‘NIP/Tuck” creator Ryan Murphy will return for the show’s fifth season on FX – and will develop other programming for Fox under a new deal announced yesterday.

With “Nip/Tuck” expanding to 22 episodes next season, Murphy will have his hands full.

But part of his new deal includes developing new projects with Twentieth TV, including a first-look deal with Fox.

Murphy will continue as the executive producer/writer/director of “Nip/Tuck,” which premiered in 2003 and holds the basic-cable record for ratings in the coveted adults 18-49 demo.

Murphy will develop both comedies and dramas for Fox.

He wrote and directed last fall’s big-screen movie, “Running with Scissors,” and is set to direct Meryl Streep and Annette Bening in “Dirty Tricks.”

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