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When The Street Lights Go On - Odessa Young Cast as Female Lead in Hulu Drama Pilot
Odessa Young, the breakout young star of Looking for Grace, is in final negotiations to play the female lead in When The Street Lights Go On, Hulu’s drama pilot adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe. The project hails from Paramount Television and Anonymous Content.
In the vein of Stand By Me, When The Street Lights Go On is a coming-of-age thriller about a sleepy, suburban town that is rocked by the brutal murder of a high school girl and her teacher in the summer of 1983.
Young will play 15-year old Becky Monroe, an elusive teenage wallflower forced to come of age amid the shocking aftermath of her sister’s tragic murder.
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deadline
The Enforcers - Neicy Nash Cast as Lead in FOX's Female Buddy Comedy Pilot
Niecy Nash has been tapped as one of the two leads in The Enforcers, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from Warner Bros. TV.
Written by Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer and directed by Gail Mancuso, The Enforcers is a female buddy comedy about two wildly different single mothers — one of them played by Nash — with dreams of being police officers who find themselves partnered as inspectors in the Code Enforcement Department. Instead of fighting crime, they have been relegated to handling petty code breaking, like noise complaints, tree trimming and water misuse.
Nash’s M.J. is outspoken and fun, a recently divorced single mom of two kids who, after struggling through a variety of odd jobs to provide for her children, is thrilled to land the job of “code cop,” hoping it will bring her a sense of legitimacy. It does not.
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deadline
Dream Team - Justin Long Cast as Lead for ABC's Soccer Comedy
Justin Long is set as the lead in Dream Team, ABC’s single-camera half-hour from comedy writers Kari Lizer and Bill Wrubel, and Warner Bros. TV.
Written/executive produced by Lizer and Wrubel, Dream Team centers on Marty Schumacher (Long). Recently divorced, Marty is the eternally optimistic manager of a sporting goods store and also the “damn good” head coach of a nationally ranked soccer program — the one true love in his life. Currently recruiting young girls for his dream team, Marty is looking to recreate his amazing rise to the national championships of two years ago.
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deadline
Good Fortune - Tone Bell, Beau Mirchoff & Diane Guerrero Join Cast
Tone Bell (Truth Be Told), Beau Mirchoff (Awkward) & Diane Guerrero (Orange Is the New Black) are set as co-leads in Good Fortune, NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train and 20th TV.
Written by Matt Zinman & Craig Gerard and directed by Pam Fryman, Good Fortune is an ensemble comedy that focuses on June, a hyper-structured young woman who, after a fortune teller predicts she’ll die in 3 days, decides she’s finally going to live her life with no regrets. When she doesn’t die but realize how great it felt to take risks, she adopts a new life policy along with a new full-time fortune teller. June and her best friends Adam (Bell), Dave (Mirchoff), Bailey (Guerrero) and Metzger plan to always stick together, impending doom or not…
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Deadline
Time After Time - Josh Bowman Joins Cast as Jack the Ripper
The former Revenge star has been cast in an intriguing role in the time-travel pilot Time After Time.
The projects uses the 1979 novel and movie as a starting point and will chronicle the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells (Freddie Stroma) as he travels through time chasing a fugitive Jack the Ripper (Bowman).
Bowman has been cast as John Stevenson, a brilliant and charismatic surgeon who lives a double life as the infamous serial killer. (Here’s a great quote from his character in the film version: “Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Now … I’m an amateur.”) Kevin Williamson (The Following) is the showrunner.
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Entertainment Weekly
Midnight, Texas - Dylan Bruce Cast as a Series Regular
Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black, Heroes Reborn) has booked a series regular role in NBC’s supernatural drama pilot Midnight, Texas, based on the bestselling trilogy from author Charlaine Harris. Written/executive produced by Monica Owusu-Breen and executive produced by David Janollari through Universal TV, Midnight Texas is described as Twin Peaks meets True Blood in Midnight, Texas, a remote town where your neighbor could be a vampire, a witch, a werewolf, or even an angel. Bruce will play Bobo Winthrop, who owns the town’s Pawn Shop, as well as a chunk of local real estate.
