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Christopher Gorham has been tapped to star opposite Piper Perabo in USA Network's spy thriller "Covert Affairs."

The casting is believed to lift the contingency on the pilot.

Written by Matt Corman and Chris Ord, "Affairs" centers on Annie Walker (Perabo), a multilingual CIA trainee who joins the agency still reeling over a mysterious ex-boyfriend who appears to be of particular interest to her bosses.

Gorham will play Auggie Anderson, a CIA military intelligence/special-ops agent blinded years ago on an assignment who is helping Walker navigate her new job.

Instead of giving "Affairs" a straight pilot order, USA last month hired a casting director and began quietly casting the two leads.

With Perabo and Gorham in place, an official green light is considered imminent.

USA tends to pick up its pilots as cast contingent. The pilot for the breakout hit "Royal Pains" didn't receive a formal green light until Mark Feuerstein signed on,...

Walt Disney Pictures has pre-emptively picked up "Undateable," a comedy pitch from scribes Jack Angelo and Sam Brown. Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot's Disney-based Offspring will produce along with Mikkel Bondessen of Fuse Entertainment.

The project is based on the true story of Brian Wolf, who had no dating life, so he started a Web site called SettleForBrian.com, about why women should settle for him. Among the site's highlights is a comprehensive pro and con list where he waxes about his large nose and earlobe ("They say that a person's ears and nose continue to grow throughout his life, so this situation is only going to get worse") and how he was rejected by dating site eHarmony.com, which said he was one of the people it didn't think it could find a match for.

Fuse's Alex Goldstone will executive produce, and Rich Demato will co-produce.

Kristin Burr...