives. Qualls will play a cop and Dwight’s protege.

George Clooney and Grant Heslov will Executive produce through their Smokehouse Pictures production shinge.

Country Star Trace Adkins has joined Nashville based drama Tough Trade, THR.com is reporting.

Joey Lauren Adams, Boyd Holbrook and Claire van der Boom have also bee cast in the pilot.

via THR.com

Nashville native Adkins will play Scared, a friend and bodyguard to Linwood Tucker (Shepard) who is fiercely loyal to the family.

Adams will play Shawnelle, the strong and blunt fifth Mrs. Linwood Tucker who is determined never to be the newest ex-wife.

Holbrook will play the youngest Tucker, Jackson, who is poised to become the crown prince of country music by following his family’s legacy.

Van der Boom (“The Pacific”) will play Jackson’s half sister Billie, the only woman in the world of the Tucker men who holds the family together with her strength and will.

FOX has given Loren Bouchard (creator of Home Movies) a 13 episode order for Animated comedy, Bob’s Burgers.

via THR.com:

The project is set at a seaside East Coast town and centers on Bob, a creative grill man who runs a struggling burger joint with the help of his tightly wound wife and their three unhelpful kids.

“One of the great things about telling a story is that (the show) could be a workplace and family comedy at exactly the same moment,” said Bouchard, who originally thought of doing a comedy about a family of cannibals running a restaurant but dropped the cannibalism part.

Bouchard, who is executive producing/co-showrunning “Burgers” with Jim Dauterive (“King of the Hill”), said he chose a burger place versus a traditional restaurant because “it feels very iconic.”

Production on “Burgers” is slated to begin shortly for an early 2011 premiere.

A casting scoop that is an indication of how Sendhil Ramamurthy thinks Heroes’ renewal prospects are faring…

Ramamurthy has joined NBC’s comedic drama pilot “Rex Is Not Your Lawyer” as a series regular.

Ramamurthy will play an ambitious but good-natured lawyer who was in Rex’s shadow until Rex’s career switch and whose friendship with Rex becomes complicated when he falls in love with his pal’s fiancee (Abigail Spencer).

Jane Curtin has also been cast in the pilot that stars David Tennant as Rex Alexander, a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and takes up coaching clients to represent themselves in court.

The Rex pilot will be in second position to Heroes should the network pick it up, but there is a chance that even if Heroes stays on the air Ramamurthy will end up on Rex.

Nicole Richie has secured herself a pilot order, courtesy of ABC.

The Simple Life star is headlining a single-camera half-hour sitcom playing a professional woman with complicated family relationships and struggling to figure out what role she’ll take as her life and her family evolve.

Richie had the initial idea for the show and will have a producing credit as well as starring.

The star most recent TV gigs include guest starring roles on 8 Simple Rules, American Dreams and Eve as well as four seasons of The Simple Life

Producer Mark Gordon (Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy) is apparently in talks with ABC to make a sequel of Roland Emmerich’s (Independence Day) upcoming film, 2012 into a TV series.

Talking to EW, Emmerich said:

“The plan is that it is 2013 and it’s about what happens after the disaster. It is about the resettling of Earth. That is very, very fascinating. (2012 writer/producer) Harold Kloser and I came up with the idea and we have the luxury of having a producer on the film who is a big TV producer, Mark Gordon. We said to Mark, ‘Why don’t you do a TV show that picks up where the movie leaves off and call it 2013?’ I think it will focus on a group of people who survived but not on the boats … maybe they were on a piece of land that was spared or one that became an island in the process of the crust moving. There are so many possibilities of what they could do and I’d be excited to watch it. The movie talks about the varied reactions people have in the face of disaster and who should survive and how we carry on and what parts of our culture do we save. The TV show could carry on all that.”

Gordon has, apparently, had talks with ABC to develop the drama but wasn’t giving much away. He said that ABC “will have an opening in their disaster-related programming after Lost ends”. And about the series said: “There’s hope for the world despite the magnitude of the 2012 disaster as seen in the film. After the movie, there are some people who survive and the question is how will these survivors build a new world and what will it look like. That might make an interesting TV series.”