TV PRESS TOUR: “Nip/Tuck” ending … in 2011

  As it started saying goodbye to “The Shield,” FX made a number of announcements today regarding its schedule at the Television Critics Association press tour.
  “Nip/Tuck” will return for eight episodes early next year, to be followed by 19 episodes that will end the series sometime in early 2011.
  The cable channel has ordered 39 episodes of the darkly funny “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” in addition to the 13-episode fourth season that will premiere Sept. 18.
  As a companion to “Sunny,” the channel has ordered 13 episodes of “Testees” (insert childish giggle here), about two 30-something friends who are professional guinea pigs.
  “Damages” has added Marcia Gay Harden to the cast, where she’ll join previously announced additions William Hurt and Timothy Olyphant. Ted Danson, whose Arthur Frobisher was shot and left for dead at the end of the first season of “Damages,” will return for “several episodes,” though, oddly, producers still won’t say whether Frobisher is still alive.
  Confirming recent speculation, Michael J. Fox will appear in four episodes, including the premiere, of “Rescue Me’s” next season, scheduled to begin in the spring, as the new boyfriend of Tommy Gavin’s (Denis Leary) ex-wife.
  And the fate of the critically acclaimed but low-rated “The Riches” is still up in the air.