Hi everyone, below you'll find all the casting announcements for the new pilot season. I'll try my best to keep this updated with all new casting as quickly if possible. If you find any that aren't posted, please do submit them in. Thank you, enjoy and comment below.
Untitled Matt Hubbard NBC Pilot - Jack McBrayer to Co-Star
Former 30 Rock co-star Jack McBrayer is reuniting with the Emmy-winning NBC comedy’s co-executive producer Matt Hubbard on Hubbard’s new single-camera comedy pilot for NBC.
McBrayer is set to co-star opposite Chris Smith and Elizabeth Ho in the untitled pilot, written/executive produced by Hubbard and executive produced by Mike Schur. The project revolves around Andrew (Smith) and Josie (Ho), a happily married interracial couple whose lives take a turn when they move close to Josie’s family in Missouri.
McBrayer will play Gary, the sycophantic chief instructor at the Tae Kwon Do Academy owned by Josie’s father Jae. Gary looks up to Jae as a father, and fears that Andrew may jeopardize his relationship with Grandmaster Kim.
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Barry - HBO Pilot - Sarah Goldberg to Co-Star
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Sarah Goldberg (Hindsight) is set to co-star opposite Bill Hader in his HBO comedy pilot Barry.
The project, co-written and directed by Hader, centers on an ex-Marine (Hader) who works as a low-rent hitman in the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life he begrudgingly travels to Los Angeles to kill someone and ends up finding an accepting community in a group of eager hopefuls within the L.A. theater scene.
Goldberg, who has experience in New York theater, will play Sally, an aspiring actress who is Barry’s entree into LA’s theater scene.
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The Last Tycoon - Amazon Pilot - Dominique McElligott Joins Cast
Dominique McElligott, who most recently starred in ABC’s “Astronaut Wives Club,” has been cast as a series regular in Amazon’s pilot “The Last Tycoon,” Variety has learned exclusively. She will star alongside Matt Bomer, Kelsey Grammer and Lily Collins in the period piece drama.
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel, “The Last Tycoon” centers on Monroe Stahr (Bomer), Hollywood’s first wunderkind studio executive in the 1930’s, who is based on real-life film mogul Irving Thalberg. The series would follow Monroe as he climbs to the height of power, pitting him against his mentor and current head of the studio, Pat Brady (played by Kelsey Grammer) who is inspired by MGM co-founder Louis B. Mayer.
McElligott will play Kathleen Moore, a pretty and intelligent waitress who works at the restaurant frequented by most of the studio’s writers, which is where she meets Monroe who’s haunted by her resemblance to his late wife. Though Kathleen does not like the movie biz, she hits it off with Monroe who makes it his mission to get her on-screen.
The star-studded ensemble also includes Rosemarie DeWitt, who plays Grammer’s on-screen wife, Rose Brady. Collins plays the Brady’s daughter Celia, a young rich girl in love with Monroe, and when she offers up an intriguing movie pitch, he takes interest in her. While Celia and Kathleen both catch Monroe’s eye, McElligott’s character is expected to have a bigger presence in the first season, should the pilot be picked up to series.
Written, directed and exec produced by Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips, “The Hunger Games”), “The Last Tycoon” hails from Sony TV’s TriStar Television. The novel was adapted into a 1976 movie, which starred Robert De Niro as Monroe, plus Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum and Jack Nicholson.
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Presence - ABC Pilot - Stephanie Sigman Cast in the Lead Role
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EXCLUSIVE: After a lengthy casting search that featured a slew of young actresses testing, Stephanie Sigman (Spectre) has landed the lead role role in John Ridley’s drama pilot Presence for ABC and ABC Studios. Sigman already is in business with American Crime creator Ridley, ABC and ABC Studios – she has a recurring role on the second season of Ridley’s acclaimed anthology series.
Described as a stylish update of the classic detective genre, Presence follows Presence Foster (Sigman), a former Army veteran who finds herself interacting with a widely divergent, and highly colorful cross-section of Los Angeles as she unintentionally begins a career as an unlicensed Private Investigator. Ridley wrote the script and will direct the pilot, which he is executive producing with Michael McDonald.
Presence was ABC’s first script buy for this development cycle made back in June. The project from the American Crime creator had been on the fast track and received an early pilot order, with the focus put on finding an actress for the title character who had been conceived as diverse.
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Previously Announced Castings
The Jury - Archie Panjabi to Star
24: Legacy - Miranda Otto Cast in a Lead Role
Marvel's Most Wanted - Delroy Lindo Cast as Dominic Fortune
24: Legacy - Corey Hawkins Cast as the Lead
Pitch - Kylie Bunbury to Star
Legion - FX Marvel Pilot Casts Fargo's Rachel Keller as the Female Lead
Untitled Lee Daniels' FOX Music Pilot - Queen Latifah Cast in a Lead Role
Famous in Love - Cast Announced
Dan Fogelman Dramedy Pilot Casts Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia & Justin Hartley
Murder Town - Jada Pinkett Smith to Star
