Sheen will return to TV next summer in ‘Anger Management’ — a small-screen adaptation of the Adam Sandler/Jack Nicholson comedy from 2003 — FX Networks president John Landgraf announced today. FX has ordered 10 episodes of sitcom ‘Anger Management,’ with production set to begin in early 2012. Writer-producer Bruce Helford will act as executive producer and showrunner. But we’re not just talking about one season — if the show is a hit, FX will pick up an additional 90 episodes under a unique syndication model crafted by Lionsgate-owned distributor Debmar-Mercury for multiple Tyler Perry sitcoms and Revolution’s and Ice Cube’s ‘Are We There Yet?’ The series will air exclusively on FX until the off-network episodes start airing in broadcast syndication in fall 2014.

New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski says he didn’t intend to hurt the team’s reputation when he posed for photographs with an adult film performer. The performer, BiBi Jones, posted two pictures of her and Gronkowski on her Twitter account on Monday. She was wearing Gronkowski’s Patriots jerseyin both of them. In one, he was shirtless. They were taken during the Patriots’ bye week. Gronkowski, who is having an outstanding year in his second NFL season, met with team owner Robert Kraft afterward. Gronkowski said Wednesday that being in the pros is a learning process. “I didn’t intend anything to hurt the reputation of anyone on the New England Patriots or on behalf of Robert Kraft,” he said. “It was just a simple picture and that’s all.” Gronkowski is hardly the first pro athlete to be in Jones’ company. Jones (real name Britney Maclin) told a Boston radio station and businessinsider.com this week that a sports agent in Arizona regularly introduced her to major league baseball players last year as the agent tried to recruit potential clients. She said she enjoyed meeting the players and was never paid for her time. She didn’t identify the agent. “(The agent) would just take me to a bar and introduce me after a Diamondbacks game in Arizona,” she told businessinsider.com. “You know, baseball players would come and I’d introduce myself. And then I got to hook up with baseball players and have fun. It was like a dream come true because I love athletes and baseball’s my favorite sport. SportingNews

British scientists have engineered a new strain of broccoli that has three times the amount of a key nutrient that breaks down fat and fights heart disease. Already a healthy vegetable, the new broccoli was specially grown to contain extra glucoraphanin, a nutrient believed to help ward off heart disease. “Vegetables are a medicine cabinet already,” Richard Mithen, who led the team of scientists at the Institute for Food Research in Norwich, England, told The Associated Press. “When you eat this broccoli … you get a reduction in cholesterol in your blood stream.” The new broccoli tastes slightly sweeter than standard broccoli because it contains less sulfur. The key nutrient, glucoraphanin, breaks down fat, preventing it from clogging the arteries. It is only found in broccoli in significant amounts. To create the vegetable, sold as “super broccoli,” Mithen and his team cross-bred a traditional British broccoli with a wild, bitter Sicilian variety that has no flowery head, and a big dose of glucoraphanin. The hybrid took 14 years to produce with no genetic modification. It sells under the brand Beneforte in stores in California and Texas, and recently reached British shelves. Experts cautioned that it’s healthful benefits won’t compensate for bad dietary habits. “Eating this new broccoli is not going to counteract your bad habits,” Glenys Jones, a nutritionist at Britain’s Medical Research Council, told the AP.