33 VARIATIONS' Colin Hanks Toplines Fox's 'Jack and Dan'

The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that 33 Variations star Colin Hanks will star in Matt Nix's new 13-episode, hour-long action/comedy series "Jack and Dan," on Fox. Nix is the mastermind behind the USA Network series "Burn Notice."

Produced by Fox studios, Hanks will be joined by Bradley Whitford. 

in "Jack and Dan," Jack (Hanks) is an ambitious, by-the-book detective whose tendency towards self degradation prevents him from advancing within the Los Angeles Police Department. He has been partnered with Dan (Whitford), a drunken, play boy of a cop who is only with the department as a result of a heroic act he committed years before.

Filming is scheduled to begin in early 2010.

In addition to starring alongside Jane Fonda in Moises Kauffman's 33 Variations in the spring of this year, Hanks is best known television role was Alex Whitman, the love interest of Katherine Heigl in the science fiction television series Roswell between 1999 and 2001. Hanks also made an appearance in an episode of The OC. He has appeared in the HBO series Band of Brothers. On the big screen, Hanks starred in the the teen movie Orange County (2002), with Jack Black and John Lithgow. Hanks had a large supporting role in the 2005 remake of King Kong, playing the assistant to film director Carl Denham (played by his Orange County co-star Jack Black). In 2006, Hanks further solidified his association with Black in Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, in which he had a cameo as a drunken fraternity brother. He starred in the romantic comedy The House Bunny, and in The Great Buck Howard. Hanks is currently playing Father Gill, a young Roman Catholic priest, in the popular AMC show Mad Men. TVGuide.com has reported that Colin will star in a new indie comedy, Lucky, alongside Ari Graynor, Ann-Margret and Jeffrey Tambor.