Steve Levitan is back at Fox. The network has picked up Rebounding, a single-camera comedy from the Modern Family co-creator, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, with Modern Family helmer Jason Winer on board to direct. The pilot order comes a couple of days after 20th Century Fox TV — where Levitan, Port and Wiseman are under overall deals — sent the comedy spec to the broadcast networks. Written by Port and Wiseman, Rebounding was inspired by Port’s real-life experiences. It is described as an uplifting comedy about a man recovering from the death of his fiance with the help of the idiots on his pick-up basketball team. Levitan, who has been very involved in the development of the project, was originally attached to direct but his schedule is not permitting, so Winer, who directed the pilot for Modern Family, will helm Rebounding, exec produced by Levitan, Port and Wiseman. This is a second pilot directing gig for Winer this season, along with the NBC comedy 1600.

Levitan and his Modern Family co-creator Christopher Lloyd had a falling out with Fox over the 2008 cancellation of their multi-camera comedy series Back To You after one season. Levitan and Lloyd spoke publicly against the decision and famously refused to shop their followup project, blockbuster Modern Family, to Fox. The relationship has since been repaired, and now Levitan is back in business with Fox and its entertainment president Kevin Reilly. Earlier this season Port & Wiseman worked on a Fox series, serving as co-executive producers on freshman breakout New Girl. There they worked with Winer who directed multiple episodes of the show. Fox, which also picked up 2 cast-contingent comedy pilots this afternoon, has one high-profile half-hour script still in contention, a sibling comedy from How I Met Your Mother co-creators/executive producers Carter Bays & Craig Thomas and HIMYM executive producer Chris Harris.

Beverly Hills, CA – Eighteen of the 20 nominees in the acting categories will be among more than 150 Oscar nominees who will gather at noon on Monday, February 6, at the Beverly Hilton when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honors this year’s Oscar contenders at its annual Nominees Luncheon. Additional confirmations are expected to come in over the weekend.

From the Best Actress and Actor categories all the nominees – Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Rooney Mara, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams, Demián Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman and Brad Pitt – are expected to attend. Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte, Max von Sydow, Bérénice Bejo, Melissa McCarthy, Janet McTeer and Octavia Spencer will represent the Supporting Actor and Actress categories.

Three of the five nominees in the Directing category – Michel Hazanavicius, Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese – also are expected to attend.

Academy Awards® for outstanding film achievements of 2011 will be presented on Sunday, February 26, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Andre Braugher is set to lead the ensamle cast of ABC’s drama pilot Last Resort, executive produced by Shawn Ryan and written-executive produced by Karl Gajdusek. The Sony TV-produced project centers on the crew of the U.S.S. Nevada, a nuclear submarine, who, after disobeying a suspicious order, become fugitives. They land on the island of Sainte Marina, where they take over the NATO Listening Station and declare themselves an independent nuclear nation. Braugher will play Capt. Marcus Chaplin, the commander of the U.S.S. Nevada, a veteran of real combat, a leader by nature and a patriot, but will not follow any man blindly. Braugher, repped by WME and Principato-Young, won Emmys for his lead roles on Homicide and Thief. He most recently starred on the TNT dramedy Men Of A Certain Age, which earned him 2 Emmy nominations. This marks the second military-themed ensemble drama from Ryan to cast an well-known Black actor as the lead, following the CBS series The Unit, which starred Dennis Haysbert.

Freelance journalist Dominic Patten is covering the trial for Deadline.

Dick Clark says that because of its history — in particular the notorious Pia Zadora incident — he didn’t think the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had anywhere to turn but NBC in trying to bring the Golden Globes back to major network TV. In Clark’s deposition, copies of which Deadline obtained this afternoon, he also says he didn’t think HFPA was especially concerned with holding on to TV rights. Clark says “The conversation didn’t come up.” Clark also details how the HFPA were “sometimes” difficult to deal with because “they often didn’t agree with themselves.”

