Pilot Season: Fox Accumulates Doctor/GYN Comedy Starring Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling First news broke that Rainn Wilson might be headed out of the door in the office, and today it appears like Mindy Kaling could follow. Under per week after it leaked that NBC is creating a Dwight-centered Office spin-off, Fox has acquired a comedy pilot compiled by and starring Kaling, Vulture reviews. NBC developing Work spin-off about Dwight Schrute The half-hour comedy project, which NBC is stated to possess handed down, follows a "youthful Bridget Johnson type" Doctor/GYN trying to navigate both her personal and professional lives, based on the site. Office producer Howard Klein will executive produce with Kaling. If Fox accumulates the pilot to series, Kaling would need to exit Work. Deadline reviews that Fox has additionally acquired two other aircraft pilots. The first is a drama from Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman and Take advantage of Wright (Charmed) in regards to a female doc employed by the mob. Justified's Michael Dinner will direct. The 2nd originates from Aliens in America's Moses Port and David Guarascio. El Jefe, also known as In Charge, is all about a spoiled 30-year-some guy who's instructed to relocate together with his cleaning woman's family after his father and step-mother kick him towards the curb.

6 Things to Expect From the Gossip Girl Wedding

Wallace Shawn, Leighton Meester, John Shea Blair Waldorf's big day has finally arrived! But who's she marrying... or not marrying? We won't spoil that surprise (and let's be honest, these days it could be anyone - Louis, Dan, Chuck...), but we can share a few fun tidbits from Gossip Girl's milestone 100th episode (Monday at 8/7c on The CW). 1. A dance sequence?No, not like this. At the show's 100th episode party, Blake Lively gave us this perplexing scoop. In one scene, Serena wears a Marilyn Monroe get-up and sings "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" to suitors Nate, Chuck and Dan - that is, until someone else steals the show. Ed Westwick tired of "lovesick puppy" Chuck, ready for Gossip Girl to end 2. A totally tubular serenadeWe all know that Blair has a thing for '80s pop music (remember when Cyndi Lauper performed at her birthday?), so it's no surprise that her royal wedding soundtrack would include a cover of this Pat Benatar hit. 3. A Princess Bride reference!It's amazing that it's taken the writers this long to have Princess Bride star Wallace "Inconceivable!" Shawn, who plays Blair's stepfather Cyrus, reference his iconic role."We've been wanting to do it forever," executive producer Josh Safran says. Adds executive producer Stephanie Savage: "Gossip Girl said it, we've had episodes called that, we just finally had to put it in his mouth." As you wish! Gossip Girl "End of the Affair" postmortem: Burning questions answered! 4. Blair's two dadsWho will walk her down the aisle? Her Paris-based biological dad Harold or sage stepdad Cyrus? Why should she have to choose? 5. Georgina's back!And Girlfriend knows how to work a fascinator (and altar-boy vestments too apparently)! When Georgie-Girl (Michelle Trachtenberg) reappears, it's to sully Blair's marital bliss, but she also has one heck of an exit. 6. A game-changing revealExecutive producer Josh Safran says the episode is a game-changer. "I know we've said that before, but unlike any other episode, it really will change the series forever," he says. "There's a revelation that is so big that it could only happen in the 100th episode." Hmm, what could it be? A game-changing reveal on a show called Gossip Girl? What do you think the game-changing reveal is? Check back after the show for our postmortem of the episode!

Bachelorette Jen Schefft Pregnant With Baby No. 2

Jen Schefft Former Bachelorette Jen Schefft is expecting baby No. 2 with husband Joe Waterman, Us Weekly reports."I'm very excited. The kids will be about two years apart, which is a great age difference," says Schefft, 35. "I would love a boy and a girl." Waterman and Schefft have a 14-month-old daughter, Mae.The Bachelor's history of failed romancesSchefft first appeared on the third season of The Bachelor, where she became engaged to Andrew Firestone. After the couple split up, Schefft became the reality series' third Bachelorette. Ultimately, Schefft rejected finalist Jerry Ferris' proposal because she felt they didn't have enough chemistry.Check out the rest of today's newsSchefft met Waterman on a blind date in 2008. The couple wed in May 2009.

VIDEO: Julie Plec, Liz Tigelaar, Chris Gorham and Others Announce Inaugural ATX Festival

ATX Television Festival The Vampire Diaries' Julie Plec, Awake creator Kyle Killen and actor/director Peter Billingsley (yes, the boy in the 1983 holiday classic A Christmas Story) have all signed on for the inaugural ATX Television Festival, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Kicking off June 1 in Austin, Texas, the festival will unveil new series, exhibit current and cult favorites, and spotlight unaired pilots and series that were cancelled before their time. Panels as well as Q-and-As with casts and show creator will be part of the fest. "This is going to be the beginning of a great festival tradition and Austin is going to be a great home for it," Killen says. In the video below, Plec is joined by writer Liz Tigelaar, Christopher Gorham, Arielle Kebbel, TVGuide.com Staff Editor Robyn Ross and others, sharing why fans and TV junkies should venture to Austin. To learn more about the ATX Festival, check out their Kickstarter profile and the official website.

