Fringe Has a New Villain, Sort Of

Two dimensional.

...Lisa Kudrow--one of the best there is, period--is producing a new series for Showtime called Rapture based on a memoir about growing up gay in a nutty born-again Christian household. Apparently there's a crazy mother, who has visions of Jesus and all that fun stuff, so let's hope that part goes to Kudrow. [Variety]

...Flashy movie director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Why a Person Who Ages In Reverse and Was Born As a Miniature Old Person Wouldn't Die as a Gigantic Baby, Seriously Think About It) is working on a TV project called House of Cards, a political thriller based on a book and a, naturally, a British TV series. Fincher will produce while screenwriter Eric Roth (also from The Curious Case of the Un-Enormous Elderly Baby) will pen the script. [THR]

...Bald-headed funny person Rob Corddry (The Daily Show, Children's Hospital) has signed what Variety is calling a "rich" deal with Warner Bros. Television. It includes a TV pilot that Corddry will create, produce, and star in. Apparently it's an offbeat family sitcom that parodies family sitcoms the way Children's Hospital skewered sappy medical dramas on ABC that rhyme with "Brays Flanatomy." Color us excited. [Variety]

...OK, show's over. That scam you're running on hopeful child actors is not gonna work anymore, SAG has declared. So pack it in. And get rid of those illegal ferrets too. And the drugs. Just... Just get rid of the drugs. C'mon. Shut the whole thing down. [Variety]

...Sarah Shahi, the Iranian beauty from the short-lived cop series Life has landed the much-coveted lead in a new USA program. She'll play Kate in Kate, about a lawyer who becomes a conflict mediator. Wouldn't it be weird if USA did a show about people not fighting? Like if they did a show called Everyone Loves Each Other and Nothing Is Quirky? Actually, I would settle for just Nothing Is Quirky. Won't happen though. Instead we'll get a series about a doctor who becomes a PI but maybe isn't a real doctor and he lives overseas and it's called Praguenosis. Where's my development deal, USA? [THR]

...An actor named Sebastian Roche has landed a part on Fox's increasingly-trippy hit(ish) series Fringe. He'll play some sort of villain, one who is, of course, from the other dimension thing and is maybe part robot and he'll probably either be one of those scary strong silent type of villains or one of those slick, wisecracking ones. Those seem to the two ways villain sauce is made these days. (Well there is also sexy lady villain, but I doubt he'll be playing that kind of part. Though, you never know. Different dimensions and all.) And, hah, actually the character apparently already appeared on the October 8th episode, just played by a different actor. So you tell me. What sort of villain is he? [THR]