'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]

Dog Whisperer meet Ghost Whisperer. Ghost Whisperer meet Dog Whisperer. In what is either a new low or absurdly funny high in stunt casting, Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan will be guest-starring as himself on an upcoming episode of Ghost Whisperer. It looks like Homer the Ghost Dog is having problems "crossing into the light" so Melinda (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Delia (Camryn Manheim) seek Cesar's post-mortem doggy advice.

Cesar is, of course, the star of his own Dog Whisperer vehicle on the National Geographic Channel. You may remember him in his animated incarnation from South Park when Cartman's mom turned to him for parenting advice. Cesar's aggressive, alpha dog methods have their detractors, but the story of his journey to the United States and daily routine today are something else. Malcolm Gladwell's New Yorker piece on Cesar if worth a look regardless of what you think of his methods. Then again, isn't anything by Malcolm Gladwell worth a look?