AP Photo/Chris Pizzello• Amy Adams is ready to enchant screens again, targeting the rom-com Leap Year as her next flick, per the Hollywood Reporter. She plays a woman who travels to Dublin to propose to her beau on Leap Day, Feb. 29, only to have things go horribly wrong.
• They're not exactly swingers, but Sex and the City's Kristin Davis, Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell and 27 Dresses' Malin Akerman are set to costar with Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Jason Bateman and Faizon Love in Couples Retreat. The comedy, directed by Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from A Christmas Story), follows four couples in therapy on a tropical island paradise.
• Adrien Brody and Michael Chiklis have come aboard the indie comedy High School, Variety reports, about a high school valedictorian who faces a drug test and decides to get the whole school stoned to cover his error. Brody will play a drug dealer, while the Shield star will play the principal.
• Showtime has picked up Matthew Perry's The End of Steve, a darkly comic series cowritten by the former Friend in which he stars as a former big-time TV talk-show host who winds up demoted to a tiny station.
• Anna Paquin will headline The Irene Sendler Story, a Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm for CBS about a Polish woman who rescued thousands of Jewish children during World War II.
• Strangers With Candy alum Amy Sedaris will create, write and topline her own comedy series that will be coproduced by pal David Letterman's Worldwide Pants. Details are scarce, but expect Sedaris to employ her improv skills.
• D.L. Hughley is ready to channel his inner Jon Stewart on his own fake news show—on CNN, of all places. The program will air Saturdays at 10 p.m. beginning Oct. 25.
• Comedy Central has tapped Matt Lucas (Little Britain) and Sean Maguire (Meet the Spartans) for Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, the cable network's first scripted series that's part workplace comedy and part sword-and-sorcery tale. John Rhys-Davies (LOTR, Raiders of the Lost Ark) costars.