· Fox picked up two new pilots to series: Human Target, which stars Jackie Earle Haley and Chi McBride, is based on a DC comic about a man who assumes the identities of people targeted for assassination. The other is Sons of Tucson, a comedy with a very Arrested Development premise of three brothers who hire a hustler to play their dad while their real one serves out his sentence for a white-collar crime. Lie to Me, meanwhile has been given a full-season renewal, with The Shield creator/EP Shawn Ryan coming on board as that show's showrunner. (He's also running The Unit simultaneously.) [THR]
More Hollywood Ink after the jump.
· Warners purchased The Gunslinger, a spec by John Hlavin about an ex-Texas Ranger on a revengeful rampage against the men who killed his brother. [THR]
· What Bobby producer Ed Bass always wanted to do was direct, so he's doing that, with Belle, the true story of Belle Gunness, "America's most prolific female serial killer." She killed two husbands and a dozens of boyfriends, none of whom were just that into her. [THR]
· Wonderful news for fans of Starz's cater-waiter sitcom Party Down (which I keep meaning to watch online, but wind up getting sidetracked by other things): It got a 10-episode order. Everyone is back except Jane Lynch, who's busy with Fox's Glee, but they're hoping she can still find time to push d'erves (that cater waiter speak) somewhere in her schedule. [Variety]
· Universal is adapting The Secret -- not the Oprah get rich telekinetically book, but the graphic novel about a group of high school students that pull a prank that goes "horribly wrong." [Variety]