· ABC has ordered a show from Ryan Seacrest Productions in which Jamie "The Naked Chef" Oliver travels around the country trying to improve Americans' eating habits. Just like Seacrest does on American Idol, the producer will pop in from time to time to corner an attractive man and demand to know "how he lost the weight." [THR]
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· Antonio Banderas will star in The Big Bang, playing an L.A. detective hired to find a missing stripper. That's in addition to a busy roster that includes his involvement in two Shrek movies (Shrek Goes Fourth and his own spinoff, Puss in Boots), Woody Allen's next project (working title: "How Do You Say Everybody Says Whatever Works?") and the title role in Dali, in which he will directly challenge Robert Pattinson for the title of Swooniestly Becoiffed Dali of All Time. [Variety]
· Producers of the The Soup are launching one more spinoff -- Web Soup -- airing Sundays at 9 p.m. on G4, and hosted by the Chris Hardwick, of Singled Out and Hard 'N Phirm fame, it promises to bring web jewels like Fart Scares Baby to a much broader audience. [Variety]
· Village Roadshow Pictures secured a $900 million line of credit in order to repay Warners on four releases they co-produced with the studio in 2008, including hits like -- Get Smart, Yes Man and Gran Torino. The staggering debt restructuring was led by Rabobank Intl. and JPMorgan Chase , and may have involved some intimate negotiations with the lonely, 98-year-old heiress of the multi-billion-dollar Mott's Clamato fortune. Oh well. How do you say...everybody says...whatever works. [Variety]
· Matthew Goode was cast in Ricky Gervais' 1970s insurance salesmen comedy Cemetery Junction (formerly The Men at the Pru), joining Ralph Fiennes and Gervais himself in the cast. [THR]
· Warners partnered with Facebook on their Watchmen Blu-ray release, which will utilize "the BD-Live interactive feature on high-def discs, allowing Watchmen purchasers to view the film simultaneously and share comments with their Facebook friends," thus virtually ensuring real-time status updates of the "Mark is ... feeling really uncomfortable now that the enormous blue shlong has entered my own living room" variety. [THR]