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Janina Gavankar Joins CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Comedy Pilot In RecastingWith the fate of NBC freshman The Mysteries of Laura uncertain, the police dramedy’s Janina Gavankar has booked a pilot, CBS’ untitled hybrid comedy written by former Modern Family executive producer Dan O’Shannon and Peter Warren. Gavankar has been tapped for the regular role of Sabrina, though her casting is in a guest starring capacity as she is regular on Mysteries of Laura. Gavankar replaces Noureen DeWulf, who was cast last week. The change was made after the pilot’s table read.
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Elizabeth Perkins Joins ‘Preacher’ CastWeeds alumna Elizabeth Perkins is set for a co-starring role opposite Dominic Cooper in AMC drama pilot Preacher.
Perkins plays Vyla Quinncannon, a genteel but formidable businesswoman who owns the local slaughterhouse in Annville. Ambitious, strong-willed and terrifying, Vyla shares a past with Jesse’s father which gives her a singular hold over Jesse.
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Dominic Cooper Set For ‘Preacher’ LeadAfter lengthy negotiations, Dominic Cooper has closed a deal to play the lead in AMC drama pilot Preacher.
The project centers on Jesse Custer (Cooper), a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun), the three embark on a journey to literally find God.
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Shannon Tarbet Cast In HBO Pilot ‘Virtuoso'Shannon Tarbet has landed a regular role on Virtuoso, HBO’s classical music drama pilot from True Blood creator Alan Ball. Set against the complex and volatile backdrop of 18th century Vienna, it follows a class of young musical prodigies from all over Europe at the prestigious Academy of Musical Excellence.
Tarbet plays Ina, who lives on the streets of Vienna. She is poor and dirty but very pretty and with a huge spirit and tremendous energy for life. She and her street-musician boyfriend face daily danger on the mean streets and have to fight for their love and safety.
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Beth Hoyt To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘The Half Of It’, Morgan Krantz Also CastActress-comedian Beth Hoyt has been cast as a female lead opposite Jon Dore in The Half Of It. The Half Of It centers on Mike (Dore), a newly divorced dad who revels in the fact that he now gets to keep half his stuff, which is more than he ever had when he was married.
Hoyt plays Julie, Mike’s very best platonic friend and a true cheerleader in his new life. Krantz (Switched At Birth) plays Trevor, a card-carrying hipster not opposed to sharing a day-drink or two with his hipster roommates Geoffrey (David Del Rio) and Suzi (Christine Ko). Andrea Anders plays the other female lead, Megan, in a guest-starring capacity,
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Lucy Griffiths Cast In ‘Preacher’ Pilot
True Blood alumna Lucy Griffiths has joined the cast of AMC drama pilot Preacher, based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s cult 1990s comic. Dominic Cooper continues to be in negotiations for the lead in the project, from Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg, Sony TV and AMC Studios, which centers on Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga) and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun), the three embark on a journey to literally find God.
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Andrea Anders Cast In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘The Half Of It’Andrea Anders has been added to The Half Of It, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by Mike Gibbons and directed by James Burrows. Anders will play one of the female leads in the projects, Megan. The role had been conceived as regular but Anders was cast as a guest star as she already is a regular on another comedy pilot, NBC’s How We Live, which she just wrapped.
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David Koechner Joins Johnny Knoxville PilotDave Koechner has joined the cast of ABC’s untitled Johnny Knoxville pilot. Koechner, will play Knoxville’s dad.
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Brenda Song Joins NBC’s ‘Take It From Us'Brenda Song has booked a regular role on the NBC comedy pilot Take It From Us. Song will play Caitlin, who works in a bookstore/coffee bar. She grew up all over the world because her parents were humanitarian aid workers — which is a fancy way to say she grew up mostly in the jungle. She is still trying to adjust to life in civilization.
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Tracy Spiridakos To Co-Star In CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Comedy PilotRevolution alumna Tracy Spiridakos is set as the female lead opposite Adam Brody in the ensemble cast of CBS’ untitled comedy pilot written by former Modern Family executive producer Dan O’Shannon and writer Peter Warren. Directed by Pam Fryman, the project revolves around a group of friends and family at three different times in their lives. Spiridakos will play Holly, Andrew’s (Brody) crush when they were 12 years old. There’s an undeniable spark when they meet again at 25, and when they reconnect at 40, the spark is still there.
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Cheri Oteri Upped To Regular On ‘Not Safe For Work'Saturday Night Live alum Cheri Oteri has been boosted to series regular on NBC’s comedy pilot Not Safe For Work. The role originally was a guest star/potential recurring but was upgraded after the table read and now has a series option. Written by Aseem Batra and directed by Betsy Thomas, Not Safe For Work is a politically incorrect office comedy about best friends Dale (Michael Cassidy) and Georgie (Christine Woods) whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman
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David Del Rio Cast In ‘The Half of It’David Del Rio (Pitch Perfect) has been cast opposite Jon Dore in The Half Of It, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by Mike Gibbons and directed by James Burrows. The project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Mike (Dore), a newly divorced dad who revels in the fact that he now gets to keep half his stuff, which is more than he ever had when he was married. Del Rio plays Geoffrey, a hipster with a strong sense of “melting pot of styles” fashion, who frequently operates without a filter and fancies himself a “giver.
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Annaleigh Ashford Joins CBS Pilot ‘Super Clyde’CBS’ comedy lineup already features one Masters of Sex standout, Mom star Allison Janney. Now it is looking to add another. Annaleigh Ashford has been cast as a regular in the CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde. The single-camera Greg Garcia project, from CBS TV Studios, follows Clyde (Charlie McDermott), a meek, unassuming fast-food worker who decides to become a super hero. Ashford will play Britney, Clyde’s older brother Duke’s high school sweetheart who dumped him once she found out he would not be inheriting his uncle’s fortune.
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‘Shades Of Blue’ Casts Newcomer Hampton Fluker As Series RegularNewcomer Hampton Fluker has landed a regular role opposite Jennifer Lopez on Shades Of Blue, NBC’s straight-to-series drama directed by Barry Levinson. The series follows a tight-knit crew of police officers who are effective at keeping the streets safe but also corrupt when it comes to lining their pockets and protecting their own. When one of the officers (Lopez) is forced to become a federal informant, she must decide between her own family’s welfare and that of her police family.
Fluker will play Patrick Tufo, the precinct’s confident playboy whose sexual exploits often get him into trouble.
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Lolita Davidovich & David Clennon Among Cast Additions To ‘Dr. Del’ Indie PilotLolita Davidovich and David Clennon (Gone Girl) have joined the cast of Katie Jacobs and Nick Wechsler’s independently produced medical drama pilot Dr. Del, inspired by Peter Hessler’s New Yorker piece “Dr. Don.”
Written by John Sayles and directed by Jacobs, Dr. Del follows Del Canyon (John Hawkes) as he reluctantly returns to his small hometown of Isotope to run his family’s apothecary, the only source for medical attention for hundreds of miles. There, he emerges as the town healer while he grapples between his desire to distance himself from a painful past and his inability to turn his back on a community struggling to find its place in contemporary America. Davidovich plays Dawn Doggerty, the troubled wife of Mayor Tanner Doggerty (Ted Levine), who has harbored a long-standing secret affection for Del (Hawkes). Clennon plays Mr. Stone, a mysterious and ailing outsider who has relocated to the outskirts of Isotope. Also cast in the pilot is child actor Charlie Shotwell as Stinger Roper, Del’s precocious grandson. They also join previously cast Chloe Sevigny, Leven Rambin, Don Harvey and Nathan Keyes.
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Japheth Gordon & Joey Pollari Join NBC Pilot 'Take It From Us'Japheth Gordon and Joey Pollari have been cast in NBC comedy pilot Take It From Us.
Gordon will play Randy, the outgoing and charismatic roommate of Luke (Chris Douglass). Seemingly the only young, gay guy in New York looking for a longtime relationship, he is a romantic who believes every guy he meets is the right one.
Pollari will play Blake, son of Lucas and Alyson (Stacey Farber), who meets his seemingly conservative parents for dinner. He’s initially prepared to be bored, but when his parents begin talking about some wild incidents from their distant pasts — intended as life lessons for his own future — his ears perk up, and he starts paying very close attention.
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James Marsters Joins Jenji Kohan's HBO Drama Pilot The Devil You KnowThe Buffy alum is set to guest-star in the pilot for Jenji Kohan’s Salem Witch Trials drama The Devil You Know, playing Reverend George Burroughs — presumably not a fan of the ladies on trial.
He joins previously announced cast members Eddie Izzard (Hannibal) and Karen Gillan (Selfie), among others.
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Corbin Bernsen Cast In 'Living on Video'Corbin Bernsen has joined the cast of Living On Video, David Fincher’s HBO comedy pilot. Set in 1983 Los Angeles, it revolves around the players of the then-exploding music video industry — directors, record executives and crew members, many of them dabbling in drugs — through the eyes of a newcomer, Robby. Bernsen, will play Bill White, a successful Hollywood commercial director.
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Aalyrah Caldwell Joins 'Uncle BuckAalyrah Caldwell has landed a series regular role on Uncle Buck. Caldwell, plays Will’s daughter.
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Ernie Hudson to Recur on 'Delores & Jermaine'Ernie Hudson is set to recur on ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine. Written by comedian Jermaine Fowler based on his life, it stars Fowler as a millennial with big ideas, but very little drive, who moves in with his estranged grandmother (Whoopi Goldberg), a strict, football-loving, former D.C. cop who needs his youthful enthusiasm in her life as much as he needs her old-school parenting. Hudson will play the grandmother’s love interest.
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JLouis Mills Joins NBC Pilot 'Heart Matters'JLouis Mills has booked a regular role in NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Mills will play Dr. Forrester, who was left with a nasty scar and one arm by the war in Iraq.
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James Lesure Joins ABC Pilot 'Uncle Buck'James Lesure (Men At Work) is set to co-star opposite Mike Epps in Uncle Buck, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. Like the movie, the series adaptation, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, centers on Buck Russell (Epps), a childish man who learns how to be an adult by taking care of the kids of his younger yet more accomplished brother Will (Lesure) in a very childish way. Nia Long plays Will’s wife in the project.
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Chris Daughtry to Recur, Write Music for Fox Dramedy 'Studio City'The former American Idol contestant has boarded the cast of the network's dramedy pilot Studio City, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Daughtry will recur and play the role of Keith Rhodes, a drug-addicted rock star. Additionally, the lead vocalist/guitarist for Daughtry will also write original music for the dramedy.
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Mark Addy Joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Super Clyde’Still Standing star Mark Addy is returning to CBS with a co-starring role opposite The Middle‘s Charlie McDermott in Greg Garcia’s comedy pilot Super Clyde.
The single-camera project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Clyde (McDermott), a meek, unassuming, comic book-obsessive fast-food worker who finds his calling. When Clyde gets a really unexpected windfall — the inheritance from his long-dead eccentric Uncle Bill — he decides that his money will be his secret super power, used only for good. Addy will play Clyde’s sidekick, the fastidious, precise, careful and far-thinking Randolph. After assisting Clyde’s Uncle Bill in all his secret charitable endeavors during his employment as a butler, he soon becomes Clyde’s only confidante, the Alfred to Clyde’s Bruce Wayne, his assistant in doing good while staying under the radar.
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Adam Brody joins CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Comedy PilotThe O.C. alum Adam Brody will lead the ensemble cast of CBS’ untitled comedy pilot written by former Modern Family executive producer Dan O’Shannon and writer Peter Warren. Directed by Pam Fryman, the project revolves around a group of friends and family at three different times in their lives. Brody will play Andrew, a guy who sees the best in everything. Even at 40, when life’s twists and turns have taken a bit of wind out of his sails, it only takes the reappearance of his childhood crush, Holly, to awaken his love of life and belief in happy endings.
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Chris McDonald Cast In ‘Fantasy Life’ PilotChris McDonald (Boardwalk Empire) has joined Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life. He replaces James Caan, who was originally cast in the role but exited after the table read. Fantasy Life was written by Tim McAuliffe based on the memoir by top fantasy sports expert, ESPN’s Matthew Berry. When hard-working Mitch (Kevin Connolly) lands his ultimate dream job hosting a fantasy football show, he’s forced to navigate office politics while becoming the star he never thought he could be. McDonald will play the tough and humorless Chuck, a legendary ex-football player/coach who’s on Mitch’s new team working on Fox’s fantasy football league show. Chuck doesn’t get fantasy football since he played real football and suffered real pain, however, Mitch eventually impresses him, and the former football star is willing to work with him
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Chris Redd Joins ABC Pilot 'Family Fortune'Comedian and sketch performer Chris Redd has landed a series regular role opposite Fortune Feimster in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Family Fortune. Redd will play Steven, a kind-hearted music teacher at Fortune’s school.
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Affion Crockett Joins FOX Pilot 'Detour'In The Flow star Affion Crockett has been cast as a series regular in Fox’s single camera comedy pilot Detour. Crockett, will play Dominic, Michael’s manager. He is a reminder to Michael that the music industry is demanding his return.
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Christopher Mintz-Plasse cast in Jimmy Fallon's NBC pilot SharingChristopher Mintz-Plasse of “Superbad” fame has been cast as a series regular in the NBC pilot “Sharing,” Variety has learned exclusively.
The workplace comedy from exec producer Jimmy Fallon and Universal TV revolves around disparate groups of people who work side-by-side in a shared office space in New York City.
Mintz-Plasse will play Grant, an eager-to-please and confident office receptionist who tries hard and wants everyone to like him, but isn’t that competent.
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Chris Douglass Joins NBC Pilot 'Take It From Us'Newcomer Chris Douglass (Hollidaysburg) has been cast as the male lead opposite Stacy Farber in NBC comedy pilot Take It From Us. Douglass,will play Luke, who is not a rule follower but a risk taker. It’s that quality that led him to move from Seattle to New York without a college degree to try to be a journalist. So far, it’s working. Kind of. He’s a lowly headline writer but is hoping to get promoted soon.
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Trace Lysette Joins NBC Pilot 'The Curse Of The Fuentes Women'Trace Lysette (Transparent) has booked a series regular role in The Curse Of The Fuentes Women. Lysette, will play Gloria, the brash transgender hostess at Café Fuentes, Gloria is never shy about voicing her opinions, often to her own detriment.
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Gabrielle Dennis Joins FOX's Untitled Todd Harthan PilotGabrielle Dennis (Blue Mountain State, The Game) Gabrielle Dennis has booked a series regular role in Fox’s untitled Todd Harthan drama pilot. Dennis, will play Pippy Rosewood, Beaumont’s younger sister who is also a vital member of his pathology team.
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Maureen Sebastian Joins FOX Pilot 'Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life'Maureen Sebastian (Revolution) is set as a series regular in Fox comedy pilot Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life. Sebastian, will play Cooper’s over-achieving, loving and very self-sufficient sister-in-law Leslie Barrett.
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Maggie Lawson To Star In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Angel From Hell’Maggie Lawson is set as the co-lead opposite Jane Lynch in CBS’ half-hour single-camera comedy pilot Angel From Hell.
When the larger-than-life, brassy and flamboyant Amy (Lynch) enters Allison’s (Lawson) life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship, and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is an angel or just nuts. Allison, a multi-tasker and perfectionist, is inclined to believe that Amy (Lynch) is just another wingnut, except that every last one of Amy’s pronouncements comes true.
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Jaime Lee Kirchner To Star In CW Pilot ‘Dead People’Jaime Lee Kirchner (Mercy) is set as the female lead opposite Andrew J. West in the CW pilot Dead People. Kirchner, will play Charly, a tough, talented, no-nonsense cop who’s seen it all – but is unprepared for Floyd (West), who talks to the dead. Though she thinks he’s a nut case at first, she soon realizes he’s telling the truth and decides that he could prove to be very helpful with her police work.
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Bethany Joy Lenz cast in Shonda Rhimes Pilot Smoke & MirrorsBethany Joy Lenz is getting her con on.
The One Tree Hill alumna has landed a series-regular role in Smoke and Mirrors, Shonda Rhimes’ con artist-themed ABC drama pilot, TVLine has learned exclusively. (The project was FKA The Catch.)
The potential series centers on the strong successful Alice Martin (The Killing‘s Mirelle Enos), a fraud investigator who’s about to be the victim of fraud herself by fiancé Kieran (NCIS‘ Damon Dayoub). Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career.
Lenz will play Kieran’s wife Zoe, a girl-next-door-type who is able to pass as Kieran’s sister in their cons. She loves her husband and loves their life — amoral though it may be — and she’s going to hang on tight as she senses him slipping away from her.
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Minnie Driver joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Happy Life’About A Boy star Minnie Driver is set as the female lead opposite Steven Weber in Happy Life. Driver will play his wife Maggie, a former doctor who left that grind to embark on a new career teaching people “mindful meditation” out of her home studio. She’s the mother of Lucy and Andrew.
Driver has been cast as a guest star in the pilot as she is in second position to her sophomore NBC comedy series About A Boy, which is heavily on the bubble, with its renewal chances considered slim. Happy Life has a series regular option on Driver should the pilot go to series and About A Boy not come back.
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Michael Chiklis and Cheryl Hines join NBC Pilot ‘Cuckoo'Michael Chiklis is set to star and Cheryl Hines (Suburgatory) will co-star opposite Flula Borg in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series that starred Andy Samberg. NBC’s Cuckoo is the story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo (Borg), much to her father Ken’s (Chiklis) annoyance. Hines will play the mom, Lori.
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Kevin Nealon & Jane Kaczmarek join Tommy Johnagin CBS Comedy PilotWeeds alum Kevin Nealon and Malcolm In the Middle‘s Jane Kaczmarek are set to co-star opposite comedian Tommy Johnagin and JoAnna Garcia Swisher in CBS’ untitled CBS comedy pilot inspired by Johnagin’s life.
Nealon plays Tommy’s dad Jack, a charming but manipulative loose cannon who flirts with every woman and says everything with a smile — but has a self-destructive streak and ruined his marriage to Linda (Kaczmarek), Tommy’s responsible mother who owns a local diner. Linda still treats her adult children like babies and loves a chance to brag about Tommy’s talk-show appearances and career path. She has held her ex-husband in absolute contempt for the past 17 years and forces him to eat at the crappiest seat in her restaurant. Swisher plays Tommy’s wife.
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James Caan Exits Fox Pilot ‘Fantasy Life’James Caan has departed Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life following its table read today. Caan was a last-minute addition to the project; he only closed his deal three days ago. Caan had a previous commitment to Sicilian Vampire, a movie written and directed by Frank D’Angelo, which is starting production in Toronto with Paul Sorvino, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Daniel Baldwin, Franco Nero and Eric Roberts co-starring. When Caan signed on for Fantasy Life, the two sides believed that the dates for the movie and the pilot would be worked out. That no longer is the case, leading to Caan’s departure. His role is being recast.
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Jason Scott Lee Joins NBC Pilot 'Warrior'Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) has booked a series regular role in Warrior, NBC’s magical martial arts drama pilot. Lee, will play Koto, a martial arts master chosen to recruit Kai (Martinez) to work with Interpol on stopping a Japanese organized crime syndicate.
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D.L. Hughley Cast In NBC Pilot ‘Heart Matters'D.L. Hughley (The Original Kings Of Comedy) has joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Hughley will play Dr. Hackett, the psychiatrist at the hospital.
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Ian Colletti Joins AMC Pilot 'Preacher' as ArsefaceAMC’s Preacher adaptation has cast another character from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s cult comic. Young actor Ian Colletti (Fox’s Rake) has joined the drama pilot, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The project from Sony TV and AMC Studios is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy, the three embark on a journey to literally find God.
Colletti plays Eugene Root, aka Arseface. Even with his horribly disfigured face and severe speech impediment, Eugene’s still the nicest kid you’ll ever meet and really looks up to Jesse. Stomach-churningly difficult to look at, Eugene’s the town’s reviled Frankenstein’s monster, but that won’t change his earnest, sweet and pure outlook on life. However, he is troubled by something terrible he’s done in the past — something he fears might have turned God himself against him.
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Ravi Patel Joins FOX Pilot 'Grandpa'Ravi Patel (Transformers) has booked a series regular role opposite John Stamos in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Grandpa. Patel, will play Ken, Jimmy’s (Stamos) good friend who is always up for a party but is never invited to one.
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Charlie Saxton Joins FOX Pilot 'Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s'Charlie Saxton (Hung, Betas) is set as a series regular in Fox comedy pilot Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s. Saxton, will play Neal Kang one of Cooper’s roommates. Fresh out of college, he is excited about his new job working in an office, designing scalable software platforms, but terrified about the number of strangers he’s going to have to interact with.
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Robbie Jones Joins NBC Pilot 'The Curse Of The Fuentes Women'Robbie Jones (Hellcats) has joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot The Curse Of The Fuentes Women, as a series regular. Jones, will play Jean-Baptiste, the line cook at Café Fuentes who’s taken over for Esperanza (Ticotin). With business dwindling he spends most of his time gawking at his boss, Lola (Vidal), whom he’s desperately in love with.
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Ruth Negga Lands Female Lead In AMC Pilot ‘Preacher’EXCLUSIVE: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Ruth Negga has been cast as the female lead in Preacher. The project, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, is about Jesse Custer, a conflicted Preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Negga) — Jesse’s former and only true love — and an Irish vampire named Cassidy, the three embark on a journey to literally find God. Tulip is described as a volatile, action-packed, sexified force of nature, a capable, unrepentant criminal with a love of fashion and ability to construct helicopter-downing bazookas out of coffee cans and corn shine who’s not afraid to steal, kill or corn cob-stab her way out of a bad situation.
Negga is the first actor cast in Preacher, from Sony TV and AMC Studios. Rogen and Goldberg developed the project for television and will direct the pilot, written by Sam Catlin who serves as showrunner.
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Page Kennedy Joins 'Rush Hour'Page Kennedy (Backstrom) has booked a role in CBS’ hourlong pilot Rush Hour. He will play Gerald, Carter’s (Hires) cousin. Gerald runs with a rough crowd, and he’s in the know about a lot of stuff that is often helpful to a police investigation. He comes off as vicious and terrifying, but it’s merely an act.
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Joshua Leonard Joins NBC Pilot 'Heart Matters'Joshua Leonard (If I Stay) has joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Leonard, will play Max, Alex’s (George) ex-husband
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Mario Van Peebles & Leonardo Nam Join ‘For Justice'Mario Van Peebles (Ali) has been cast in a guest role with a series option in CBS’ civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice. Also joining as a series regular is Leonardo Nam (Vantage Point).
Peebles will play Ben, Nat’s (Rose) father. He’s a long-time revolutionary, determined to overthrow the American government by subversion or political action, and he’s been living an underground life for decades. Nam is Leon, an FBI agent with the Civil Rights Unit and the best-dressed, best-groomed man in the Bureau. He’s also ranked in mixed martial arts.
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Christina Moore Joins ‘Delores & Jermaine’Christina Moore (Last Man Standing) is set as a series regular opposite Jermaine Fowler and Whoopi Goldberg in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine. Moore, plays Ebony, Jermaine’s mother, Marsha’s new wife.
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Khary Payton Joins ABC Pilot 'The Kingmakers'Khary Payton (Teen Titans) has landed a series regular role in ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers. Payton, will play Ben Wheeler, a laid-back and casual professor who is an anomaly among his stuffed-shirt peers at Braddock.
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Rita Moreno, Alli Kinzel & Noland Ammon Join CBS Pilot ‘Joe Time'Rita Moreno has booked a series regular role in CBS’ multi-cam comedy pilot Joe Time.
Moreno will play Judy, Joe’s (Weber) mom. She’s in love with her husband Mitch, and also preoccupied with physical fitness and her amazing personal trainer. Also cast in regular roles are Alli Kinzel and Noland Ammon. Kinzel is Lucy, the daughter and eldest child of Joe ( Weber), who works with him in the family construction business. Ammon plays Andrew, the son and youngest child of Joe, a piano player who thinks it’s cool to accompany his grandfather during his cabaret performance.
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Vanessa Lachey To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Not Safe For Work’Vanessa Lachey (Fox’s Dads) is set as a lead opposite Michael Cassidy and Christine Woods in NBC’s comedy pilot Not Safe For Work. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie (Woods) whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman, Drea (Lachey), the perky local morning news anchor who is self-conscious about maintaining her image.
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Fox's 'Lucifer' Adds Lesley-Ann Brandt in RecastingThe 'Librarians' actress will replace Lina Esco in the pilot adaptation of the DC Comics title.
The Librarians actress Lesley-Ann Brandt is replacing the previously cast Lina Esco in the network's DC Comics adaptation, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Brandt will take on the role of Maze, Lucifer's best friend and a fierce demon in the form of a beautiful young woman.
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Cara Buono In NBC’s ‘Endgame’Mad Men alumna Cara Buono has joined the cast of NBC drama pilot Endgame. Buono will play Ginny, Alex’s ex-wife, a hardworking surgeon who struggles with her sobriety.
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Tim Blake Nelson Joins CBS Pilot ‘For Justice'Tim Blake Nelson (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?) has booked a series regular role opposite Anika Noni Rose in CBS’ civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice. Nelson, will play Ochs Rainey, a chief with the Civil Rights Unit. He is a former angry Southern boy from a Klan family who has learned to move past his legacy of racism.
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Jamie Lynn Sigler Cast In ‘Fantasy Life’The Sopranos alumna Jamie Lynn Sigler will co-star opposite Kevin Connolly, Vanessa Williams, and James Caan in Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life. Sigler will play Abby, a strong, confident, attractive, smart, sports analyst on Mitch’s Fantasy Football league show.
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Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Joins CBS Pilot ‘Limitless’Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will co-star opposite Jake McDorman and Jennifer Carpenter in CBS’ drama pilot Limitless. Mastrantonio will play Nasreen ‘Naz’ Awad, a former prosecutor who joined the FBI in her mid-30s and serves as the Special Agent in Charge of the division that investigates and tracks NZT.
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Mohammad Bakri Joins 'Of Kings And Prophets'Mohammad Bakri (Tyrant) has booked one of the male leads opposite Ray Winstone in ABC’s drama pilot Of Kings And Prophets. Bakri will play Samuel, last of the Biblical judges. He alone hears and speaks for God.
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Ciara Bravo In Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’Red Band Society star Ciara Bravo has landed a series regular role on Fox pilot Frankenstein. Bravo will play Gracie, Ray’s (Hall) granddaughter.
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Kristin Bauer Van Straten Joins ABC Pilot ‘The Kingmakers'Kristin Bauer van Straten (Once Upon A Time, True Blood) has been cast as a series regular in ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers.
Bauer van Straten will play Maeve Vandemeer, an art professor at Braddock, who is married to the dean of the school and has a complicated ongoing affair with Senator Walden (Adrian Pasdar).
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Hill Harper Joins CBS Pilot ‘Limitless’CSI: NY alum Hill Harper is returning to CBS with a co-starring role opposite Jake McDorman and Jennifer Carpenter in CBS’ drama pilot Limitless.
Harper plays Boyle, a former military officer who is now an FBI asset with experience testing the effects of NZT on FBI Special Agents.
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America Ferrera Lands Female Lead in NBC's 'Superstore'Ugly Betty is headed to a strip mall near you.
Ferrera, in what would be her first major TV gig since Ugly Betty signed off in 2010, will star as Cloud 9’s longtime floor supervisor Amy, who is initially put off by newbie Jonah’s (Feldman) unconsciously superior attitude, as well as his clowning around on the job. Despite a rocky start, the two quickly bond as Jonah gets Amy to find more joy at work, and she starts to become quite allured by the new hire. In addition to starring, Ferrera will retain a producer title on the potential series.
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Mary Lynn Rajskub Joins ABC’s Untitled Judah Miller Project24 vet Mary Lynn Rajskub has joined the cast of ABC’s Untitled Judah Miller Project in a series-regular role, TVLine has confirmed. Rajskub will play Susie, the self-serving and opportunistic twin sister of Grunberg’s Gary.