MTV Movie Brawl 2012: 'Hunger Games' Versus. 'Woman In Black'

The MTV Movie Brawl 2012 is formally on! Following the initial play-in, wild card, Sweet 16 and Elite 8 models, we are finally lower to simply four movies competing to become crowned the can't-miss movie of the season. Of course, the option remains entirely your decision. Which movie will win the brawl for this all? Election at MTV Movies Blog making your decision known! As well as gentlemen, your vacation to Mars continues to be postponed all because of an humble archer named Katniss Everdeen. "John Carter's" valiant mission for MTV Movie Brawl 2012 supremacy has finally ended, after models and models from the Taylor Kitsch-brought movie surpassing anticipation and cracking in to the Elite Eight. Alas, ultimately, it had been no match for that top-rated "Hunger Games," which proceeds its expected path for the final round. Tributes have experienced an simpler amount of time in the brawl for this all than most rivals, however the "Hunger Games" might have finally met its match as an old boy wizard. Indeed, "The Lady in Black" continues to be on the tear, suddenly falling "Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman" within the Sweet 16 and "The Hobbit: An Unpredicted Journey" within the Elite 8. Daniel Radcliffe fans holds their heads high because they march forward with the brawl. However with a legendary fight between "Hunger Games" and "Lady in Black" now going ahead, your decision of who moves to the final round is totally with you. Who continues within this competition: the fan-favorite, or even the dark equine?

Paula Deen Teams With Novo Nordisk On Diabetes

First Launched: The month of the month of january 17, 2012 9:15 AM EST Credit: Getty Images -- Caption Paula Deen is smiles within the FOX & Pals art galleries in NY City on October 12, 2011 Celebrity chef and Food Network star Paula Deen is joining with drug maker Novo Nordisk to make a course that aims to assist people accept Diabetes type 2 symptoms and promote a Novo diabetes drug. The program is called Diabetes in the New Light and will be offering advice on planning food, stress management and coping with doctors of the routine for treatment. Quality quality recipes and tips can be found at http://internet.Diabetesinanewlight.com. Deen, a paid out speaker for Novo Nordisk, states she was recognized three years ago, but saved quiet about her condition until she'd advice to provide the general public. I desired to produce something for the table once i came forward, she mentioned Tuesday within a feel and look on NBCs Today show. Ive been anyone to think that I bring hope. When asked for once the high-body body fat, high-caloric quality quality recipes she champions can lead to diabetes, she hedged. That's part of the puzzle, she mentioned, but stated additional circumstances: genetics, lifestyle, stress and age. In my show I give out every one of these tasty, fattening quality quality recipes, however tell people, moderately,she added. Ive always eaten moderately. Deen has Diabetes type 2 symptoms and takes Victoza, a once-daily noninsulin injection. The site links to ads for your drug. Type 2 is regarded as the everyday sort of diabetes. In Diabetes type 2 symptoms, the body either does not produce enough bloodstream blood insulin or does not put it to use effectively, enabling excess sugar, or glucose, to generate inside the blood stream. The 64-year-old Deen, known to as Filled with Southern cuisine, appears on Food Network. Copyright 2012 with the Connected Press. All rights reserved. These elements is probably not launched, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

