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• Jennifer Coolidge has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Family of the Year, set in a dusty New Mexico town. Coolidge portrays the Halloway family matriarch, a former beauty queen.

• Anna Chlumsky has landed a lead in the CW's comedy pilot Eight Days a Week, about four twentysomethings who work under the top movers and shakers in New York City. Chlumsky will play a girl-next-door personal assistant to an egomaniacal Web site publisher.

"It's that kind of acid trip show. It's like being in Criss' head for two hours, which is something."

Serge Denoncourt, director of a new Cirque du Soleil show on the Las Vegas Strip built around punky magician and A&E Mindfreak star Criss Angel

The Sci Fi Channel has twisted L. Frank Baum's classic into the surreal with a miniseries tentatively titled Tin Man. Zooey Deschanel, below, will star as DG, a young woman plucked from her humdrum life and thrust into the Outer Zone (the O.Z., get it?), where she battles monkey bats and attempts to fulfill her true destiny. Richard Dreyfuss plays the wizardlike Mystic Man. Expect similar twists on all the usual Oz suspects.