In the romantic comedy “I’ll Take Romance,”...

In the romantic comedy “I’ll Take Romance,” Linda Evans has been cast to play a happily engaged TV reporter who spearheads a high-profile competition to find the most romantic man in San Francisco. Of course, she is bowled over by the dashing stranger in the process. The two-hour ABC movie will air next season.

“Midnight Caller” star Gary Cole has agreed to star as Gen. George Armstrong Custer in “Son of the Morning Star,” an ABC miniseries about the bloody Plains Indians Wars and the flamboyant cavalry officer who rode to destiny at the disastrous Battle of the Little Big Horn. The four-hour production, based on the acclaimed best seller by Evan S. Connell, will air during the 1990-91 season.

Vanessa Williams, Tim Reid and Alan Rachins join Raymond Burr in “Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer,” an NBC movie about a former law student of Perry Mason who is charged with the murder of his wife, a temperamental pop star. The upcoming NBC movie co-stars Kene Holliday, Nia Peeples, Alice Ghostley, Barbara Hale and William R. Moses.

The Kushner-Locke Co. has acquired the rights to develop and produce a television show based on the magazine Reader’s Digest. The proposed TV show would be produced in coordination with the magazine’s editors using a modular format that includes interviews, pre-produced segments and on-location reports. Reader’s Digest is published in 39 editions and 15 languages, with a circulation of more than 16 million in the United States.

MCA TV has agreed to an unprecedented 72-episode production commitment of “Harry and the Hendersons,” a new half-hour weekly TV series based on the 1987 film. The show will be produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television in association with Universal Television and Fox Television Stations. KTTV Channel 11 has already agreed to a three-year run of the new show, which is scheduled to debut next January.