Parker Posey is heading to TV for the Fox comedy pilot, The Return of Jezebel James from Amy Sherman-Palladino. The Hollywood Reporter says it centers on a successful children's book editor (Parker) who is newly single and, after learning she won't be able to conceive, asks her estranged younger sister to carry her baby for her.

Matthew Lillard is set as the lead the ensemble in NBC's comedy pilot, Area 52. The show revolves around a group of government employees in the Arizona desert who watch over an alien from outer space. Lillard will play Col. Steven Isaac, a rising Air Force officer who is ambitious and a little vulnerable.

Anthony Anderson is set as one of the two leads in Fox's drama pilot K-Ville, revolving around cops in post-Katrina New Orleans. Anderson will play an experienced officer, an idealist who deeply believes that if they all pull together, they can bring the city back.

Katheryn Winnick will star in Fox's dramedy pilot, Nurses; it's about the lives and loves of a team of nurses. Winnick will play what is considered the ensemble's central character, a young nurse with a wild past who comes to work at the hospital where her father is the chief.

Christopher Sieber has landed a lead role on NBC's comedy pilot, Wildlife from Conaco Productions. The workplace comedy is set in a wildlife animal park; Sieber will play the head zookeeper, a remarkably eccentric and egomaniacal character.