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Reed Birney & Luke Slattery Join 'LFE'Reed Birney (House Of Cards) and Luke Slattery have joined the cast of CBS pilot LFE. Birney, will play Scotty, the terminally ill father of new surgical resident Joe (Daniel Sharman) and Bobby (Slattery), a troublemaking high school senior who happens to be brilliant.
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Marissa Jaret Winokur In Judah Miller PilotMarissa Jaret Winokur has booked a series regular role in ABC’s untitled Judah Miller comedy pilot. Winokur, who is married to Judah Miller, will play Donna, the ultimate normal soccer mom and a foil to Tony Award-winning Irene (Hilty).
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Adrian Pasdar Joins ABC’s ‘The Kingmakers'Adrian Pasdar (Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) has joined the cast of ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers.
Pasdar, will play Senator Adam Walden, possibly a member of a secret society who is running for president.
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James Floyd Joins ‘Of Kings And Prophets’James Floyd (My Brother The Devil) has landed a series regular role opposite Maisie Richardson-Sellers and Ray Winstone on ABC’s drama pilot Of Kings And Prophets. Floyd, will play Ish-Boseth, the youngest warrior son of Saul and Ahinoam. He next will be seen in crime thriller Newcomer.
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Alimi Ballard Joins 'The Catch'Alimi Ballard (Fast Five, Numb3rs) has booked a series regular role in ABC pilot The Catch. Based on the novel by Kate Atkinson, the story centers on Alice (Mireille Enos), whose engagement to Kieran (Damon Dayoub) suddenly is shattered when she discovers she’s been conned. Ballard portrays Evan, a successful gallerist and closest friend to the couple who is shocked to learn they have all been swindled.
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Rupert Graves & Madeleine Arthur To Co-Star In ABC’s Jenna Bans PilotRupert Graves (V For Vendetta) has landed a lead role opposite Joan Allen in the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan.
Graves, will play John (fka Peter Warren), Claire’s (Allen) handsome, warm and charismatic husband. For the past 12 years he has poured his energy into writing a book series about grief as the loss of their child took a toll on his and Claire’s relationship. Also cast is Madeleine Arthur (Big Eyes, The Tomorrow People) as the young Willa Warren, who becomes frantic when her little brother Adam goes missing.
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James Caan To Co-Star In Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Fantasy Life’James Caan is set for a co-starring role opposite Kevin Connolly and Vanessa Williams in Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life.
Caan plays the tough and humorless Chuck, an ex-legendary football player/coach who’s on Mitch’s new team working on Fox’s fantasy football league show. Chuck doesn’t get fantasy football since he played real football and suffered real pain, however, Mitch eventually impresses him, and the former football star is willing to work with him.
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Cynthia McWilliams Gets Female Lead In ‘Love Is a Four Letter Word’ NBC Pilot, Meta Golding ExitsA second drama pilot this season is making a major casting change with an actress getting promoted to a lead role after the table read in a recasting. Cynthia McWilliams, originally tapped for the series regular role of Tandi in the NBC pilot Love Is a Four Letter Word, will now play the female lead Julie. She replaces previously cast Meta Golding, who is leaving.
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Newcomer Gus Halper Lands The Lead In ABC Pilot ‘The Kingmakers’Will ABC’s drama pilot The Kingmakers be a star maker? After a lengthy search, the project has cast newcomer Gus Halper as the lead. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers, from ABC Studios, centers on Eli (Halper), a young man whose sister Julia is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university. He adopts a new identity to infiltrate the school and its century-old secret society – consisting of privileged students, ambitious faculty and high-profile alums – in order to investigate her death.
Halper is a heartthrob in the making — the 2014 University of North Carolina School of the Arts graduate played Romeo in his drama school’s production of the Shakespeare classic last spring.
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Greg Grunberg To Star In ABC Judah Miller Family Comedy PilotGreg Grunberg is set as the male lead opposite Megan Hilty in ABC’s untitled Judah Miller comedy pilot. The single-camera project centers on a Tony Award-winning mother (Hilty) and a risk-averse, cerebral father (Grunberg) who are blessed with a son who is a natural-born competitive athlete. They are forced outside their parental comfort zones and into the high-octane world of youth sports. Grunberg’s Gary is a geriatric doctor and is a cautious and practical father and husband.
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Ben Feldman To Topline NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Superstore’Mad Men alum Ben Feldman will lead the cast of NBC comedy pilot Superstore. Superstore is about a group of employees at a big-box store and examines love, friendship and the beauty of everyday moments. It centers on Jonah (Feldman), a boyish college grad who’s never had a job before and wants a taste of the real world. His unwittingly elitist behavior initially alienates him from his floor manager and co-workers at a big-box store but his charisma, zest for life, and eternal optimism is contagious and endears him to his fellow staffers.
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Justin Hires Cast As Carter In ‘Rush Hour’ CBS PilotCBS and Warner Bros. TV are going with unknown actors for both leads in the Rush Hour series remake, which probably makes sense given how closely associated the roles are with Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan, who played them in the movie franchise. Little known actor-comedian Justin Hires (21 Jump Street, Key & Peele) beat out several bigger names to play Carter opposite Jon Foo’s Lee in CBS’ hourlong action pilot Rush Hour.
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Morgan Krantz Joins 'The Half Of It'Morgan Krantz (Switched At Birth) has booked a series regular role on The Half Of It, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by Mike Gibbons and directed by James Burrows.
Krantz, will play Trevor, Mike’s (Dore) Bohemian hipster neighbor.
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Chaz Lamar Shepherd Joins 'Fantasy Life'Chaz Lamar Shepherd (7th Heaven) is set as aChaz Lamar Shepherd series regular opposite Kevin Connolly and Vanessa Williams on Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life.
Shepherd, will play MC2, a pro football player and one of the analysts for Mitch’s Fox Fantasy Football show.
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Marin Hinkle Joins 'The King of 7B'Marin Hinkle (Two And A Half Men) has landed a series regular role in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot The King Of 7B. Hinckle will play Charlotte, Prentiss’s sister, formerly a stylish deb, now a Peta zealot who eschews beauty products and wears only “natural fabrics”.
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Chris Johnson, Megan Dodds & Matthew LeNevez Join 'Runner'UPDATES: Chris Johnson (The Vampire Diaries) and Megan Dodds (The Contract) have booked series regular roles opposite Adam Rodriguez and Paula Patton in ABC’s drama pilot Runner.
Johnson, will play Josh, a handsome and artistic architect and Lauren’s business partner. Dodds, plays Emily, Simon’s wife. Also cast is Matthew LeNevez, who plays Adam, a pediatric surgeon.
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Marcia Gay Harden Takes Over The Lead In ‘Code Black’, Bonnie Somerville CastEXCLUSIVE: There is a major casting change on the CBS medical drama pilot Code Black. Marcia Gay Harden, originally cast in the co-starring role of Christa, will now play the lead, Leanne. Bonnie Somerville has been tapped to replace Harden as Christa.
The lead in Code Black became vacant after the table read earlier this week when 31-year-old Maggie Grace, originally cast in the role, was released. As part of the recasting process, the pilot’s producers and casting directors looked at other actresses in Leanne’s suggested age range (35). While that was going on, they also started thinking of Harden in the role. It is not a conventional choice as Harden is 24 years older than Grace. But I hear that the executives felt the Oscar winner had the gravitas they felt the role needed. Leanne is described as the residency director in the ER, who is a force of nature and a force to be reckoned with. A decision was made to age up the Leanne character and age down Christa, with Somerville tapped to play the tweaked character. Christa, a former soccer mom whose son died of cancer, is a newly minted, talented and dedicated doctor whose experience handling her son’s disease, coupled with her intuition and life experience, makes her see things that often escape her younger fellow residents.
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Rachel Boston joins CBS’ ‘For Justice’Witches Of East End alum Rachel Boston is set as a series regular in CBS’ civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice. Boston, will play Lisa, everyone’s favorite kid sister and another DOJ lawyer with Nat’s team.
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Jamie Kennedy Joins NBC Pilot ‘Heart Matters'Jamie Kennedy (The Cleveland Show) has landed a lead role in NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Kennedy, plays Dr. Callahan, a great surgeon despite his obnoxious manner.
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HBO Pilot ‘The Devil You Know': Ever Carradine & Damien Molony, Karen Gillan and More Among AdditionsHBO drama pilot The Devil You Know (working title), co-written by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller, is building out its cast. Joining previously announced Eddie Izzard, Nadia Alexander and Ismenia Mendes in series regular roles are Ever Carradine, Damien Molony, Julian Rhind Tutt, Matthew James Thomas, Nigel Lindsay, Ewen Bremner, Karen Gillan, Hannah Nordberg, Naian Gonzalez Norvind and Zawe Ashton. Tapped as recurring are Will Pullen, Kate Nash. and Seana Kofoed.
Carradine will play Ann Putnam Sr., Thomas’ (Izzard) wife who is sickly but strong among her peers. Molony is Robert Putnam, Thomas’ (Izzard) eldest son. Tutt plays Minister Samuel Parris, a hard-line Puritan, who isn’t very popular, until the accusations start. Thomas is Henry Paine, a newcomer from England. Lindsay plays Dr. Griggs, a man of science and reason. Bremner is Israel Porter, patriarch of the powerful Porter clan. Gillan plays Jane Porter, youngest daughter of Israel Porter. Nordberg is Betty Parris, Samuel Parris’ daughter. Norvind, is Samuel Parris’ niece. Ashton, is the Parris’ slave brought from Barbados. She truly loves Betty, whom she’s cared for since birth. Pullen recurs as Moses Cooper, Nash as Bridget Bishop.
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Majandra Delfino To Star In ABC Molyneux Comedy PilotMajandra Delfino is set as the female lead opposite James Roday in ABC’s untitled Molyneux comedy pilot (aka The Brainy Bunch).
Through a combination of genetics and dynamic home schooling, Kip (Roday) — a former Special Forces Operations Sergeant — and MonaLisa Mitchell (Delfino) — a teacher with PH.D. in literature who believes that everyone on Earth is born with a special gift — find themselves raising seven brilliant kids.
Zoe Colletti, Spencer Tomich and Harrison Holzer have been cast as three of the kids. Griffith plays MonaLisa’s mother who takes them into her Orange County home.
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D.B. Woodside, Rachael Harris Join Fox Drama Pilot ‘Lucifer’24 star D.B. Woodside and Rachael Harris (The Hangover) have landed series regular roles in Fox’s comic book drama pilot Lucifer.
Woodside, repped by DBA and MJ Management, will play Amenadiel, an angel sent to L.A. to persuade Lucifer to return to hell. Harris is Linda, a therapist Lucifer initially encounters when working with Chloe to solve a case; Lucifer then seeks Linda’s professional advice.
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Alano Miller has landed a lead role in WGN America’s straight-to-series drama 'Underground'Miller will play Cato, a striking, cunning, and oddly charismatic slave on the plantation, who’s despised and feared by the other slaves.
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Alex Meneses In NBC’s ‘Telenovela’Alex Meneses (Selena) has booked the final series regular role opposite Eva Longoria in NBC’s 13-episode single-camera comedy series Telenovela starring and executive produced by Eva Longoria.
Menese will play Isabella, an aging but beautiful Latina actress trying to pass for 28 years old. She’s bitter about getting older and blames Ana (Longoria) for the fact that she is no longer a leading lady. Isabella will do whatever it takes to claw her way back into the spotlight.
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Kelly Jenrette Joins 'Grandpa'Kelly Jenrette (Frisky Dingo) has booked a series regular role opposite John Stamos in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Grandpa, from ABC Studios and 20th TV. Grandpa centers on Jimmy (Stamos), a charismatic longtime bachelor whose life is upended when he discovers he’s a father — and a grandfather. Jenrette, will play Annalise, the assistant manager at Jimmy’s restaurant.
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Samantha Logan & Jordan Calloway Join 'Studio City'Samantha Logan (The Fosters), Jordan Calloway (Drumline: A New Beat) and Timothy Granaderos have joined the cast of Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City.
Logan, will play Emma, Rob’s (McCormack) daughter and Cat’s (Pugh) half-sister. Calloway will play Griffin, a local skateboarder who connects with Cat upon her arrival, Granaderos is Mateo, the teenaged son of Stevie (Heather Graham), and an accomplished graffiti artist who is not afraid to go to juvie for his art.
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Nicholas Gonzalez Joins ‘Lucifer'Nicholas Gonzalez (Sleepy Hollow) has landed a series regular role in Fox’s comic book drama pilot Lucifer.
Gonzalez, will play Dan, a gruff LAPD homicide detective, who is wary of Lucifer’s (Ellis) involvement with his wife and daughter.
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James Roday To Star In ABC Molyneux Comedy PilotUPDATED: Psych star James Roday is set as the male lead opposite Melanie Griffith in ABC’s untitled Molyneux comedy pilot (aka The Brainy Bunch), from Imagine TV and 20th TV.
The single-camera Molyneux project, written/executive produced by Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux and directed by Jamie Travis, is inspired by the book by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding. Through a combination of genetics and dynamic home schooling, Kip (Roday) and Mona Lisa Mitchell find themselves raising extraordinarily intelligent kids. Kip is a former Special Forces Operations sergeant, now a stay-at-home father to his seven brilliant children. Griffith plays Kip’s mother-in-law who takes them into her Orange County home. Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo executive produce.
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Kieran Bew Cast As Lead In ITV’s ‘Beowulf’Kieran Bew (Da Vinci’s Demons) has been cast to play the lead role of Beowulf in ITV’s epic re-imagining of the iconic Old English poem following the exploits of the titular warrior as he battles a fearsome monster during Britain’s Dark Ages.
Kieran will star alongside William Hurt (Humans), and Joanne Whalley (Wolf Hall). Created by James Dormer (Strike Back), Tim Haines (Primeval) and Katie Newman (Primeval), the action-packed 13 part series is produced by ITV Studios and set in the mythical Shieldlands, a place of spectacle and danger populated by both humans and fantastical creatures. Dormer will write and exec produce.
Ed Speleers (Downton Abbey) and David Ajala (Black Box) have also been cast along with Ian Puleston- Davies (Coronation Street), Ellora Torchia (Indian Summers), Gisli Orn Gardarsson (Spooks and Spirits) Susan Aderin (The Last Detective), Kirsty Oswald (Ripper Street), Laura Donnelly (Outlander), Edward Hogg (Indian Summers), Alex Price (Father Brown), Jack Rowan (Silent Witness) and Itoya Osagiede (Okora: The Prelude).
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Kristen Hager & Christine Evangelista To Star In ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’Being Human alumna Kristen Hager has landed the female lead opposite Terry O’Quinn in ABC drama pilot The Adversaries. Also cast in the project, from writer/executive producer David Zabel and ABC Studios, is Christine Evangelista (Chicago Fire).
Adversaries centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter Jess (Hager) must decide which side she will fight on. Evangelista plays Jess’ younger sister Emma who works at her dad’s law firm as a paralegal. Christine Lahti co-stars as Jess and Emma’ mom and Charles’ estranged wife.
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Jennifer Carpenter To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Limitless’Dexter alumna Jennifer Carpenter is set as the female lead opposite Jake McDorman in CBS’ drama pilot Limitless, based on the 2011 feature starring Bradley Cooper.
Carpenter plays Rebecca, ’ a dynamic investigator who has risen quickly within the FBI, but hasn’t come to terms yet with her background that initially drove her into a career in law enforcement.
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Rarmian Newton Joins Untitled ABC/Jenna Bans PilotAustralian actor Rarmian Newton (Dance Academy) has signed on for a series regular role in the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan. Newton, will play young Danny Warren the wise-ass, abrasive athlete Zach Gilford’s character was 12 years ago.
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Amir Talai Joins ""The King of 7B'Amir Talai (Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay) has booked a series regular role in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot The King Of 7B. The ensemble project focuses on Prentiss Porter (Craig Ferguson), an agoraphobic recluse who ventures outside for the first time in 11 years when he spies what could be his soulmate moving into the building across the street. Talai will play Darren, the deluded millennial owner of the bodega in the building where Porter lives.
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Jonathan Slavin and Krista Marie Yu Join 'Dr. Ken'Jonathan Slavin (Better Off Ted) and Krista Marie Yu (The Thundermans) have been cast opposite Ken Jeong in the ABC comedy pilot Dr. Ken from Sony TV and ABC Studios. Dr. Ken stars Jeong as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling medicine, marriage and parenting — and succeeding at none of them. Slavin, is Hector, a dim-witted but big-hearted nurse who is loyal to his boss and friend, Ken. Yu will play Molly, Ken’s daughter who is trying to rebel.
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Amber Valletta Joins ABC Drama Pilot ‘Boom'Revenge and Legends alumna Amber Valletta is set to co-star opposite Chace Crawford and Don Johnson in ABC drama pilot Boom. Actress-model Valletta, plays oil tycoon Hap’s (Johnson’s) glamorous, brilliant young new wife, an ex-Goldman Sachs oil-desk type with a masters from Wharton who also is his sharp-as-ice business partner.
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Nichole Bloom Joins 'Superstore'Nichole Bloom (Shameless) has booked a regular role in NBC comedy pilot Superstore. Superstore is about a group of employees at a big-box store and examines love, friendship and the beauty of everyday moments. Bloom, will play Cheyenne, a very pregnant teenage employee who’s sweet, unsophisticated, and naive — as evidenced by the fact that she allows customers to purchase laptop computers for the mismarked price of 25 cents.
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Andy Ridings Joins 'Take It From Us'Andy Ridings (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) is set as a regular in the NBC comedy pilot Take It From Us. Described as a love story told in flashbacks in 1990s New York, Take It From Us is about a couple, Alyson and Lucas, who tells their son the lessons they learned growing up in the ’90s in hopes he and his fiancée can avoid making the same mistakes. Ridings, will play Spencer, a cocky, self-proclaimed genius who is really not that bright.
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Maya Erskine Joins 'Heart Matters'Maya Erskine (Man Seeking Woman) has joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters.
Erskine will play Gi Sung, a nurse with a dry wit who works closely with Dr. Panttiere (George) and is probably the only female staff member who gets along with her.
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Ed Westwick Joins ‘L.A. Crime'Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick has landed one of the male leads in ABC’s drama pilot L.A. Crime, from ABC Studios and Mandeville.
Westwick will play Kent, a twisted serial killer who preys on young women who have come to L.A. to become famous.
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Morgan Spector Joins ABC Pilot ‘Broad SquadFive days after NBC pulled Allegiance, the series’ co-star Morgan Spector has landed a new series regular gig: a male lead role in ABC’s period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad.
Spector plays Tommy Anthony, a scruffy, sideburned, loose cannon of a cop who sidles up to Lisa at a bar, unprepared for her outpouring of vitriol. He’s later assigned as Lisa’s training officer, and they navigate a complex relationship, both of them strong-willed and unaccepting of each other.
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Riley Smith Cast In ‘Studio City’True Blood alum Riley Smith has been cast opposite Eric McCormick and Florence Pugh in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City.
Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA and tells the story of a young singer’s (Pugh) path to stardom, as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars. Smith plays Jax, a hip, sexy, charismatic rocker dude musician and Rob’s songwriting partner.
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Paget Brewster To Co-Star In John Stamos Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Grandpa’Brewster plays Jimmy’s old girlfriend Sara, a former rocker chick who became pregnant with his child 26 years ago, but has raised their child, Gerald, single-handedly. She never made Jimmy aware of his son’s existence — but now, Gerald wants a strong father figure to teach him how to navigate the rocky shoals of romance, so Sara is forced to disrupt Jimmy’s long bachelorhood at long last. She’s seemingly contemptuous of his bachelor persona — but underneath, their old attraction may still be simmering on the back.
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Caitlin Carver & Yani Gellman Join ABC Pilot ‘Boom’Caitlin Carver (The Fosters) and Yani Gellman (Pretty Little Liars) have booked series regular roles opposite Chace Crawford, Don Johnson and Delroy Lindo in the ABC drama pilot Boom.
Carver will play Lacey Boyd, the younger daughter of Hap (Johnson). Gellman will play A.J. Menendez, Hap’s personal driver who leads a triple life: He’s not only Lacey’s clandestine lover, he’s a spy for the reigning family of Saudi Arabia as a member of its royal family. And Lacey’s pillow talk gets passed along to the Middle East as soon as she falls asleep.
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Jake McDorman To Topline CBS Pilot ‘Limitless’EXCLUSIVE: Jake McDorman is set as the lead in CBS’ drama pilot Limitless, based on the feature starring Bradley Cooper.
The pilot, executive produced by Cooper, follows Brian Sinclair (McDorman) as he discovers the power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced into using his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI.
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Teddy Sears To Star In CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’Teddy Sears (Masters of Sex, American Horror Story) is set as the male lead opposite KaDee Strickland in Doubt.
The project centers on Sadie (Srickland), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients, Billy (Sears) who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Billy is a decent, altruistic pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering a 15-year-old girl many years ago, who is having a secret love affair with Sadie.
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Kyle Bornheimer, Kevin Pollak to Co-Star in CBS' 'Angel From Hell'The network has tapped Kyle Bornheimer and Mom grad Kevin Pollak to co-star in the pilot starring Glee's Jane Lynch, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Bornheimer, will play Brad, Allison's younger brother who lives rent-free over her garage, and has a life-long crush on her best friend Jill.
Pollak, is set as Marv, Allison's father and a veteran dermatologist who has made Allison his junior partner.
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Melissa Leo Joins CBS Pilot ‘LFE’Oscar and Emmy-winning actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Treme) has joined the cast of CBS medical drama pilot LFE.
Leo will play Julie, an attending physician in the surgical wing and a den mother to the second year residents. While her attempts to be a part of her own family clan are never fully successful, the young residents, at least, need her guidance in their lives and give her the relationship she wishes she had with her own children.
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Gabriel Luna To Star In ABC’s ‘LA Crime’Matador star Gabriel Luna is set as the co-lead opposite Adam Rothenberg in ABC’s drama pilot L.A. Crime.
In the first installment, L.A. Crime: The Sunset Strip, two LA cops, Jack Roth (Rothenberg) and Paco Contreras (Luna), will be searching for a Bonnie & Clyde-esque serial-killing team amid the coke-infused rock ‘n’ roll, revelry of the 1980s Sunset Strip. Paco is Jack’s newly transferred partner who struggles to fit in with the unit, since he was responsible for the demise of Jack’s old partner.
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Anne Winters Lands Regular Role on 'L.A. Crime'Anne Winters (Tyrant) has landed a regular role opposite Adam Rothenberg and Holley Fain in ABC’s drama pilot L.A. Crime: The Sunset Strip. Winters will play Vicki Roth, Jack (Rothenberg) and Trish’s (Holley Fain) daughter.
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Enuka Okuma Joins as a Lead in 'The Adversaries'Enuka Okuma (Rookie Blue) is set as a lead opposite Terry O’Quinn and Christine Lahti in the ABC drama pilot The Adversaries. From ABC Studios and writer/executive producer David Zabel, it centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter who must decide which side she will fight on. Okuma plays an attorney at Fisher’s firm.
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Dilshad Vadsaria Joins ‘Frankenstein'Dilshad Vadsaria (Revenge) has been cast in a lead role in the Fox pilot Frankenstein. Vadsaria will play Mary Goodwin, the beautiful, brilliant young woman, who with her brother Otto, have built a Cyber empire.
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Chace Crawford To Topline ABC Pilot ‘Boom’EXCLUSIVE: Gossip Girl heartthrob Chace Crawford is returning to television as the lead in ABC drama pilot Boom.
The show tracks the epic pilgrimage of a young, ambitious couple, Billy (Crawford) and Kelly, to the oil fields of the Bakken seeking their fortune and a better life. Handsome and ambitious, with moxie and savvy to burn, Billy is a born hustler who trusts to his luck and his quick wits. After a road accident leaves him and Kelly stranded on foot, broke and heavily in debt, he gets wind of a big deal, and moves fast to secure an impregnable position for himself — but in so doing, he’s betting his life.
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Deidrie Henry Lands Supporting Role in 'Game Of Silence'Game Of Silence centers on Jackson (Lyons), a rising attorney on the brink of success who could lose his perfectly crafted life when his long-lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their violent past. Henry will play Det. Liz Winters, a police detective in the Gangs Squad Henry.
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Shawn Hatosy To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘For Justice'Southland star Shawn Hatosy has booked a lead role opposite Anika Noni Rose in CBS’ civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice.
Hatosy will play Jess, a lawyer with the Department of Justice, a Boston jock who wears his heart on his sleeve.
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Christina Milian Joins John Stamos Fox Pilot ‘Grandpa’Singer-actress Christina Milian is set as a lead opposite John Stamos and Josh Peck in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Grandpa, from ABC Studios and 20th TV.
Peck plays Gerald, the son Jimmy didn't know he had – a sweet unemployed techie who is himself the proud and surprisingly capable father of a two-year-old daughter, the product of a one-night stand with the sexy Vanessa (Milian), described as a hip, hot mess. Just when she seems to be warming up to Gerald at least, she meets Jimmy — and is instantly attracted to this older, cooler man, a complication that doesn't bode well for Gerald.
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Rose Rollins will co-star in 'The Catch.'The L Word alum Rose Rollins is heading to Shondaland. The actress has booked a supporting role in ABC drama pilot The Catch, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Rollins will play Andie Derringer, Evan's (Alimi Ballard) wife who is confused when she finds out that Alice didn't know her fiancé Kieran (Damon Dayoub) was lying to her the entire time.
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Sharon Lawrence Cast In ABC’s ‘Mix’Sharon Lawrence has joined ABC’s pilot Mix, from Warner BrosTV and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train. Lawrence plays Stella, the ex-wife of Ray (Joaquim de Almeida), who owns her own successful restaurant, Mix Plus, which is right next door to Mix, but can’t refuse helping her charming ex-husband get his restaurant back in the black — and their family stable.
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Echo Kellum Joins CW Pilot ‘Dead People'Ben And Kate alum Echo Kellum is set to co-star in Dead People, the CW drama pilot from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV.
Dead People centers on Floyd (Andrew J. West), down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic but roguishly charming cab driver. After a near-death experience, Floyd suddenly has the ability to interact with ghosts, including his late ex-wife (Alexandra Chando), who he has never gotten over. Kellum plays Floyd’s best friend Doug, a successful attorney who lives with his wife and two children, worries about Floyd and wants to help him in any way he can.
Tim DeKay To Co-Star In ‘Frankenstein’ & Philip Baker Hall to RecurWhile Collar star Tim DeKay is back playing an FBI agent with an unconventional partner. DeKay is set as a co-lead opposite Rob Kazinsky in the Fox pilot Frankenstein, from Rand Ravich, Howard Gordon and 20th TV.
Also cast in the project in a recurring role is veteran character actor Philip Baker Hall who plays the older version of Kazinsky’s central character. Taking inspiration from the basic Mary Shelley mythology of a man brought back to life by scientists playing god, Frankenstein centers on Ray Pritchard (Hall), a morally corrupt retired cop who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead. Privy to information only a dead man could possess, this former Marine and L.A. County Sheriff (Kazinsky) teams with his son, FBI Agent Duval Pritchard (DeKay), to take down the bad guys. However, though his body is new, his thoughts and desires are of a 75 year old bad ass curmudgeon.
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Bret Harrison Joins Fox Comedy Pilot ‘The Perfect Stanleys’ In RecastingReaper star Bret Harrison has joined the cast of Fox comedy pilot The Perfect Stanleys (formerly untitled Dana Klein), from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. In a recasting, Harrison will play Jack Stanley, taking over for Brian Austin Green who originally was cast in the role but had to pull out for medical reasons.
Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, The Perfect Stanleys is told from the point of view of Ellen (Jenna Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law Amy (Liza Lapira). Amy’s husband Jack Stanley is described as an undisciplined, laid back, rule breaker who pretty much does whatever he wants and doesn’t worry about the consequences (except when it comes to his wife, Amy, who terrifies him).
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Christine Taylor Joins NBC’s ‘Sharing'Christine Taylor (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) has landed a regular role in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Sharing, from Universal TV and Jimmy Fallon’s Eight Million Plus. It is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Taylor will play Polly, who co-owns Open Spaces with her husband Mike (Jerry Minor). She’s effervescent, type-A and no nonsense and wishes her husband would stand up for himself and to the people in the office.Source:
10th March
[More Info] Claire van der Boom Joins "Game of Silence"
Claire van der Boom (Love Is Now) has booked a regular role on NBC’s drama pilot Game Of Silence. Based on a Turkish format and directed by Niels Arden Oplev, Game Of Silence centers on Jackson (Lyons), a rising attorney on the brink of success who could lose his perfectly crafted life when his long-lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their violent past. Van Der Boom will play Marina, the beautiful, intelligent partner of her law firm who is also engaged to Jackson (David Lyons).
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Shane Mcrae Joins 'Sneaky Pete'
Shane Mcrae (Still Alice) has been cast as a series regular on CBS’ drama pilot Sneaky Pete, which is written and executive produced by House creator David Shore and Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.It centers on Pete/Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), a thirty-something con man who, upon leaving prison, takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of a cellmate. “Sneaky Pete” then hides out from his debtors while working for his new “family’s” bail bond business. Mcrae, repped by Gersh and TMT Entertainment, will play Taylor, a small-town cop thrilled to be reunited with his long-absent cousin Pete.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Rizwan Manji Joins NBC’s Untitled Aseem Batra Pilot
Rizwan Manji (Backstrom) has booked a regular role opposite Michael Cassidy in NBC’s untitled Aseem Batra pilot. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie (Christine Woods)whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman. Manji, repped by DBA and Multi-Ethnic Talent and Promotion, will play Dale’s (Cassidy) workplace confidant and right-hand man.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Jerry Minor Joins NBC Comedy 'Sharing'
It is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Minor, repped by Principato Young Entertainment and UTA, plays Mike, who co-owns Open Spaces alongside his wife Polly, which is the name of the shared “co-working” office space of several budding companies and the various employees who work there.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Oliver Rix & Simone Kessell To Topline ABC Pilot ‘Of Kings And Prophets’
Oliver Rix (The Duel At Blood Creek) and Simone Kessell (Terra Nova) have been cast as male and female leads in ABC’s drama pilot Of Kings And Prophets. The project from ABC Studios is described as an epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king (Ray Winstone), a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.
Rix, repped by Link and the Artist Partnership in the UK, will play David, the second king of Israel. Kessell, repped by Roar and Julia Buchwald, is Anohim, the queen of Israel, wife of Saul (Winstone) and a top adviser to the throne.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Ashley Johnson Joins ‘Blindspot’
Ashley Johnson has booked a regular role on NBC’s drama pilot Blindspot. Written by Martin Gero and directed by Mark Pellington, it chronicles what happens when a beautiful woman, Jane Doe (Alexander), is found in the middle of Times Square in New York City with her memory wiped and no clue as to what the extensive tattoos on her body mean. Johnson, repped by Innovative Artists and Anonymous Content, will play Patterson Leung, the resident tech expert on Mayfair’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) team.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Rachel DiPillo To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Cuckoo'
Jane The Virgin‘s Rachel DiPillo has landed the female lead opposite Flula Borg in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series, which starred Andy Samberg. NBC’s Cuckoo is the story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo (Borg), much to her father’s annoyance. DiPillo, repped by Paradigm and Treadwell Entertainment, will play Rachel, a recent college grad who just spent a semester in Thailand where she met and married Cuckoo. She has a big heart, which has led to her acceptance of all of Cuckoo’s quirks.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] George Young, Trevor St. John Join CW’s ‘Cordon'
George Young (Casualty) and Trevor St. John (One Life To Live) have booked regular roles in CW drama pilot Cordon, which chronicles the aftermath of a deadly epidemic outbreak in Atlanta. APA-repped Young will play Dr. Victor Cannerts, Director of the CDC who gets quarantined in the city hospital within the Cordon, and cut off from his resources. St. John will play Leo, a once celebrated personality in the world of journalism. When he starts to receive intel from a mysterious anonymous source about the particulars of the epidemic and the government’s response, Leo must brush the dust off his investigative instincts in order to uncover the machinations he believes lie at the heart of the outbreak.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Nasim Pedrad Joins ‘Scream Queens’
[More Info] Lauren German To Co-Star In ‘Lucifer’
[More Info] Callie Thorne Cast In TNT’s ‘Breed’
[More Info] Don Hany Joins NBC Pilot Heart Matters
[More Info] Tony Rock Joins ABC’s untitled Judah Miller Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Sonia Braga Joins 'The Curse Of The Fuentes Women'
[More Info] Britne Oldford, Sam Page Join ABC’s ‘Mix’
[More Info] Delroy Lindo Joins ABC Pilot ‘Boom’
[More Info] Steven Weber joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Joe Time’
[More Info] Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Natalie Morales & William Devane Join Fox Pilot ‘Grinder’
[More Info] Don Johnson joins ABC's drama pilot Boom
9th March
[More Info] Chloe Sevigny, Ted Levine, John Hawkes, Leven Ramblin, Don Harvey and Nathan Keyes Cast In Indie Drama Pilot ‘Dr. Del’
[More Info] Malina Weissman cast as young Supergirl
8th March
[More Info] Alan Van Sprang To Topline ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’, Abbie Cobb To Co-Star
7th March
[More Info] Alexandra Chando to Co-Star in CW's 'Dead People'
[More Info] Jaina Lee Ortiz Lands Female Lead In Todd Harthan Pilot; ‘Ben & Kate’ Star Also Cast
[More Info] David Witts & Lindsay Pearce Join ABC Family Series ‘Recovery Road’
[More Info] Joy Bryant To Co-Star In ABC Pilot ‘The Advocate’; Coby Bell Also Cast
[More Info] Aimee Garcia & Jessika Van Cast In CBS’ ‘Rush Hour’
[More Info] Kelly O’Sullivan Joins CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Pilot
[More Info] Lauren Ambrose To Star In ABC’s 'Broad Squad'; Michael Gaston, Others Also Cast
[More Info] Melanie Griffith To Star In ABC Comedy Pilot About Family With Genius Kids
[More Info] Mark-Paul Gosselaar to Star in NBC's 'People Are Talking'
[More Info] Parminder Nagra Cast In ABC Pilot ‘The Kingmakers’
[More Info] Matthew Lillard To Star In ‘Problem Child’ NBC Pilot
[More Info] Joe Spano Cast In Fox’s ‘48 Hours Til Monday’
[More Info] Daniel Sharman To Star In CBS Pilot ‘LFE’
[More Info] Newcomer Elvy Yost Joins The Catch
[More Info] Lenny Platt Cast In The Adversaries
[More Info] ‘True Blood’s Rutina Wesley To Star In ‘Broad Squad’
[More Info] Supergirl To Square Off Against Iron Man and Star Trek Actor Faran Tahir
[More Info] Kimberley Crossman Joins ‘Fantasy Life’
[More Info] Florence Pugh To Star In Fox’s ‘Studio City’
[More Info] Martha Plimpton To Star In Dan Savage ABC Pilot ‘Family of the Year’
[More Info] Christina Vidal To Star In ‘The Curse Of the Fuentes Women’, Daphne Rubin-Vega Also Cast
[More Info] Ben Hollingsworth Joins ‘Code Black’
[More Info] Charity Wakefield To Star In ‘Endgame’
[More Info] Jack Cutmore-Scott To Play Title Role In Fox Pilot ‘Cooper Barrett’s Guide’
[More Info] Peter Gallagher & Olivia Thirlby Join Fox Pilot ‘Detour’ Inspired By Rivers Cuomo
[More Info] Real-life Siblings Talitha Bateman & Gabriel Bateman Join Mamma Dallas
[More Info] Mia Serafino Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
[More Info] Griffin Gluck Joins NBC’s ‘Cuckoo’
[More Info] Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki Join AMC’s ‘The Night Manager’
[More Info] Aly Michalka & Maulik Pancholy Join ABC’s Chevy Chase Pilot
5th March
[More Info] Adam Rothenberg To Star In ‘L.A. Crime'
[More Info] Hanna Mangan Lawrence joins CW’s ‘Cordon’
[More Info] Jeanine Mason Joins Fox Pilot ‘Studio City'
[More Info] Meta Golding, Colin Donnell, Monet Mazur Join NBC Pilot ‘Love Is A 4 Letter Word’
[More Info] Ray Winstone to Star in ABC Biblical Drama 'Of Kings and Prophets'
[More Info] Jon Dore Cast As The Lead In ‘The Half Of It’
[More Info] Giovanni Ribisi gets lead in Sneaky Pete
[More Info] Raza Jaffrey To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Code Black’
4th March
[More Info] Andy Mientus Cast In ‘LFE’
[More Info] Anika Noni Rose To Topline ‘For Justice’ CBS Civil Rights Pilot
[More Info] ABC's Shondaland Drama 'The Catch' Casts Newcomer Damon Dayoub as Male Lead
[More Info] Kris Lemche To Star In ‘Tales From The Darkside’ CW Pilot
[More Info] Lina Esco Hellbent For ‘Lucifer’
[More Info] Elliot Knight Joins ‘The Advocate’
[More Info] Peter Riegert Joins Fox’s Dana Klein Pilot
[More Info] Dana Davis Added To ‘Unveiled’
[More Info] Ben Aldridge To Play The Lead In Fox Pilot ‘Detour’, Joey Morgan Also Cast
[More Info] Luis Guzman To Star In CBS’ ‘Code Black'
[More Info] Cody Horn Cast In ABC’s ‘Broad Squad’
[More Info] Holt McCallany To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Warrior’
[More Info] Carrie Preston To Star In Suzanne Martin Empty-Nester NBC Comedy Pilot
3rd March
[More Info] Jon Foo To Play Detective Lee In ‘Rush Hour’ CBS Pilot
[More Info] Mike Epps To Topline ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Uncle Buck’, Nia Long Also Cast
[More Info] Marc Cherry’s CW Pilot ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’ Adds Newcomer Pepi Sonuga
[More Info] Karolina Wydra Boards ABC's 'L.A. Crime' Anthology
[More Info] 'The Originals' Newbie Claudia Black to Co-Star in Julie Plec's CW Pilot Cordon
[More Info] Eddie Izzard, Nadia Alexander & Ismenia Mendes Cast In HBO Pilot ‘The Devil You Know’ From Jenji Kohan
[More Info] Aylin Bayramoglu Cast In CW’s ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
[More Info] Dan Bakkedahl Joins CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces'
[More Info] Dreama Walker Cast In CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Jake McLaughlin joins ABC's Quantico
[More Info] Fred Savage joins FOX Pilot Grinder
[More Info] Heather Graham Joins Fox’s ‘Studio City’
[More Info] Jacky Ido and Jay Hayden Join ABC's The Catch
[More Info] KaDee Strickland To Topline CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Jane Lynch To Star In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Angel From Hell’
[More Info] Jeremy Jordan to Play CatCo Tech Guru in Supergirl
[More Info] Nancy Lenehan & Izzy Watts Join FOX's Dana Klein Pilot
[More Info] Greta Lee Cast As Lead in ‘Sharing'
[More Info] Jason Antoon Cast In ‘46 Percenters’
[More Info] James Remar Joins ‘The Shannara Chronicles'
[More Info] Colton Dunn, Mark McKinney & Nico Santos Join NBC Pilot ‘Superstore’
[More Info] Rob Kazinsky Is Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’ Monster
[More Info] Christine Lahti Joins ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
2nd March
[More Info] Wilmer Valderrama Joins Minority Report
[More Info] Malcolm-Jamal Warner Cast In Fox Comedy Pilot 48 Hours Til Monday
[More Info] The Killing's Mireille Enos To Star in Shondaland's The Catch
[More Info] Christine Woods To Star In NBC’s Aseem Batra Comedy Pilot
1st March
[More Info] Gia Mantegna Cast In ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
[More Info] Matthew Glave Joins ABC's NBA Pilot
28th February
[More Info] Kim Raver To Topline ABC Drama Pilot The Advocate
[More Info] Colm Feore Joins ‘The Kingmakers’
[More Info] Daniel Stern To Star In ‘Strange Calls'
[More Info] Nazneen Contractor joins The 46 Percenters
[More Info] Mix - Walter Perez joins cast
[More Info] Boom - Rebecca Rittenhouse and India de Beaufort join cast
[More Info] Ving Rhames Joins ABC NBA Pilot
[More Info] Briga Heelan To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘How We Live’
[More Info] Lacey Chabert Joins ABC’s ‘Family Fortune’
[More Info] Elliott Gould Cast In CBS’ Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Terry O’Quinn Cast As Male Lead In ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
[More Info] Patrick Warburton To Star In Suzanne Martin NBC Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Dave Annable & Melissa George Cast In NBC Pilot ‘Heart Matters’
[More Info] Sarah Chalke To Star In Fox’s ‘48 Hours’
27th February
[More Info] JoAnna Garcia Cast as Female Lead in Tommy Johnagin CBS Pilot
[More Info] Craig Ferguson joins ABC Comedy Pilot ‘The King of 7B’
[More Info] Annie Funke joins CBS’ ‘LFE’
[More Info] Noah Galvin Joins ABC’s Dan Savage Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Supergirl Casts the Heroic Helen Slater and Dean Cain in Top-Secret Roles
[More Info] Tom Ellis Lands Satanic Title Role in Fox's Lucifer
[More Info] Michael Cassidy To Star In Aseem Batra Pilot
[More Info] Sam Huntington joins ‘How We Live’ Pilot
[More Info] Parker Young Cast In ‘Family Fortune’
[More Info] Suzy Nakamura & Tisha Campbell-Martin Cast In ABC Pilot ‘Dr. Ken'
[More Info] Stark Sands To Star In ‘Minority Report’
[More Info] Jack Davenport & Kerri Kenney Cast In HBO’s Sarah Silverman Pilot
[More Info] Brent Sexton Cast In ABC's ‘Runner’
[More Info] Priyanka Chopra Joins ABC’s ‘Quantico';
[More Info] Alison Pill Cast In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
[More Info] Will Kemp & Connie Nielsen To Co-Star In NBC Pilot ‘Unveiled’
[More Info] Danny Pudi Toplines NBC’s ‘Strange Calls’
[More Info] Joan Allen To Star In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
[More Info] Chyler Leigh & David Harewood Cast In ‘Supergirl’ Pilot
[More Info] JLo's NBC Cop Drama Shades of Blue Adds Ray Liotta, Drea de Matteo
[More Info] Megan Hilty To Star In Judah Miller Pilot
[More Info] Merrin Dungey joins Fox’s ’48 Hours’
[More Info] Dougray Scott Cast In ABC’s ‘Quantico’
[More Info] James Brolin To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces’
[More Info] Blondy Baruti gets lead in ABC’s NBA Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Brooke Ishibashi cast in ‘People Are Talking’
[More Info] Stacy Keach Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
[More Info] Diego Boneta To Co-Star In Fox Series ‘Scream Queens'
[More Info] Margot Bingham joins ABC’s ‘Flesh And Blood’
[More Info] Diane Guerrero Joins CBS’ ‘Super Clyde'
[More Info] 'CSI: Miami's' Adam Rodriguez Books Male Lead in ABC's 'Runner'
[More Info] Meagan Good To Star In ‘Minority Report’ Fox Pilot
Fox is keeping Mulaney co-star Nasim Pedrad in the fold with a series regular role in its upcoming straight-to-series comedy-horror anthology Scream Queens, from Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Saturday Night Live alumna Pedrad is certain to infuse comedy in the first installment of the anthology series, slated for next fall, which revolves around a college campus that is rocked by a series of murders.
Pedrad, who has been in demand this pilot season, will join an ensemble cast that includes Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, Keke Palmer, Joe Manganiello and Abigail Breslin.
Source: deadline
German plays Chloe Dancer, an LAPD homicide detective who finds herself both repulsed and fascinated by Lucifer. As they work together to solve a murder, Lucifer is struck by Chloe’s inherent goodness.
Source: Deadline
Thorne will play Emme Haladjian, the beautiful, charismatic, highly-accomplished prosecutor whose appearance hides her vicious secrets, and the danger she poses to Cooper and the city.
Source: Deadline
Hany will play Dr. Jessie Shane, the hospital’s new Chief of Surgery. Alex (Melissa George) and Jessie (Hany) had a a passionate, unforgettable affair when she was an intern, and now ten years later, they are working together.
Source: Deadline
Rock will play Ty, Gary’s brother-in-law who’s married to his twin sister Susie. A foil to Gary, Ty is oblivious of how he unnerves his brother-in-law.
Source: Deadline
Braga will play Orquidia, the estranged sister of Esperanza (Ticotin). Orquidia has been harboring an enormous grudge against her sister for decades.
Source: Deadline
Ravenswood alum Britne Oldford, Sam Page (House Of Cards) and Joaquim de Almeida (Fast Five) have booked regular roles on ABC’s pilot Mix, from Warner Bros. TV and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s studio-based Le Train Train. The dramedy explores the realities of modern-day families — multi-cultural, multi-generational, built through divorces, affairs and adoptions — set against the backdrop of a revered family restaurant at a crossroads. Oldford is Remy, who’s trying to stay clean after recently being release prison on a drug charge, but is finding life on the outside tougher than she anticipated. An extremely talented chef, she might be just what her father needs to turn the restaurant around. Page will play James, a recovering addict who is described as a warm, charming and intelligent man. He is immediately intrigued when he meets Remy at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. De Almeida will play Ray, owner of the popular Austin restaurant.
Source: Deadline
Delroy Lindo (Believe) is set to co-star opposite Don Johnson in the ABC drama pilot Boom, from producer Tony Krantz and ABC Studios. Written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne and directed by Jonas Pate, Boom examines the biggest oil discovery in American history — bigger than Texas and as big as Saudi Arabia — which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an economic boom in North Dakota on a scale not seen since the 1849 California Gold Rush. Lindo will play Tip Hamilton, the Sheriff of Williston County, a wise and sly man who has seen it all and is inclined to administer the law as impartially as possible — but with an attitude and edge.
Source: Deadline
fter a string of hourlong series, Wings star Steven Weber is returning to his multi-camera camera roots with a starring role in Joe Time, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Warner Bros. TV and former Modern Family executive producer Bill Wrubel. Directe by veteran James Burrows, who also helmed the Wings pilot 25 years ago, Joe Time centers on Joe (Weber), a family man who struggles with the fact that everyone around him is pursuing their dreams and enjoying their lives more than he is. He’s starting to wonder if he’ll ever be able to follow his own desires, whatever that may be.
Source: deadline
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (New Girl), Natalie Morales (Parks & Recreation) and William Devane (24: Live Another Day) will co-star opposite Rob Lowe and Fred Savage in The Grinder, Fox’s comedy pilot from Andrew Mogel, Nick Stoller and Jarrad Paul. Written by Mogel and Paul and directed by Jake Kasdan, The Grinder stars Lowe as beloved TV lawyer Dean Sanderson (aka “The Grinder”). When his long-running hit series comes to an end, he finds himself at a crossroads in life and decides to move back to his small hometown thinking he has the experience to take over his family’s law firm where he butts heads with his brother, Stewart Sanderson (Savage).
Ellis will Stewart’s wife Debbie who dated Stewart’s brother, Dean, back in the day, and he still thinks of her as the one that got away. Morales will play Claire, the paralegal who works at Stewart’s law firm. She has never seen an episode of Dean’s TV show and is unimpressed with his celebrity. Devane will be playing Dean Sr., the sweet, old-fashioned father of Stewart and Dean and head of the family’s law firm. Lowe executive produces alongside Mogel, Paul, Stoller and Kasdan. 20th TV is the studio.
Source: deadline
Don Johnson may be returning to network television: The Miami Vice and Nash Bridges alum has joined the cast of ABC’s drama pilot Boom, EW has learned.
The drama tracks the epic pilgrimage of a young, ambitious couple to the oil fields of the Bakken—the home of the biggest oil discovery in American history—seeking their fortune and a better life, following their trials and tribulations in a modern day “Wild West,” they negotiate a colorful ensemble of roughnecks, grifters, oil barons, criminals, and fellow prospectors against a stark and beautiful backdrop.
Johnson will play Hap Boyd, a mega alpha male oil icon and veteran of the oil wars of the last 40 years where he’s come up a winner in every battle. The patriarch of the Boyd family, Hap is disgusted with his son Wick’s (Scott Michael Foster) lazy worthless life, but has no notion that his rotten brat of a kid would try to steal from him… or worse.
Source: EW
Katie Jacobs and Nick Wechsler have cast their independently produced medical drama pilot Dr. Del, with Chloe Sevigny (American Horror Story) and Ted Levine (The Bridge) set for co-star opposite star John Hawkes. Also cast in the project, inspired by Peter Hessler’s New Yorker piece “Dr. Don,” are Leven Ramblin, Don Harvey and Nathan Keyes.
Sevingy plays Brandy Sommers, a former ski-champ and the proprietor of the only bar in town who moved to Isotope to escape her colorful past. Levine will play Tanner Doggerty, the mayor of Isotope whose grand vision for the town and himself is at odds with Del’s (Hawkes). Rambin plays Shayna Canyon, Del’s estranged daughter, who is struggling to raise her young son, Stinger, while grappling with addiction. Harvey plays Denny Roper, sheriff of Isotope and Del’s childhood best friend. Keyes plays Cody Roper, Denny’s son and Del’s former son-in-law whom he believes is a bad influence on his grandson, Stinger.
Source: Deadline
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Malina Weissman has booked a key role in the network's DC Comics take on Supergirl, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama pilot centers on Kara Zor-El (Glee and Whiplash alum Melissa Benoist), Superman's cousin, who was born on the planet Krypton and escaped amid its destruction years ago. After arriving on Earth, Kara was taken in by a foster family, the Danvers, who taught her to be careful with her extraordinary powers (which she shares with her famous cousin).
Weissman, who played the young April (Megan Fox) in TMNT, will guest-star in the pilot as a young version of Kara, confirming speculation that the potential series will flash back to the DC heroine's early years as a child.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Coming off his role as King Henry II on Reign, Alan Van Sprang has been tapped as the lead in another CW/CBS TV Studios drama project, pilot Cheerleader Death Squad. Also cast as a lead in the project, written by Marc Cherry, Neal Baer and Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters, is Abbie Cobb (Suburgatory). Cheerleader Death Squad, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Stone (Van Sprang), a disgraced CIA agent-turned-history teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains three mean girls, Grace (Gia Mantegna), Ursula and Maddie (Cobb), to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency.
Source: deadline
The CW has found Andrew J. West's Dead People former bride.
The Lying Game star Alexandra Chando has booked a co-starring role on the network's drama pilot Dead People, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama centers on Floyd, a down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic but roguishly charming cab driver (The Walking Dead's West) who, after a near-death experience, suddenly has the ability to interact with ghosts, including his late ex-wife who he has never gotten over.
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Chando will play Pearl, described as perceptive, sweet and funny and a perfect match for Floyd. Unfortunately, she’s dead. Now, she helps him to move on with his life.
Source: THR
Jaina Lee Ortiz is set as the female lead opposite Morris Chestnut in Fox’s untitled Todd Harthan drama pilot, a closed-ended procedural written/executive produced by Todd Harthan and directed by Richard Shepard. Also cast in the pilot, produced by 20th TV, is young Ben And Kate star Maggie Elizabeth Jones. It centers on Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. (Chestnut), a gifted, charismatic private pathologist who can read living and dead bodies like a book.
Ortiz, a newcomer out of New York, who got her break when Chris Carter cast her in his Amazon pilot The After, will play Karissa Villa, a former NYPD detective who recently moved back to Miami and ends up helping Dr. Rosewood.
Source: deadline
ABC Family has rounded out the cast for its drama Recovery Road, which was picked up to series in December. British actor David Witts (EastEnders) has joined as a series regular, and Lindsay Pearce (The Wedding Ringer) has been tapped for a recurring role. Written by Bert V. Royal and Karen DiConcetto based on the popular young-adult novel by Blake Nelson, Recovery Road centers on Maddie (Jessica Sula), a party girl and a highly functioning addict who doesn’t think she has a problem until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a rehab facility, while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life.
Witts will play Craig, the counselor at Springtime Meadows, though not a recovering addict himself. He might come off as absent-minded, but nothing gets past Craig, and he’s an effective counselor who really cares about his patients. This was a guest star/recurring role in the pilot but was changed to regular for the series. Pearce is Rebecca. She and Maddie grew up together and once were very close. Rebecca now blames Maddie for everything that’s gone wrong in her life, since Maddie was the one who revealed that Rebecca had an addiction.
Source: deadline
Parenthood‘s Joy Bryant is set as the co-lead opposite Kim Raver in the ABC drama pilot The Advocate. Also cast in the project, from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Prods. and Warner Bros TV, is Burn Notice and The Game alum Coby Bell.
Written by Turner and directed by Michael M. Robin, The Advocate was inspired by the real story of former talent agent Byrdie Lifson-Pompan, who teamed with Valerie Ulene, a medical doctor and a health education specialist, to launch a healthcare consulting company. It centers on Francis “Frankie” Reese (Raver), a tough, resourceful, type-A businesswoman at the top of her game who has a medical scare and experiences firsthand the hazards of our healthcare system. Shocking her friends and family, she leaves her career behind, becoming instead a brilliant and relentless advocate for anyone caught in the chaotic and ever-changing maze that is modern medicine. Bryant plays Frankie’s partner, Dr. Ryan Clarke, a brilliant doctor who meets Frankie by chance, helps her out of a tight spot and subsequently opens a patient advocacy firm with her hard-driving new friend. Bell plays Chris, who is trying to keep the medical firm afloat. And Freddie Thorpe was cast as Frankie’s son.
Source: deadline
Dexter alumna Aimee Garcia is set to co-star opposite Jon Foo in CBS’ hourlong pilot Rush Hour. Also cast in the project, based on the hit movie franchise, is Jessika Van.
Written/executive produced by Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick and directed/exec produced by Jon Turteltaub, the pilot centers on Lee (Foo), a stoic, by-the-book Hong Kong police officer assigned to a case in Los Angeles, where he’s forced to work with Carter, a cocky black LAPD officer who has no interest in a partner. Garcia will play Didi Diaz, a sergeant with the LAPD who chose to leave the streets once she became a mom. Didi is Carter’s former partner who knows him better than most people and is not afraid to call him out. Van will play Det. Lee’s (Foo) younger sister Kim, one of the few female officers with the Hong Kong Police Department.
Source: deadline
Kelly O’Sullivan (Sirens) is set as a lead in CBS’ untitled comedy pilot from former Modern Family executive producer Dan O’Shannon and writer Peter Warren (Happyland). It revolves around a group of friends and family at three different times in their lives. O’Sullivan will play Katie, a fun, feisty and likable woman who’s been a fireball her entire life. She is soon to be married, and we see her throughout the vibrant and wild days of her past.
Source: deadline
ABC has set the four leads in its period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, with the last one going to Lauren Ambrose, currently seen in USA’s limited series DIG. Also cast in the pilot, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc, are Michael Gaston (The Mentalist), Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho) and Alberto Frezza.
Broad Squad, from Kapital Entertainment, Fake Empire and ABC Studios, is a fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978. The project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen (Ambrose), Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Cody Horn) and Joanne (Rutina Wesley) — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them.
Gaston plays Capt. Donahue, who oversees his boys’ club precinct with a take-charge affability, clearly amused and annoyed by the intrusion of four female rookie cops. Mitchel plays Jim Pearce, a police officer, now sidelined due to an injury, and Eileen’s supportive husband. Frezza plays Officer Frank, a rookie cop on the BPD, a charming ex-high school football star who “found a higher calling.”