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Deadline
Marlon - Bresha Webb Cast in a Lead Role
Bresha Webb is set for a lead role opposite Marlon Wayans in NBC comedy pilot Marlon, from Chris Moynihan. Loosely inspired by Marlon Wayan’s life, the show centers on an inappropriate but loving father (Wayans) committed to successfully co-parenting with his polar opposite ex-wife. Webb will play Yvette, Marlon’s worst enemy and his ex-wife’s best friend. She has always disliked Marlon and never held her tongue about it. While she is a trainwreck with absolutely zero love life, she is constantly spouting off advice for her best friend.
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Deadline
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport - Katy Mixon to Star
With Mike & Molly coming to an end, co-star Katy Mixon has landed the lead in another comedy project, ABC’s single-camera pilot The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport, from Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios.
Written by Sarah Dunn and directed by Ruben Fleischer, The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport is narrated by Katie (Mixon), a (slightly) larger, strong-willed mother raising her flawed family of three in a wealthy town filled with “perfect” wives and their “perfect” offspring.
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Deadline
Time - Abigail Spencer Cast as Female Lead
Abigail Spencer is making Time for one of pilot season’s hottest properties.
The Rectify actress has landed the female lead in NBC’s time travel-themed sci-fi drama from The Shield‘s Shawn Ryan and Supernatural‘s Eric Kripke, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Spencer, who is heading into the fourth and final season of Rectify, will play Lucy Preston, a brilliant, sharp and warm history professor who gets whisked away by the government for the aforementioned top-secret mission.
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TVLine
The Interestings - Lauren Ambrose to Star
Lauren Ambrose has been cast as the female lead in Amazon ensemble drama pilot The Interestings, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television.
Written by Nip/Tuck alums Lyn Greene and Richard Levine and directed by Mike Newell, The Interestings is described as a grounded. character-driven drama based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel about a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they’re 15 in 1974. The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older.
Ambrose will play Jules. Seen in her mid-20s and mid-30s, Jules is determined to forge an acting career, but winds up a struggling therapist with a young child, an unemployable husband (Gabriel Ebert) and a tiny New York apartment.
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Deadline
Barry - Henry Winkler to Co-Star
The actor, perhaps best known as Fonzie from Happy Days, has signed on to co-star in HBO's Bill Hader comedy pilot Barry.
Winkler will portray Gene Cousineau, an inspiring acting teacher. The role marks the beloved actor's latest small-screen gig following Childrens Hospital, New Girl, Parks and Recreation, Royal Pains and Arrested Development. Winkler, also a prolific producer, is also attached to serve as an EP on CBS' MacGyver reboot after serving in the same capacity on the original series.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Trail - Jayma Mays Join Cast
Glee alumna Jayma Mays has been cast as a series regular in The Trail, NBC’s documentary-style procedural comedy from comedy veteran Jeff Astrof, Forever creator Matt Miller and Warner Bros. TV.
The project, whose title is a scrambled version of Trial, follows Josh Simon, a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town.
Mays will play Carol Anne Keane, the Assistant District Attorney prosecuting Larry Henderson (John Lithgow) for the murder of his wife. Carol Anne is ambitious and Southern tough, wants this case to be a stepping stone for her career and will not let anyone or anything stand in the way of her getting her first death sentence conviction. Mays joins previously cast Lithgow, Sherri Shepherd and Steven Boyer.
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Deadline
Future Man - Josh Hutcherson at Star in Hulu Comedy Pilot from Seth Rogen
The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson is set as the lead in Future Man, Hulu’s half-hour comedy pilot from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Hutcherson also is producing via his Turkeyfoot production company.
Written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir and executive produced by Matt Tolmach, the high-concept comedy centers on Josh Futterman (Hutcherson) a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night who is tasked with preventing the extinction of humans after mysterious visitors from the future proclaim him the key to defeating the imminent super-race invasion. Rogen and Goldberg executive produce and direct. Sony Pictures TV is the studio.
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Deadline
Barry - Anthony Carrigan Joins Cast
Anthony Carrigan has joined the cast of HBO’s Barry, a half-hour comedy pilot starring, directed and co-written by Bill Hader. It 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. Carrigan will play Noho Hank, a Russian gangster.
