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The voice of Rapunzel in Tangled just scored a pilot gig at ABC.

The network just gave a big heck yes to a new comedy that will star Mandy Moore as a newlywed who “gets the opportunity of a lifetime to run a hip, new restaurant” in her hometown. At the same time, this new “opportunity” brings her closer to her “needy and high maintenance family.” Hilarity ensues! The comedy’s from Bob Fisher and Stacy Traub.

In the meantime, ABC is keeping the love alive for primetime soaps by ordering Mistresses to series. Targeted for summer, the show from KJ Steinberg is described by ABC as “a provocative thrilling drama that finds four women with scandalous romantic lives, caught in storms of excitement and self-discovery, secrecy and betrayal, and at the mercy of the complex relationships they’ve created.”

I seem to be caught in a storm of excitement, myself, over how many more Revenge-style dramas the network has in the works for next season. Speaking of which, have you checked out Grandpa Grayson?  

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Kyle Bornheimer — last seen in Romantically Challenged, Perfect Couples and Worst Week — will join the cast of the ABC comedy pilot White Man Van.

The single-camera project from Bobby Bowman is based on the British format White Van Man, and centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his father.

White Man Van is one of eight new comedies in development for ABC’s fall 2012 lineup. If you don’t like the sound of that one, check out these others: READ FULL STORY »

Fox has House. ABC has Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. CBS has A Gifted Man. And NBC wishes it still had ER. So what about a medical drama on The CW? Well, it launched Hart of Dixie this season, but that show is slightly more focused on small-town relationships than urgent medical issues (“Coming up next on Hart of Dixie, somebody is bitten by a tick!”).

So The CW just ordered a pilot called First Cut* from 90210 writer Jennie Snyder Urman and executive producer Dan Jinks (Pushing Daisies). The pitch: “Glad to leave her nerdy past behind for a fresh start in the adult professional world, a newly minted doctor discovers that, sadly and comically, life at the hospital where she works is no different than high school.” Add this to The CW’s other pilot orders, which include a Sex and the City prequel and the comic-book based Arrow.

*First Cut is just a working title. I know, too much like a horror film, right? I mean, at best it sounds like a group of recent graduates working in a butcher shop.

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