This new article will bring you the latest casting news for various pilots as they come in. This replaces the existing daily roundup so that you can see the casting news a lot sooner.
New casting news will be posted at the top and you can click on the [More Info] link to read a bit more about the casting.
For Details of the actual Pilots/Synopsis, see our Pilot Watch.
4th March
[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
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.
Source: THR
'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.
Source: THR
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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