· HBO has gone on a buying spree, picking up two more comedies—How to Make It in America, and Bored to Death, a hipster-noir starring Jason Schwartzman—hot on the heels of their Hung order. Cocaine Cowboys, meanwhile, from Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay, got a greenlight. There's a joke about coke-dick in there somewhere, but we were raised better than that. [THR]
· Are you going into Cheno-withdrawal anticipating the final Pushed Daisy? She's already lined up her next TV gig: co-starring in David E. Kelley's new NBC drama, Legally Mad. She plays Skippy Pylon, "a brilliant but not entirely well attorney who is relentlessly cheerful with flashes of psychosis and often is mistaken for a teenager." We've always thought Gloria Allred: The Early Years would make a great drama, and now we're justified.
· The Newlywed Game has been resurrected by GSN, offering a "modern take" on the whoopie-making-quiz classic. Don't worry, gay-marrieds. We have a feeling there's a place for you at this table, too. [THR]
· Allen Shapiro has plunked down $255 million for the TV Guide Network, which has "The Lisa Rinna Show" and "ponzi scheme" written all over it. [Variety]
· Kung Fu Hustle director Stephen Chow has dropped out as The Green Hornet's director "over creative differences," but will still play Kato. [Variety]

As photographic evidence recently demonstrated, there is a universe of flabby difference separating the John Travolta of the Sweathogs from the John Travolta of Wild Hogs, the suburban-biker-dad comedy in which he co-stars with Martin Lawrence, Tim Allen, and William H. Macy. But in this photoset of the actors splashing around between takes of a skinnydipping sequence, Travolta demonstrates the time-honored practice of maximizing his gynecomastic assets by squeezing them together for maximum cleavage (1), a trick which proved less successful when he later tested it on other body regions (2). A more body-conscious Lawrence was only trying to help out resistant friend Allen with the ancient Chinese ritual of love-handle-binding (3), a technique that has always worked for him (4). Macy is no stranger to set nudity, and proudly displayed his taut buttocks, but ultimately chose to demure from baring it all with a junk-satchel (5). Nothing, however, could have prepared the boys for when Wild Hogs director Walt Becker came out from behind the cameras to join the fun, stripping down to reveal a jaw-dropping, megaphone-sized member the likes of which even Captain Travolta had never seen (6).

• FOUR AND A HALF NAKED MEN [Faded Youth via Towleroad]