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Deadline
The Jury - Eve Harlow Joins Cast
Eve Harlow has booked a series regular role on ABC’s murder trial drama pilot The Jury, from Sony TV and ABC Studios. Written by VJ Boyd and Mark Bianculli and executive produced by Carol Mendelsohn, The Jury examines “the ultimate social experiment” that happens thousands of times a day in the U.S.: a person’s fate is placed in the hands of 12 strangers. The series follows a single murder trial a season as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors. Harlow will play Melody, who’s completely cynical about the justice system, and has a nonplussed, contrarian attitude that borders on nihilism, but has a razor-sharp sense of humor.
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Deadline
Time After Time - Freddie Stroma Cast as the Lead, H.G. Wells
EXCLUSIVE: UnReal breakout Freddie Stroma has been cast as the lead, H.G. Wells, in Kevin Williamson’s ABC pilot Time After Time.
Using the 1979 novel by Karl Alexander and movie as a starting point, Time After Time will chronicle the epic adventures of young H.G. Wells (Stroma). In the movie, directed by Nicholas Meyer, the role of H.G. Wells was played by Malcolm McDowel.
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Deadline
Shut Eye - Angus Sampson Cast as a Series Regular
Angus Sampson has landed a regular role in Shut Eye, Hulu’s original series from creator Les Bohem, TriStar Television and Mark Johnson’s Gran Via Productions. It takes a darkly comedic look at the underground world of Los Angeles storefront psychics and the organized crime syndicate that runs them. Sampson will play Fonzo, a macho and powerful Romani kingpin with a taste for the finer things in life. A single father still mourning the loss of his wife, he appears affable and easygoing — but in fact, he’s a dangerous, menacing man who runs his business with an iron fist.
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Deadline
Dream Team - Michael Mosley, Michelle Buteau & Lindsey Kraft Join Cast
Michael Mosley (Sirens), Lindsey Kraft (Getting On) and Michelle Buteau (Key & Peele) are set as series regulars on Dream Team, ABC’s single-camera half-hour from comedy writers Kari Lizer and Bill Wrubel, and Warner Horizon TV.
Written/executive produced by Lizer and Wrubel, Dream Team centers on Marty Schumacher, who coached his last Club soccer team for ten years, ultimately taking them to the National Championships. He now has to start from scratch with a diverse group of eight-year-olds, and their disparate parents.
Mosley will play Rick Johnson. Although he doesn’t consider girls’ soccer a “real sport,” he’s completely on board with getting his daughter, Tiffnee, onto a top-notch soccer team. Kraft will play Michaela, who’s married to Leslie (a competitive OB-GYN with a passion for sports) and is horrified by the idea of being a soccer mom, knowing full well most of the heavy lifting will fall to her. Buteau is Olga Diaz, the mother of 11-year-old Vanessa, who’s vying for a spot on the soccer team. Olga approaches everything as if it’s a competition she’s got to win.
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Deadline
24: Legacy - Anna Diop to Co-Star
The Messengers alum Anna Diop has been cast opposite Corey Hawkins and Miranda Otto in Fox pilot 24: Legacy, which reboots the 24 franchise with brand new characters and casr.
Diop will play Nicole, Carter’s wife. It is expected to be a significant role, just as the wife of Jack Bauer was on the original series.
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Deadline
Chunk & Bean - Adam Rodriguez to Co-Star
CSI: Miami alum Adam Rodriguez is set for a co-starring role in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Chunk & Bean.
Written by Ed Herro and Brian Donovan and exec produced by Dave Hemingson, Chunk & Bean is a dual-family comedy centered on the unlikely friendship of two misfits, Chunk and Bean, who benefit from having two very different sets of parents living next door to each other.
Rodriguez plays Jim Rogerson.
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Deadline
The Trail - John Lithgow & Sherri Shepherd to Star
John Lithgow is returning to NBC. The former 3rd Rock From the Sun star, as well as former View co-host Sherri Shepherd, have signed on to star in the network's legal comedy pilot The Trail, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The Trail is described as a serialized single-camera comedy following a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town.
Lithgow will play the man on trial, Larry Henderson. A smart but slightly clueless poetry professor at a South Carolina community college who is accused of murdering his wife. Larry finds the whole notion of being charged with murder absurd, but he has a couple secrets that could really derail his defense.