Source: deadline
Melanie Griffith is set to co-star in ABC’s untitled Molyneux comedy pilot (formerly The Brainy Bunch), from Imagine TV and 20th TV. The single-camera project, written/executive produced by Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux and directed by Jamie Travis, is inspired by the book by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding. Through a combination of genetics and dynamic home schooling, Kip and Mona Lisa Mitchell find themselves raising extraordinarily intelligent kids. Griffith will play Mona Lisa’s mom Celeste, a former pageant queen who has graciously invited her daughter’s family to live with her in Orange County.
Source: deadline
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is returning to NBC.
The Franklin & Bash star — and Saved by the Bell alum — has booked the leading role in NBC's comedy pilot People Are Talking, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
From Growing Up Fisher's DJ Nash, the multicamera comedy will examine sex, race and everything else your parents told you never to talk about.
Gosselaar will star as Mitch, a neurotic guy who tends to overthink things, which is completely offset by his optimism, humor and likability. Mitch is a college ethics professor, which may explain why he goes through life with a heightened attention to justice. Mitch knows he can't change the world, but he's determined to alter his corner of it.
Source: THR
The Blacklist alumna Parminder Nagra has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot The Kingmakers. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers, from ABC Studios, centers on Eli, a young man whose sister Julia is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university. He adopts a new identity to infiltrate the school and its century-old secret society – consisting of privileged students, ambitious faculty and high-profile alums – in order to investigate her death.
Nagra will play Radha, a beautiful British professor who is framed for supplying Julia with drugs and disposing of her body after her overdose. Radha calls Eli to warn him that Julia was murdered and to give him the information and contacts he needs to assume a new identity. She is fighting not only to save her own skin but to uncover the intricate web of lies and trail of trouble.
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Matthew Lillard is set as the male lead opposite Erinn Hayes in Problem Child, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot inspired by the 1990 Universal Pictures/Imagine feature that starred John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as a couple conned into adopting a troubled 7-year-boy who wreaks havoc in their lives and leaves a path of destruction anywhere he goes. The TV adaptation, written by Scot Armstrong, is described as a family show about the cat-and-mouse game between a set of parents and their brilliant but mischievous child. Lillard has been cast as the dad, a role played in the movie by Ritter.
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Joe Spano (NCIS) has booked a regular role in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday, written/exec produced by Charlie Grandy. 48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Rob Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Spano will play Doug McGill, Louise’s (Jane Curtin) husband. They are living at Kelly (Sarah Chalke) and Charlie’s (Riggle) house until he’s recovered from a back injury and can go back to work
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Teen Wolf star Daniel Sharman has been cast as a lead in the CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural revolving around second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity. Sharman will play Joe, a good-hearted, expertly talented surgical resident.
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Newcomer Elvy Yost (Old Boy) has booked a regular role in ABC drama pilot The Catch, from ABC Studios and Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Written and executive produced by Jennifer Schuur based on the novel by Kate Atkinson, The Catch centers on Alice (Mireille Enos), who is about to get married to Kieran (Damon Dayoub) and about to get conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiancé, our heroine — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when Kieran’s expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Yostwill play Maria, who loves her job at Meyer, Morrison and Rose, and despite the fact that her mom keeps sending her job posts for big law firms, is happy exactly where she is.
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Lenny Platt (One Life To Live) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios and writer/executive producer David Zabel and ABC Studios, It centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. Platt will play Danny, the smart, energetic, high strung, straight out of Queens attorney and devoted employee. Platt recurred on How To Get Away With Murder.
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Rutina Wesley, coming off playing Sookie’s best friend Tara on True Blood for seven seasons, has been cast as one of the four leads in ABC’s period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978, the project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen, Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Cody Horn) and Joanne (Wesley) — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them from everyone.
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Faran Tahir, recognizable to fans of Iron Man and Star Trek, has joined the cast of CBS' in-production Supergirl pilot, ComicBook.com has learned.
Tahir is playing The Commander, an alien military expert leading the forces aligned against Supergirl.
That is, he is an alien who is also a military expert. Start your engines speculating who he might be. While nobody springs immediately to mind, it's hard to imagine that some of the characters from recent storylines like "New Krypton" and "H'El on Earth" won't be getting a good, long look from fans in the coming days and weeks.
In the "New Krypton" storyline, she foiled an assassination attempt made by Commander Gor, a member of the Kryptonian Military Guild in Kandor, against Labor Guild member Tam-Or.
Tahir is a prolific talent, having appeared on The West Wing, JAG and in Elysium, among others. He's a guest star in the pilot, with the possibility to become recurring on Supergirl.
Source: ComicBook.com
Kiwi actress Kimberley Crossman has booked a series regular role in Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life, written by Tim McAuliffe based on the memoir by one of U.S.’ top fantasy experts, ESPN’s Matthew Berry. When a hard-working guy, Mitch (Kevin Connolly) lands his ultimate dream job hosting a fantasy football show, he’s forced to navigate office politics while becoming the star he never thought he could be. Crossman will play Summer Dale, the daughter of the network president, who’s gotten her the job as host of Mitch’s (Connelly) new Fantasy Football league on Fox.
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UK native Florence Pugh has been cast as the female lead opposite Eric McCormack in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom, as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars.
Pugh will play Cat, a rising singer/songwriter whose life has been a celebration of dysfunction – with her mother an unstable alcoholic and her father (McCormack) a drug-dealing musician. She’s a survivor, though, and somehow has managed to keep her sense of humor, her romanticism and her dreams alive, despite it all.
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Raising Hope star Martha Plimpton is back on pilot duty with another role as a mom in a single-camera family comedy. Plimpton is set as a lead in ABC’s Family Of The Year. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage, Family Of The Year revolves around the O’Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Noah Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect. Plimpton plays Danny’s mom, Eileen, who appears to be the perfect mom in every way. She’s very proud of her family however, in actuality, her marriage is on the rocks and her life hasn’t been all that easy and fun.
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Christina Vidal is set as a lead in The Curse Of The Fuentes Women, NBC‘s drama pilot from Warner Bros TV. Also cast in the project, written/executive produced by Silvio Horta and directed by Jason Ensler, is Daphne Rubin-Vega (Smash).
Daphne Rubin VegaWhen a magical and mysterious young man (Adan Canto) inexplicably emerges from the ocean, he breathes new passion into the lives of the Fuentes women – the beautiful but lonely Lola (Vidal), her ailing mother Esperanza (Rachel Ticotin) and her troubled daughter Soledad (Katie Sarife). Lola has given up on love and dedicated herself to caring for her daughter Soledad, her mother Esperanza and their floundering family restaurant – until a mysterious stranger enters her life, opening up a world of possibilities. Rubin-Vega, who originated the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, plays Remelda, a Santeria priestess who lives with and acts as an adviser to Orquidia, Esperanza’s estranged sister.
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Ben Hollingsworth (Cult, The Tomorrow People) has booked a regular role in CBS pilot Code Black. The medical drama, written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel, is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary. It is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Hollingsworth will play Mario, an eager, cocky new resident in the ER.
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Charity Wakefield (The Raven) has landed the female lead opposite Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes in NBC drama pilot Endgame, written by John Rogers and directed by Bharat Nalluri for Davis Entertainment and Sony TV. Described as a high-octane thriller set in the high-stakes world of Las Vegas, it centers on Alex (Winchester), a former intelligence officer turned security expert who is drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that forces him to complete a series of heroic challenges in order to save innocent lives. Wakefield will play Cassandra, a rule-breaker who aids Alex in his quest even as she manipulates him for her own secret agenda. A whip-smart tech genius with her own history in the intelligence and counter-terrorist world, she is far more dangerous than she at first appears to be.
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Jack Cutmore-Scott, who starred in the Fox comedy pilot Cabot College last year, has been cast by the network as another comedy pilot lead. The young Broadway actor has landed the title role in single-camera Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s, from 20th Century Fox TV and Gail Berman’s the Jackal Group. Written by Jay Lacopo, Cooper Barrett’s Guide celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post-college life. It centers on 26-year-old Cooper Barrett (Cutmore-Scott), who, during a particularly disastrous experience, decides it’s time somebody let the under-20 crowd know about the unexpected challenges of life after college.
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Peter Gallagher and Olivia Thirlby will co-star opposite Ben Aldridge in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Detour, from 20th Century Fox TV.
Inspired by the real-life story of Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo, Detour centers on Michael Sturges (Aldridge), a charming rock star who made the unexpected choice at age 30 to quit his band and go back to college. Gallagher plays the notorious Professor Zaring, while Thirlby plays Gabrielle, his confident teaching assistant. The pilot was written by Psych creator Steve Franks and will be directed by The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick. Franks, Cuomo, Dan Field, Chris Henze and Willie Mercer executive produce.
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Real-life siblings Talitha Bateman and Gabriel Bateman have booked regular roles opposite Augustus Prew in Mamma Dallas, HBO’s comedy pilot by Enlightened creator Mike White. Written, directed and executive produced by White, the half-hour project follows a conservative family in Texas who unwittingly hire a hard-living drag queen, Liberty (Prew), as their live-in nanny. The siblings play the children who are cared for by Liberty.
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Mia Serafino has booked a role in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Patrick Warburton) and Martina Gunn (Carrie Preston) when their children and their parents move back home. Serafino will play Stella, a charming, struggling actress.
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Griffin Gluck (Red Band Society, Back In The Game) has been cast opposite Flula Borg in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series, which starred Andy Samberg. NBC’s Cuckoo is the story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo (Borg), much to her father’s annoyance. Gluck will play Dylan, Ken and Lori’s youngest child that has completely embraced life in his older sister’s shadow though he still holds it against her every chance he gets.
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Olivia Colman (Broadchurch), Tom Hollander (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) and Elizabeth Debicki have joined the cast of AMC’s The Night Manager, the television adaptation of John Le Carre’s espionage drama. AMC co-produces with BBC and The Ink Factory on the miniseries that is set to begin filming this spring. Colman, Hollander and Debicki join previously announced Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston. Susanne Bier is directing from a script by David Farr.
The first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years, The Night Manager mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. It follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.
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Aly Michalka (Two And A Half Men) and 30 Rock alum Maulik Pancholy are set to co-star opposite Chevy Chase in ABC’s comedy pilot toplined by the Saturday Night Live alum. The project, from Brad Copeland, Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios, centers on a baby boomer couple (Chase, Beverly D’Angelo) who are fun, relevant and living a selfish retirement when their world is turned upside down and they are suddenly left to raise their grandchildren. Michalka plays the couple’s sourpuss daughter Molly; Pancholy is Molly’s medical student boyfriend. Also cast in the pilot is Grace Kaufman (Bad Teacher) as one of the grandchildren.
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Ripper Street star Adam Rothenberg is set as a lead in ABC’s drama pilot L.A. Crime, from ABC Studios and Mandeville. Also cast fainin the character-driven “true-crime” procedural is Holley Fain (Grey’s Anatomy). Written by Steven Baigelman and directed by Tom Shankland, L.A. Crime explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in Los Angeles history. In the first installment, L.A. Crime: The Sunset Strip, two LA cops, Jack Roth (Rothenberg) and Paco Contreras, will be searching for a Bonnie & Clyde-esque serial-killing team amid the coke-infused rock ‘n’ roll, revelry of the 1980s Sunset Strip. Fain plays Roth’s loving and protective wife.
Source: Deadline
Hanna Mangan Lawrence (Spartacus) has joined the cast of the CW drama pilot Cordon, from Warner Bros TV. Written by The Vampire Diaries and The Originals showrunner Julie Plec based on a Belgian format and directed by David Nutter, Cordon chronicles the aftermath of a deadly epidemic outbreak in Atlanta. Lawrence will play Teresa, a pregnant teenager eager to escape her mother’s judgment by running away with her boyfriend, she just misses her opportunity to leave the quarantine zone.
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Jeanine Mason (Bunheads) has been cast in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA, and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (Eric McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars. Mason will play Zoe, Stevie’s child from a previous relationship with a Latino lover. A brilliant, code-writing college student in financial trouble, she has moved back home but lives in the garage.
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Meta Golding (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Monet MazurMonet 3 (Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery) and Colin Donnell (Arrow) have booked lead roles on NBC drama pilot Love Is A Four Letter Word. The project, from playwright-TV writer Diana Son, 20th TV and Fabrik, chronicles the collision of race, sexuality and gender roles when three diverse couples put modern marriage to the test.
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The two-time BAFTA nominee (That Summer, Nil by Mouth) has been tapped to star in ABC's biblical drama pilot Of Kings and Prophets, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama is describedas an epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king (Winstone), a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.
Winstone is set for King Saul, the first kind of Israel who is suffering from what today would be considered bipolar disorder and PTSD.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Jon Dore has landed the lead in The Half Of It, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by Mike Gibbons and directed by James Burrows. The project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Mike (Dore), a newly divorced dad who revels in the fact that he now gets to keep half his stuff, which is more than he ever had when he was married. Mike is dealing with mixed feelings: half of him is the excited, upbeat single guy and the other half is the single dad who is in over his head with single parenting.
Source: Deadline
Giovanni Ribisi is set for the title role in CBS’ drama pilot Sneaky Pete, Marin Ireland will co-star in the project, written/executive produced by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and House creator David Shore through Sony TV. Also cast in the pilot, directed/exec produced by Seth Gordon, is Libe Barer (Parenthood).
Sneaky Pete centers on Pete/Marius (Ribisi), a thirty-something con man who, upon leaving prison, takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of a cellmate. “Sneaky Pete” then hides out from his debtors while working for his new “family’s” bail bond business. There he uses his considerable charm and criminal prowess to take down bad guys far worse than himself, partnering with the real Pete’s first cousin, Julia (Ireland), a witty single mother of two who is running the family’s bail bond business and who has her suspicions about his real motives.
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Coming off playing the charming Colonel Aasar Khan on Season 4 of Homeland, British actor Raza Jaffrey is taking on another heartthrob role, a lead opposite Maggie Grace in CBS pilot Code Black. The medical drama, written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel, is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary. It is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Jaffrey plays Neal, an excellent doctor who believes that connecting emotionally with his patients is critical and taking risks with their health is abhorrent.
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Andy Mientus (Smash) has booked a regular role on CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural centering on second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity. Mientus and manager Geoff Soffer, will play Trevor, a second-year surgical resident. His hypervigilance makes him a fast reactor to threatening stimuli, so when a crisis situation comes along, he is able to rise above and save the day— though he will almost have a panic attack while he does it.
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Anika Noni Rose has been tapped for the lead in CBS’ civil rights crime drama drama pilot For Justice, written by Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and directed by Selma helmer Ava DuVernay.
The project, from CBS Television Studios, James Patterson Entertainment and Tribeca Productions, is based on James Patterson’s debut crime novel, The Thomas Berryman Number. It centers on Special Agent Natalia “Nat” Chappel (Rose), a cool, laser-focused, tough as nails FBI agent who works in the Criminal Section of the Department of Civil Rights Division and finds herself caught between the radical family she was born into and the professional family she has chosen.
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Newcomer Damon Dayoub has nabbed the male lead in ABC's Shondaland-produced drama pilot The Catch, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Catch is described as a thriller about Alice (The Killing's Mireille Enos), a woman about to get married and about to get conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiance, the heroine — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when the fiance's expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The show is based on the novel by Kate Atkinson.
Dayoub will star as Alice's fiancé, Kieran, who conned her with a fake email and identity. He steals a large amount of money from Alice before taking off to be with his wife, Zoe. The character is described as cunning and deceitful who essentially only cares about himself.
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Kris Lemche has been cast as the lead in the CW drama pilot Tales From The Darkside, a remake of the 1980s horror/fantasy/thriller anthology series that hails from writer Joe Hill and producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
The anthology series will feature only one regular character, Newman (Lemche). A weathered and tortured young man, Newman is the guide to the unsuspecting who come across The Darkside. Newman – a man with his own desperate, wrenching secrets – knows exactly what’s causing the terrifying Darkside Events that drive the series. What he doesn’t know is how to stop them.
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Lina Esco (Cane) has booked a role in Fox’s drama pilot Lucifer, from Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros TV. Based on the characters from the DC Entertainment’s Vertigo, the show centers on Lucifer (Tom Ellis) who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals. Esco will play Lucifer’s best friend Maze, a fierce demon in the form of a beautiful young woman.
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Elliot Knight (Syfy’s Sinbad) has been cast in ABC drama pilot The Advocate, from Vendetta Prods and Warner Bros TV. It centers on a type-A businesswoman (Kim Raver) who has a medical scare, only to be dangerously misdiagnosed, and experiences the hazards of our healthcare system. She leaves her career behind to become a relentless advocate for anyone caught in the maze that is modern medicine. Knight will play Brett, the receptionist at the advocacy office, who can sometimes be a bit clueless when it comes to dealing with potential clients.
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Peter Riegert is rounding out the cast of Fox’s untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen (Jenna Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law Amy (Liza Lapira). Riegert plays Ira, the two brothers’ impatient, inappropriate and closed-minded Republican father.
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Dana Davis (Franklin & Bash) has landed a series regular role in NBC’s supernatural/spiritual drama pilot Unveiled, from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. Written by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart, Unveiled follows an ensemble of flawed guardian angels who intervene in the lives of those who find themselves facing crisis in an attempt to restore their faith and, often, save their lives. Davis will play Garnet, a cool, ambitious go-getter who’s champing at the bit to get in the game and break through the veil to work with tortured souls.
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In his first U.S. pilot gig, British actor Ben Aldridge has landed the lead in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Detour, from 20th Century Fox TV. Also cast in the pilot, written by Psych creator Steve Franks and directed by The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick, is Joey Morgan.
Inspired by the real-life story of Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo, Detour centers on Michael Sturges (Aldridge), a charming rock star who made the unexpected choice at age 30 to quit his band and go back to college. Morgan will play Walter, Michael’s sweet-natured, brilliant but socially anxious/awkward college roommate. Franks, Cuomo, Dan Field, Chris Henze and Willie Mercer executive produce.
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Veteran Luis Guzman is set as a lead opposite Maggie Grace in CBS pilot Code Black, a medical drama written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel for ABC Studios. Based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary of the same name, the show is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Guzman plays Jose Santiago, the affable but tough and strong, no-s**t, seen-it-all, senior nurse at the ER who is responsible for the four new residents. As he puts it, “for the next three years I’m your mama…and your mama knows when you’re lying, crying or dying.”
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Cody Horn (Magic Mike) has landed one of the four leads in ABC’s period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978, the project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen, Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Horn) and Joanne — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them from everyone.
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Lights Out star Holt McCallany is set as a lead opposite Natalie Martinez in Warrior, NBC’s magical martial arts drama pilot written/executive produced by David DiGilio, directed by Phillip Noyce and executive produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Set in a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes magical milieu, Warrior, from Universal TV, centers on Kai Forrester (Martinez), a damaged heroine who works undercover with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master (McCallany) to bring down an international crime lord.
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The Good Wife scene-stealer Carrie Preston has been cast as the female lead opposite Patrick Warburton in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn (Preston) when their children and their parents move back home. Stacy Keach plays Mike’s dad.
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The 1998 Rush Hour movie helped make Hong Kong film star and martial arts wiz Jackie Chan a household name in America, jumpstarting a successful Hollywood career. Now CBS’ TV adaptation of the hit movie franchise is looking to do the same for Jon Foo, who has landed the Detective Lee role played in the movies by Chan.
Written/executive produced by Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick and directed/exec produced by Jon Turteltaub, CBS’ Rush Hour pilot centers onLee (Foo), a stoic, by-the-book Hong Kong police officer assigned to a case in Los Angeles, where he’s forced to work with a cocky black LAPD officer, Carter (originally played by Chris Tucker), who has no interest in a partner. A top detective with the Hong Kong police department, Detective Lee is a dedicated professional and master martial artist, a man of few words who knows how to get the job done.
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Mike Epps has been tapped for the title role in Uncle Buck, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. Also cast in the project, from Universal TV and Will Packer Prods., is Nia Long.
Like the movie, the series adaptation, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, centers on Buck Russell (Epps), a childish man who learns how to be an adult by taking care of his brother Will’s kids in a very childish way. Long will play Will’s strong-willed and smart wife.
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Newcomer Pepi Sonuga has been cast in the CW’s drama pilot “Cheerleader Death Squad,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Story follows a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school who trains a select few well-connected students to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency.
Sonuga will play Ursula, described as sexy and vain, and a strong, agile cheerleader recruited for the mission who knows what she wants and gets it. Her confidence is intimidating, and she uses it to her advantage.
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Karolina Wydra has boarded the network's anthology, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
L.A. Crime is a character-driven, true-crime procedural anthology that explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in L.A. history. Season one focuses on two L.A. cops in search for a Bonnie & Clyde-esque serial killing team amid the rock-and-roll, coke-infused revelry of the 1980s Sunset Strip.
Wydra is set to play Diane, a beautiful, resilient detective working undercover as a barmaid on the Sunset Strip.
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Julie Plec is continuing to build her own repertory company.
The prolific producer has cast The Originals newbie Claudia Black in her CW pilot Cordon, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the original Belgian series created by Carl Joos, Cordon examines what happens when a deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta and a large city quarantine is quickly enforced, leaving those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives. It tells the story of loved ones tragically torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the cordon reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.
Black will co-star as Dr. Sabine Lommers, representing the department of health and human services, she is the face of the government's response. Determined to keep the public from panicking, she battles not only the deadly disease but the public's perception as well.
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Eddie Izzard is set to star in HBO drama pilot The Devil You Know (formerly New World). Also cast in the project, co-written by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller and directed by Gus Van Sant, are young actresses Nadia Alexander and Ismenia Mendes.
Described as a provocative period drama, The Devil You Know (working title) explores the circumstances around one of the most compelling chapters in American history — the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England, where intolerance and repression set neighbor against neighbor and led a town to mass hysteria.
Izzard plays farmer Thomas Putnam, the conservative, rigid and devoutly Puritan patriarch of the powerful Putnam family. He is a leader in agrarian Salem Village, but his top position is being threatened from many sides.
Alexander plays another lead role, the bright and ambitious Ann Putnam Jr., who is unsure of her role as a woman in this world but determined to discover her place in it.
Mendes, a newcomer out of Juilliard, plays Mercy Lewis, a captured servant girl from Maine who must summon her inner resources.
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Newcomer Aylin Bayramoglu (The Glee Project) has landed a series regular role in Cheerleader Death Squad, the CW’s drama pilot written by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and Blue Bloods executive producer Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters. It centers on a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains a select few to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency. Bayramoglu plays Fatima, the lonely girl at school that no one seems to notice.
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Dan Bakkedahl (The Mindy Project, The Goldbergs) has booked a regular role on Life In Pieces, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Justin Adler, the project is about one family, the Shorts, as told through the separate stories of its different family members. Bakkedahl will play Tim, who does his best to navigate the politics of his wife’s (Betsy Brandt) family, mostly by sticking his foot in his mouth.
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Don’t Trust the B—- star Dreama Walker is set to co-star opposite KaDee Strickland in Doubt, CBS’ hourlong pilot from Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios. Written by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Adam Bernstein, the project centers on Sadie (Strickland), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
Walker will play Tiffany, a smart, hardworking second-year associate from Iowa who reports to Cameron (Laverne Cox).
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The actor has been tapped to join the cast of ABC's Quantico, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama centers on a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. As the drama intercuts between their hidden pasts and their training, it also flashes forward to the near future, where one of the recruits will turn out to be a sleeper terrorist responsible for the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
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After building a solid second career for himself as a series director/producer, Fred Savage is returning in the front of the camera. In what would mark Savage’s first TV series role in almost a decade, he has signed on to co-star opposite Rob Lowe in The Grinder, Fox’s comedy pilot from Andrew Mogel, Nick Stoller and another actor who segued to a second career behind the camera, Jarrad Paul. Written by Mogel and Paul and directed by Jake Kasdan, The Grinder stars Lowe as beloved TV lawyer Dean Sanderson (aka “The Grinder”). When his long-running hit series comes to an end, he finds himself at a crossroads in life and decides to move back to his small hometown thinking he has the experience to take over his family’s law firm where he butts heads with his brother, Stewart Sanderson (Savage). Stewart is a hard-working attorney and family man who feels very much in the shadow of his younger brother, Dean, a huge television star whose courtroom procedural show has just ended. When Dean comes back to his home town looking for a new direction in life, everyone is dazzled by his charm and celebrity — everyone except Stewart.
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Heather Graham will co-star opposite Eric McCormack in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom, as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars.
Graham plays Rob’s third wife Stevie. A former stand-up comedian, Stevie is generous and kind, with the mind of a teenager, filled with passionate ideas — just not very good ones. Vernoff executive produces with John Wells and Andrew Stearn for John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV
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Ido plays FBI agent Thomas Delgado, who’s handling Alice’s (Mireille Enos) case against fiancé Kieran. Hayden will play James, Alice’s right hand and left-brained man at work.
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Nancy Lenehan (Sex Tape) and Izzy Watts have joined the cast of Fox’s untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen (Jenna Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law Amy (Liza Lapira). Lenehan, will play Anita, mother to Matt (Matt Letscher) and Jack (Brian Austin Green). Anita is often the unwitting participant in a battle of wills between her sons’ two wives. Watts plays Frankie Stanley, Ellen and Matt’s daughter. Brutally honest and annoyed from the time she wakes up, she is not a people-pleaser.
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Greta Lee (New Girl, Wayward Pines) has booked the female lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Sharing, from Universal TV and Jimmy Fallon’s Eight Million Plus. It is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Lee plays Heidi Salazar, the face of Giftr. She’s desperate for the app to make Wired magazine so she doesn’t have to go back to her old accounting job.
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Jason Antoon (No Ordinary Family, Kings) has booked one of the male leads in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot The 46 Percenters. It’s described as an unromantic romantic comedy about the 46 percent of the population who have not gotten a divorce and choose to stay married. Antoon will play Hari, Kiri’s (Nazneen Contractor) husband.
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James Remar (Dexter) has joined the cast of of MTV’s 10-episode straight-to-series drama The Shannara Chronicles, based on Terry Brooks’ massive fantasy book series. Written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Shannara Chronicles is set thousands of years after the destruction of our civilization. The story revolves around the Shannara family, whose descendants are empowered with ancient magic and whose adventures continuously reshape the future of the world. Remar will play Cephelo, the leader of the Rovers who roam the Four Lands.
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Smash alum Jeremy Jordan can put his newest role in the Winn column.
The multitalented actor has signed on to guest-star as Supergirl‘s Winslow “Winn” Schott, a tech-savvy colleague of Kara’s, TVLine has learned.
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Per CBS’ official character description, Winn is a “superstar IT whiz” who works alongside Kara (Glee‘s Melissa Benoist) at CatCo.
But those well-versed in DC Comics lore will recognize Jordan’s character’s name as an alias used by the villainous Toyman, who uses toy-inspired gadgets to wreak havoc and commit crimes.
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Colton Dunn (Key And Peele), Mark McKinney (The Kids In The Hall) and Nico Santos have joined the cast of NBC comedy pilot Superstore. Written by former The Office writer-producer Justin Spitzer and directed by Ruben Fleischer, Superstore is about a group of employees at a big-box store and examines love, friendship and the beauty of everyday moments.
Dunn will play Garrett, the often-sarcastic narrator of the piece who frequently shares his philosophical insights and wry comments over the store intercom. McKinney will play Glenn, the intensely religious store manager of Cloud 9 who isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Santos will play Mateo, a brown-noser from an impoverished background with 11 brothers and sisters, many of whom are incarcerated. Mateo thinks his job will take him to the top, and he won’t let anyone get in his way.
