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New series for 'Arrested Development' alum

Cross programmingDavid Cross, who is probably best known for "Arrested Development," but ought to be best remembered from the HBO series "Mr. Show With Bob David," returns in a starring role in the new Independent Film Channel series "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" at 9 p.m. Friday. Cross plays a compulsive liar who thrives or not in the world of London marketing. Former "Saturday Night Live" trouper Will Arnett is his boss. Cross and Arnett are also in the new Fox comedy "Running Wilde" airing at 8:30 p.m. Tuesdays on WFLD Channel 32.No end to newsBoldly going where the growing morning news business has rarely gone before, WGN Channel 9 airs a new hourlong weekend morning newscast with Sean Lewis as anchor and meteorologist Mike Hamernik at 6 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.'Neutron' spinoffThe Nickelodeon cartoon series "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius" launches its first spinoff with the debut of "Planet Sheen" at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2. It's about time Sheen moved up to star in his own show. And Butch Hartman, who created "The Fairly OddParents," presents his new series "T.U.F.F. Puppy," a cartoon about a dog named Dudley, immediately after at 10:30.'Sin' binFrank Miller brings his extremely graphic novel "Sin City" to the screen, with the help of co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, at 11 p.m. Friday on MTV. It's the movie that set the stage for Mickey Rourke's comeback in "The Wrestler," but it also stars Jessica Alba and the previously squeaky-clean Alexis Bledel of "Gilmore Girls" in a pair of sultry femme-fatale roles.False431500Jessica Alba ropes 'em in "Sin City." False

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