MTV announced a new development schedule Tuesday that includes projects from such respected names as SNL's Weekend Update host Seth Meyers, crooner/actor Jamie Foxx and the son of DreamWorks honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg.

MTV has also ordered a pilot of Mark Burnett's docusoap reality project starring former "Hills" co-star (gag) Audrina Patridge.

The as-yet-untitled Patridge pilot represents a potential second life for "The Hills" franchise, whose flagship series suffered the recent departure of lead Lauren Conrad.

The order also continues MTV's relationship with Burnett, who produced the network's Movie Awards earlier this month.

The network is pushing an animated program from Meyers called "The Awesomes," about a superhero who battles paparazzi. Sounds like fail. Another show is "Warren the Ape," a celebrity comeback reality show but with puppets, while a third, "Patito Feo," based on an award-winning teen drama from Argentina.

Meghan Markle has joined the cast of Fox's sci-fi drama "Fringe" in a regular role as an attractive, quick-witted junior FBI agent.

The series, set to return for a second season this fall, stars Anna Torv as FBI special agent Olivia Dunham, who investigates paranormal phenomena with the help of Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and his son Peter (Joshua Jackson). Markle previously appeared in a story arc on the CW's "90210."

Showtime's teaser poster for "Dexter" season four is below, and it pretty much nails the message on the head. We'll just assume that's just sauce on the little guy's face, but the globs are obviously supposed to give you pause. Dex becoming a dad is going to factor into next season  - and we shouldn't forget John Lithgow's promising addition to the cast as the "Trinity Killer".

One of the stars of Bravo's television series "Real Housewives of New Jersey" went to court Wednesday to avoid her sex tape from being released, and won.

A judge granted Danielle Staub's request for a temporary restraining order to prevent her ex-boyfriend Stephen Zalewski from releasing a sexually explicit videotape and nude images of her.

State Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Brogan also ordered Zalewski to produce all copies of the video and pictures of Staub, and he set a hearing for July 21.

Staub, 46, also filed a lawsuit against Zalewski seeking damages for invasion of privacy, defamation and infliction of emotional distress. She claimed she was unaware Zalewski was taping her and only found out about it when someone read her a Star magazine article in which Zalewski discussed the tape.

"It sickened me," Staub told the judge during the brief hearing. Not enough to actually keep your stank Jersey ass from pushing "record" though, huh?

The couple dated from May 2008 to December 2008 and Zalewski appeared briefly on "Real Housewives," which is described on Bravo's Web site as following "five of the most affluent Jersey Girls as they live lavish lifestyles and deal with all the drama that money can buy."

"This is about my kids," Staub said. "I'm a big girl. Do what you want to me. But you broke bread with my children. Don't do this to me. No adult should ever do this to a child."

Eddie Cibrian, who was all up in the tabloids busy recently because of an alleged affair with country singer LeAnn Rimes, is joining the cast of CBS' veteran crime drama "CSI: Miami" as a series regular. He'll play a new character - an officer from the LAPD's Hollywood division who joins the team in Miami.

"CSI: Miami" begins its eighth season in the fall. In the seventh-season finale's cliffhanger, the life of forensic team member, Eric Delko (Adam Rodriguez), was left hanging in the balance. According to the show's producers, Rodriguez will return next season.

 "The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck is an idiot. That much has almost always been clear. But a thief, too? The TV "star" says a claim that she plagiarized parts of her best-selling diet book is "without merit."

Hasselbeck defended her book "The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide" on Wednesday, speaking to the camera briefly just before the first break on the ABC daytime show.

Susan Hassett, a self-published author on Cape Cod, claims in the lawsuit filed in Massachusetts that Hasselbeck lifted content from her book on celiac disease "word for word." It doesn't cite specific examples.

The lawsuit also says the books have a similar organization and chapter format. Hassett says she sent Hasselbeck her book as a courtesy after Hasselbeck disclosed she had the digestive disorder last year.