· For reasons unknown, Kevin Bacon has declined a lucrative offer to star in Steven Spielberg's mega-budget dinosaur series Terra Nova. The Fox series centers on a futuristic family who travels back 150 million years to the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Friday Night Lights star Kyle Chandler has also turned down a leading role on the series. 24's Brannon Braga will act as showrunner while scribes Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel will join Spielberg and Peter Chernin in exec producer capacities. [The Wrap]
Lie to Me loses its showrunner, NBC preps to pick-up Jerry Bruckheimer, and more TV Bites after the jump.
· Showrunner Shawn Ryan has told Fox that he will not be returning to Lie to Me even if the network renews the crime drama for another season. [THR]
· Allegedly, NBC will give a series order to Jerry Bruckheimer's procedural drama Chase today. [Deadline]
· CBS is poised to renew its supernatural series Medium for another season. [Deadline]
· Mary Lynn Rajskub has scored her first post-24 role on USA Network's Royal Pains, as the stepdaughter of Newberg (Christine Ebersole). [EW]