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The networks have added a few new faces to their pilots, because, well, otherwise the shows would just be shot after shot of empty sets, and that's not very exciting. Here's what's goin' on:

Jeffery Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development) has joined the cast of the CBS comedy The Captain. The series stars Fran Kranz as a writer who moves into an apartment building where Tambor, a retired TV writer, also lives.

Kal Penn of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (which is actually a much funnier movie than it has any right to be) will star in The Call, a comedy from ABC about a group of paramedics in Los Angeles.

AOL, the company that done does own this here blog you do be reading, is offering the first full episode of the new sitcom Twenty Good Years on its video site. Jeffrey Tambor and John Lithgow play aging friends who decide to live out the rest of their days living life to the fullest. I guess it's kind of like Cocoon without the aliens or Wilford Brimley. Tambor plays a judge who doesn't like to take risks, and Lithgow plays a surgeon who has been divorced three times. The series premieres on NBC October 11 at 8:30 pm, which is a good timeslot because that's right before old people go to bed.