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As she just wrapped her Emmy-winning turn on Glee, Jane Lynch has lined up her next TV series role, signing on as one of the two leads in CBS’ half-hour comedy pilot Angel From Hell, from writer-executive producer Tad Quill and CBS TV Studios. The project, whose format is still TBD, centers on an unlikely pair. When the larger-than-life, brassy and flamboyant Amy (Lynch) enters Allison’s life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship, and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is an angel or just nuts.
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Fox has found its monster. True Blood alumnus Rob Kazinsky has landed the lead role in the Fox pilot Frankenstein, from Rand Ravich and Howard Gordon. Taking inspiration from the basic Mary Shelley mythology of a man brought back to life by scientists playing god, Frankenstein centers on Ray Pritchard (Kazinsky), a morally corrupt retired cop who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead. The “monster” is athletic, strong and handsome — the reanimated version of a much older Pritchard, a former Marine who was recently murdered. Pritchard’s body may be new, but his mind is still that of a 75-year-old, badass curmudgeon.
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Christine Lahti is set to co-star opposite Terry O’Quinn in ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios and writer/executive producer David Zabel and ABC Studios, It centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. Lahti plays Charles’ estranged wife Katherine.
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Private Practice alumna KaDee Strickland is set as the lead in Doubt, CBS’ hourlong pilot from Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios. Written by longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Adam Bernstein, the project centers on Sadie (Srickland), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
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Wilmer Valderrama has been cast opposite Stark Sands and Meagan Good in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash (Sands), struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Meagan Good), who’s haunted by her past and just might help him find a purpose to his gift. Valderrama will play Will Blake, a new police detective at the precinct who fills in for Vega when she’s out on leave, and when Vega sizes him up, she decides she doesn’t like him.
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48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Warner will play Dr. Craig Ellis, the perfect father whose weekend plans always show up Charlie’s. If Charlie’s plan is to assemble a bed with Elizabeth, Craig’s plan is to restore a 1983 Camaro with his sons and give the proceeds to charity. Craig looks at Charlie a bit like a charity case himself, constantly trying to help him be a better, more knowledgeable father. It drives Charlie nuts.
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The former Killing sleuth has signed on to headline The Catch, a potential new drama series from Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ factory of hits, TVLine has learned.
Penned by Hannibal scribe Jennifer Schuur and based on Kate Atkinson’s novel, the pilot centers on Enos’ Alice Martin, a woman about to get married and conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiancé, Alice — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when the fiancé’s expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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Gia Mantegna has been cast in Cheerleader Death Squad, the CW’s drama pilot written by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and Blue Bloods executive producer Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters. It centers on a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains a select few to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency. Mantegna plays Grace, one of the cheerleader members of the eponymous Cheerleader Death Squad.
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Hello Ladies‘ Christine Woods is set as the female lead opposite Michael Cassidy in NBC’s untitled pilot written by Aseem Batra and directed by Betsy Thomas. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie (Woods) whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman.
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Matthew Glade is rounding out the regular cast of ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced byGalavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Written/executive produced by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, the single-camera NBA project, from ABC Studios, is a buddy comedy about Mo (Blondy Baruti), an NBA rookie who doesn’t speak English, and a translator, Jason (Skylar Astin), who doesn’t speak basketball. Glade will play Jason’s somewhat disappointed and disapproving father, often referring openly to his son as a “doormat”.
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24 and Grey’s Anatomy alumna Kim Raver has been tapped as the lead of the ABC drama pilot The Advocate, from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Prods. and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Turner and directed by Michael M. Robin, The Advocate was inspired by the real story of former talent agent Byrdie Lifson-Pompan who teamed with Valerie Ulene, a medical doctor and a health education specialist, to launch a healthcare consulting and case management company.
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The Borgias’ Colm Feore has booked a role in ABC drama pilot The Kingmakers, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers centers on a young man whose sister is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university. He adopts a new identity to infiltrate the school and its century-old secret society – consisting of privileged students, ambitious faculty and high-profile alums – to investigate her death. Feore will play Dean Vandermeer, the dean of the university who eventually becomes Jacob’s main nemesis.
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Daniel Stern is set as the co-lead opposite Danny Pudi in NBC’s comedy pilot Strange Calls, from Kapital Entertainment, Hoodlum and 20th TV. Also cast in the pilot, written by Blake McCormick, are Allison Miller and Aliyah Royale. Based on an Australian format, Strange Calls centers on Toby (Pudi), an affable but down-on-his-luck young police officer. He is transferred to a rural town where — with the help of Gregor (Stern), a peculiar, elderly nightwatchman — he starts to realize the town has a bizarre supernatural underbelly.
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24 alumna Nazneen Contractor has joined the cast of ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot The 46 Percenters. It’s described as an unromantic romantic comedy about the 46 percent of the population who have not gotten a divorce and choose to stay married. Contractor will play Kiri, one half of a couple planning the most amicable divorce in history.
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Walter Perez (The Avengers) is set as a series regular on ABC’s pilot Mix, from Warner Bros. TV and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s studio-based Le Train Train. The dramedy explores the realities of modern-day families — multi-cultural, multi-generational, built through divorces, affairs and adoptions — set against the backdrop of a revered family restaurant at a crossroads.
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Rebecca Rittenhouse (Red Band Society) and India de Beaufort (Jane By Design) have booked series regular roles on ABC drama pilot Boom, from producer Tony Krantz. Written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne and produced by ABC Studios, Boom examines the biggest oil discovery in American history — bigger than Texas and as big as Saudi Arabia — which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an economic boom in North Dakota on a scale not seen since the 1849 California Gold Rush. Rittenhouse will play Kelly, Billy’s wife. De Beaufort is Jules Jackman, the sexy proprietor of the local salon and loan shark of the town.
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Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible franchise) is taking a comedic turn with a co-starring role in ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Rhames will play the team’s confident and smooth general manager.
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Ground Floor star Briga Heelan will play the female lead opposite Sam Huntington in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot How We Live, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and directed by Gail Mancuso. The project centers on Russell (Huntington), a blogger, and his bubbly, full of energy wife Holly (Heelan) who move to the suburbs where he begins writing about marriage and the family lives of his suburban friends and neighbors in the style of an anthropologist who’s stumbled on an undiscovered tribe. Holly pours her energy into everything in her life, most recently trying to get pregnant, a challenge that is pushing her endless optimism to its limits.
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Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) has booked a regular role opposite Fortune Feimster in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Family Fortune, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Written by Hubbard and Feimster based Feimster’s family life and stand-up, Family Fortune is set in North Carolina and centers on popular gym teacher Fortune (Feimster) who comes out of the closet to her close-knit group of family and friends. Chabert will play Nichole, Tyler’s (Parker Young) wife and a devoted mom to their two young children.
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Ray Donovan‘s Elliott Gould has booked a regular role on CBS hourlong pilot Doubt. From longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios, Doubt centers on Sadie, a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Gould will play Isaiah, the head of the boutique go-to criminal defense firm in New York. I hear CBS has Gould in first position, an indication that Fox/Uni TV’s freshman Mulaney, which is not expected to go to a second season, has released some or all of the cast.
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Lost alum Terry O’Quinn has been cast as the male lead in ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by David Zabel, The Adversaries centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. O’Quinn will play Charlie, the head of the law firm Fisher, Fisher and Herrero.
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Rules Of Engagement alum Patrick Warburton is set as the male lead in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn when their children and their parents move back home. Stacy Keach plays Mike’s dad.
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Melissa George has been tapped for the lead and Brothers & Sisters alum Dave Annable for a co-starring role in NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the medical soap follows the outspoken Alex Panttiere (George), one of the rare female heart-transplant surgeons. Alex brings an innovative eye to treating patients week to week while also balancing the complications of her professional and romantic life Annable plays Alex’s boyfriend.
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Sarah Chalke is set as the female lead opposite Rob Riggle in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday, written/exec produced by Charlie Grandy. 48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Chalke plays Kelly Bishop who is happily married to Charlie and the mother of their three kids, Kelly quit her job as a local TV news producer to spend more time with her family…and is finding that being a stay-at-home mom is much more exhausting, time-consuming and frustrating than working in an office.
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The actress, who most recently played Ariel on ABC's Once Upon a Time, has been cast as the female lead in CBS' untitled Tommy Johnagin comedy pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Garcia Swisher will play the female lead, Michelle, an accomplished pediatrician married to Tommy (Johnagin), with whom she has a daughter, Ashley.
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With his Late Late Show stint over, Craig Ferguson is returning to acting with a starring role in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot The King Of 7B. The ensemble project, written by Howard Franklin and directed by David Frankel, focuses on Prentiss Porter (Ferguson), an agoraphobic recluse who ventures outside for the first time in 11 years when he spies what could be his soul-mate moving into the building across the street.
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Annie Funke (A Most Violent Year) has joined the cast of CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural centering on second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity.
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Newcomer Noah Galvin has booked the young lead in the ABC/ABC Studios untitled Dan Savage comedy pilot. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Savage, the single-camera project revolves around the O’Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect.
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How’s this for super-meta casting: Helen Slater and Dean Cain have landed guest-starring roles on CBS’s Supergirl, TVLine has learned. Details on who the pair will be playing in the pilot are being kept under lock and key.
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In Lucifer, the Welsh actor — best known stateside for his role as Once Upon a Time’s first Robin Hood and as the star of USA Network’s short-lived medical series Rush — will play the Lord of Hell, who abdicates his throne and kingdom to make camp in Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.
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Men at Work star Michael Cassidy is set as one of the two leads of another workplace comedy — NBC’s untitled pilot written by Aseem Batra and directed by Betsy Thomas. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman.
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Being Human star Sam Huntington is set as the male lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot How We Live, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and directed by Gail Mancuso. The project centers on Russell (Huntington), a blogger, and his wife Holly who move to the suburbs where he begins writing about marriage and the family lives of his suburban friends and neighbors, in the style of an anthropologist who’s stumbled on an undiscovered tribe.
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Suburgatory and Enlisted alum Parker Young has booked a regular role opposite Fortune Feimster in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Family Fortune, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Written by Hubbard and Feimster and based on the family life and stand-up of Feimster, who grew up in Belmont, N.C., Family Fortune is set in North Carolina and centers on popular gym teacher Fortune (Feimster) who comes out of the closet to her close-knit group of family and friends. Young will play Tyler, Fortune’s younger brother, a serviceman in the Coast Guard.
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Suzy Nakamura (Horrible Bosses 2) has booked Vivica A. Fox 50th Birthday Celebrationthe female lead opposite Ken Jeong in ABC’s comedy pilot Dr. Ken, from Sony TV and ABC Studios. Written by Jared Stern, Mike O’Connell and Jeong, who is a licensed physician, Dr. Ken stars Jeong as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling medicine, marriage and parenting — and succeeding at none of them. Nakamura will play Allison, Jeong’s successful psychologist wife. Also cast is Tisha Campbell-Martin (Martin) in the role of Damona, the hospital receptionist/
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Stark Sands (Inside Llewyn Davis) has been cast as the dual male lead opposite Meagan Good in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash (Sands), struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Meagan Good), who’s haunted by her past and just might help him find a purpose to his gift. Sands will play the dual role of identical twin brothers Dash and Arthur who both possess the unique ability to see into the future, specifically murders before they happen.
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Smash alum Jack Davenport is set as the male lead opposite Sarah Silverman in HBO’s untitled comedy pilot written by Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator Lucy Prebble, Also cast in the pilot, directed by Charlie McDowell, are Kerri Kenney (Reno 911!) andyMark Cohen. The project is described as a comic look at Jude (Silverman), a pathologically honest woman having a modern midlife crisis. Davenport plays Blake, a broken Brit and eventual boyfriend who gets caught up in his own virtual reality in Seattle. Kenne plays Melissa, Jude’s older sister who is proudly holding the family together, with no idea her home is built on lies. Graham plays Jude’s big-hearted mess of a brother-in-law. Prebble and Silverman executive produce with Ash Atalla, Amy Zvi and Dan Hine
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Brent Sexton (The Killing) has been cast opposite Paula Patton and Adam Rodriguez in ABC’s drama pilot Runner. Written by Michael Cooney based on the Turkish series Son and directed by Michael Offer, the project from 20th TV and ABC Studios centers on Lauren Marks (Patton), a wife and mother who had believed her husband had died in a plane crash, only to discover him alive, well and traveling with a mysterious woman who uses Lauren’s stolen identity. Thrown into a world of secrets and crime, Lauren finds herself running into Mexican cartels and people from her past she had hoped to forget. Sexton will play Simon, brother of Lauren’s husband and a resourceful detective who leads the search for his brother.
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Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra (Barfi!) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot Quantico, executive produced by Mark Gordon, Josh Safran and Nick Pepper. It revolves around a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. One will launch a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Chopra will play Alex Weaver, a brilliant but haunted FBI trainee whose past boils to the surface soon after her arrival at Quantico.
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The Newsroom alum Alison Pill has signed on to the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan. It follows the return of a politician’s (Joan Allen) young son, Adam Warren (Liam James), who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. But as the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his community, the neighbor sitting in jail for his murder is released and the cop responsible is forced to re-examine what truly happened so many years ago. Pill plays Willa Warren, Claire (Allen) and Peter’s daughter, and her mother’s campaign manager. Willa lost the twinkle in her eye many years ago when her little brother went missing. She feels responsible for his disappearance, as she was with him when he vanished.
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Will Kemp (Petals in the Wind) and Connie Nielsen have been cast opposite Liam McIntyre and Stephan James in Unveiled, NBC’s supernatural/spiritual drama pilot from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
Written by John Sakmar & Kerry Lenhart, Unveiled follows an ensemble of flawed guardian angels who intervene in the lives of those who find themselves facing crisis in an attempt to restore their faith and, often, save their lives. Kemp plays Lucas, a handsome, mysterious fallen angel with a suave charm and devilish side intent on corrupting as many humans as he can. Nielsen plays Joan, the by-the-book boss who leads the Guardian Angels from beyond the veil, the plane of existence outside of the human world.
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Grey’s Anatomy alumna Chyler Leigh and David Harewood (Homeland) have been cast opposite Melissa Benoist and Calista Flockhart in the CBS pilot Supergirl, written by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg.
Based on the DC Comics characters, Supergirl — from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods. — centers on Kara Zor-El (Benoist). Since arriving on Earth, the Krypton-born Kara has been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin, Superman. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she always was meant to be.
Leigh plays Alexandra “Alex” Danvers, Kara’s confident foster sister. Fascinated by Kara’s powers from a young age, Alex developed a lifelong obsession with science which inspired her to become a doctor.
Harewood plays Hank Henshaw, a onetime CIA agent who now runs the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, which tracks extraterrestrial threats on the planet Earth. In the DC Comics universe, Henshaw is a villain who eventually becomes Cyborg Superman.
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Joan Allen is set for a lead role in the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan. It follows the return of a politician’s (Allen) young son, Adam Warren (Liam James), who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. But as the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his community, the neighbor sitting in jail for his murder is released and the cop responsible is forced to re-examine what truly happened so many years ago. Allen’s Claire is devastated to learn of the horrors her son has endured, however she is a political animal and it seems she has plans to use her son’s return to further her political ambitions. Also cast in the pilot is Floriana Lima (Allegiance), a young reporter with the local paper. They join Zach Gilford and Margot Bingham. Bans, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Laurie Zaks executive produce.
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While Community left NBC for Yahoo, one of the cult comedy’s standouts, Danny Pudi, is coming back, making the leap from a supporting to a leading man with a starring tole in the network’s comedy pilot Strange Calls, from Kapital Entertainment, Hoodlum and 20th TV. Written by Blake McCormick based on an Australian format, it centers on Toby (Pudi), an affable but down on his luck young police officer. He is transferred to a rural town where — with the help of a peculiar, elderly night watchman — he starts to realize the town has a bizarre supernatural underbelly. In the pilot, Pudi joins Aussie Patrick Brammall who will reprise his role from the original series.
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Ray Liotta and Drea de Matteo have joined the cast of Shades of Blue, the Peacock’s JLo-fronted cop drama slated to bow next fall.
Additionally, Warren Kole (Common Law, The Following) and Vincent Laresca (Weeds, Graceland) have been added to the ensemble.
Shades of Blue follows a tight-knit crew of police officers who are effective at keeping the streets safe but also corrupt when it comes to lining their pockets and protecting their own. When one of the officers (Lopez’ Harlee McCord) is forced to become a federal informant, she must decide between her own family’s welfare and that of her police family.
In his first series-regular role since CBS’ short-lived 2006 thief drama Smith, Liotta will play Lieutenant Bill Wozniak, the enigmatic and resourceful patriarch of a tight knit unit of corrupt cops, who steps outside the limitations of the law to protect his precinct. His all-consuming hunt for the informant drives him to dire extremes.
Matteo, coming off of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, will portray Shirley, a tough, outspoken female cop who holds her own with the men in her crew, and yet her brashness covers her insecurities.
Kole portrays Robert Staal, a relentlessly ambitious up-and-coming FBI agent desperate to make a name for himself. His growing obsession with his asset jeopardizes his ability to make his case against a group of corrupt cops.
Lastly, Laresca co-stars as Tony Espada, alternately the bulldog and the moral compass for his team.
Source: TVLine
Broadway star Megan Hilty will be playing one on TV. Hilty has signed on as the female lead in ABC’s untitled Judah Miller comedy pilot. The single-camera project centers on a Tony Award-winning mother (Hilty) and a risk-averse, cerebral father who are blessed with a son who is a natural-born competitive athlete. They are forced outside their parental comfort zones and into the high-octane world of youth sports. Hilty’s Irene is described as a laud, flamboyant diva, a former Broadway star who is adjusting to her latest “role” as a suburban mom and who can come off a little self-involved but has a big heart of gold.
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Merrin Dungey has been cast in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday. It chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Rob Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Dungey plays Candace, a family friend and bona fide “super mom” who has three kids, works part time as a lawyer and still is able to make snacks that look like animals, volunteer in class and pick her children up from school on bike.
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Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot Quantico. It revolves around a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. One will launch a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Scott plays FBI Special Agent Liam O’Connor, a staff counselor at Quantico working with the new agent trainees.
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James Brolin has joined the cast of Life in Pieces, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Justin Adler, the project is about one family, the Shorts, as told through the separate stories of its different family members.
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After what was described as a worldwide search, ABC has cast Blondy Baruti, a 6-foot-10 former basketball player out of Oklahoma, as the lead opposite Skylar Astin in its untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot. It’s executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Also cast in the pilot, which is being done with the cooperation of the NBA and the the Guber-co-owned Golden State Warriors, is Laura Steinel (Draft Day).
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Brooke Ishibashi has been cast as one of the leads in another NBC comedy pilot, People Are Talking, from Uni TV and Will Packer Prods. It is about two couples and examines sex and race, among other things. Ishibashi will play half of one of the couples, a wife who aptly balances being a loving mom and a tough-as-nails attorney.
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Veteran Stacy Keach has joined NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters when their children and their parents move back home. Keach will play the ex-military father who moves back in.
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Mexic0-born actor-singer Diego Boneta (Rock OfAges) has been cast as one of the male leads in Scream Queens, Fox’s Premiere Of Lionsgate Films' "The Expendables 3" - Red Carpetcomedy-horror series created by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Also cast as a regular in the first installment of the anthology series slated for fall is Glen Powell
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Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire) has landed one of the female leads in ABC’s untitled drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Mandeville Prods. and ABC Studios. Written by Bans, the project follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier, sending shockwaves throughout their tight knit community.
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Orange Is The New Black and Jane The Virgin‘s Diane Guerrero has been cast opposite Charlie McDermott in Greg Garcia’s CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde, from CBS TV Studios. It follows a meek, unassuming fast-food worker (McDermott) who decides to become a super hero. Guerrero will play Maddy, Clyde’s (McDermott) very cute, smart and ambitious good friend.
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The CSI: Miami alum has nabbed the lead role in ABC's drug cartel drama pilot Runner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the Turkish series Son, the drama revolves around Lauren Marks (Paula Patton), who believes she is leading a perfect life, which is ripped apart when, in search of the truth, she must follow a trail of lies that takes her into the world of cartels and the illegal gun trade between the U.S. and Mexico.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Meagan Good (Think Like A Man franchise) has signed on as the female lead in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash, struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Good), who’s not afraid to break a few rules. Haunted by her past, Vega just might help him find a purpose to his gift.
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[More Info] Claire van der Boom Joins "Game of Silence"
Claire van der Boom Joins ""Game of Silence""
Claire van der Boom (Love Is Now) has booked a regular role on NBC’s drama pilot Game Of Silence. Based on a Turkish format and directed by Niels Arden Oplev, Game Of Silence centers on Jackson (Lyons), a rising attorney on the brink of success who could lose his perfectly crafted life when his long-lost childhood friends threaten to expose a dark secret from their violent past. Van Der Boom will play Marina, the beautiful, intelligent partner of her law firm who is also engaged to Jackson (David Lyons).
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[More Info] Shane Mcrae Joins 'Sneaky Pete'
Shane Mcrae Joins 'Sneaky Pete'
Shane Mcrae (Still Alice) has been cast as a series regular on CBS’ drama pilot Sneaky Pete, which is written and executive produced by House creator David Shore and Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.It centers on Pete/Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), a thirty-something con man who, upon leaving prison, takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of a cellmate. “Sneaky Pete” then hides out from his debtors while working for his new “family’s” bail bond business. Mcrae, repped by Gersh and TMT Entertainment, will play Taylor, a small-town cop thrilled to be reunited with his long-absent cousin Pete.
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[More Info] Rizwan Manji Joins NBC’s Untitled Aseem Batra Pilot
Rizwan Manji Joins NBC’s Untitled Aseem Batra Pilot
Rizwan Manji (Backstrom) has booked a regular role opposite Michael Cassidy in NBC’s untitled Aseem Batra pilot. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie (Christine Woods)whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman. Manji, repped by DBA and Multi-Ethnic Talent and Promotion, will play Dale’s (Cassidy) workplace confidant and right-hand man.
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[More Info] Jerry Minor Joins NBC Comedy 'Sharing'
Jerry Minor Joins NBC Comedy 'Sharing'
It is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Minor, repped by Principato Young Entertainment and UTA, plays Mike, who co-owns Open Spaces alongside his wife Polly, which is the name of the shared “co-working” office space of several budding companies and the various employees who work there.
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[More Info] Oliver Rix & Simone Kessell To Topline ABC Pilot ‘Of Kings And Prophets’
Oliver Rix & Simone Kessell To Topline ABC Pilot ‘Of Kings And Prophets’
Oliver Rix (The Duel At Blood Creek) and Simone Kessell (Terra Nova) have been cast as male and female leads in ABC’s drama pilot Of Kings And Prophets. The project from ABC Studios is described as an epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king (Ray Winstone), a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.
Rix, repped by Link and the Artist Partnership in the UK, will play David, the second king of Israel. Kessell, repped by Roar and Julia Buchwald, is Anohim, the queen of Israel, wife of Saul (Winstone) and a top adviser to the throne.
Source: Deadline
[More Info] Ashley Johnson Joins ‘Blindspot’
Ashley Johnson Joins ‘Blindspot’
Ashley Johnson has booked a regular role on NBC’s drama pilot Blindspot. Written by Martin Gero and directed by Mark Pellington, it chronicles what happens when a beautiful woman, Jane Doe (Alexander), is found in the middle of Times Square in New York City with her memory wiped and no clue as to what the extensive tattoos on her body mean. Johnson, repped by Innovative Artists and Anonymous Content, will play Patterson Leung, the resident tech expert on Mayfair’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) team.
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[More Info] Rachel DiPillo To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Cuckoo'
Rachel DiPillo To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Cuckoo'
Jane The Virgin‘s Rachel DiPillo has landed the female lead opposite Flula Borg in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series, which starred Andy Samberg. NBC’s Cuckoo is the story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo (Borg), much to her father’s annoyance. DiPillo, repped by Paradigm and Treadwell Entertainment, will play Rachel, a recent college grad who just spent a semester in Thailand where she met and married Cuckoo. She has a big heart, which has led to her acceptance of all of Cuckoo’s quirks.
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[More Info] George Young, Trevor St. John Join CW’s ‘Cordon'
George Young, Trevor St. John Join CW’s ‘Cordon'
George Young (Casualty) and Trevor St. John (One Life To Live) have booked regular roles in CW drama pilot Cordon, which chronicles the aftermath of a deadly epidemic outbreak in Atlanta. APA-repped Young will play Dr. Victor Cannerts, Director of the CDC who gets quarantined in the city hospital within the Cordon, and cut off from his resources. St. John will play Leo, a once celebrated personality in the world of journalism. When he starts to receive intel from a mysterious anonymous source about the particulars of the epidemic and the government’s response, Leo must brush the dust off his investigative instincts in order to uncover the machinations he believes lie at the heart of the outbreak.