Shepherd will play the well-meaning and enthusiastic assistant/receptionist at Josh Simon's makeshift law office in East Peck, South Carolina. Anne suffers from facial blindness – the inability to recognize people by their faces – along with a host of disorders that make her job as a member of the defense team much more difficult.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Great Indoors - Joel McHale to Star
McHale will star as Joel, an outdoorsy guy's guy with a sardonic sense of humor. The longtime star reporter for The Great Outdoors magazine, Joel has climbed mountains, confronted bears and led a life of excitement and adventure. But when he's sidelined by an injury, he's forced to take a desk job in the publication's digital and social media department, surrounded by a team of millennials who view him as an exotic and ancient oddity from another place and time.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Untitled Matt Hubbard NBC Comedy - Francois Chau, Susan Chuang and Concetta Tome Join Cast
Francois Chau, Susan Chuang and Concetta Tomei have landed series regular roles on NBC’s untitled Matt Hubbard single-camera comedy pilot starring Elizabeth Ho, Chris Smith and Jack McBrayer. Written/executive produced by 30 Rock alum Hubbard based loosely on his life, the story 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.
Chau (Lost) and Chuang (Cold Case) will play Josie’s parents, Jae Kim and Sun Kim, respectively. Jae is the charismatic, strong-willed, demanding owner of Kim’s Academy, a successful tae kwon do studio where McBrayer plays his sycophantic chief instructor. He has yet fully accepted Andrew, who he feels is not quite worthy of his daughter. Sun has lived in the U.S. for 30 years but still holds
on to many traditional Korean values, a characteristic that sometimes frustrates her more progressive daughter.
Tomei (Providence) will play Barbara Denton, Andrew’s grandmother and a commercial actress from L.A. She is an extroverted and opinionated pain in
the ass who
Andrew and Josie insist move to to Missouri with them so they can keep an eye on her.
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Deadline
Conviction - Manny Montana Joins Cast
Manny Montana has been cast in ABC’s legal drama pilot Conviction, from the Mark Gordon Co. and ABC Studios. Co-created by Liz Friedman and Liz Friedlander, it stars Hayley Atwell as the brilliant but ne’er-do-well daughter of a former U.S. president who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She works with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
Montana will play Franklin “Frankie” Rios, who is in charge of Forensics and has a street-savvy reserve that co-exists with a boyish excitement for science. He became interested in the field after watching a forensics show almost daily when serving two years in prison for car theft.
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Deadline
A.P.B. - Natalie Martinez Cast as Female Lead
Natalie Martinez (ABC’s Secrets & Lies) has been cast as the female lead in Fox’s drama pilot A.P.B., from writer David Slack and Sleepy Hollow co-creator/executive producer Len Wiseman.
Inspired by the July New York Times Magazine article “Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans”, A.P.B. explores what happens when an enigmatic tech billionaire purchases a troubled police precinct in the wake of a loved one’s murder.
Martinez will play Detective Amelia Murphy, a wry, confident cop from a family of police, who never hesitates to question authority…which may be the reason she has alienated every CO she’s worked for and wound up stuck in the dysfunctional 13th Precinct.
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Deadline
Untitled Kevin James Comedy - Ryan Cartwright Joins Cast
Ryan Cartwright (Alphas, Bones) has been set as a regular opposite James in the project, from Sony TV and CBS TV Studios.
The untitled show centers on newly retired police officer Kevin (James) who looks forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids — only to discover he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did on the streets. Cartwright plays Chale, a dreamer from an upscale family who may be on the verge of creating the next billion-dollar app and carries himself as if it’s already happened. He is very much in love with Kevin’s daughter Kendra (Taylor Spreitler).
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Deadline
The Infamous - Wilson Bethel to Co-Star
Former Hart Of Dixie star Wilson Bethel has landed a co-starring role on A&E Network’s hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous. It revolves around two complicated men on a collision course: an ambitious reformed gangster (Bokeem Woodbine) poised to break out of South Central and the LAPD detective hell-bent on taking him down. It will be set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the L.A. riots.
Bethel, will play Jason Gant, an officer with the LAPD’s Crash Unit.
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Deadline
Presence - Colin Woodell Joins Cast
Colin Woodell has been tapped for a series regular role in Presence, John Ridley’s female PI drama pilot for ABC. It’s the latest high-profile gig for the actor, who has been heating up after graduating from USC a couple of years ago.
