TV News: Project Runway All-Star special, Ugly Betty goes to TV Guide

- Lifetime will air Project Runway: All-Star Challenge, a two-hour special, on Aug. 20 just prior to Project Runway's season premiere. The special will pit eight designers from past battles against each other as they compete for a $100,000 prize. [E! Online]

- TV Guide Network has picked up off-net rights to Ugly Betty. This means that starting this fall, an episode of Ugly Betty will air on TV Guide two weeks after its original airing on ABC. In fall 2010, reruns of the show — going back to its first season — will appear during a primetime slot. [Variety]

- Joely Richardson will appear in a five-episode arc during The Tudors' fourth and final season. The season will premiere on Showtime in 2010. [Hollywood Reporter]

- Could Futurama return without its original voice actors? [Paste Magazine]

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TV & Movie Tidbits: Christian Bale is a 'Fighter,' Debra Messing returns

- Christian Bale has signed on to star in The Fighter with Mark Wahlberg. The film focuses on the story of Boston fighter "Irish" Mickey Ward and his half-brother Dicky Eklund. The two stars will be working with director David O. Russell. While deals are still under negotiation, it seems the film is set to begin production in July. [Variety]

- Debra Messing is about to return to NBC. It looks like the network is on the verge of picking up an untitled sitcom starring the former Will & Grace star as "a laid-off CEO who is as ill-prepared to be a full-time wife and mother as her husband is to provide for the family." [The Hollywood Reporter]

- io9.com has a couple of promotional pictures for The Time Traveler's Wife, the movie adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 debut novel. The movie, starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams, was originally set for release last June. It now looks like it will finally come out this August. [Warner Bros. via io9; Slashfilm]

- Ugly Betty is set to come back to ABC a week sooner than originally planned on April 30. This will mark the show's return to its 8 p.m. Thursday night slot. [Entertainment Weekly]

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