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[More Info] Nasim Pedrad Joins ‘Scream Queens’
[More Info] Lauren German To Co-Star In ‘Lucifer’
[More Info] Callie Thorne Cast In TNT’s ‘Breed’
[More Info] Don Hany Joins NBC Pilot Heart Matters
[More Info] Tony Rock Joins ABC’s untitled Judah Miller Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Sonia Braga Joins 'The Curse Of The Fuentes Women'
[More Info] Britne Oldford, Sam Page Join ABC’s ‘Mix’
[More Info] Delroy Lindo Joins ABC Pilot ‘Boom’
[More Info] Steven Weber joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Joe Time’
[More Info] Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Natalie Morales & William Devane Join Fox Pilot ‘Grinder’
[More Info] Don Johnson joins ABC's drama pilot Boom
9th March
[More Info] Chloe Sevigny, Ted Levine, John Hawkes, Leven Ramblin, Don Harvey and Nathan Keyes Cast In Indie Drama Pilot ‘Dr. Del’
[More Info] Malina Weissman cast as young Supergirl
8th March
[More Info] Alan Van Sprang To Topline ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’, Abbie Cobb To Co-Star
7th March
[More Info] Alexandra Chando to Co-Star in CW's 'Dead People'
[More Info] Jaina Lee Ortiz Lands Female Lead In Todd Harthan Pilot; ‘Ben & Kate’ Star Also Cast
[More Info] David Witts & Lindsay Pearce Join ABC Family Series ‘Recovery Road’
[More Info] Joy Bryant To Co-Star In ABC Pilot ‘The Advocate’; Coby Bell Also Cast
[More Info] Aimee Garcia & Jessika Van Cast In CBS’ ‘Rush Hour’
[More Info] Kelly O’Sullivan Joins CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Pilot
[More Info] Lauren Ambrose To Star In ABC’s 'Broad Squad'; Michael Gaston, Others Also Cast
[More Info] Melanie Griffith To Star In ABC Comedy Pilot About Family With Genius Kids
[More Info] Mark-Paul Gosselaar to Star in NBC's 'People Are Talking'
[More Info] Parminder Nagra Cast In ABC Pilot ‘The Kingmakers’
[More Info] Matthew Lillard To Star In ‘Problem Child’ NBC Pilot
[More Info] Joe Spano Cast In Fox’s ‘48 Hours Til Monday’
[More Info] Daniel Sharman To Star In CBS Pilot ‘LFE’
[More Info] Newcomer Elvy Yost Joins The Catch
[More Info] Lenny Platt Cast In The Adversaries
[More Info] ‘True Blood’s Rutina Wesley To Star In ‘Broad Squad’
[More Info] Supergirl To Square Off Against Iron Man and Star Trek Actor Faran Tahir
[More Info] Kimberley Crossman Joins ‘Fantasy Life’
[More Info] Florence Pugh To Star In Fox’s ‘Studio City’
[More Info] Martha Plimpton To Star In Dan Savage ABC Pilot ‘Family of the Year’
[More Info] Christina Vidal To Star In ‘The Curse Of the Fuentes Women’, Daphne Rubin-Vega Also Cast
[More Info] Ben Hollingsworth Joins ‘Code Black’
[More Info] Charity Wakefield To Star In ‘Endgame’
[More Info] Jack Cutmore-Scott To Play Title Role In Fox Pilot ‘Cooper Barrett’s Guide’
[More Info] Peter Gallagher & Olivia Thirlby Join Fox Pilot ‘Detour’ Inspired By Rivers Cuomo
[More Info] Real-life Siblings Talitha Bateman & Gabriel Bateman Join Mamma Dallas
[More Info] Mia Serafino Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
[More Info] Griffin Gluck Joins NBC’s ‘Cuckoo’
[More Info] Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki Join AMC’s ‘The Night Manager’
[More Info] Aly Michalka & Maulik Pancholy Join ABC’s Chevy Chase Pilot
5th March
[More Info] Adam Rothenberg To Star In ‘L.A. Crime'
[More Info] Hanna Mangan Lawrence joins CW’s ‘Cordon’
[More Info] Jeanine Mason Joins Fox Pilot ‘Studio City'
[More Info] Meta Golding, Colin Donnell, Monet Mazur Join NBC Pilot ‘Love Is A 4 Letter Word’
[More Info] Ray Winstone to Star in ABC Biblical Drama 'Of Kings and Prophets'
[More Info] Jon Dore Cast As The Lead In ‘The Half Of It’
[More Info] Giovanni Ribisi gets lead in Sneaky Pete
[More Info] Raza Jaffrey To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Code Black’
4th March
[More Info] Andy Mientus Cast In ‘LFE’
[More Info] Anika Noni Rose To Topline ‘For Justice’ CBS Civil Rights Pilot
[More Info] ABC's Shondaland Drama 'The Catch' Casts Newcomer Damon Dayoub as Male Lead
[More Info] Kris Lemche To Star In ‘Tales From The Darkside’ CW Pilot
[More Info] Lina Esco Hellbent For ‘Lucifer’
[More Info] Elliot Knight Joins ‘The Advocate’
[More Info] Peter Riegert Joins Fox’s Dana Klein Pilot
[More Info] Dana Davis Added To ‘Unveiled’
[More Info] Ben Aldridge To Play The Lead In Fox Pilot ‘Detour’, Joey Morgan Also Cast
[More Info] Luis Guzman To Star In CBS’ ‘Code Black'
[More Info] Cody Horn Cast In ABC’s ‘Broad Squad’
[More Info] Holt McCallany To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Warrior’
[More Info] Carrie Preston To Star In Suzanne Martin Empty-Nester NBC Comedy Pilot
3rd March
[More Info] Jon Foo To Play Detective Lee In ‘Rush Hour’ CBS Pilot
[More Info] Mike Epps To Topline ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Uncle Buck’, Nia Long Also Cast
[More Info] Marc Cherry’s CW Pilot ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’ Adds Newcomer Pepi Sonuga
[More Info] Karolina Wydra Boards ABC's 'L.A. Crime' Anthology
[More Info] 'The Originals' Newbie Claudia Black to Co-Star in Julie Plec's CW Pilot Cordon
[More Info] Eddie Izzard, Nadia Alexander & Ismenia Mendes Cast In HBO Pilot ‘The Devil You Know’ From Jenji Kohan
[More Info] Aylin Bayramoglu Cast In CW’s ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
[More Info] Dan Bakkedahl Joins CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces'
[More Info] Dreama Walker Cast In CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Jake McLaughlin joins ABC's Quantico
[More Info] Fred Savage joins FOX Pilot Grinder
[More Info] Heather Graham Joins Fox’s ‘Studio City’
[More Info] Jacky Ido and Jay Hayden Join ABC's The Catch
[More Info] KaDee Strickland To Topline CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Jane Lynch To Star In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Angel From Hell’
[More Info] Jeremy Jordan to Play CatCo Tech Guru in Supergirl
[More Info] Nancy Lenehan & Izzy Watts Join FOX's Dana Klein Pilot
[More Info] Greta Lee Cast As Lead in ‘Sharing'
[More Info] Jason Antoon Cast In ‘46 Percenters’
[More Info] James Remar Joins ‘The Shannara Chronicles'
[More Info] Colton Dunn, Mark McKinney & Nico Santos Join NBC Pilot ‘Superstore’
[More Info] Rob Kazinsky Is Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’ Monster
[More Info] Christine Lahti Joins ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
2nd March
[More Info] Wilmer Valderrama Joins Minority Report
[More Info] Malcolm-Jamal Warner Cast In Fox Comedy Pilot 48 Hours Til Monday
[More Info] The Killing's Mireille Enos To Star in Shondaland's The Catch
[More Info] Christine Woods To Star In NBC’s Aseem Batra Comedy Pilot
1st March
[More Info] Gia Mantegna Cast In ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
[More Info] Matthew Glave Joins ABC's NBA Pilot
28th February
[More Info] Kim Raver To Topline ABC Drama Pilot The Advocate
[More Info] Colm Feore Joins ‘The Kingmakers’
[More Info] Daniel Stern To Star In ‘Strange Calls'
[More Info] Nazneen Contractor joins The 46 Percenters
[More Info] Mix - Walter Perez joins cast
[More Info] Boom - Rebecca Rittenhouse and India de Beaufort join cast
[More Info] Ving Rhames Joins ABC NBA Pilot
[More Info] Briga Heelan To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘How We Live’
[More Info] Lacey Chabert Joins ABC’s ‘Family Fortune’
[More Info] Elliott Gould Cast In CBS’ Pilot ‘Doubt’
[More Info] Terry O’Quinn Cast As Male Lead In ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
[More Info] Patrick Warburton To Star In Suzanne Martin NBC Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Dave Annable & Melissa George Cast In NBC Pilot ‘Heart Matters’
[More Info] Sarah Chalke To Star In Fox’s ‘48 Hours’
27th February
[More Info] JoAnna Garcia Cast as Female Lead in Tommy Johnagin CBS Pilot
[More Info] Craig Ferguson joins ABC Comedy Pilot ‘The King of 7B’
[More Info] Annie Funke joins CBS’ ‘LFE’
[More Info] Noah Galvin Joins ABC’s Dan Savage Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Supergirl Casts the Heroic Helen Slater and Dean Cain in Top-Secret Roles
[More Info] Tom Ellis Lands Satanic Title Role in Fox's Lucifer
[More Info] Michael Cassidy To Star In Aseem Batra Pilot
[More Info] Sam Huntington joins ‘How We Live’ Pilot
[More Info] Parker Young Cast In ‘Family Fortune’
[More Info] Suzy Nakamura & Tisha Campbell-Martin Cast In ABC Pilot ‘Dr. Ken'
[More Info] Stark Sands To Star In ‘Minority Report’
[More Info] Jack Davenport & Kerri Kenney Cast In HBO’s Sarah Silverman Pilot
[More Info] Brent Sexton Cast In ABC's ‘Runner’
[More Info] Priyanka Chopra Joins ABC’s ‘Quantico';
[More Info] Alison Pill Cast In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
[More Info] Will Kemp & Connie Nielsen To Co-Star In NBC Pilot ‘Unveiled’
[More Info] Danny Pudi Toplines NBC’s ‘Strange Calls’
[More Info] Joan Allen To Star In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
[More Info] Chyler Leigh & David Harewood Cast In ‘Supergirl’ Pilot
[More Info] JLo's NBC Cop Drama Shades of Blue Adds Ray Liotta, Drea de Matteo
[More Info] Megan Hilty To Star In Judah Miller Pilot
[More Info] Merrin Dungey joins Fox’s ’48 Hours’
[More Info] Dougray Scott Cast In ABC’s ‘Quantico’
[More Info] James Brolin To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces’
[More Info] Blondy Baruti gets lead in ABC’s NBA Comedy Pilot
[More Info] Brooke Ishibashi cast in ‘People Are Talking’
[More Info] Stacy Keach Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
[More Info] Diego Boneta To Co-Star In Fox Series ‘Scream Queens'
[More Info] Margot Bingham joins ABC’s ‘Flesh And Blood’
[More Info] Diane Guerrero Joins CBS’ ‘Super Clyde'
[More Info] 'CSI: Miami's' Adam Rodriguez Books Male Lead in ABC's 'Runner'
[More Info] Meagan Good To Star In ‘Minority Report’ Fox Pilot
Nasim Pedrad Joins ‘Scream Queens’
Fox is keeping Mulaney co-star Nasim Pedrad in the fold with a series regular role in its upcoming straight-to-series comedy-horror anthology Scream Queens, from Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Saturday Night Live alumna Pedrad is certain to infuse comedy in the first installment of the anthology series, slated for next fall, which revolves around a college campus that is rocked by a series of murders.
Pedrad, who has been in demand this pilot season, will join an ensemble cast that includes Lea Michele, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, Keke Palmer, Joe Manganiello and Abigail Breslin.
Source: deadline
Lauren German To Co-Star In ‘Lucifer’
German plays Chloe Dancer, an LAPD homicide detective who finds herself both repulsed and fascinated by Lucifer. As they work together to solve a murder, Lucifer is struck by Chloe’s inherent goodness.
Source: Deadline
Callie Thorne Cast In TNT’s ‘Breed’
Thorne will play Emme Haladjian, the beautiful, charismatic, highly-accomplished prosecutor whose appearance hides her vicious secrets, and the danger she poses to Cooper and the city.
Source: Deadline
Don Hany Joins NBC Pilot Heart Matters
Hany will play Dr. Jessie Shane, the hospital’s new Chief of Surgery. Alex (Melissa George) and Jessie (Hany) had a a passionate, unforgettable affair when she was an intern, and now ten years later, they are working together.
Source: Deadline
Tony Rock Joins ABC’s untitled Judah Miller Comedy Pilot
Rock will play Ty, Gary’s brother-in-law who’s married to his twin sister Susie. A foil to Gary, Ty is oblivious of how he unnerves his brother-in-law.
Source: Deadline
Sonia Braga Joins 'The Curse Of The Fuentes Women'
Braga will play Orquidia, the estranged sister of Esperanza (Ticotin). Orquidia has been harboring an enormous grudge against her sister for decades.
Source: Deadline
Britne Oldford, Sam Page Join ABC’s ‘Mix’
Ravenswood alum Britne Oldford, Sam Page (House Of Cards) and Joaquim de Almeida (Fast Five) have booked regular roles on ABC’s pilot Mix, from Warner Bros. TV and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s studio-based Le Train Train. The dramedy explores the realities of modern-day families — multi-cultural, multi-generational, built through divorces, affairs and adoptions — set against the backdrop of a revered family restaurant at a crossroads. Oldford is Remy, who’s trying to stay clean after recently being release prison on a drug charge, but is finding life on the outside tougher than she anticipated. An extremely talented chef, she might be just what her father needs to turn the restaurant around. Page will play James, a recovering addict who is described as a warm, charming and intelligent man. He is immediately intrigued when he meets Remy at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. De Almeida will play Ray, owner of the popular Austin restaurant.
Source: Deadline
Delroy Lindo Joins ABC Pilot ‘Boom’
Delroy Lindo (Believe) is set to co-star opposite Don Johnson in the ABC drama pilot Boom, from producer Tony Krantz and ABC Studios. Written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne and directed by Jonas Pate, Boom examines the biggest oil discovery in American history — bigger than Texas and as big as Saudi Arabia — which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an economic boom in North Dakota on a scale not seen since the 1849 California Gold Rush. Lindo will play Tip Hamilton, the Sheriff of Williston County, a wise and sly man who has seen it all and is inclined to administer the law as impartially as possible — but with an attitude and edge.
Source: Deadline
Steven Weber joins CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Joe Time’
fter a string of hourlong series, Wings star Steven Weber is returning to his multi-camera camera roots with a starring role in Joe Time, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Warner Bros. TV and former Modern Family executive producer Bill Wrubel. Directe by veteran James Burrows, who also helmed the Wings pilot 25 years ago, Joe Time centers on Joe (Weber), a family man who struggles with the fact that everyone around him is pursuing their dreams and enjoying their lives more than he is. He’s starting to wonder if he’ll ever be able to follow his own desires, whatever that may be.
Source: deadline
Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Natalie Morales & William Devane Join Fox Pilot ‘Grinder’
Mary Elizabeth Ellis (New Girl), Natalie Morales (Parks & Recreation) and William Devane (24: Live Another Day) will co-star opposite Rob Lowe and Fred Savage in The Grinder, Fox’s comedy pilot from Andrew Mogel, Nick Stoller and Jarrad Paul. Written by Mogel and Paul and directed by Jake Kasdan, The Grinder stars Lowe as beloved TV lawyer Dean Sanderson (aka “The Grinder”). When his long-running hit series comes to an end, he finds himself at a crossroads in life and decides to move back to his small hometown thinking he has the experience to take over his family’s law firm where he butts heads with his brother, Stewart Sanderson (Savage).
Ellis will Stewart’s wife Debbie who dated Stewart’s brother, Dean, back in the day, and he still thinks of her as the one that got away. Morales will play Claire, the paralegal who works at Stewart’s law firm. She has never seen an episode of Dean’s TV show and is unimpressed with his celebrity. Devane will be playing Dean Sr., the sweet, old-fashioned father of Stewart and Dean and head of the family’s law firm. Lowe executive produces alongside Mogel, Paul, Stoller and Kasdan. 20th TV is the studio.
Source: deadline
Don Johnson joins ABC's drama pilot Boom
Don Johnson may be returning to network television: The Miami Vice and Nash Bridges alum has joined the cast of ABC’s drama pilot Boom, EW has learned.
The drama tracks the epic pilgrimage of a young, ambitious couple to the oil fields of the Bakken—the home of the biggest oil discovery in American history—seeking their fortune and a better life, following their trials and tribulations in a modern day “Wild West,” they negotiate a colorful ensemble of roughnecks, grifters, oil barons, criminals, and fellow prospectors against a stark and beautiful backdrop.
Johnson will play Hap Boyd, a mega alpha male oil icon and veteran of the oil wars of the last 40 years where he’s come up a winner in every battle. The patriarch of the Boyd family, Hap is disgusted with his son Wick’s (Scott Michael Foster) lazy worthless life, but has no notion that his rotten brat of a kid would try to steal from him… or worse.
Source: EW
Chloe Sevigny, Ted Levine, Leven Ramblin and Others Cast In ‘Dr. Del’
Katie Jacobs and Nick Wechsler have cast their independently produced medical drama pilot Dr. Del, with Chloe Sevigny (American Horror Story) and Ted Levine (The Bridge) set for co-star opposite star John Hawkes. Also cast in the project, inspired by Peter Hessler’s New Yorker piece “Dr. Don,” are Leven Ramblin, Don Harvey and Nathan Keyes.
Sevingy plays Brandy Sommers, a former ski-champ and the proprietor of the only bar in town who moved to Isotope to escape her colorful past. Levine will play Tanner Doggerty, the mayor of Isotope whose grand vision for the town and himself is at odds with Del’s (Hawkes). Rambin plays Shayna Canyon, Del’s estranged daughter, who is struggling to raise her young son, Stinger, while grappling with addiction. Harvey plays Denny Roper, sheriff of Isotope and Del’s childhood best friend. Keyes plays Cody Roper, Denny’s son and Del’s former son-in-law whom he believes is a bad influence on his grandson, Stinger.
Source: Deadline
Malina Weissman cast as young Supergirl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Malina Weissman has booked a key role in the network's DC Comics take on Supergirl, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama pilot centers on Kara Zor-El (Glee and Whiplash alum Melissa Benoist), Superman's cousin, who was born on the planet Krypton and escaped amid its destruction years ago. After arriving on Earth, Kara was taken in by a foster family, the Danvers, who taught her to be careful with her extraordinary powers (which she shares with her famous cousin).
Weissman, who played the young April (Megan Fox) in TMNT, will guest-star in the pilot as a young version of Kara, confirming speculation that the potential series will flash back to the DC heroine's early years as a child.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Alan Van Sprang To Topline ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’, Abbie Cobb To Co-Star
Coming off his role as King Henry II on Reign, Alan Van Sprang has been tapped as the lead in another CW/CBS TV Studios drama project, pilot Cheerleader Death Squad. Also cast as a lead in the project, written by Marc Cherry, Neal Baer and Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters, is Abbie Cobb (Suburgatory). Cheerleader Death Squad, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Stone (Van Sprang), a disgraced CIA agent-turned-history teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains three mean girls, Grace (Gia Mantegna), Ursula and Maddie (Cobb), to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency.
Source: deadline
Alexandra Chando to Co-Star in CW's 'Dead People'
The CW has found Andrew J. West's Dead People former bride.
The Lying Game star Alexandra Chando has booked a co-starring role on the network's drama pilot Dead People, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama centers on Floyd, a down-on-his-luck, semi-alcoholic but roguishly charming cab driver (The Walking Dead's West) who, after a near-death experience, suddenly has the ability to interact with ghosts, including his late ex-wife who he has never gotten over.
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Chando will play Pearl, described as perceptive, sweet and funny and a perfect match for Floyd. Unfortunately, she’s dead. Now, she helps him to move on with his life.
Source: THR
Jaina Lee Ortiz Lands Female Lead In Todd Harthan Pilot; ‘Ben & Kate’ Star Also Cast
Jaina Lee Ortiz is set as the female lead opposite Morris Chestnut in Fox’s untitled Todd Harthan drama pilot, a closed-ended procedural written/executive produced by Todd Harthan and directed by Richard Shepard. Also cast in the pilot, produced by 20th TV, is young Ben And Kate star Maggie Elizabeth Jones. It centers on Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr. (Chestnut), a gifted, charismatic private pathologist who can read living and dead bodies like a book.
Ortiz, a newcomer out of New York, who got her break when Chris Carter cast her in his Amazon pilot The After, will play Karissa Villa, a former NYPD detective who recently moved back to Miami and ends up helping Dr. Rosewood.
Source: deadline
David Witts & Lindsay Pearce Join ABC Family Series ‘Recovery Road’
ABC Family has rounded out the cast for its drama Recovery Road, which was picked up to series in December. British actor David Witts (EastEnders) has joined as a series regular, and Lindsay Pearce (The Wedding Ringer) has been tapped for a recurring role. Written by Bert V. Royal and Karen DiConcetto based on the popular young-adult novel by Blake Nelson, Recovery Road centers on Maddie (Jessica Sula), a party girl and a highly functioning addict who doesn’t think she has a problem until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie makes the difficult decision to live with other recovering addicts at a rehab facility, while facing the daily pressures of her teenage life.
Witts will play Craig, the counselor at Springtime Meadows, though not a recovering addict himself. He might come off as absent-minded, but nothing gets past Craig, and he’s an effective counselor who really cares about his patients. This was a guest star/recurring role in the pilot but was changed to regular for the series. Pearce is Rebecca. She and Maddie grew up together and once were very close. Rebecca now blames Maddie for everything that’s gone wrong in her life, since Maddie was the one who revealed that Rebecca had an addiction.
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Joy Bryant To Co-Star In ABC Pilot ‘The Advocate’; Coby Bell Also Cast
Parenthood‘s Joy Bryant is set as the co-lead opposite Kim Raver in the ABC drama pilot The Advocate. Also cast in the project, from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Prods. and Warner Bros TV, is Burn Notice and The Game alum Coby Bell.
Written by Turner and directed by Michael M. Robin, The Advocate was inspired by the real story of former talent agent Byrdie Lifson-Pompan, who teamed with Valerie Ulene, a medical doctor and a health education specialist, to launch a healthcare consulting company. It centers on Francis “Frankie” Reese (Raver), a tough, resourceful, type-A businesswoman at the top of her game who has a medical scare and experiences firsthand the hazards of our healthcare system. Shocking her friends and family, she leaves her career behind, becoming instead a brilliant and relentless advocate for anyone caught in the chaotic and ever-changing maze that is modern medicine. Bryant plays Frankie’s partner, Dr. Ryan Clarke, a brilliant doctor who meets Frankie by chance, helps her out of a tight spot and subsequently opens a patient advocacy firm with her hard-driving new friend. Bell plays Chris, who is trying to keep the medical firm afloat. And Freddie Thorpe was cast as Frankie’s son.
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Aimee Garcia & Jessika Van Cast In CBS’ ‘Rush Hour’
Dexter alumna Aimee Garcia is set to co-star opposite Jon Foo in CBS’ hourlong pilot Rush Hour. Also cast in the project, based on the hit movie franchise, is Jessika Van.
Written/executive produced by Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick and directed/exec produced by Jon Turteltaub, the pilot centers on Lee (Foo), a stoic, by-the-book Hong Kong police officer assigned to a case in Los Angeles, where he’s forced to work with Carter, a cocky black LAPD officer who has no interest in a partner. Garcia will play Didi Diaz, a sergeant with the LAPD who chose to leave the streets once she became a mom. Didi is Carter’s former partner who knows him better than most people and is not afraid to call him out. Van will play Det. Lee’s (Foo) younger sister Kim, one of the few female officers with the Hong Kong Police Department.
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Kelly O’Sullivan Joins CBS’ Dan O’Shannon Pilot
Kelly O’Sullivan (Sirens) is set as a lead in CBS’ untitled comedy pilot from former Modern Family executive producer Dan O’Shannon and writer Peter Warren (Happyland). It revolves around a group of friends and family at three different times in their lives. O’Sullivan will play Katie, a fun, feisty and likable woman who’s been a fireball her entire life. She is soon to be married, and we see her throughout the vibrant and wild days of her past.
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Lauren Ambrose To Star In ABC’s 'Broad Squad'; Michael Gaston, Others Also Cast
ABC has set the four leads in its period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, with the last one going to Lauren Ambrose, currently seen in USA’s limited series DIG. Also cast in the pilot, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc, are Michael Gaston (The Mentalist), Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho) and Alberto Frezza.
Broad Squad, from Kapital Entertainment, Fake Empire and ABC Studios, is a fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978. The project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen (Ambrose), Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Cody Horn) and Joanne (Rutina Wesley) — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them.
Gaston plays Capt. Donahue, who oversees his boys’ club precinct with a take-charge affability, clearly amused and annoyed by the intrusion of four female rookie cops. Mitchel plays Jim Pearce, a police officer, now sidelined due to an injury, and Eileen’s supportive husband. Frezza plays Officer Frank, a rookie cop on the BPD, a charming ex-high school football star who “found a higher calling.”
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Melanie Griffith To Star In ABC Comedy Pilot About Family With Genius Kids
Melanie Griffith is set to co-star in ABC’s untitled Molyneux comedy pilot (formerly The Brainy Bunch), from Imagine TV and 20th TV. The single-camera project, written/executive produced by Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux and directed by Jamie Travis, is inspired by the book by Kip and Mona Lisa Harding. Through a combination of genetics and dynamic home schooling, Kip and Mona Lisa Mitchell find themselves raising extraordinarily intelligent kids. Griffith will play Mona Lisa’s mom Celeste, a former pageant queen who has graciously invited her daughter’s family to live with her in Orange County.
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Mark-Paul Gosselaar to Star in NBC's 'People Are Talking'
Mark-Paul Gosselaar is returning to NBC.
The Franklin & Bash star — and Saved by the Bell alum — has booked the leading role in NBC's comedy pilot People Are Talking, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
From Growing Up Fisher's DJ Nash, the multicamera comedy will examine sex, race and everything else your parents told you never to talk about.
Gosselaar will star as Mitch, a neurotic guy who tends to overthink things, which is completely offset by his optimism, humor and likability. Mitch is a college ethics professor, which may explain why he goes through life with a heightened attention to justice. Mitch knows he can't change the world, but he's determined to alter his corner of it.
Source: THR
Parminder Nagra Cast In ABC Pilot ‘The Kingmakers’
The Blacklist alumna Parminder Nagra has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot The Kingmakers. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers, from ABC Studios, centers on Eli, a young man whose sister Julia is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university. He adopts a new identity to infiltrate the school and its century-old secret society – consisting of privileged students, ambitious faculty and high-profile alums – in order to investigate her death.
Nagra will play Radha, a beautiful British professor who is framed for supplying Julia with drugs and disposing of her body after her overdose. Radha calls Eli to warn him that Julia was murdered and to give him the information and contacts he needs to assume a new identity. She is fighting not only to save her own skin but to uncover the intricate web of lies and trail of trouble.
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Matthew Lillard To Star In ‘Problem Child’ NBC Pilot
Matthew Lillard is set as the male lead opposite Erinn Hayes in Problem Child, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot inspired by the 1990 Universal Pictures/Imagine feature that starred John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck as a couple conned into adopting a troubled 7-year-boy who wreaks havoc in their lives and leaves a path of destruction anywhere he goes. The TV adaptation, written by Scot Armstrong, is described as a family show about the cat-and-mouse game between a set of parents and their brilliant but mischievous child. Lillard has been cast as the dad, a role played in the movie by Ritter.
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Joe Spano Cast In Fox’s ‘48 Hours Til Monday’
Joe Spano (NCIS) has booked a regular role in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday, written/exec produced by Charlie Grandy. 48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Rob Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Spano will play Doug McGill, Louise’s (Jane Curtin) husband. They are living at Kelly (Sarah Chalke) and Charlie’s (Riggle) house until he’s recovered from a back injury and can go back to work
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Daniel Sharman To Star In CBS Pilot ‘LFE’
Teen Wolf star Daniel Sharman has been cast as a lead in the CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural revolving around second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity. Sharman will play Joe, a good-hearted, expertly talented surgical resident.
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Newcomer Elvy Yost Joins The Catch
Newcomer Elvy Yost (Old Boy) has booked a regular role in ABC drama pilot The Catch, from ABC Studios and Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Written and executive produced by Jennifer Schuur based on the novel by Kate Atkinson, The Catch centers on Alice (Mireille Enos), who is about to get married to Kieran (Damon Dayoub) and about to get conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiancé, our heroine — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when Kieran’s expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. Yostwill play Maria, who loves her job at Meyer, Morrison and Rose, and despite the fact that her mom keeps sending her job posts for big law firms, is happy exactly where she is.
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Lenny Platt Cast In The Adversaries
Lenny Platt (One Life To Live) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios and writer/executive producer David Zabel and ABC Studios, It centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. Platt will play Danny, the smart, energetic, high strung, straight out of Queens attorney and devoted employee. Platt recurred on How To Get Away With Murder.
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‘True Blood’s Rutina Wesley To Star In ‘Broad Squad’
Rutina Wesley, coming off playing Sookie’s best friend Tara on True Blood for seven seasons, has been cast as one of the four leads in ABC’s period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978, the project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen, Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Cody Horn) and Joanne (Wesley) — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them from everyone.
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Supergirl To Square Off Against Iron Man and Star Trek Actor Faran Tahir
Faran Tahir, recognizable to fans of Iron Man and Star Trek, has joined the cast of CBS' in-production Supergirl pilot, ComicBook.com has learned.
Tahir is playing The Commander, an alien military expert leading the forces aligned against Supergirl.
That is, he is an alien who is also a military expert. Start your engines speculating who he might be. While nobody springs immediately to mind, it's hard to imagine that some of the characters from recent storylines like "New Krypton" and "H'El on Earth" won't be getting a good, long look from fans in the coming days and weeks.
In the "New Krypton" storyline, she foiled an assassination attempt made by Commander Gor, a member of the Kryptonian Military Guild in Kandor, against Labor Guild member Tam-Or.
Tahir is a prolific talent, having appeared on The West Wing, JAG and in Elysium, among others. He's a guest star in the pilot, with the possibility to become recurring on Supergirl.
Source: ComicBook.com
Kimberley Crossman Joins ‘Fantasy Life’
Kiwi actress Kimberley Crossman has booked a series regular role in Fox’s multi-camera/hybrid pilot Fantasy Life, written by Tim McAuliffe based on the memoir by one of U.S.’ top fantasy experts, ESPN’s Matthew Berry. When a hard-working guy, Mitch (Kevin Connolly) lands his ultimate dream job hosting a fantasy football show, he’s forced to navigate office politics while becoming the star he never thought he could be. Crossman will play Summer Dale, the daughter of the network president, who’s gotten her the job as host of Mitch’s (Connelly) new Fantasy Football league on Fox.
