The Sci Fi Channel is beginning to populate its "Battlestar Galactica" prequel.

Paula Malcomson has been cast as the female lead in the highly anticipated "Caprica," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The cable network has also tapped actors Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelly for its two-hour pilot "Warehouse 13."

"Caprica" is set 50 years before "BSG" and centers on rival families the Greystones and the Adamas as they thrive in the bustling, technology-driven world of the 12 Colonies that eventually creates the Cylons. Malcomson will play Amanda, a surgeon who is also a double agent.

"Warehouse" centers on two FBI agents who are shunted off to South Dakota to monitor the secret Warehouse 13, where the U.S. government has deposited all of the strange artifacts, relics and supernatural objects it has stumbled across over the centuries.

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The CW is turning its eyes to its daytime programming with an afternoon block featuring a court series and two comedies.

The network is teaming up with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution to add the court series "Judge Jeanine Pirro" and a one-hour comedy block of "The Wayans Bros." and "The Jamie Foxx Show." The new afternoon block will run from 3-5 p.m. each weekday, beginning Sept. 22.

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NBC put out a news release this week touting its signing of Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz, the producers of "Project Runway," to an exclusive development deal.

Left unsaid in the release was the fact that Cutforth and Lipsitz's company, Magical Elves, will be "out" of the "Runway" business once the hit fashion-design competition moves to Lifetime later this year.

That wrinkle is the latest in the saga that began last month, when Bravo's signature show made the jump across the cable dial to Lifetime. The show's fifth season will air on Bravo (which is part of NBC Universal) this summer, and its Lifetime debut is set for late this year.

The deal with NBC Universal calls for Magical Elves, which also produces Bravo's "Top Chef" and NBC's "Last Comic Standing," to develop scripted and unscripted projects across the NBCU family, which also includes USA, the Sci Fi Channel and Oxygen, as well as for digital media.

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Fans of "The Office" can send congratulations and baby-friendly sunglasses and saxophones to Angela Kinsey.

The blond actress and her husband, writer Warren Lieberstein, welcomed a baby girl into the family on Saturday, reports People.

Isabel Ruby Lieberstein weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces at birth. The actress' mother Bertie and "Office" castmate Jenna Fischer were present at the hospital to greet the new arrival.

Kinsey plays uptight Dunder Mifflin accountant Angela Martin on NBC's "The Office."

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Comedian and sitcom actor Mike O'Malley will cross over to drama next fall in NBC's new series "My Own Worst Enemy."

O'Malley, best known for CBS' "Yes, Dear," will play a co-worker of Christian Slater's in the show. Elsewhere, Andrea Anders ("The Class") has signed on to an ABC comedy from writer Victor Fresco, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"My Own Worst Enemy" stars Slater, in his first starring role in a TV series, as a suburban husband and father who discovers he has an alter ego, that of a ruthless superspy. He's apparently not the only one living a double life: O'Malley's character is described as a friend and co-worker of Slater's who doubles as a "brusque and violent" agent.

O'Malley starred on "Yes, Dear" for six seasons.The Fresco comedy at ABC centers on a guy who tries to do good things from within the large, amoral corporation where he works.