YouTube channels its own course

YouTube exec Robert Kyncl, who keynoted at CES Thursday, is using a multi-channel strategy to lure advertisers used to the TV model. YouTube programming czar Robert Kyncl aims to succeed by avoiding some of the pitfalls that competitors from Netflix to Yahoo may be headed toward. In an interview at CES with Variety preceding his Thursday keynote, YouTube's VP of global content partnerships discussed the channel-centric strategy that steered the Google-owned hub into new territory. Last November, YouTube began launching the first of what will be as many 100 branded channels from everyone from Ashton Kutcher, Stan Lee and Deepak Chopra to GeekChicDaily. The ad-supported channels began sprouting up as some other digital power players drew attention to their own programming strategies by taking a decidedly different tack: licensing individual shows, as Yahoo recently did with "Electric City," a new series from producers that include Tom Hanks, who came to CES to promote it. Kyncl believes cherrypicking programs has no place at algorithm-driven companies more informed by Silicon Valley than Hollywood. "Gut-based decisions don't have long-lasting life inside organizations like these," he said. "They get rejected like foreign bodies, essentially, over time." Which isn't to say Kyncl feels YouTube can rely on algorithms alone. While the company closely studies patterns of consumption across its massive platform, he's seen others led astray. "Analytics do fail companies as well," he said. "Look at Netflix." Kyncl knows Netflix well, having come over from the Los Gatos, Calif.-based company 18 months ago to spearhead YouTube's content acquisition efforts. Netflix's disastrous decisions late last year to alter its pricing and spin off its disc business have been blamed on the company misinterpreting data from its own customer base. Netflix has also made some big bets on licensing individual programs, from a revival of the Fox comedy "Arrested Development" to an adaptation of the BBC drama "House of Cards." Other portals that have made similar, albeit smaller bets, include AOL, Hulu and Sony-owned Crackle. But Kyncl places more faith in commissioning entire channels, likening YouTube's strategy to that of an MSO like Comcast that chooses the brands in its programming package based on demographic information and advertiser demand. The channel push is also a reflection of the fact that most video consumption these days is done in channel format on live TV as opposed to VOD platforms. YouTube wants to establish a comfort level not just with consumers but with advertisers, who may feel encouraged to shift more ad dollars away from TV if the site is structured more like that medium. The Google-owned platform wants to put some distance between its bright future and a past that repelled advertisers with too much user-generated content. "Dogs on skateboards get $2 CPMs," said Kyncl. "Dogs on skateboards inside a skateboard channel get $20 CPMs." While squeezing more dollars out of Madison Avenue is the prime objective, Kyncl revealed that down the road his programming partners could also take advantage of YouTube's ability to charge for content, a capability installed years ago when the company began licensing movies for rental. A free channel could attract incremental revenue by directing its viewers to movies that could draw additional dollars. Where that leaves YouTube's standalone storefront for movies from many of the top studios is something Kyncl said he is still trying to figure out as the website shifts its focus to original content. But he made clear there's no plan to shutter that area of YouTube or stop licensing movies, as they still have value for other parts of the company, including Google TV. YouTube's strategy is said to be backed by at least $100 million, divvied up among YouTube's many partners as an advance against their future ad revenue. Content companies had long been loath to utilize YouTube as a distribution platform because the company insisted on revenue splits instead of paying upfront for content. The channels also provided the organizing principle for a radical redesign of the YouTube homepage introduced late last year. But as for the shows in the channels themselves, they are mostly the same shortform clips that programmers already on YouTube have been putting out there for years. YouTube has launched only a handful of the planned 100 channels so far, with the rest of the bows scattered over the next six months and encompassing everything from household names Jay-Z and WWE to YouTube-bred phenomena including Smosh and Machinima. Kyncl wouldn't reveal how the few currently active channels are doing in the early going because he said he's being patient. "What we're focused on is channels slowly growing subscribers rather than hitting some rating point in week one or two," he said. But the very reason YouTube decided to spread its wealth across so many channel launches is that Kyncl wants to see which ones attract viewers and advertisers. While at some point down the road Kyncl could withdraw financial support for a channel that isn't cutting it, a successful one could get more funding for longer programming. His strategy may differ from competitors in new and old media, but the endgame is the same: creating a hit series. "We can certainly get the quality level of shows like 'Jersey Shore,'" he said of the MTV unscripted juggernaut. "And shows like that can do wonders for a network." Contact Andrew Wallenstein at andrew.wallenstein@variety.com

Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea?'s Chelsea Handler: I Really Like Myself Much Better As Laura Prepon

Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea? Chelsea Handler thinks that Laura Prepon plays a better Chelsea Handler than she ever did. On NBC's new comedy Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea?, which will depend on Handler's saucier titled book Are You Currently Presently There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, Prepon (That '70s Show) plays a twentysomething version of Handler who, inside the premiere episode, is billed with driving while impaired. (In the nice twist, Handler herself plays Chelsea's put-upon sister Sloane.) "I used to be a lot more annoyed than she's,Inch Handler told reporters at NBC's winter TV previews Friday. "Many of us preferred to provide Laura the license to produce the level of smoothness as great as she could and he or she has. I really like myself much better as her." It's an optimistic factor too, because Handler states she doesn't have lots of time to go through the role herself. "I have got employment every day which i've another job after which it another job," she states. "I don't have plenty of time to star inside my own Tv program. Essentially did, I'd. I really like my E! show I really like being individually distinct." Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea? Exclusive: Seinfeld star, Chelsea Lately alum join cast As Sloane, Handler look in over half in the series' newcomer season, but she demands they isn't the star. "It's Laura's show really... therefore i wanted her to own as much time without me as you can,In . she states. "We wish people to understand that, yes, I'm part of the show, but [Prepon] might be the star in the show." "It's a dream be realized to own someone else portray me because I've resided this existence for just about any very very long time and i'm over myself," she joked. Are You Currently Presently There, Chelsea? debuts Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 8:30/7:30c on NBC.

'Horrible Bosses' Follow-up Planned

It's a question that anybody doubted the wealth of the friend comedy starring three adorable dudes (Jason Bateman, Charlie Day Jason Sudeikis) who hatch an anti-authority kill fest from the bosses -- chief incorporated within this Jennifer Aniston playing a sexually deranged dental office. But upon its This summer time release, 'Horrible Bosses' shown any naysayers wrong, raking in the awesome $209 million worldwide. Now it seems like Warner Bros. professionals are wanting for the second lightning strike. Screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have made the decision to pen a follow-up for the macabre comedy. Word is always that Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis would return to star too. The studio may also be in talks with director Seth Gordon to return. Will 'Horrible Bosses 2' be a victim of the 'The Hangover II'-like disappointment or, once again, exceed anticipation? Sign in 2013 or 2014, if the factor will most likely hit theaters. [via THR] [Photo: WB] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook