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Nicole Yorkin and Dawn Prestwich will be executive producers and show runners on the pilot for ABC’s Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas.

Lloyd Owen, Tricia Helferin, and Morgan Turner have been cast in Fox’s one hour pilot for Jekyll and Hyde story Inseparable. It is under consideration for midseason.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will star in Fox's two hour science fiction pilot Virtuality.

Kevin Falls will write and exec produce Fox’s pilot based on Argentinean telenovela hit Lalola. It’s about a womanizer who is transformed into a woman, and will take place in a sports management firm and the world of entertainment and fashion.

CW’s Supernatural has been picked up for a fourth season. However, Katie Cassidy will not be coming back. Says creator Eric Kripke, "She's great, but this was unfortunately a financial decision--purely budgetary, because creatively she was terrific." He’s signed a two year exclusive with Warner Brothers TV, under which he will continue on Supernatural and develop other projects, the murmurs are possibly even a prequel to the show. "We have a plan that's as exciting as any we've ever had of how to thread new characters in some unexpected ways."

Sam Witwer and Cassidy Freeman will join CW’s Smallville as villains.

Ever Carradine will play Sheriff Carter’s free spirited sister Lexi as a re-occurring guest star on SciFi Channels Eureka.

Dean Devlin will produce TNT’s science fiction crime thriller Blank Slate. Lisa Brenner plays an amnesiac who becomes part of a government program that uses memory implants to solve murders. Eric Stoltz and Clancy Brown are also cast. The “microseries” will be 80 minutes edited into 20 short episodes. They’ll air in prime time, starting September 8, and will also be available on TNT.tv as a series of webisodes.

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have turned in the second draft script for the HBO pilot of A Game of Thrones. The project is officially still a script in development, instead of a series in production. If HBO green lights it, the BBC has reached an agreement to partner on the series.

Bob Baker is working on K9 “about a highly refined robot in the guise and personality of a dog.” Production starts next month.

Chihiro Tamaki's manga Walkin' Butterfly will be turned into a live action show and premiere in Japan in July. Model Aoi Nakabeppu will star, playing aspiring model Michiko.