�� Gilmore Girls star Alexis Bledel will join Jason Ritter in the Fox comedy pilot Friends & Family, based on the UK hit Gavin & Stacy. The series revolves around a couple trying to maintain a relationship while dealing with their polarizing families. Interestingly, Ritter recently finished a stint on NBC’s Parenthood where he played the love interest for Bledel’s Gilmore Girls mom Lauren Graham.

�� It was confirmed over the weekend that Shirley MacLaine will indeed return for the next season of Downton Abbey. Meanwhile, Siobhan Finneran, who plays the scheming maid O'Brien, is leaving the show. “I’m not doing any more," the 47-year-old actress tells The Mirror. "O’Brien is a thoroughly despicable human being -- that was great to play."

�� Model Brooklyn Decker will join James Van Der Beek in the CBS comedy pilot Friends with Better Lives. The series revolves around six thirtysomething friends who each think the other has it better. Decker will play Jules, a former model who was discovered in a mall when she was 13.

�� Everett Backstrom, an overweight, offensive detective trying, and failing, to change his self-destructive behavior. Haysbert will play a detective who works with him.

�� In Plain Sight’s Mary McCormack will join Mike O’Malley in the NBC comedy Welcome to the Family, about a white family and a Latino family brought together when their children fall in love and get pregnant.

�� ABC for eight seasons, will return this summer hosted by The Talk’s Aisha Tyler. Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady and Colin Mochrie, who appeared on the ABC version, will return for the CW’s show.

�� ABC has cancelled the new Thursday night drama Zero Hour. For the first two weeks, the show will be replaced by repeats of Shark Tank, followed by episodes of the non-celebrity Wife Swap. Wipeout will eventually take over on May 9^th.

�� Comedian Will Sasso will star opposite Bridesmaids’ writer Annie Mumolo in the ABC comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. The series stars Mumolo as a middle-aged mother (in real-life she’s 39) who is fed up feeling invisible and starts demanding the respect she feels she’s earned. Sasso will play her husband.

�� Rebecca De Mornay and Sophia Bush have been added to the NBC drama pilot Hatfields & McCoys, a modern-day take on the infamous family feud. De Mornay will play Mary Hatfield, a sophisticated, wealthy and driven woman who is the mayor of Pittsburgh. Bush will play Emma McCoy, the oldest of the blue collar McCoy siblings, who is a doctor.

�� The CW has announced that 90210 is ending after five seasons. The drama’s one-hour series finale will air May 13^th.

�� Dermot Mulroney will reprise his role of Jess’ (Zooey Deschanel) ex-boyfriend Russell on an April episode of Fox’s New Girl.

�� Harry Potter’s Emma Watson is in talks to star in a big screen update of Cinderella. According to Variety, Cate Blanchett has already signed on to play the evil stepmother, with Thor’s Kenneth Branagh directing.

�� Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe is in talks to star in a new take on Mary Shelley’s classic horror story Frankenstein. Radcliffe will reportedly play Igor the hunchback. Production is expected to begin this summer in England.

�� Tina Fey is in talks to join Jason Bateman in the comedy This Is Where I Leave You. The film centers on a man (Bateman), whose father dies and asks one last request of his family – that his four adult children spend the seven days following his funeral under the same roof for the first time in a decade. Fey will play Bateman’s older sister.

�� Hobbit fans will have to wait a little longer for the final installment in the trilogy. While the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is still due for release December 13^th, 2013, the third flick, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, has been pushed back five months. It was originally due out July 18^th, 2014, but will now hit theaters December 17^th, 2014, which puts it in direct competition with Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.

�� Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, will hit theaters November 15^th, just in time for awards season. The film also stars Matthew McConaughey, Jonah Hill, Kyle Chandler, Jon Bernthal and Jean Dujardin.

�� Gary Oldman has joined Jason Clarke and Kodi Smit-McPhee in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the sequel to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The film is set 15 years after the events of the first film.