TV Bites: Steven Spielberg Invites Kyle Chandler to Get Prehistoric

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· According to Entertainment Weekly, Kyle Chandler is very close to cementing a Friday Night Lights retirement plan. Fox has allegedly offered the actor a lucrative leading role on Terra Nova, the big budget pilot from Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin. FlashForward's Brannon Braga has already been hired to oversee the project about a futuristic family that travels back to a time when dinosaurs roamed free. [EW]

The Hoff pulls a James Franco, TNT hires Donnie Wahlberg, and more TV Bites after the jump.

· Move over, James Franco. After a 30-year break, David Hasselhoff will return to CBS's The Young and the Restless to reprise his role as Dr. William "Snapper" Foster, Jr. for a "brief run" in June. [The Wrap]

· Donnie Wahlberg has booked a two-episode stint on TNT's upcoming drama Rizzoli & Isles opposite Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. [EW]

· Comedy Central has locked up late-night hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert through the 2010 election year. [NYT]

· In other contract renewal news, Laurence Fishburne has signed on for another season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation at CBS and Fox has re-upped Cops for its 23rd season. [THR]