Donald Sutherland will lead the CBS drama pilot The Eastmans as the patriarch of a wealthy family of dysfunctional doctors. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’ll play a distinguished cardiologist. The Dirty Sexy Money star joins a cast that includes Saffron Burrows, Jesse Bradford, and  Gaby Hoffmann.

With CBS’ contract up, The CW is in talks with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to broadcast this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The older-skewing Daytime Emmys seem an unlikely fit for the youth-oriented CW. CBS and ABC have been alternating as hosts of the awards after NBC dropped out of rotation in 2004.

The popular Nick Jr. kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has been picked up for a third season. The Hollywood Reporter says the show will also spawn a concert tour, kicking off this May in Australia, and that a feature film adaptation is in development.

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested Robert Michael O’Ryan, 34, of Yullee, Fla. on Tuesday after he allegedly tried to break onto the set of ABC’s Dancing With The Stars to meet contestant Shawn Johnson, EW has confirmed. Police say security personnel found and detained O’Ryan after he had entered the show’s production lot. Authorities later found illegally possessed firearms in his parked car. O’Ryan was arrested and booked for possession of a firearm and is being held in lieu of $35,000 bail.

Johnson, 17, is considered a favorite to win DWTS this season. She won an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics last summer in Bejing.  Johnson’s mother, Teri, had a temporary restraining order issued against O’Ryan on Wednesday

UPDATE: O’Ryan has pleaded not guilty to charges of stalking and carrying loaded firearms. Prosecutors plan to ask that bail be set at $220,000. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted. A trial date of April 27 has been set.

Marg Helgenberger, star of the CBS series CSI has filed for divorce from her husband, Alan Rosenberg, the president of the Screen Actors Guild, the Associated Press reports. Helgenberger, 50, filed her petition for divorce in Los Angeles on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable differences. The two actors were married in 1989, and have one son. As president of SAG, Rosenberg, 58, has been engaged in a protracted battle over the last year with Hollywood producers, attempting to negotiate a new SAG labor contract. 

Joel Surnow, the cocreator of 24, is prepping a miniseries about the Kennedy family and shopping it for distribution, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Surnow is a well-known political conservative, and the pitch for the 10-hour project states that it will "unveil secrets" about one of the country’s most famous liberal dynasties, but producers promise that it will be balanced. Surnow will exec produce the $30 million Canadian-based production, called The Kennedys, with 24‘s Stephen Kronish and others. THR reports that the show could air domestically on a "major U.S. cable network."