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Fox has revived "The Wedding Album," which has been greenlit as a pilot five years after the net first developed it.
Andy Tennant and Wink Mordaunt, who worked together on features such as "Hitch," "Sweet Home Alabama" and "Anna and the King," wrote and will exec produce the pilot. Tennant is onboard to direct as well.
Fox Television Studios will produce. Also onboard to exec produce are Showtime entertainment prexy Bob Greenblatt and former WB entertainment topper David Janollari -- whose Greenblatt-Janollari Studio was originally behind the project. The company is long gone, but it still has three shows on the air -- and now a pilot pickup.
"The Wedding" revolves around a wedding photog and his assistant, who attempt to find romance in their own lives while shooting the marriages of New York hotshots.
Script was said to be a favorite of Fox exec VP Craig Erwich, who has been looking to redevelop it for years -- and finally found an opening this development season.
Meanwhile, in casting news:
- NBC officially confirmed long-expected news that "Saturday Night Live" player Rachel Dratch will join her longtime comedy partner Tina Fey on Fey's untitled NBC comedy pilot. Dratch will play Jenna on the project.
Besides working together on "SNL," Dratch and Fey starred in the two-woman stage show "Dratch & Fey." Dratch joins "SNL" alum Tracy Morgan and frequent "SNL" host Alec Baldwin on the show.
- Eddie Kaye Thomas ("American Pie") will star as Jeff in the Fox comedy "Till Death." Sony Pictures TV is behind the show. Thomas' other credits include the series "Off Centre" and the feature "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle."
- Erinn Hayes ("Kitchen Confidential") will play Alison in Fox's "Becoming Glen," opposite Rob Corddry and Julie Hagerty. Twentieth Century Fox TV produces.
- Maz Jobrani ("Life on a Stick") will play Gary -- the man who robs the so-far unnamed celeb -- in ABC's untitled Donal Logue comedy. Touchstone TV and Worldwide Pants are behind the show.
- Jeffrey Donovan ("Touching Evil") will star as the childhood friend who's gone bad in ABC's "Enemies," from Touchstone TV.
- Currie Graham ("Desperate Housewives") is set as Capt. Mayhew in CBS' "Edison," opposite John Leguizamo. Touchstone and CBS Paramount Network TV produce.
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