LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:

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Tom Lipinski has joined the cast of ABC's "Madoff" as "Bernie's (Richard Dreyfuss) older son, a trader with BLMIS who has a gift for people" (Deadline.com); Frances Fisher and Michael O'Keefe have been tapped to play Virginia Johnson's parents in two episodes of "Masters of Sex" (EW.com); Stanley Weber is bound for "Outlander" as Le Comte St. Germain, "a wine merchant and member of the French Court, who has a reputation for ruthlessness, as well as for dabbling in the occult" (EOnline.com); Michael Smith has joined "The Mysteries of Laura" as a co-executive producer/in-house director (Variety.com); and Brian Grazer told Adam Carolla on his daily podcast that production on a new season of "Arrested Development" will begin "after the first of the year" for a premiere "four months after that" on Netflix (AdamCarolla.com).