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Reno 911! co-creator/star Thomas Lennon is returning to primetime. Lennon is set to co-star opposite Sean Hayes in NBC’s untitled Sean Hayes/Victor Fresco multi-camera comedy pilot. Written by Fresco and directed by James Burrows, the comedy, from Universal TV and Hazy Mills, centers on Sean (Hayes), who must figure out how to parent his 14-year-old daughter, who just moved in, while navigating a temperamental new boss at work. Lennon will play the new boss, Max, who is blunt, gruff and seemingly fine with not being liked. Shortly after Reno 911! ended its six-season run on Comedy Central, Lennon and his partner, Reno 911! co-creator/co-star Robert Ben Garant inked a deal NBC that led to the 2010 comedy pilot The Strip. For the past couple of years, Lennon has been focused on features. He and Garant are writing Night at the Museum 3 and Rent A Ghost for 20th Century Fox and Baywatch for Paramount.

This NBC comedy pilot from the Reno 911! duo of Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant had a lot of die-hard fans. Lennon tweeted the news of the network's passing on the pilot tonight just like he broke the news of Comedy Central's cancelation of Reno on Twitter last summer. "Lots of very funny people in it. Ah well," he wrote about The Strip.

Life after "Twilight"? Yes, says Rachelle Lefevre.

The former "Twilight" vampire will play the lead, a young and competent doctor,  in John Wells' CBS medical drama, says The Hollywood Reporter.

The ensemble drama follows the adventures of a mobile medical team that goes around the country, helping in medical crises.

Lefevre is best known to fans as the redheaded vampire Victoria from the first two "Twilight" films. She was replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard for the upcoming sequel "Eclipse."

Lefevre has worked with CBS before on its short-lived "Swingtown."

In other pilot casting news, NBC's "The Strip" has added Carrie Wiita and Andrea Savage. The comedy stars Tom Lennon as a former child star who becomes the owner of a bar that's similar to Hooters off the Las Vegas strip.

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Now that it has lots of shelf space to fill at 10 p.m. (so long, Jay Leno!), NBC is looking to uber-producers like Jj Abrams, David E. Kelley and Jerry Bruckheimer to plug some serious holes in primetime this fall. And fans of the old must-see Frasier and Seinfeld format may have reason to rejoice: The network is finally re-investing in more multi-camera comedies like one starring Matthew Broderick. Here are the network's fall pilot orders, many of which are still being cast (decisions on which projects are ordered to series are typically made in the weeks leading up to NBC's presentation to advertisers,...

"Twilight" alumna Rachelle Lefevre has been tapped as a lead in John Wells' untitled ensemble medical drama for CBS.

The medical drama, from Warner Bros. TV and John Wells Prods., centers on a mobile medical team that travels the U.S. helping those in need get through life-or-death medical crises.

Lefevre will play a confident young doctor more comfortable in the field than in the office.

The project brings the actress back to CBS, where she co-starred on the drama series "Swingtown."

Lefevre is best known for her role as Victoria in the first two "Twilight" movies.

Meanwhile, Carrie Wiita ("Reno 911!"), repped by Bauman, Redanty & Shaul and Omnipop, and Andrea Savage ("Dinner for Schmucks") round out the cast of NBC's comedy pilot "The Strip."

"The Strip," from "Reno 911" masterminds Tom Lennon and Ben Garant, Ums and Principato-Young, stars Lennon as a former child star turned Hooters-style bar owner on the outskirts of Las Vegas.

Comedy Central’s Reno 911! is a hit, no doubt, but there are still plenty of couch potatoes who’ve never heard of the faux-reality cop series. Blame it on cable fees, or simple humorlessness. Thanks to NBC, however, those stuck in the boredom of channels 2-11 may soon taste the comic goodness of the show’s creators/co-stars,Ben Garant and Tom Lennon (pictured above). The writing duo, also responsible for the two Night at the Smithsonian films, are currently hard at work on a pilot for the network, titled The Strip, and New York’s Vulture has word on its casting.

Lennon himself will star as a former child star who opens a Hooters-like restaurant in a local strip mall in the Las Vegas area. Fellow Reno 911! castmate Cedric Yarbrough has joined on as a Norm-like regular at the eatery’s bar, while comedian Natasha Leggero will play a waitress.

Freddy Rodriguez has been tapped as the lead on CBS' Brett Ratner-directed drama pilot "Chaos," and "Numbers" star David Krumholtz is set as the lead on Ron Howard's untitled IRS comedy pilot for Fox.

Elsewhere, David Strathairn has landed a lead role in ABC's drama pilot "Matadors" and Cole Hauser has been tapped to co-star on NBC's Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama "Chase."

Additionally, Ashley Austin Morris has landed a lead on CBS' comedy pilot "True Love," Keir O'Donnell and Michael Stahl-David have been cast in ABC's hourlong pilot "Generation Y," Natasha Leggero, Cedric Yarbrough and Dave Holmes have joined NBC's comedy pilot "The Strip," Ashley Williams and Shanley Caswell have come aboard NBC's Adam Carolla comedy, and Sean Wing has been added to ABC's Bruckheimer-produced drama pilot "The Whole Truth."

"Chaos," from 20th TV, revolves around rogue CIA operatives who combat bureaucratic gridlock, rampant incompetence and political infighting.