Switch-Hitter Anne Heche Goes To Bat for 'Hung'
· Anne Heche will play the ex-wife of Ray, the anatomically superendowed protagonist of Hung. She replaces Kristin Bauer, last seen being escorted away in a wheelchair, dead-eyed and repeating, "The diameter...the diameter..." [THR]
· NBC has picked up a reality series starring Tony Robbins which they plan to pair with The Biggest Loser for an inspirational programming block they're calling "So You Lost the Manboobs—Now What? Tuesdays." [Variety]
· Lionsgate posted loses of $93.4 million, vs. a profit of $7.3 million one year earlier. Turkeys The Spirit, Punisher: War Zone and Transporter 3 were blamed, as well as double-digit drops in home video sales. Mad Men and Crash's lifted the TV division's profits 82%. Such is the power of the Hamm...and racist cars. [Variety]
· Actor/writer Chris Moynihan (For Your Consideration, Psych) got a greenlight for his pilot 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne, about a (everybody now!) "young woman navigating dating life in Gotham." We have three: 1. Is he perhaps just not that into you? 2. Are you a werewolf? 3. Do you know Charlotte Simmons? [Variety]
· Aaron Eckhart and Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins have joined Johnny Depp in Rum Diary, based on Hunter S. Thompson's novel about a "washed-up, hard-drinking journalist (Depp) in 1950s Puerto Rico." Cult-favorite director Bruce Robinson (Withnail and I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising) directs—his first feature since 1992's Jennifer Eight. This is the kind of movie we could really imagine our ex-hippie alcoholic pothead 8th grade math teacher getting into. God we hope he's still alive. [THR]