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Florence Pugh To Star In Fox’s ‘Studio City’
UK native Florence Pugh has been cast as the female lead opposite Eric McCormack in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom, as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars.
Pugh will play Cat, a rising singer/songwriter whose life has been a celebration of dysfunction – with her mother an unstable alcoholic and her father (McCormack) a drug-dealing musician. She’s a survivor, though, and somehow has managed to keep her sense of humor, her romanticism and her dreams alive, despite it all.
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Martha Plimpton To Star In Dan Savage ABC Pilot ‘Family of the Year’
Raising Hope star Martha Plimpton is back on pilot duty with another role as a mom in a single-camera family comedy. Plimpton is set as a lead in ABC’s Family Of The Year. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Dan Savage, Family Of The Year revolves around the O’Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Noah Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect. Plimpton plays Danny’s mom, Eileen, who appears to be the perfect mom in every way. She’s very proud of her family however, in actuality, her marriage is on the rocks and her life hasn’t been all that easy and fun.
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Christina Vidal To Star In ‘The Curse Of the Fuentes Women’, Daphne Rubin-Vega Also Cast
Christina Vidal is set as a lead in The Curse Of The Fuentes Women, NBC‘s drama pilot from Warner Bros TV. Also cast in the project, written/executive produced by Silvio Horta and directed by Jason Ensler, is Daphne Rubin-Vega (Smash).
Daphne Rubin VegaWhen a magical and mysterious young man (Adan Canto) inexplicably emerges from the ocean, he breathes new passion into the lives of the Fuentes women – the beautiful but lonely Lola (Vidal), her ailing mother Esperanza (Rachel Ticotin) and her troubled daughter Soledad (Katie Sarife). Lola has given up on love and dedicated herself to caring for her daughter Soledad, her mother Esperanza and their floundering family restaurant – until a mysterious stranger enters her life, opening up a world of possibilities. Rubin-Vega, who originated the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, plays Remelda, a Santeria priestess who lives with and acts as an adviser to Orquidia, Esperanza’s estranged sister.
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Ben Hollingsworth Joins ‘Code Black’
Ben Hollingsworth (Cult, The Tomorrow People) has booked a regular role in CBS pilot Code Black. The medical drama, written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel, is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary. It is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Hollingsworth will play Mario, an eager, cocky new resident in the ER.
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Charity Wakefield To Star In ‘Endgame'
Charity Wakefield (The Raven) has landed the female lead opposite Philip Winchester and Wesley Snipes in NBC drama pilot Endgame, written by John Rogers and directed by Bharat Nalluri for Davis Entertainment and Sony TV. Described as a high-octane thriller set in the high-stakes world of Las Vegas, it centers on Alex (Winchester), a former intelligence officer turned security expert who is drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that forces him to complete a series of heroic challenges in order to save innocent lives. Wakefield will play Cassandra, a rule-breaker who aids Alex in his quest even as she manipulates him for her own secret agenda. A whip-smart tech genius with her own history in the intelligence and counter-terrorist world, she is far more dangerous than she at first appears to be.
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Jack Cutmore-Scott To Play Title Role In Fox Pilot ‘Cooper Barrett’s Guide’
Jack Cutmore-Scott, who starred in the Fox comedy pilot Cabot College last year, has been cast by the network as another comedy pilot lead. The young Broadway actor has landed the title role in single-camera Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Your 20s, from 20th Century Fox TV and Gail Berman’s the Jackal Group. Written by Jay Lacopo, Cooper Barrett’s Guide celebrates the mistakes and misadventures of post-college life. It centers on 26-year-old Cooper Barrett (Cutmore-Scott), who, during a particularly disastrous experience, decides it’s time somebody let the under-20 crowd know about the unexpected challenges of life after college.
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Peter Gallagher & Olivia Thirlby Join Fox Pilot ‘Detour’ Inspired By Rivers Cuomo
Peter Gallagher and Olivia Thirlby will co-star opposite Ben Aldridge in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Detour, from 20th Century Fox TV.
Inspired by the real-life story of Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo, Detour centers on Michael Sturges (Aldridge), a charming rock star who made the unexpected choice at age 30 to quit his band and go back to college. Gallagher plays the notorious Professor Zaring, while Thirlby plays Gabrielle, his confident teaching assistant. The pilot was written by Psych creator Steve Franks and will be directed by The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick. Franks, Cuomo, Dan Field, Chris Henze and Willie Mercer executive produce.
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Real-life Siblings Talitha Bateman & Gabriel Bateman Join Mamma Dallas
Real-life siblings Talitha Bateman and Gabriel Bateman have booked regular roles opposite Augustus Prew in Mamma Dallas, HBO’s comedy pilot by Enlightened creator Mike White. Written, directed and executive produced by White, the half-hour project follows a conservative family in Texas who unwittingly hire a hard-living drag queen, Liberty (Prew), as their live-in nanny. The siblings play the children who are cared for by Liberty.
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Mia Serafino Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
Mia Serafino has booked a role in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Patrick Warburton) and Martina Gunn (Carrie Preston) when their children and their parents move back home. Serafino will play Stella, a charming, struggling actress.
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Griffin Gluck Joins NBC’s ‘Cuckoo’
Griffin Gluck (Red Band Society, Back In The Game) has been cast opposite Flula Borg in NBC’s comedy pilot Cuckoo, an adaptation of the breakout BBC Three comedy series, which starred Andy Samberg. NBC’s Cuckoo is the story of a middle-class family whose daughter comes back from a summer abroad married to a charming but infuriating eccentric named Cuckoo (Borg), much to her father’s annoyance. Gluck will play Dylan, Ken and Lori’s youngest child that has completely embraced life in his older sister’s shadow though he still holds it against her every chance he gets.
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Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki Join AMC’s ‘The Night Manager’
Olivia Colman (Broadchurch), Tom Hollander (Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) and Elizabeth Debicki have joined the cast of AMC’s The Night Manager, the television adaptation of John Le Carre’s espionage drama. AMC co-produces with BBC and The Ink Factory on the miniseries that is set to begin filming this spring. Colman, Hollander and Debicki join previously announced Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston. Susanne Bier is directing from a script by David Farr.
The first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years, The Night Manager mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. It follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.
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Aly Michalka & Maulik Pancholy Join ABC’s Chevy Chase Pilot
Aly Michalka (Two And A Half Men) and 30 Rock alum Maulik Pancholy are set to co-star opposite Chevy Chase in ABC’s comedy pilot toplined by the Saturday Night Live alum. The project, from Brad Copeland, Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios, centers on a baby boomer couple (Chase, Beverly D’Angelo) who are fun, relevant and living a selfish retirement when their world is turned upside down and they are suddenly left to raise their grandchildren. Michalka plays the couple’s sourpuss daughter Molly; Pancholy is Molly’s medical student boyfriend. Also cast in the pilot is Grace Kaufman (Bad Teacher) as one of the grandchildren.
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Adam Rothenberg To Star In ‘L.A. Crime'
Ripper Street star Adam Rothenberg is set as a lead in ABC’s drama pilot L.A. Crime, from ABC Studios and Mandeville. Also cast fainin the character-driven “true-crime” procedural is Holley Fain (Grey’s Anatomy). Written by Steven Baigelman and directed by Tom Shankland, L.A. Crime explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in Los Angeles history. In the first installment, L.A. Crime: The Sunset Strip, two LA cops, Jack Roth (Rothenberg) and Paco Contreras, will be searching for a Bonnie & Clyde-esque serial-killing team amid the coke-infused rock ‘n’ roll, revelry of the 1980s Sunset Strip. Fain plays Roth’s loving and protective wife.
Source: Deadline
Hanna Mangan Lawrence joins CW’s ‘Cordon’
Hanna Mangan Lawrence (Spartacus) has joined the cast of the CW drama pilot Cordon, from Warner Bros TV. Written by The Vampire Diaries and The Originals showrunner Julie Plec based on a Belgian format and directed by David Nutter, Cordon chronicles the aftermath of a deadly epidemic outbreak in Atlanta. Lawrence will play Teresa, a pregnant teenager eager to escape her mother’s judgment by running away with her boyfriend, she just misses her opportunity to leave the quarantine zone.
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Jeanine Mason Joins Fox Pilot ‘Studio City'
Jeanine Mason (Bunheads) has been cast in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA, and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (Eric McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars. Mason will play Zoe, Stevie’s child from a previous relationship with a Latino lover. A brilliant, code-writing college student in financial trouble, she has moved back home but lives in the garage.
Source: Deadline
Meta Golding, Colin Donnell, Monet Mazur Join NBC Pilot ‘Love Is A 4 Letter Word’
Meta Golding (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Monet MazurMonet 3 (Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery) and Colin Donnell (Arrow) have booked lead roles on NBC drama pilot Love Is A Four Letter Word. The project, from playwright-TV writer Diana Son, 20th TV and Fabrik, chronicles the collision of race, sexuality and gender roles when three diverse couples put modern marriage to the test.
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Ray Winstone to Star in ABC Biblical Drama 'Of Kings and Prophets'
The two-time BAFTA nominee (That Summer, Nil by Mouth) has been tapped to star in ABC's biblical drama pilot Of Kings and Prophets, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama is describedas an epic biblical saga of faith, ambition and betrayal as told through the eyes of a battle-weary king (Winstone), a powerful and resentful prophet and a resourceful young shepherd on a collision course with destiny.
Winstone is set for King Saul, the first kind of Israel who is suffering from what today would be considered bipolar disorder and PTSD.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Jon Dore Cast As The Lead In ‘The Half Of It’
Jon Dore has landed the lead in The Half Of It, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by Mike Gibbons and directed by James Burrows. The project, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Mike (Dore), a newly divorced dad who revels in the fact that he now gets to keep half his stuff, which is more than he ever had when he was married. Mike is dealing with mixed feelings: half of him is the excited, upbeat single guy and the other half is the single dad who is in over his head with single parenting.
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Giovanni Ribisi gets lead in Sneaky Pete
Giovanni Ribisi is set for the title role in CBS’ drama pilot Sneaky Pete, Marin Ireland will co-star in the project, written/executive produced by Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and House creator David Shore through Sony TV. Also cast in the pilot, directed/exec produced by Seth Gordon, is Libe Barer (Parenthood).
Sneaky Pete centers on Pete/Marius (Ribisi), a thirty-something con man who, upon leaving prison, takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of a cellmate. “Sneaky Pete” then hides out from his debtors while working for his new “family’s” bail bond business. There he uses his considerable charm and criminal prowess to take down bad guys far worse than himself, partnering with the real Pete’s first cousin, Julia (Ireland), a witty single mother of two who is running the family’s bail bond business and who has her suspicions about his real motives.
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Raza Jaffrey To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Code Black’
Coming off playing the charming Colonel Aasar Khan on Season 4 of Homeland, British actor Raza Jaffrey is taking on another heartthrob role, a lead opposite Maggie Grace in CBS pilot Code Black. The medical drama, written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel, is based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary. It is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Jaffrey plays Neal, an excellent doctor who believes that connecting emotionally with his patients is critical and taking risks with their health is abhorrent.
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Andy Mientus Cast In ‘LFE’
Andy Mientus (Smash) has booked a regular role on CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural centering on second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity. Mientus and manager Geoff Soffer, will play Trevor, a second-year surgical resident. His hypervigilance makes him a fast reactor to threatening stimuli, so when a crisis situation comes along, he is able to rise above and save the day— though he will almost have a panic attack while he does it.
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Anika Noni Rose To Topline ‘For Justice’ CBS Civil Rights Pilot
Anika Noni Rose has been tapped for the lead in CBS’ civil rights crime drama drama pilot For Justice, written by Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and directed by Selma helmer Ava DuVernay.
The project, from CBS Television Studios, James Patterson Entertainment and Tribeca Productions, is based on James Patterson’s debut crime novel, The Thomas Berryman Number. It centers on Special Agent Natalia “Nat” Chappel (Rose), a cool, laser-focused, tough as nails FBI agent who works in the Criminal Section of the Department of Civil Rights Division and finds herself caught between the radical family she was born into and the professional family she has chosen.
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ABC's Shondaland Drama 'The Catch' Casts Newcomer Damon Dayoub as Male Lead
Newcomer Damon Dayoub has nabbed the male lead in ABC's Shondaland-produced drama pilot The Catch, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Catch is described as a thriller about Alice (The Killing's Mireille Enos), a woman about to get married and about to get conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiance, the heroine — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when the fiance's expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse. The show is based on the novel by Kate Atkinson.
Dayoub will star as Alice's fiancé, Kieran, who conned her with a fake email and identity. He steals a large amount of money from Alice before taking off to be with his wife, Zoe. The character is described as cunning and deceitful who essentially only cares about himself.
Source: THR
Kris Lemche To Star In ‘Tales From The Darkside’ CW Pilot
Kris Lemche has been cast as the lead in the CW drama pilot Tales From The Darkside, a remake of the 1980s horror/fantasy/thriller anthology series that hails from writer Joe Hill and producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
The anthology series will feature only one regular character, Newman (Lemche). A weathered and tortured young man, Newman is the guide to the unsuspecting who come across The Darkside. Newman – a man with his own desperate, wrenching secrets – knows exactly what’s causing the terrifying Darkside Events that drive the series. What he doesn’t know is how to stop them.
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Lina Esco Hellbent For ‘Lucifer’
Lina Esco (Cane) has booked a role in Fox’s drama pilot Lucifer, from Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros TV. Based on the characters from the DC Entertainment’s Vertigo, the show centers on Lucifer (Tom Ellis) who, bored and unhappy as the Lord of Hell, resigns his throne and abandons his kingdom for Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals. Esco will play Lucifer’s best friend Maze, a fierce demon in the form of a beautiful young woman.
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Elliot Knight Joins ‘The Advocate’
Elliot Knight (Syfy’s Sinbad) has been cast in ABC drama pilot The Advocate, from Vendetta Prods and Warner Bros TV. It centers on a type-A businesswoman (Kim Raver) who has a medical scare, only to be dangerously misdiagnosed, and experiences the hazards of our healthcare system. She leaves her career behind to become a relentless advocate for anyone caught in the maze that is modern medicine. Knight will play Brett, the receptionist at the advocacy office, who can sometimes be a bit clueless when it comes to dealing with potential clients.
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Peter Riegert Joins Fox’s Dana Klein Pilot
Peter Riegert is rounding out the cast of Fox’s untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen (Jenna Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law Amy (Liza Lapira). Riegert plays Ira, the two brothers’ impatient, inappropriate and closed-minded Republican father.
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Dana Davis (Franklin & Bash) has landed a series regular role in NBC’s supernatural/spiritual drama pilot Unveiled, from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. Written by John Sakmar and Kerry Lenhart, Unveiled follows an ensemble of flawed guardian angels who intervene in the lives of those who find themselves facing crisis in an attempt to restore their faith and, often, save their lives. Davis will play Garnet, a cool, ambitious go-getter who’s champing at the bit to get in the game and break through the veil to work with tortured souls.
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Ben Aldridge To Play The Lead In Fox Pilot ‘Detour’, Joey Morgan Also Cast
In his first U.S. pilot gig, British actor Ben Aldridge has landed the lead in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Detour, from 20th Century Fox TV. Also cast in the pilot, written by Psych creator Steve Franks and directed by The Wedding Ringer’s Jeremy Garelick, is Joey Morgan.
Inspired by the real-life story of Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo, Detour centers on Michael Sturges (Aldridge), a charming rock star who made the unexpected choice at age 30 to quit his band and go back to college. Morgan will play Walter, Michael’s sweet-natured, brilliant but socially anxious/awkward college roommate. Franks, Cuomo, Dan Field, Chris Henze and Willie Mercer executive produce.
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Luis Guzman To Star In CBS’ ‘Code Black'
Veteran Luis Guzman is set as a lead opposite Maggie Grace in CBS pilot Code Black, a medical drama written by Michael Seitzman and directed by David Semel for ABC Studios. Based on Ryan McGarry’s feature documentary of the same name, the show is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation and revolves around four residents who are getting their first taste of ER medicine and the medical staff who mentor, teach and terrify them. Guzman plays Jose Santiago, the affable but tough and strong, no-s**t, seen-it-all, senior nurse at the ER who is responsible for the four new residents. As he puts it, “for the next three years I’m your mama…and your mama knows when you’re lying, crying or dying.”
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Cody Horn Cast In ABC’s ‘Broad Squad’
Cody Horn (Magic Mike) has landed one of the four leads in ABC’s period female-cop procedural drama pilot Broad Squad, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Coky Giedroyc. A fictionalized account of the graduating class of Boston’s first female patrol officers in 1978, the project centers on four newly minted cops — Eileen, Molly (Charlotte Spencer), Lisa (Horn) and Joanne — who arrived at a tumultuous time in the city’s history and have to navigate rival neighborhoods as well as the conflicting attitudes toward them from everyone.
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Holt McCallany To Star In NBC Pilot ‘Warrior’
Lights Out star Holt McCallany is set as a lead opposite Natalie Martinez in Warrior, NBC’s magical martial arts drama pilot written/executive produced by David DiGilio, directed by Phillip Noyce and executive produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Set in a grounded, contemporary multicultural and sometimes magical milieu, Warrior, from Universal TV, centers on Kai Forrester (Martinez), a damaged heroine who works undercover with physical and spiritual guidance from a mysterious martial arts master (McCallany) to bring down an international crime lord.
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Carrie Preston To Star In Suzanne Martin Empty-Nester NBC Comedy Pilot
The Good Wife scene-stealer Carrie Preston has been cast as the female lead opposite Patrick Warburton in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn (Preston) when their children and their parents move back home. Stacy Keach plays Mike’s dad.
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Jon Foo To Play Detective Lee In ‘Rush Hour’ CBS Pilot
The 1998 Rush Hour movie helped make Hong Kong film star and martial arts wiz Jackie Chan a household name in America, jumpstarting a successful Hollywood career. Now CBS’ TV adaptation of the hit movie franchise is looking to do the same for Jon Foo, who has landed the Detective Lee role played in the movies by Chan.
Written/executive produced by Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick and directed/exec produced by Jon Turteltaub, CBS’ Rush Hour pilot centers onLee (Foo), a stoic, by-the-book Hong Kong police officer assigned to a case in Los Angeles, where he’s forced to work with a cocky black LAPD officer, Carter (originally played by Chris Tucker), who has no interest in a partner. A top detective with the Hong Kong police department, Detective Lee is a dedicated professional and master martial artist, a man of few words who knows how to get the job done.
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Mike Epps To Topline ABC Comedy Pilot ‘Uncle Buck’, Nia Long Also Cast
Mike Epps has been tapped for the title role in Uncle Buck, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. Also cast in the project, from Universal TV and Will Packer Prods., is Nia Long.
Like the movie, the series adaptation, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley, centers on Buck Russell (Epps), a childish man who learns how to be an adult by taking care of his brother Will’s kids in a very childish way. Long will play Will’s strong-willed and smart wife.
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Marc Cherry’s CW Pilot ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’ Adds Newcomer Pepi Sonuga
Newcomer Pepi Sonuga has been cast in the CW’s drama pilot “Cheerleader Death Squad,” an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Story follows a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school who trains a select few well-connected students to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency.
Sonuga will play Ursula, described as sexy and vain, and a strong, agile cheerleader recruited for the mission who knows what she wants and gets it. Her confidence is intimidating, and she uses it to her advantage.
Source: TheWrap
Karolina Wydra Boards ABC's 'L.A. Crime' Anthology
Karolina Wydra has boarded the network's anthology, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
L.A. Crime is a character-driven, true-crime procedural anthology that explores sex, politics and popular culture across various noteworthy eras in L.A. history. Season one focuses on two L.A. cops in search for a Bonnie & Clyde-esque serial killing team amid the rock-and-roll, coke-infused revelry of the 1980s Sunset Strip.
Wydra is set to play Diane, a beautiful, resilient detective working undercover as a barmaid on the Sunset Strip.
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'The Originals' Newbie Claudia Black to Co-Star in Julie Plec's CW Pilot Cordon
Julie Plec is continuing to build her own repertory company.
The prolific producer has cast The Originals newbie Claudia Black in her CW pilot Cordon, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the original Belgian series created by Carl Joos, Cordon examines what happens when a deadly epidemic breaks out in Atlanta and a large city quarantine is quickly enforced, leaving those stuck on the inside to fight for their lives. It tells the story of loved ones tragically torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the cordon reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.
Black will co-star as Dr. Sabine Lommers, representing the department of health and human services, she is the face of the government's response. Determined to keep the public from panicking, she battles not only the deadly disease but the public's perception as well.
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Eddie Izzard, Nadia Alexander & Ismenia Mendes Cast In HBO Pilot ‘The Devil You Know’ From Jenji Kohan
Eddie Izzard is set to star in HBO drama pilot The Devil You Know (formerly New World). Also cast in the project, co-written by Orange Is The New Black creator Jenji Kohan, Bruce Miller and Tracy Miller and directed by Gus Van Sant, are young actresses Nadia Alexander and Ismenia Mendes.
Described as a provocative period drama, The Devil You Know (working title) explores the circumstances around one of the most compelling chapters in American history — the infamous Salem Witch Trials in 17th century New England, where intolerance and repression set neighbor against neighbor and led a town to mass hysteria.
Izzard plays farmer Thomas Putnam, the conservative, rigid and devoutly Puritan patriarch of the powerful Putnam family. He is a leader in agrarian Salem Village, but his top position is being threatened from many sides.
Alexander plays another lead role, the bright and ambitious Ann Putnam Jr., who is unsure of her role as a woman in this world but determined to discover her place in it.
Mendes, a newcomer out of Juilliard, plays Mercy Lewis, a captured servant girl from Maine who must summon her inner resources.
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Aylin Bayramoglu Cast In CW’s ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
Newcomer Aylin Bayramoglu (The Glee Project) has landed a series regular role in Cheerleader Death Squad, the CW’s drama pilot written by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and Blue Bloods executive producer Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters. It centers on a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains a select few to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency. Bayramoglu plays Fatima, the lonely girl at school that no one seems to notice.
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Dan Bakkedahl Joins CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces'
Dan Bakkedahl (The Mindy Project, The Goldbergs) has booked a regular role on Life In Pieces, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Justin Adler, the project is about one family, the Shorts, as told through the separate stories of its different family members. Bakkedahl will play Tim, who does his best to navigate the politics of his wife’s (Betsy Brandt) family, mostly by sticking his foot in his mouth.
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Dreama Walker Cast In CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
Don’t Trust the B—- star Dreama Walker is set to co-star opposite KaDee Strickland in Doubt, CBS’ hourlong pilot from Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios. Written by Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Adam Bernstein, the project centers on Sadie (Strickland), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
Walker will play Tiffany, a smart, hardworking second-year associate from Iowa who reports to Cameron (Laverne Cox).
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Jake McLaughlin joins ABC's Quantico
The actor has been tapped to join the cast of ABC's Quantico, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama centers on a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. As the drama intercuts between their hidden pasts and their training, it also flashes forward to the near future, where one of the recruits will turn out to be a sleeper terrorist responsible for the most devastating terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Fred Savage joins FOX Pilot Grinder
After building a solid second career for himself as a series director/producer, Fred Savage is returning in the front of the camera. In what would mark Savage’s first TV series role in almost a decade, he has signed on to co-star opposite Rob Lowe in The Grinder, Fox’s comedy pilot from Andrew Mogel, Nick Stoller and another actor who segued to a second career behind the camera, Jarrad Paul. Written by Mogel and Paul and directed by Jake Kasdan, The Grinder stars Lowe as beloved TV lawyer Dean Sanderson (aka “The Grinder”). When his long-running hit series comes to an end, he finds himself at a crossroads in life and decides to move back to his small hometown thinking he has the experience to take over his family’s law firm where he butts heads with his brother, Stewart Sanderson (Savage). Stewart is a hard-working attorney and family man who feels very much in the shadow of his younger brother, Dean, a huge television star whose courtroom procedural show has just ended. When Dean comes back to his home town looking for a new direction in life, everyone is dazzled by his charm and celebrity — everyone except Stewart.
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Heather Graham Joins Fox’s ‘Studio City’
Heather Graham will co-star opposite Eric McCormack in Fox’s family dramedy pilot Studio City, written by Krista Vernoff and directed by Sanaa Hamri. Inspired by Vernoff’s real-life experience growing up as the daughter of a drug dealer to the stars, Studio City is set in present-day Studio City, CA and tells the story of a young singer’s path to stardom, as she comes of age living with her songwriter father Rob (McCormack) — who turns out to be a drug dealer to the stars.
Graham plays Rob’s third wife Stevie. A former stand-up comedian, Stevie is generous and kind, with the mind of a teenager, filled with passionate ideas — just not very good ones. Vernoff executive produces with John Wells and Andrew Stearn for John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV
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Jacky Ido and Jay Hayden Join ABC's The Catch
Ido plays FBI agent Thomas Delgado, who’s handling Alice’s (Mireille Enos) case against fiancé Kieran. Hayden will play James, Alice’s right hand and left-brained man at work.
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Nancy Lenehan & Izzy Watts Join FOX's Dana Klein Pilot
Nancy Lenehan (Sex Tape) and Izzy Watts have joined the cast of Fox’s untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th Century Fox TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written/exec produced by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen (Jenna Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her perfect, stay-at-home sister-in-law Amy (Liza Lapira). Lenehan, will play Anita, mother to Matt (Matt Letscher) and Jack (Brian Austin Green). Anita is often the unwitting participant in a battle of wills between her sons’ two wives. Watts plays Frankie Stanley, Ellen and Matt’s daughter. Brutally honest and annoyed from the time she wakes up, she is not a people-pleaser.
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Greta Lee Cast As Lead in ‘Sharing'
Greta Lee (New Girl, Wayward Pines) has booked the female lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Sharing, from Universal TV and Jimmy Fallon’s Eight Million Plus. It is a workplace comedy about the different groups of people working side by side in a shared office space. Lee plays Heidi Salazar, the face of Giftr. She’s desperate for the app to make Wired magazine so she doesn’t have to go back to her old accounting job.
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Jason Antoon Cast In ‘46 Percenters’
Jason Antoon (No Ordinary Family, Kings) has booked one of the male leads in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot The 46 Percenters. It’s described as an unromantic romantic comedy about the 46 percent of the population who have not gotten a divorce and choose to stay married. Antoon will play Hari, Kiri’s (Nazneen Contractor) husband.
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James Remar Joins ‘The Shannara Chronicles'
James Remar (Dexter) has joined the cast of of MTV’s 10-episode straight-to-series drama The Shannara Chronicles, based on Terry Brooks’ massive fantasy book series. Written by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar, Shannara Chronicles is set thousands of years after the destruction of our civilization. The story revolves around the Shannara family, whose descendants are empowered with ancient magic and whose adventures continuously reshape the future of the world. Remar will play Cephelo, the leader of the Rovers who roam the Four Lands.
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Jeremy Jordan to Play CatCo Tech Guru in Supergirl
Smash alum Jeremy Jordan can put his newest role in the Winn column.
The multitalented actor has signed on to guest-star as Supergirl‘s Winslow “Winn” Schott, a tech-savvy colleague of Kara’s, TVLine has learned.
RELATED CBS’ Supergirl Casts the Heroic Helen Slater and Dean Cain in Top-Secret Roles
Per CBS’ official character description, Winn is a “superstar IT whiz” who works alongside Kara (Glee‘s Melissa Benoist) at CatCo.
But those well-versed in DC Comics lore will recognize Jordan’s character’s name as an alias used by the villainous Toyman, who uses toy-inspired gadgets to wreak havoc and commit crimes.
