● Justin Timberlake has been tapped to host Saturday Night Live for the fifth time on March 9th. He will also be the musical guest, performing songs from his upcoming album, The 20/20 Experience, which comes out March 19th.
● Although NBC has yet to formally cancel Up All Night, star Will Arnett has already landed a new gig. Arnett has signed on to star in CBS’s new comedy pilot from Raising Hope creator Greg Garcia. He’ll play a recently-divorced man whose life becomes more complicated when his parents begin having marital problems.
● Treme’s Steve Zahn will star in the ABC drama pilot Influence, about the complicated relationship between two brothers who work together. Zahn will play Clark, a world-renowned expert in the fields of human behavior, psychology and motivation. He suffers from bipolar disorder and refuses to take his medication.
● Necessary Roughness’ Marc Blucas will star opposite Battlestar Galactica’s Tricia Helfer in the ABC drama pilot Killer Women. Helfer will play Molly Parker, the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers. Blucas will play a DEA agent who works with her to solve open cases.
● Former Homeland star David Harewood (Michael Estes) will star in the new CBS pilot Anatomy of Violence, from the Homeland writer/producer team of Howard Gordon, Alex Cary and Alex Gansa. The hour-long drama revolves around a criminal psychologist with an expertise in sociopaths ,who partners with a young female detective with whom he shares a conflicted past. Harewood will play the criminal psychologist’s boss and friend.
● MadTV’s Orlando Jones and Dexter’s Katia Winter will star in the Fox pilot Sleepy Hollow . Jones will play a detective transferred to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a double homicide. Winter will play the wife of Ichabod Crane, a captain in the Revolutionary War who finds himself in present-day Sleepy Hollow, where he’s indicted for murder and must prove not only that he’s innocent, but that he’s a traveler from the 18th century.
● New Kids on the Block’s Joey McIntyre has joined the CBS comedy pilot The McCarthys, about an Irish-Catholic, sports crazy Boston family and the gay son (played by Jake Lacy), whose biggest sin is he wants to spend less time with is family. McIntyre will play the one short guy in the family. Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver plays the family matriarch.
● VH1 has ordered a third season of T.I. And Tiny: The Family Hustle, featuring rapper T.I. “Tip” Harris, his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris, and their brood of six children.
● WEtv has given the go-ahead for a new reality show starring four time Olympic Gold Medalist Sanya Richards-Ross and her husband, NFL star Aaron Ross. The network has ordered six episodes of Glam & Gold, which will premiere this summer.