· Casey Wilson, the Saturday Night Live performer who was evicted from Studio 8H last September, continues to rebound on the small screen. In addition to joining the TV Land pilot Retired at 35, Wilson has scored a lead in Happy Endings, an ABC comedy pilot about a couple who struggles to maintain friendships after they break up at the altar. Wilson will play the pessimistic, single friend. Damon Wayans Jr. will play another of the friends. [THR]
Swoosie Kurtz joins Chuck Lorre's overeaters project, an ESPN personality offers unsolicited fashion advice, and more TV Bites after the jump.
· Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre has recruited Swoosie Kurtz for a regular role in his upcoming CBS comedy pilot Mike & Molly. The project, about a plus-size couple battling their food issues, will feature Kurtz as Joy, the mother of the still-uncast Molly. Bill Gardell (My Name Is Earl) has been cast as Mike. [EW]
· ESPN has suspended Pardon the Interruption's analyst Tony Kornheiser for insulting the wardrobe choices of his colleague Hannah Storm on his radio show. The tirade on the Storm's "horrifying outfit" included comparing her wardrobe to "sausage casing wrapping around her upper body." After Kornheiser was suspended for a "few days", the guilty party apologized via his radio show, "I apologize, unequivocally ... I'm a sarcastic, subversive guy ... I'm a troll, look at me." [zap2it]
· The CW has drafted 24's David Anders for a multi-episode arc on Vampire Diaries in April. [EW]
· ABC News has announced that it will be downsizing its staff of 1,400 by as much as 25 percent in the next few weeks. [AP]
· The FCC is investigating Mark Burnett's Our Little Genius after a man alleged that his son was coached by Mark Burnett Prods. employees. Burnett pulled the show before it was aired last month, saying he was unhappy with how some of the information was relayed to contestants. [THR]