RALEIGH, N.C. - "Fathom," a new NBC series starring Lake Bell, will be filmed in Wilmington.

The drama, about a new form of life lurking in the sea, will begin shooting in July, according to a news release Friday from state legislators who got the news from NBC Universal studio officials this week.

Bell played lawyer Sally Heep on the ABC legal drama "Boston Legal."

The pilot for "Fathom," which is set to premiere this fall, was shot in California. NBC chose North Carolina in part because of a proposed film incentives program before the Legislature, the news release said.

Bills filed in the House and Senate by Wilmington-area lawmakers would give tax credits and grants equal to 15 percent of what a production spends in North Carolina. Neither measure has yet to be heard. The credit could cost $4.8 million to $5.4 million annually.

LOS ANGELES - Michelle Rodriguez may get to have that drink with Matthew Fox after all.After a brief appearance on "Lost" in part one of the show's season finale in May, Rodriguez will join the cast full-time next season, ABC says. She'll be playing a character named Ana-Lucia Cortez.Rumors that the "Girlfight" star would join the cast have been swirling for some time now, and her addition presents some tantalizing possibilities for the show's second season.From her cameo in a flashback sequence with Fox's Jack Shepard in part one of the season finale, we know that Ana-Lucia had a seat near the back of the plane on Oceanic Flight 815. From the show's pilot, we know that the tail section broke off before the plane crashed on the mysterious island that Jack and 40-some other survivors now call home.The casting of Rodriguez adds credence to the idea that other passengers may have ended up on the island as well. Shortly before his death, Boone (Ian Somerhalder) made radio contact with someone who appeared to say "We're the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815."Rodriguez first earned notice for her starring role in 2000's "Girlfight," for which she won an Independent Spirit Award and several critics' honors. She's also appeared in "The Fast and the Furious," "Blue Crush" and "S.W.A.T." "Lost" will be her first TV series.

LOS ANGELES - Court TV has pounced on the revelation of the identity of Watergate's "Deep Throat," announcing it will develop a movie based on the story.The news media have been buzzing ever since W. Mark Felt, the No. 2 man at the FBI in the early 1970s, revealed in a Vanity Fair story that he was Deep Throat. His tips to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein fueled their investigation of the Watergate break-in and resulting political scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.The identity of Deep Throat has been a Washington guessing game for three decades, as Woodward and Bernstein vowed not to reveal their source until after his death. Few people, though, had concluded Felt, now 91, was the man behind the revelations.Court TV is in the earliest stages of development on the movie, according to several news reports - so early, in fact, that it hasn't settled on source material. The cable network could likely base its film on media accounts of the case but hasn't ruled out buying story rights from Felt or Vanity Fair.The Watergate story has been previously dramatized in "All the President's Men," based on Woodward and Bernstein's book of the same name. The 1976 film won four Oscars.