KIDNAPPED
Angel co-creator David Greenwalt has signed onboard as showrunner for NBC's Kidnapped. The Michael Dinner-helmed drama pilot -- starring Jeremy Sisto and Dana Delany as kidnapping experts who works outside the legal system -- received early greenlight with a 13 episode commitment of the skein created by Jason Smilovic. Greenwalt will work closely with creator Jason Smilovic, who exec produced the pilot. Each season of the show will feature a different kidnapping victim.

THE DARLENE WESTGOR PROJECT
Comedian/writer Carol Leifer has partnered with Nick at Nite to create an original sitcom -- The Darlene Westgor Project, based on the life of Westgor, who won Nick at Nite's "Search for the Funniest Mom in America" last year. Westgor will star as herself in the pilot, to be directed by legendary sitcom director Gil Junger (Soap, Benson, Golden Girls).

AMPED
Spike TV is locking in former X-Files scribes Frank Spotnitz and Vince Gilligan for the new drama Amped, an event series about a mysterious epidemic that hits Los Angeles.

AMERICA'S NEXT TOP GIRL BAND
Four members of 1980s pop groups The Go-Go's and The Bangles -- Kathy Valentine, Charlotte Caffey, Susanna Hoffs, and Vicki Peterson -- are teaming with the CW for a reality show designed to launch America's next top girl band. The project is in development for the CW's inaugural 2006-07 season. Unlike Pop Stars -- the pioneering WB reality series -- this project will search for aspiring femme rockers who can also play their own instruments.