Source: TVLine
Colton Dunn, Mark McKinney & Nico Santos Join NBC Pilot ‘Superstore’
Colton Dunn (Key And Peele), Mark McKinney (The Kids In The Hall) and Nico Santos have joined the cast of NBC comedy pilot Superstore. Written by former The Office writer-producer Justin Spitzer and directed by Ruben Fleischer, Superstore is about a group of employees at a big-box store and examines love, friendship and the beauty of everyday moments.
Dunn will play Garrett, the often-sarcastic narrator of the piece who frequently shares his philosophical insights and wry comments over the store intercom. McKinney will play Glenn, the intensely religious store manager of Cloud 9 who isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. Santos will play Mateo, a brown-noser from an impoverished background with 11 brothers and sisters, many of whom are incarcerated. Mateo thinks his job will take him to the top, and he won’t let anyone get in his way.
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Jane Lynch To Star In CBS Comedy Pilot ‘Angel From Hell’
As she just wrapped her Emmy-winning turn on Glee, Jane Lynch has lined up her next TV series role, signing on as one of the two leads in CBS’ half-hour comedy pilot Angel From Hell, from writer-executive producer Tad Quill and CBS TV Studios. The project, whose format is still TBD, centers on an unlikely pair. When the larger-than-life, brassy and flamboyant Amy (Lynch) enters Allison’s life and claims to be her guardian angel, they form an unlikely friendship, and Allison can’t be sure if Amy is an angel or just nuts.
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Rob Kazinsky Is Fox’s ‘Frankenstein’ Monster
Fox has found its monster. True Blood alumnus Rob Kazinsky has landed the lead role in the Fox pilot Frankenstein, from Rand Ravich and Howard Gordon. Taking inspiration from the basic Mary Shelley mythology of a man brought back to life by scientists playing god, Frankenstein centers on Ray Pritchard (Kazinsky), a morally corrupt retired cop who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead. The “monster” is athletic, strong and handsome — the reanimated version of a much older Pritchard, a former Marine who was recently murdered. Pritchard’s body may be new, but his mind is still that of a 75-year-old, badass curmudgeon.
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Christine Lahti Joins ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
Christine Lahti is set to co-star opposite Terry O’Quinn in ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios and writer/executive producer David Zabel and ABC Studios, It centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty, Charles Fisher (O’Quinn), who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. Lahti plays Charles’ estranged wife Katherine.
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KaDee Strickland To Topline CBS Pilot ‘Doubt’
Private Practice alumna KaDee Strickland is set as the lead in Doubt, CBS’ hourlong pilot from Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios. Written by longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and directed by Adam Bernstein, the project centers on Sadie (Srickland), a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
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Wilmer Valderrama Joins Minority Report
Wilmer Valderrama has been cast opposite Stark Sands and Meagan Good in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash (Sands), struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Meagan Good), who’s haunted by her past and just might help him find a purpose to his gift. Valderrama will play Will Blake, a new police detective at the precinct who fills in for Vega when she’s out on leave, and when Vega sizes him up, she decides she doesn’t like him.
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Malcolm-Jamal Warner Cast In Fox Comedy Pilot ’48 Hours ‘Til Monday’
48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Warner will play Dr. Craig Ellis, the perfect father whose weekend plans always show up Charlie’s. If Charlie’s plan is to assemble a bed with Elizabeth, Craig’s plan is to restore a 1983 Camaro with his sons and give the proceeds to charity. Craig looks at Charlie a bit like a charity case himself, constantly trying to help him be a better, more knowledgeable father. It drives Charlie nuts.
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The Killing's Mireille Enos To Star in Shondaland's The Catch
The former Killing sleuth has signed on to headline The Catch, a potential new drama series from Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers’ factory of hits, TVLine has learned.
Penned by Hannibal scribe Jennifer Schuur and based on Kate Atkinson’s novel, the pilot centers on Enos’ Alice Martin, a woman about to get married and conned. Unbeknownst to her slippery fiancé, Alice — who investigates fraud for a living — is not all she claims to be. And when the fiancé’s expertly planned con collides with her perfectly constructed lies, they plunge into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.
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Gia Mantegna Cast In ‘Cheerleader Death Squad’
Gia Mantegna has been cast in Cheerleader Death Squad, the CW’s drama pilot written by Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, Under The Dome showrunner Neal Baer and Blue Bloods executive producer Dan Truly and directed by Mark Waters. It centers on a disgraced CIA agent-turned-teacher at an elite Washington, D.C. prep school. When he realizes that his students have high-level access through personal connections, he trains a select few to be his eyes and ears into the world of international espionage and help him earn his way back into the agency. Mantegna plays Grace, one of the cheerleader members of the eponymous Cheerleader Death Squad.
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Christine Woods To Star In NBC’s Aseem Batra Comedy Pilot
Hello Ladies‘ Christine Woods is set as the female lead opposite Michael Cassidy in NBC’s untitled pilot written by Aseem Batra and directed by Betsy Thomas. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie (Woods) whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman.
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Matthew Glave Joins ABC's NBA Pilot
Matthew Glade is rounding out the regular cast of ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced byGalavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Written/executive produced by Casey Johnson and David Windsor, the single-camera NBA project, from ABC Studios, is a buddy comedy about Mo (Blondy Baruti), an NBA rookie who doesn’t speak English, and a translator, Jason (Skylar Astin), who doesn’t speak basketball. Glade will play Jason’s somewhat disappointed and disapproving father, often referring openly to his son as a “doormat”.
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Kim Raver To Topline ABC Drama Pilot ‘The Advocate’
24 and Grey’s Anatomy alumna Kim Raver has been tapped as the lead of the ABC drama pilot The Advocate, from Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Prods. and Warner Bros TV.
Written by Turner and directed by Michael M. Robin, The Advocate was inspired by the real story of former talent agent Byrdie Lifson-Pompan who teamed with Valerie Ulene, a medical doctor and a health education specialist, to launch a healthcare consulting and case management company.
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Colm Feore Joins ‘The Kingmakers’
The Borgias’ Colm Feore has booked a role in ABC drama pilot The Kingmakers, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by Sallie Patrick, Kingmakers centers on a young man whose sister is found dead during her freshman year at an elite Ivy League university. He adopts a new identity to infiltrate the school and its century-old secret society – consisting of privileged students, ambitious faculty and high-profile alums – to investigate her death. Feore will play Dean Vandermeer, the dean of the university who eventually becomes Jacob’s main nemesis.
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Daniel Stern To Star In ‘Strange Calls'
Daniel Stern is set as the co-lead opposite Danny Pudi in NBC’s comedy pilot Strange Calls, from Kapital Entertainment, Hoodlum and 20th TV. Also cast in the pilot, written by Blake McCormick, are Allison Miller and Aliyah Royale. Based on an Australian format, Strange Calls centers on Toby (Pudi), an affable but down-on-his-luck young police officer. He is transferred to a rural town where — with the help of Gregor (Stern), a peculiar, elderly nightwatchman — he starts to realize the town has a bizarre supernatural underbelly.
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Nazneen Contractor joins The 46 Percenters
24 alumna Nazneen Contractor has joined the cast of ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot The 46 Percenters. It’s described as an unromantic romantic comedy about the 46 percent of the population who have not gotten a divorce and choose to stay married. Contractor will play Kiri, one half of a couple planning the most amicable divorce in history.
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Mix - Walter Perez joins cast
Walter Perez (The Avengers) is set as a series regular on ABC’s pilot Mix, from Warner Bros. TV and Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s studio-based Le Train Train. The dramedy explores the realities of modern-day families — multi-cultural, multi-generational, built through divorces, affairs and adoptions — set against the backdrop of a revered family restaurant at a crossroads.
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Boom - Rebecca Rittenhouse and India de Beaufort join cast
Rebecca Rittenhouse (Red Band Society) and India de Beaufort (Jane By Design) have booked series regular roles on ABC drama pilot Boom, from producer Tony Krantz. Written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne and produced by ABC Studios, Boom examines the biggest oil discovery in American history — bigger than Texas and as big as Saudi Arabia — which has triggered a geopolitical shift and an economic boom in North Dakota on a scale not seen since the 1849 California Gold Rush. Rittenhouse will play Kelly, Billy’s wife. De Beaufort is Jules Jackman, the sexy proprietor of the local salon and loan shark of the town.
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Ving Rhames Joins ABC NBA Pilot
Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible franchise) is taking a comedic turn with a co-starring role in ABC’s untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot, executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Rhames will play the team’s confident and smooth general manager.
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Briga Heelan To Star In NBC Comedy Pilot ‘How We Live’
Ground Floor star Briga Heelan will play the female lead opposite Sam Huntington in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot How We Live, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and directed by Gail Mancuso. The project centers on Russell (Huntington), a blogger, and his bubbly, full of energy wife Holly (Heelan) who move to the suburbs where he begins writing about marriage and the family lives of his suburban friends and neighbors in the style of an anthropologist who’s stumbled on an undiscovered tribe. Holly pours her energy into everything in her life, most recently trying to get pregnant, a challenge that is pushing her endless optimism to its limits.
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Lacey Chabert Joins ABC’s ‘Family Fortune’
Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls) has booked a regular role opposite Fortune Feimster in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Family Fortune, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Written by Hubbard and Feimster based Feimster’s family life and stand-up, Family Fortune is set in North Carolina and centers on popular gym teacher Fortune (Feimster) who comes out of the closet to her close-knit group of family and friends. Chabert will play Nichole, Tyler’s (Parker Young) wife and a devoted mom to their two young children.
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Elliott Gould Cast In CBS’ Pilot ‘Doubt';
Ray Donovan‘s Elliott Gould has booked a regular role on CBS hourlong pilot Doubt. From longtime Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios, Doubt centers on Sadie, a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. Gould will play Isaiah, the head of the boutique go-to criminal defense firm in New York. I hear CBS has Gould in first position, an indication that Fox/Uni TV’s freshman Mulaney, which is not expected to go to a second season, has released some or all of the cast.
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Terry O’Quinn Cast As Male Lead In ABC Pilot ‘The Adversaries’
Lost alum Terry O’Quinn has been cast as the male lead in ABC drama pilot The Adversaries, from ABC Studios. Written and executive produced by David Zabel, The Adversaries centers on the patriarch of a New York legal dynasty who becomes embroiled in a trial of his own, and his federal prosecutor daughter must decide which side she will fight on. O’Quinn will play Charlie, the head of the law firm Fisher, Fisher and Herrero.
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Patrick Warburton To Star In Suzanne Martin NBC Comedy Pilot
Rules Of Engagement alum Patrick Warburton is set as the male lead in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn when their children and their parents move back home. Stacy Keach plays Mike’s dad.
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Dave Annable & Melissa George Cast In NBC Pilot ‘Heart Matters’
Melissa George has been tapped for the lead and Brothers & Sisters alum Dave Annable for a co-starring role in NBC’s drama pilot Heart Matters. Inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the medical soap follows the outspoken Alex Panttiere (George), one of the rare female heart-transplant surgeons. Alex brings an innovative eye to treating patients week to week while also balancing the complications of her professional and romantic life Annable plays Alex’s boyfriend.
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Sarah Chalke To Star In Fox’s ’48 Hours’
Sarah Chalke is set as the female lead opposite Rob Riggle in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday, written/exec produced by Charlie Grandy. 48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Chalke plays Kelly Bishop who is happily married to Charlie and the mother of their three kids, Kelly quit her job as a local TV news producer to spend more time with her family…and is finding that being a stay-at-home mom is much more exhausting, time-consuming and frustrating than working in an office.
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JoAnna Garcia Cast as Female Lead in Tommy Johnagin CBS Pilot
The actress, who most recently played Ariel on ABC's Once Upon a Time, has been cast as the female lead in CBS' untitled Tommy Johnagin comedy pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Garcia Swisher will play the female lead, Michelle, an accomplished pediatrician married to Tommy (Johnagin), with whom she has a daughter, Ashley.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Craig Ferguson joins ABC Comedy Pilot ‘The King of 7B’
With his Late Late Show stint over, Craig Ferguson is returning to acting with a starring role in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot The King Of 7B. The ensemble project, written by Howard Franklin and directed by David Frankel, focuses on Prentiss Porter (Ferguson), an agoraphobic recluse who ventures outside for the first time in 11 years when he spies what could be his soul-mate moving into the building across the street.
Source: Deadline
Annie Funke joins CBS’ ‘LFE’
Annie Funke (A Most Violent Year) has joined the cast of CBS medical drama pilot LFE, from The Dan Jinks Co. and CBS TV. Written/co-executive produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo, LFE is described as a high-octane medical procedural centering on second-year residents at New York City’s top hospital as they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity.
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Noah Galvin Joins ABC’s Dan Savage Comedy Pilot
Newcomer Noah Galvin has booked the young lead in the ABC/ABC Studios untitled Dan Savage comedy pilot. Written by David Windsor and Casey Johnson loosely based on the life of gay activist and author Savage, the single-camera project revolves around the O’Neals, a seemingly perfect All-American family. When the youngest son, Kenny (Galvin), comes out of the closet, all the family secrets are revealed and the family proves to be quite typical and not so perfect.
Source: Deadline
Supergirl Casts the Heroic Helen Slater and Dean Cain in Top-Secret Roles
How’s this for super-meta casting: Helen Slater and Dean Cain have landed guest-starring roles on CBS’s Supergirl, TVLine has learned. Details on who the pair will be playing in the pilot are being kept under lock and key.
Source: TVLine
Tom Ellis Lands Satanic Title Role in Fox's Lucifer
In Lucifer, the Welsh actor — best known stateside for his role as Once Upon a Time’s first Robin Hood and as the star of USA Network’s short-lived medical series Rush — will play the Lord of Hell, who abdicates his throne and kingdom to make camp in Los Angeles, where he gets his kicks helping the LAPD punish criminals.
Source: TVLine
Michael Cassidy To Star In Aseem Batra Pilot
Men at Work star Michael Cassidy is set as one of the two leads of another workplace comedy — NBC’s untitled pilot written by Aseem Batra and directed by Betsy Thomas. The politically incorrect office comedy centers on best friends Dale (Cassidy) and Georgie whose relationship is upended when he starts dating the “perfect” woman.
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Sam Huntington joins ‘How We Live’ Pilot
Being Human star Sam Huntington is set as the male lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot How We Live, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley and directed by Gail Mancuso. The project centers on Russell (Huntington), a blogger, and his wife Holly who move to the suburbs where he begins writing about marriage and the family lives of his suburban friends and neighbors, in the style of an anthropologist who’s stumbled on an undiscovered tribe.
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Parker Young Cast In ‘Family Fortune’
Suburgatory and Enlisted alum Parker Young has booked a regular role opposite Fortune Feimster in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Family Fortune, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Written by Hubbard and Feimster and based on the family life and stand-up of Feimster, who grew up in Belmont, N.C., Family Fortune is set in North Carolina and centers on popular gym teacher Fortune (Feimster) who comes out of the closet to her close-knit group of family and friends. Young will play Tyler, Fortune’s younger brother, a serviceman in the Coast Guard.
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Suzy Nakamura & Tisha Campbell-Martin Cast In ABC Pilot ‘Dr. Ken'
Suzy Nakamura (Horrible Bosses 2) has booked Vivica A. Fox 50th Birthday Celebrationthe female lead opposite Ken Jeong in ABC’s comedy pilot Dr. Ken, from Sony TV and ABC Studios. Written by Jared Stern, Mike O’Connell and Jeong, who is a licensed physician, Dr. Ken stars Jeong as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling medicine, marriage and parenting — and succeeding at none of them. Nakamura will play Allison, Jeong’s successful psychologist wife. Also cast is Tisha Campbell-Martin (Martin) in the role of Damona, the hospital receptionist/
Source: Deadline
Stark Sands To Star In ‘Minority Report’
Stark Sands (Inside Llewyn Davis) has been cast as the dual male lead opposite Meagan Good in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash (Sands), struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Meagan Good), who’s haunted by her past and just might help him find a purpose to his gift. Sands will play the dual role of identical twin brothers Dash and Arthur who both possess the unique ability to see into the future, specifically murders before they happen.
Source: Deadline
Jack Davenport & Kerri Kenney Cast In HBO’s Sarah Silverman Pilot
Smash alum Jack Davenport is set as the male lead opposite Sarah Silverman in HBO’s untitled comedy pilot written by Secret Diary Of A Call Girl creator Lucy Prebble, Also cast in the pilot, directed by Charlie McDowell, are Kerri Kenney (Reno 911!) andyMark Cohen. The project is described as a comic look at Jude (Silverman), a pathologically honest woman having a modern midlife crisis. Davenport plays Blake, a broken Brit and eventual boyfriend who gets caught up in his own virtual reality in Seattle. Kenne plays Melissa, Jude’s older sister who is proudly holding the family together, with no idea her home is built on lies. Graham plays Jude’s big-hearted mess of a brother-in-law. Prebble and Silverman executive produce with Ash Atalla, Amy Zvi and Dan Hine
Source: Deadline
Brent Sexton Cast In ABC's ‘Runner’
Brent Sexton (The Killing) has been cast opposite Paula Patton and Adam Rodriguez in ABC’s drama pilot Runner. Written by Michael Cooney based on the Turkish series Son and directed by Michael Offer, the project from 20th TV and ABC Studios centers on Lauren Marks (Patton), a wife and mother who had believed her husband had died in a plane crash, only to discover him alive, well and traveling with a mysterious woman who uses Lauren’s stolen identity. Thrown into a world of secrets and crime, Lauren finds herself running into Mexican cartels and people from her past she had hoped to forget. Sexton will play Simon, brother of Lauren’s husband and a resourceful detective who leads the search for his brother.
Source: Deadline
Priyanka Chopra Joins ABC’s ‘Quantico';
Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra (Barfi!) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot Quantico, executive produced by Mark Gordon, Josh Safran and Nick Pepper. It revolves around a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. One will launch a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Chopra will play Alex Weaver, a brilliant but haunted FBI trainee whose past boils to the surface soon after her arrival at Quantico.
Source: Deadline
Alison Pill Cast In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
The Newsroom alum Alison Pill has signed on to the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan. It follows the return of a politician’s (Joan Allen) young son, Adam Warren (Liam James), who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. But as the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his community, the neighbor sitting in jail for his murder is released and the cop responsible is forced to re-examine what truly happened so many years ago. Pill plays Willa Warren, Claire (Allen) and Peter’s daughter, and her mother’s campaign manager. Willa lost the twinkle in her eye many years ago when her little brother went missing. She feels responsible for his disappearance, as she was with him when he vanished.
Source: Deadline
Will Kemp & Connie Nielsen To Co-Star In NBC Pilot ‘Unveiled’
Will Kemp (Petals in the Wind) and Connie Nielsen have been cast opposite Liam McIntyre and Stephan James in Unveiled, NBC’s supernatural/spiritual drama pilot from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey.
Written by John Sakmar & Kerry Lenhart, Unveiled follows an ensemble of flawed guardian angels who intervene in the lives of those who find themselves facing crisis in an attempt to restore their faith and, often, save their lives. Kemp plays Lucas, a handsome, mysterious fallen angel with a suave charm and devilish side intent on corrupting as many humans as he can. Nielsen plays Joan, the by-the-book boss who leads the Guardian Angels from beyond the veil, the plane of existence outside of the human world.
Source: Deadline
Chyler Leigh & David Harewood Cast In ‘Supergirl’ Pilot
Grey’s Anatomy alumna Chyler Leigh and David Harewood (Homeland) have been cast opposite Melissa Benoist and Calista Flockhart in the CBS pilot Supergirl, written by Greg Berlanti, Ali Adler and Andrew Kreisberg.
Based on the DC Comics characters, Supergirl — from Warner Bros. TV and Berlanti Prods. — centers on Kara Zor-El (Benoist). Since arriving on Earth, the Krypton-born Kara has been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin, Superman. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she always was meant to be.
Leigh plays Alexandra “Alex” Danvers, Kara’s confident foster sister. Fascinated by Kara’s powers from a young age, Alex developed a lifelong obsession with science which inspired her to become a doctor.
Harewood plays Hank Henshaw, a onetime CIA agent who now runs the Department of Extra-Normal Operations, which tracks extraterrestrial threats on the planet Earth. In the DC Comics universe, Henshaw is a villain who eventually becomes Cyborg Superman.
Source: Deadline
Joan Allen To Star In Jenna Bans ABC Pilot
Joan Allen is set for a lead role in the untitled ABC/ABC Studios drama pilot written by Jenna Bans and directed by Paul McGuigan. It follows the return of a politician’s (Allen) young son, Adam Warren (Liam James), who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier. But as the mysterious young man is welcomed back into his community, the neighbor sitting in jail for his murder is released and the cop responsible is forced to re-examine what truly happened so many years ago. Allen’s Claire is devastated to learn of the horrors her son has endured, however she is a political animal and it seems she has plans to use her son’s return to further her political ambitions. Also cast in the pilot is Floriana Lima (Allegiance), a young reporter with the local paper. They join Zach Gilford and Margot Bingham. Bans, David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Laurie Zaks executive produce.
Source: Deadline
Danny Pudi Toplines NBC’s ‘Strange Calls’
While Community left NBC for Yahoo, one of the cult comedy’s standouts, Danny Pudi, is coming back, making the leap from a supporting to a leading man with a starring tole in the network’s comedy pilot Strange Calls, from Kapital Entertainment, Hoodlum and 20th TV. Written by Blake McCormick based on an Australian format, it centers on Toby (Pudi), an affable but down on his luck young police officer. He is transferred to a rural town where — with the help of a peculiar, elderly night watchman — he starts to realize the town has a bizarre supernatural underbelly. In the pilot, Pudi joins Aussie Patrick Brammall who will reprise his role from the original series.
Source: Deadline
JLo's NBC Cop Drama Shades of Blue Adds Ray Liotta, Drea de Matteo
Ray Liotta and Drea de Matteo have joined the cast of Shades of Blue, the Peacock’s JLo-fronted cop drama slated to bow next fall.
Additionally, Warren Kole (Common Law, The Following) and Vincent Laresca (Weeds, Graceland) have been added to the ensemble.
Shades of Blue follows a tight-knit crew of police officers who are effective at keeping the streets safe but also corrupt when it comes to lining their pockets and protecting their own. When one of the officers (Lopez’ Harlee McCord) is forced to become a federal informant, she must decide between her own family’s welfare and that of her police family.
In his first series-regular role since CBS’ short-lived 2006 thief drama Smith, Liotta will play Lieutenant Bill Wozniak, the enigmatic and resourceful patriarch of a tight knit unit of corrupt cops, who steps outside the limitations of the law to protect his precinct. His all-consuming hunt for the informant drives him to dire extremes.
Matteo, coming off of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, will portray Shirley, a tough, outspoken female cop who holds her own with the men in her crew, and yet her brashness covers her insecurities.
Kole portrays Robert Staal, a relentlessly ambitious up-and-coming FBI agent desperate to make a name for himself. His growing obsession with his asset jeopardizes his ability to make his case against a group of corrupt cops.
Lastly, Laresca co-stars as Tony Espada, alternately the bulldog and the moral compass for his team.
Source: TVLine
Megan Hilty To Star In Judah Miller Pilot
Broadway star Megan Hilty will be playing one on TV. Hilty has signed on as the female lead in ABC’s untitled Judah Miller comedy pilot. The single-camera project centers on a Tony Award-winning mother (Hilty) and a risk-averse, cerebral father who are blessed with a son who is a natural-born competitive athlete. They are forced outside their parental comfort zones and into the high-octane world of youth sports. Hilty’s Irene is described as a laud, flamboyant diva, a former Broadway star who is adjusting to her latest “role” as a suburban mom and who can come off a little self-involved but has a big heart of gold.
Source: Deadline
Merrin Dungey joins Fox’s ’48 Hours’
Merrin Dungey has been cast in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours ‘Til Monday. It chronicles husband and father of three Charlie’s (Rob Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Dungey plays Candace, a family friend and bona fide “super mom” who has three kids, works part time as a lawyer and still is able to make snacks that look like animals, volunteer in class and pick her children up from school on bike.
Source: Deadline
Dougray Scott Cast In ABC’s ‘Quantico’
Dougray Scott (Hemlock Grove) has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot Quantico. It revolves around a group of young FBI recruits, all with specific reasons for joining, who battle their way through training at the Quantico base in Virginia. One will launch a devastating terrorist attack on the U.S. Scott plays FBI Special Agent Liam O’Connor, a staff counselor at Quantico working with the new agent trainees.
Source: Deadline
James Brolin To Co-Star In CBS Pilot ‘Life In Pieces’
James Brolin has joined the cast of Life in Pieces, CBS’ single-camera comedy pilot from 20th TV and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment. Written by Justin Adler, the project is about one family, the Shorts, as told through the separate stories of its different family members.
Source: Deadline
Blondy Baruti gets lead in ABC’s NBA Comedy Pilot
After what was described as a worldwide search, ABC has cast Blondy Baruti, a 6-foot-10 former basketball player out of Oklahoma, as the lead opposite Skylar Astin in its untitled NBA buddy comedy pilot. It’s executive produced by Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tollin and Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan. Also cast in the pilot, which is being done with the cooperation of the NBA and the the Guber-co-owned Golden State Warriors, is Laura Steinel (Draft Day).
Source: Deadline
Brooke Ishibashi cast in ‘People Are Talking’
Brooke Ishibashi has been cast as one of the leads in another NBC comedy pilot, People Are Talking, from Uni TV and Will Packer Prods. It is about two couples and examines sex and race, among other things. Ishibashi will play half of one of the couples, a wife who aptly balances being a loving mom and a tough-as-nails attorney.
Source: Deadline
Stacy Keach Cast In Suzanne Martin Pilot
Veteran Stacy Keach has joined NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters when their children and their parents move back home. Keach will play the ex-military father who moves back in.
Source: Deadline
Diego Boneta To Co-Star In Fox Series ‘Scream Queens'
Mexic0-born actor-singer Diego Boneta (Rock OfAges) has been cast as one of the male leads in Scream Queens, Fox’s Premiere Of Lionsgate Films' "The Expendables 3" - Red Carpetcomedy-horror series created by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan. Also cast as a regular in the first installment of the anthology series slated for fall is Glen Powell
Source: Deadline
Margot Bingham joins ABC’s ‘Flesh And Blood’
Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire) has landed one of the female leads in ABC’s untitled drama pilot from Jenna Bans, Mandeville Prods. and ABC Studios. Written by Bans, the project follows the return of a politician’s young son who was presumed dead after disappearing over a decade earlier, sending shockwaves throughout their tight knit community.
Source: Deadline
Diane Guerrero Joins CBS’ ‘Super Clyde'
Orange Is The New Black and Jane The Virgin‘s Diane Guerrero has been cast opposite Charlie McDermott in Greg Garcia’s CBS comedy pilot Super Clyde, from CBS TV Studios. It follows a meek, unassuming fast-food worker (McDermott) who decides to become a super hero. Guerrero will play Maddy, Clyde’s (McDermott) very cute, smart and ambitious good friend.
Source: Deadline
'CSI: Miami's' Adam Rodriguez Books Male Lead in ABC's 'Runner'
The CSI: Miami alum has nabbed the lead role in ABC's drug cartel drama pilot Runner, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the Turkish series Son, the drama revolves around Lauren Marks (Paula Patton), who believes she is leading a perfect life, which is ripped apart when, in search of the truth, she must follow a trail of lies that takes her into the world of cartels and the illegal gun trade between the U.S. and Mexico.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Meagan Good To Star In ‘Minority Report’ Fox Pilot
Meagan Good (Think Like A Man franchise) has signed on as the female lead in Fox’s drama pilot Minority Report, a sequel to the Steven Spielberg-directed movie set 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C. One of the three Precogs, Dash, struggles to lead a “normal” human life, but remains haunted by visions of the future, when he meets a detective, Lara Vega (Good), who’s not afraid to break a few rules. Haunted by her past, Vega just might help him find a purpose to his gift.
Source: Deadline
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