'Pretty/Handsome' is now here/gone

Pretty/Handsome

seemed to have all the required elements for a buzz-worthy pilot: respected creator (

Ryan Murphy

), well-known star (

Joseph Fiennes

), and provocative premise (man decides to undergo a sex change).

None of those things, however, has been able to save it. The show appears to be dead after failing to find a TV home, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Pretty/Handsome

was initially set up at FX, where Murphy's

Nip/Tuck

has been a strong performer for five seasons. Fiennes (

Shakespeare in Love

,

Running With Scissors

) was set to play a married man who breaks the news to his wife and kids that he wants a sex change. The cast also included

Carrie-Anne Moss

,

Blythe Danner

and

Robert Wagner

.

Murphy wrote the script with fellow

Nip/Tuck

scribe

Brad Falchuk

and also directed the pilot.

Brad Pitt

was an executive producer through his company, Plan B Entertainment.

FX, however, decided to pass on the pilot in the spring, the HR says. Producer 20th Century Fox tried to sell the show elsewhere, but those efforts have come up empty.

"Numb3rs" adds a regular.

With the exit of costar

Diane Farr

, CBS's

Numb3rs

now has added two new female regulars for its fifth season.

Aya Sumika

, who has had a recurring role on

Numb3rs

for the last two seasons, will be a regular this season, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Sumika, who plays Special Agent Warner, sometime love interest for

Rob Morrow

's Don Eppes, will achieve regular status along with

Sophina Brown

. The

Shark

veteran was previously reported to be playing a new junior agent in the Los Angeles-based FBI team.

Other credits for Sumika include

Hawaii

and an episode of

The O.C.

Two more costars loaded into HBO's "Shootout."

HBO's half-hour comedy pilot

Suburban Shootout

has added a pair of costars.

According to the Hollywood Reporter,

Michael Weaver

and

Mary Birdsong

will take roles in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed pilot.

Suburban Shootout

is based on a series from Britain's Five (shown on Oxygen in this country).

Michelle Ashford

(

Boomtown,

John Adams

) adapted the pilot, which focuses on Rebecca (

Judy Greer

), a woman who leaves the city for the suburbs only to find herself caught in a gang war between heavily armed housewives.

Weaver will play Rebecca's husband, the suburb's new police chief. Birdsong will play a member of one of the gangs.

The

Suburban Shootout

cast also includes

Kelly Preston

,

Kerri Kenney

and

Rachael Harris

.

Weaver most recently co-starred with Harris in ABC's

Notes From the Underbelly

. His other credits include

The Mullets

and the features

Club Dread

and

Super Troopers

.

Birdsong is best known for her role as Deputy Cherisha Kimball on

Reno 911!

and in its feature film spin-off.

"90210" adds vixen, lacrosse jock.

The West Beverly Hills High student body is growing every day.

Meghan Markle

and

Kellan Lutz

are the latest two actors to join the swelling cast of the CW's

90210

, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Markle, 26, will play the school's sexy vixen who gets by on her looks. The actress might be familiar to some as the model for Case No. 24 on

Deal or No Deal

. Lutz, 23, will play star lacrosse player George Evans, who comes from a well-to-do family. The actor next appears in HBO's mini-series

Generation Kill

.