TV TIDBITS

�� Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is coming to TV. The actor, who played Ron Weasley in the blockbuster franchise, will star in the CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde, from Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia. Grint will play a well-meaning, slightly neurotic guy, who inherits a $100,000 a month inheritance from a long-dead uncle and decides to become a superhero, using his money for good and to reward the good-hearted.

�� ABC is pulling Happy Endings off Tuesdays. The comedy will move to Fridays at 8 pm with Celebrity Wife Swap and The Taste creating a two-hour reality block on Tuesdays, starting February 26^th. Wife Swap will air at 8pm, with The Taste airing at 9pm. Incidentally, taking part in Celebrity Wife Swap are Kate Gosselin and Kendra Wilkinson, who’ll switch homes, and families, for one week.

�� There will be a Home Improvement reunion on an upcoming episode of Tim Allen’s ABC sitcom Last Man Standing. Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played Allen’s son on Improvement, will guest star on Standing, playing the manager of a high-end restaurant where the daughter of Allen’s character applies for a job. The episode is expected to air in March or April.

�� The tribe has spoken and Jeff Probst is out of a job. The Survivor host’s daytime talk show has been cancelled after only one season. "I'm super bummed but extremely proud," Probst said in a statement to Variety. "The truth is all shows come to an end. Ours just ended a decade sooner than we had hoped.”

�� Meanwhile, Jeff Probst’s other job isn’t looking too stable either. Wednesday night’s season premiere of Survivor: Caramoan was down 23 percent from last spring’s Survivor: One World, making it the show’s lowest-rated premiere ever, with only nine million viewers.

�� Mark Consuelos, a.k.a. Mr. Kelly Ripa, will star opposite John Goodman in the Amazon Studios’ comedy pilot Alpha House, about four senators who live together in a rented house in Washington, DC.

�� Whitney Cummings has lost her talk show. E! confirmed Thursday that production has wrapped on the last episode of Love You, Mean It With Whitney Cummings, and there are no plans to bring it back.

�� Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris (Hank) will star in CBS’s Under The Dome, based on the Stephen King book. The summer series follows residents of a community as they deal with postapocalyptic conditions after their town is covered by a strange dome.

�� Awake’s Jason Isaacs will star in the CBS drama pilot The Surgeon General. He’ll play Dr. John Sherman, the United States’ Surgeon General, a widower raising two teens on his own.

�� Parenthood’s Jason Ritter will star in the Fox comedy pilot Friends and Family, an adaptation of the popular BBC series Gavin & Stacey. The series shows the affect friends and family have on two very different people who are trying to make a long distance relationship work.

MISCELLANEOUS MOVIE NEWS

�� Game of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage has joined the cast of the new X-Men movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past. He is the first actor added to the film who has not previously appeared in an X-Men flick. Days of Future Past is based on a 1981 story, which includes both the 1960s First Class characters and the original trilogy’s characters. First Class stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult are on board for the film, as are original series stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore. X-Men: Days of Future Past is expected in theaters July 18^th, 2014.