News Roundup: Comedians Mindy Sterling and Natasha Leggero Join 'Alabama,' Malcolm Gladwell Readies HBO Series and More

'Austin Powers' star Mindy Sterling has been tapped to star in the FX pilot 'Alabama.

The project, from 'Reno 911!' stars and creators Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon, is set 1,000 years in the future on a United Nations peacekeeping ship. According to Deadline Hollywood, 'Last Comic Standing' judge Natasha Legerro has also been cast in the project.

The show picks up six years into the crew's seven year peace-keeping mission. If the show heads to series, it will follow the crew as they visit hostile planets, hang out with aliens and interact on the tiny ship.

In other TV news ...

• Malcolm Gladwell is developing a Cold War era spy series for HBO. The project, from Gladwell and screenwriter Charles Randolph, follows a missionary in Berlin who becomes involved with the CIA. Gladwell would serve as a nonwriting executive producer. [Live Feed]

• Get ready for more nudity on reality TV: producers are seeking nudists to appear on 'The Nak'd Truth.' The reality series would follow contestants as they worked at a Florida nudist resort for a month. [NY Post]

• Larry King has landed the first interview with former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. The former flight attendant -- who quit his job after going on a tirade over an airplane's intercom system, grabbing beers and deploying the plane's emergency slide -- will break his silence on Oct. 26. [Hollywood Reporter]


• 'Damages' star Noah Bean has joined 'Nikita.' Bean will play the recurring role of Ryan Fletcher, a CIA case officer. [Deadline Hollywood]

• Mido Hamada, of '24' fame, has been cast on 'Terra Nova.' Hamada will play a trusted adviser to Frank Taylor (Stephen Lang). [Entertainment Weekly]

• Comedian Bryan Callen will appear on MTV's 'Death Valley.' The series is a mockumentary police comedy. [Deadline Hollywood]