90 Million Americans Deeply Invested in the Fate of Pittsburgh

· 90 million people got a face full of Bruce’s Spare Parts yesterday. [Variety]

· Dev Patel will replace Jess McCartney in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender—his live action adaptation of the animated Nickelodeon series. [Variety]
· TNT ordered a second season of Timothy Hutton-starring con-ring series Leverage. [THR]
· Universal Cable Prods., the new studio servicing NBC Universal cable networks like Sci Fi Channel and USA, has begun making production deals: a two-year deal with Psych EP Steve Franks and a one-year first-look deal with Burn Notice director Jace Alexander. [THR]
· Directors Jeff Reiner (Friday Night Lights), Simon West (Tomb Raider, Con Air) and Deran Sarafian (House) have been hired to bring some of the networks’ really expensive pilots to life. [THR]