FUTURE ON FOX

House fans: Pay your respects to Dr. Kutner by embedding his badge on your Facebook, MySpace, etc.

And watch the special video:

Slumdog Millionaire’s Anil Kapoor joins 24 as a series regular in Season Eight. In his first American television role, Kapoor will play a Middle Eastern leader who comes to the U.S. on a peacemaking mission.

COP HOUSE
- Scott Caan gets the lead role in the comedy pilot as a champion marksman who suffered a nervous breakdown after his wife left him for his sister. That’s right, his sister.
- Nick Kroll gets his second FOX show. In this, he plays an overzealous cop with an enormous ego and delusional fantasies.
- Nora Zehetner is the house psychologist, who runs group-therapy sessions.
- Curtiss I’Cook is an intense cop prone to random, violent outbursts.

MASTERWORK
- Australian Matt Passmore takes the lead in the drama pilot as an FBI agent who specializes in finding stolen art from international thieves.
- Scott Porter will play his sidekick, another FBI agent who helps him track down the goods. (Go Panthers!)
- Brit Natalie Dormer is an MI-5 agent who does the same thing, for a different country. Needless to say, their paths cross!
- Another Brit, Tom Ellis, plays Dormer’s fiance, a special agent at Scotland Yard.

Wanda Sykes lets bygones be bygones (Ed. - Aww, we loved Wanda at Large!), as she returns to do a Saturday late-night show for us this fall.

“Yes, my relationship with FOX hasn’t been the best, but if Rihanna can go back to Chris Brown, I can go back to FOX,” Sykes said. “Oprah tried to talk me out of it, but I think FOX has changed.”

You know she’s funny as well as outspoken about current events, so expect more of that in the one-hour show that will also feature panel guests and Wanda out in the field talking to real people.

Pilots, pilots and more pilots. Here’s the latest updates:

UNTITLED IAN BIEDERMAN PILOT
- Alfre Woodard joins the cast as the tough and smart chief of cardiothoracic surgery who serves as mentor to Maggie Hill, the surgeon with schizophrenia.

HUMAN TARGET
- Simon West will direct the pilot based on the DC Comic.

PAST LIFE
- Deran Sarafian will direct the pilot about a team of investigators who look into clients’ past lives to solve problems in this one.

BROTHERS
- Mitch Hurwitz can now claim “four-peat,” producing this comedy.
- Don Reo wrote the pilot.
- Former pro football player and current Fox NFL analyst Michael Strahan will star as a retired NFL player who returns to his hometown and starts working to reconnect with his family.
- Daryl “Chill” Mitchell plays Strahan’s brother, confined to a wheelchair from a car accident.
- Colton Dunn will also star.
- Ted Wass will direct the pilot (and yes, he was Blossom’s dad).

COP HOUSE
- He’s back to helm another Fox pilot! Brett Ratner will direct and executive produce the pilot, which also stars our own Buster, Tony Hale.
- Rachael Harris is the lone policewoman in the all-male house, sent for posing nude in Hustler.
- Ajay Naidu is an officer with a drinking problem.

THE STATION
- Whitney Cummings will play one of the CIA operatives in this comedy directed by Ben Stiller.

Kanye West was looking forward to watching the upcoming The Cleveland Show, so they hired him!

He’ll be voicing the not-so-famous rapper “Kenny West” alongside the recently Oscar-nominated Taraji P. Henson, who’s also a guest voice. Their episode will air next season, after Cleveland’s premiere this fall.

See a picture of ‘Ye and Taraji at the Cleveland read-through and more in People.

UPDATE: “Kenny West” is an all-around cool kid and the archenemy of Cleveland Jr. The two will engage in a “rap battle” for the affection of high school hottie “Chanel” (voiced by Henson).

Preview a funny snippet from Osbournes: Reloaded!

We’re hiring thespians to fill our pilots. First the dramas:

THE REINCARNATIONIST
UPDATE: Now called PAST LIFE
The reincarnation drama from writer David Hudgins is about a team of investigators who look into clients’ past lives to solve problems in this one.
Nick Bishop will play a recently fired detective whose wife recently died.
Kelli Giddish will play a psychologist who believes in reincarnation.
Richard Schiff will play a scientist and legend in the field of reincarnation.
Ravi Patel will play a therapist.

UNTITLED IAN BIEDERMAN PILOT
In the hour medical drama about a female heart surgeon who’s also suffering from schizophrenia, Denis O’Hare will play a schizophrenia doctor who treats her.

MASTERWORK
Natalie Dormer will play an MI5 agent, who along with a male FBI agent, travels around the world recovering the world’s most sought-after artifacts.

Now for some comedies:

SONS OF TUCSON
Tyler Labine will play a charming hustler hired by three rich, young brothers to pretend to be their father while their real one serves time for a white-collar crime.

TWO DOLLAR BEER
A group of young adults in Detroit weather the worsening economy but refuse to move away from their hometown.
Jonathan Sadowski will play a former high school athlete.
Noureen DeWulf and Kevin Simpson play a married couple.
Ricky Mabe will play a guy who is “a bit off.”

Arnett: Surprisingly breast-y.
Bateman: Like a little, little child who doesn’t know anything about anything.

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