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· Tights-friendly prettyboys Chris Evans and Brandon Routh join Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, playing two evil ex-boyfriends Michael Cera must defeat in order to win the woman of his dreams. [THR]
· Sophia Loren will star in an Italian TV biopic of her life, playing her own mother Romilda Villani. And for the record—Angelina? She still shits bigger than you. (Maybe that expression doesn't work so well for timeless sex symbols.) [Variety]
· To give you some indication of how slow a news day it is, THR published a list of networks around the world that broadcast the inauguration. Here they are: BBC1, BBC News and BBC World News, Sky News, Euronews, France 24, TF1 i, I-Tele and BFM, Spain's TVE 1, nTV and N24 in Germany, Euronews, TV Al Jazeera, Indian broadcaster NDTV, Japanese broadcaster NHK World TV, and Chinese broadcaster CCTV9. Dutch Cartoon Network passed, however. They're all Obama'd out. [THR]
· Fox has ordered seven pilots: Comedies The Station (from Ben Stiller), Walorsky, Two Dollar Beer and Sons of Tucson, and dramas Maggie Hill, Human Target, and "an untitled reincarnation-themed project." [THR]
· Character actor Kurt Fuller joins David E. Kelley's Legally Mad. [THR]