'Simpsons' scribe's 'Destiny' is Showtime

Showtime is developing a dating-themed comedy from Tim Long, a longtme writer/executive producer on "The Simpsons." The half-hour project, "Kevin and the Chart of Destiny," is about a brilliant but lonely market researcher who designs an elaborate "dating system" -- as laid out in a complex wall chart -- in order to achieve his goal of finding a wife within one year. The project -- created, written and exec produced by Long -- will draw from his "own private dating humiliations," he said. "I was fascinated by the idea of people who are relatively smart at most things in life but tragically inept at dating. This project is a love letter/apology to all the women I took on tragic dates." Full story

A 'Nurse' aide, a rocket woman

Dominic Fumusa has landed a co-starring role on Showtime's upcoming comedy series "Nurse Jackie." Meanwhile, Laura Harris has been tapped as the female lead opposite Ron Livingston in the drama series "Defying Gravity," from Fox TV Studios, Canada's CTV, Germany's ProSieben and the BBC. "Jackie," from Showtime and Lionsgate TV, stars Edie Falco as a strong-willed, iconoclastic New York nurse juggling the frenzied grind of an urban hospital and an equally challenging personal life. Famusa will play her husband. Full story