· Warner Bros. snapped up the rights to South Korean hit The Chaser, with The Departed writer William Monahan set to write the adaption, and Leonardo DiCaprio and the Really Obvious Departed Rat "circling to star." [Variety]
· John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph will star in an untitled "relationship comedy" written by Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida, bringing Eggers one terrifying step closer to writing a Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson vehicle. [Variety]

· A tip of the hat to grandma's favorite stories The Young and the Restless, which has just won its incredible 1000th week in the ratings. [Variety]
· Amazingly, Kathy Lee Gifford is in talks to return to morning TV, as co-host of the fourth hour of Today, where she'll be barely tolerated by Matt Laurer and Meredith Vieira, but will find herself eventually befriended by Ann Curry in the lunchroom. [THR]
· Justin Timberlake has teamed with formerly Ben Silverman-pwned, foreign-property-pillaging cash cow Reveille for a U.S. version of hit Peruvian TV show My Problem With Women. Said Timberlake, "I'm famous, so that makes me perfectly qualified to executive produce a TV series. Take it to the bridge!!!" [THR]

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