Further into the deposition, Clark also explains why NBC was the only network his company focused on back in the late 1980s and early ’90s to bring the Globes back to network TV. An attorney asks him, “Have you — did Dick Clark Productions ever seek offers from — for the Golden Globes from networks other than NBC during the time you were there?” Clark answers “No” and explains that “CBS refused to talk about it because of an incident that had happened early in the game with an actress named Pia Zadora. ABC had the Academy Awards and couldn’t talk to anybody about a similar show. At the time Fox was either nonexistent or so small not to be considered.” The attorney then asks, “So you felt that NBC was really your only choice?” Clark replies “Yes” and goes on to affirm that because NBC was the only available choice it was more difficult to get a better deal with NBC. “I would assume it would if you only have one customer.”

Although he was called as a witness, Clark will not take the stand during the trial. Instead excerpts from his deposition will be used in the trial between HFPA and DCP, which resumes Tuesday.

Fox has handed two more comedy pilot orders, both cast-contingent.

Let It Go, written/executive produced by DJ Nash (Traffic Light) and executive produced by Peter Tolan, is an ensemble comedy about a married couple, his best friend, and her sister as they try to navigate, negotiate, and sometimes manipulate society’s unspoken rules. CAA-repped DJ Nash, currently co-executive producer on NBC’s Bent, is exec producing with Tolan and Tolan producing partner Michael Wimer. Sony TV is producing with Tolan’s Fedora banner.

Must Hire, from Sony TV and Jamie Tarses’ Fanfare, was written by Reed Agnew and Eli Jorne who executive produce with Tarses and Julia Franz. It centers on an uptight, young executive who hires his dad for an entry level position and is shocked to discover that his new hire is a disruptive office clown.

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Angarano (Haywire) has landed the lead in CBS’s single-camera comedy pilot from feature writer-director Nick Stoller (The Muppets). Stoller wrote and will direct the untitled project loosely based on his real-life experiences. It is a twentysomething ensemble comedy that centers on Jake (Angarano), a commitment phobic ad agency exec who, after breaking up with his girlfriend, realizes he has to continue working with her one cubicle away. Chernin Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV are producing. Angarano’s series credits include arcs on 24 and Will & Grace. He recently wrapped the features The English Teacher and The Brass Teapot.

Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has signed his first overall deal: a three-year pact with FX Prods and 20th Century Fox TV, whose division Fox21 co-produces SOA with FX Prods. The deal will keep Sutter at the helm of FX’s flagship drama series and allow him to develop for both cable and  broadcast. With him on board, FX has added a year to the show’s recent fifth-season pickup, bringing the series to 6 seasons. With Sutter locked in for three years, the expectation is that SOA will go to at least 7 seasons. The pact also includes a script commitment for Sutter at FX. News of the deal broke the way Sutter always does it, on Twitter. “Closed my deal for 3 more years on SOA. no headlines, no pushed schedule… thank you FX and 20th for your generosity,” he wrote on Sunday. He almost got his “no headlines” wish, with the tweet going unnoticed for days until finally spotted by reporters.

EXCLUSIVE: Brad Ingelsby, the scribe who blazed on the scene with the script The Low Dweller and who recently sold the script Run All Night at Warner Bros, has been tapped by Screen Gems to write the script for The Raid. XYZ Films is producing the remake of the Gareth Evans-directed martial arts film that won the Midnight Madness Award at the recent Toronto Film Festival and was also a strong title at the Sundance Film Festival, with a new soundtrack from Mike Shionda of Linkin Park, with Joseph Trapanese. XYZ is run by Nate Bolotin, Nick Spicer, and Aram Tertzakian.

The original is being released soon by Sony Pictures Classics. All of this was made possible when domestic distribution and remake rights were smartly collared by the Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group back at Cannes, a buy made on partial footage that also gave Sony the inside track on remake rights. The remake was placed at Screen Gems, and now SPC’s Tom Bernard and Michael Barker will release the original next spring. As for Evans, he’s going back to Jakarta to shoot a larger-scale film that incorporates the actors and storylines from The Raid. WME and Energy Entertainment’s Brooklyn Weaver rep Ingelsby. Just to remind you of what is in store from The Raid, here’s the trailer: