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Greg Berlanti and Rene Echevarria, through ABC Studios, are developing The Return. It’s about the effect of an alien landing on the world.

Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Sirico, Steve Schirripa, Richard Griffiths, and Madison Pettis will be in NBC's holiday special Letters to Santa--A Muppets Christmas. Christmas Eve, The Muppets have to grant Christmas wishes to three children when they accidently avert letters to Santa.

While Bill Lawrence has gathered together most of Scrubs' guest stars for its likely finale, Masi Oka and Sarah Lancaster, however, won't be there. Says Lawrence, "They both wanted to do it, but NBC said they weren't allowed to."

Zuleikha Robinson will play Ilana on the fifth season of Lost.

Tom Sizemore has been hired onto Starz's Crash as "Detective Adrian Cooper whose unorthodox measures wreak havoc when he investigates a police-involved shooting."