The Bachelorette’s Ali Fedotowsky will host NBC’s new travel show 1st Look, reports THR.  Fedotowsky will journey to different US locations to discover the best in food, hotels and nightlife.  1st Look, produced by LX.TV will launch April 14 following Saturday Night Live on the ten NBC-owned TV stations: WNBC/New York, KNBC/Los Angeles, WMAQ/Chicago, WCAU/Philadelphia, KXAS/Dallas-Fort Worth, KNTV/San Francisco Bay Area, WRC/Washington, D.C., WTVJ/Miami, KNSD/San Diego and WVIT/Connecticut. 

Kelly Bishop was cast in ABC Family’s drama Bunheads from Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino.  Sutton Foster stars as a trained ballerina-turned-Vegas showgirl who suddenly marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town and takes on an uncomfortable role at her mother-in-law’s dance studio.  Bishop will play the recurring role of the mother-in-law, Fanny.  Production is set to begin this spring and ABC Family is expected to debut the series this summer.

Oxygen has two new pilots in development: Teen Weddings, a one-hour program following several young couples as they plan their weddings through their post-honeymoon recap and Thrift Wars, a half-hour series set in the competitive world of thrifting in New York. 

Jersey Shore spinoff series The Pauly D Project premieres March 29 at 10:30p on MTV. The new series follows Pauly D as he navigates the music industry while trying to balance the trappings of fame and family time.

Casting Call: Bravo’s series Pregnant in Heels is looking for women aged 21 and older to appear in season two.  Interested participants must be pregnant, confident and possess a big personality and a fun lifestyle.  The women should be in their late second or third trimester with a due date of late March/early April.  Married, unmarried, gay or straight.  The women must also live in the tri-state area.  Interested pregnant females should send an email to: swatt68@yahoo.com.

Thirteen additional episodes of Home By Novogratz was ordered by HGTV for the series’ first season which presently airs at 930p on Saturdays.  Home By Novogratz showcases married designers Robert and Cortney Novogratz as they create uniquely original spaces for clients while raising seven children.  The second season of the series is set to premiere in April 2012.

This show is hilarious…

Who doesn’t love all 3 of these men?

FOX approved a one-hour single-camera comedy project co-created by Academy Award-winning Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, marking the brothers’ first venture into television production.  FOX gave the project titled Harve Karbo a script with penalty order, and it’s about a prickly Los Angeles private investigator and his deadbeat friends who often work among the Who’s Who of Hollywood.  The Coen brothers will executive produce along with Phil Johnson, Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo for Imagine TV and 20th Television.  Johnson will also write the script.

Aspiring supermodels are featured in E!’s new one-hour docu-series Scouted where viewers can follow the personal journeys of young women from the time they are discovered by local model scouts.  Scouted premieres November 28 at 10p and each of the eight episodes documents different potential models that make it through the discovery process.  Scouted sends local model scouts to various places around the country to sorority houses, rodeos, county fairs, high schools, beaches and elsewhere to look for potential model talent.  Following some preliminary training and polishing, the local scouts present their budding new stars to One Management in New York City in hopes the experts will like what they see and request a meeting.  Scouted is produced by Cris Abrego Productions, a subsidiary of 51 Minds, an Endemol Company.