Described as a stylish update of the classic detective genre, Presence centers on Presence Foster (Stephanie Sigman), an Army veteran who finds herself interacting with a divergent and colorful cross-section of Los Angeles as she unintentionally begins a career as an unlicensed private investigator. Woodell will play Mike McKay, a young LAPD detective and fellow Army vet who has equal parts heart and charm — a good cop and a good man. His personal and professional life begin to take a turn once Presence arrives on the scene as they balance their mutual attraction with the loose partnership they begin to form.
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Deadline
Untitled Tina Fey & Robert Carlock Comedy Pilot - Andrea Martin Cast as Lead, Kimrie Lewis-Davis also Cast
Andrea Martin is set as one of the two leads in NBC’s untitled Tracey Wigfield comedy pilot, from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Also cast in the single-camera project from Universal TV is Kimrie Lewis-Davis (Scandal, Peeples). They join previously cast Adam Campbell.
Written by Wigfield, the comedy centers on an already inseparable mother-daughter relationship that becomes more complicated when the mom, Carol (Martin) accepts an internship at her daughter’s workplace, a news program where the daughter, Katie, is a segment producer. Carol is a well-meaning, overly-chatty, upbea but bored mom who never went to college and gave up her career to raise her now adult children. Galvanized by an inspirational eulogy at a friend’s funeral, Carol decides to follow her dream of having a big career and lands an internship at her daughter’s newsroom where she wins kudos for her honesty.
Lewis-Davis plays Portia, the dingbat co-host on the show, a breezy, demanding, clueless woman whose inane story ideas are given the green light.
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Deadline
Conviction - Emily Kinney Cast in ABC Legal Drama Pilot
Thanks to iZombie_Fan for the heads up.
The Walking Dead alum Emily Kinney has been cast opposite Hayley Atwell and Shawn Ashmore in ABC’s legal drama pilot Conviction, from The Mark Gordon Co. and ABC Studios.
Co-created by Liz Friedman, who wrote the script, and Liz Friedlander, who will direct the pilot, Conviction stars Atwell as the brilliant but ne’er-do-well daughter of a former President who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, work together to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
Kinney will play Tess Thompson, the paralegal for the Unit team. Tess used to work for the Innocence Project but decided to work for CIU because she thinks she can make a bigger impact working more cases from inside the system.
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Deadline
Good Place - William Jackson Harper Cast in NBC Comedy
William Jackson Harper is set to co-star opposite Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in Good Place, NBC’s 13-episode straight-to-series comedy series from Parks & Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Mike Schur.
Good Place, which NBC ordered to series last summer based on a pitch, centers on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Harper will play Chris, a kind and extremely intelligent guy who always sees the good in people.
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Deadline
Pitch - Mark-Paul Gosselaar Cast as the Male Lead
The Saved by the Bell and Franklin and Bash alum has been cast as the male lead in the network's female baseball drama pilot Pitch.
The baseball drama hails from prolific producer Dan Fogelman (Grandfathered) and centers on Ginny, a young female pitcher who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. Kylie Bunbury (Under the Dome, Tut) stars.
Gosselaar is set to portray Mike Lawson, a handsome, charming, self-assured future Hall of Fame MLB catcher. A ladies' man off the field and a leader on it, Mike's not sure what to do with the undeniable spark between him and Ginny (Bunbury), the first female MLB player who joins his team. Skeptical of her at first, he still can’t help but show her the ropes. Over time, they’ll bring new meaning to the term, “team chemistry.”
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The Hollywood Reporter
Superior Donuts - Maz Jobrani to Co-Star
Actor-comedian Maz Jobrani is set to co-star opposite Jermaine Fowler in Superior Donuts, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written by Bob Daily and Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan and directed by James Burrows.
Based on the play by Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, Arthur, his new young employee, Franco (Fowler), andtheir patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago. Jobrani plays Maz — a character written for him — who is a high-energy, over-caffeinated businessman, capitalism personified and living the American dream. Maz has been buying up buildings and investing in businesses in the Uptown neighborhood, waiting for gentrification to come and make him rich, and he’s constantly after Arthur to sell him the donut shop so he can control the entire block.
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Deadline
My Time/Your Time - Nicholas Braun Cast as Male Lead
Nicholas Braun (Friend Me) has been cast as the male lead opposite Jane Levy in My Time/Your Time, CBS’s hybrid comedy pilot from Hilary Winston and How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
Based on the web series 7P/10E by Avital Ash, My Time/Your Time chronicles the relationship of a young couple — Marla (Levy) and Wade (Braun) — as they begin dating long distance. Levy’s Marla is an inherent optimist living in New York City who wants to be a playwright but is having trouble breaking away from a traditional life for the life of an artist. Braun’s Wade is a guy who things have always come easy for (friends, girls, jobs). That’s why he decided he’d move to LA and give it a shot in the big city but real adult life has been a little big of a shock.
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Deadline
Notorious - Daniel Sunjata Cast as Male Lead
Daniel Sunjata has been cast in ABC’s drama pilot “Notorious,” Variety has learned.
The potential series is based on the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and cable news producer Wendy Walker, and explores the interplay of criminal law and the media.
Sunjata will play Jake Gregorian, a charismatic and sexy defense attorney who manipulates the media to win cases at any cost and needs to be on top in all areas of his life. Jake acts as if he’s invulnerable, but he has a soft spot for Julia (yet to be cast), whom he relies on both professionally and personally.
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Variety
Conviction - Shawn Ashmore Cast in ABC Legal Drama Pilot
Shawn Ashmore, who has played Iceman in the X-Men movie franchise, is set to co-star opposite Hayley Atwell, also a member of the Marvel universe with her role as Peggy Carter, in ABC’s legal drama pilot Conviction, from The Mark Gordon Co. and ABC Studios.
Co-created by Liz Friedman, who wrote the script, and Liz Friedlander, who will direct the pilot, Conviction stars Atwell as the brilliant but ne’er-do-well daughter of a former President who is blackmailed into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. She, along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, work together to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime. Ashmore will play the handsome Sam, a top Assistant District Attorney who was originally promised the job of heading the new unit and is not pleased that he was passed over for the job. Nonetheless, he makes the decision to soldier on.
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Deadline
The Trail - Steven Boyer Joins Cast
Steven Boyer, star of the 2015 Broadway comedy Hand To God, has been cast in The Trail, NBC’s documentary-style procedural comedy from comedy veteran Jeff Astrof, Forever creator Matt Miller and Warner Bros. TV.
The project, whose title is a scrambled version of Trial, is a spoof of crime documentaries like The Jinx and Making A Murderer. It follows Josh Simon, a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town. Boyer will play Dwayne, Simon’s loyal lead investigator. Not the sharpest tool in the shed, Dwayne’s dream is to take a bullet for Josh — hopefully not from his own gun.
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Deadline
Pearl - Candice Bergen to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Candice Bergen has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Pearl, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
From Friends grad Andrew Reich, Pearl centers on a larger-than-life family matriarch Pearl who finds out she has cancer and becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family's life before she dies. Bergen will star as Pearl.
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THR
Conviction - Hayley Atwell cast as the Lead
The project will star Atwell as the brilliant-but-rebellious daughter of a Clinton-like political family, who is forced into taking a job as the head of Los Angeles’ newly created Conviction Integrity Unit. Along with her team of lawyers, investigators and forensic experts, she has two weeks to examine cases where there’s credible suspicion that the wrong person may have been convicted of a crime.
What does this mean for Agent Carter? In the event that Conviction is ordered to series and ABC’s Marvel drama is renewed for Season 3 (after returning to depressed ratings), Atwell’s schedule would be worked out so that she could do both roles.
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TVLine
Untitled Tina Fey & Robert Carlock Comedy - Adam Campbell to Co-Star
Adam Campbell, who recurred on the first season of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is reuniting with the Netflix comedy’s creators Tina Fey and Robert Carlock on their NBC pilot. Campbell is set to co-star in the project, written/executive produced by 30 Rock alumna Tracey Winfield.
The single-camera comedy centers on an already inseparable mother-daughter relationship that becomes more complicated when the mom accepts an internship at her daughter’s workplace, a news program where the daughter, Katie, is a segment producer.
Campbell will play Greg, the recently-named executive producer of the show. Harvard-educated and the son of a famous news anchor father, Greg is energetic and driven, constantly trying to put out fires and manage the show’s difficult anchor. Greg and Katie butt heads when he hires her mother as an intern.
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Deadline
Presence - Marcus Anderson Joins Cast
Marcus Anderson has booked a series regular role in Presence, John Ridley’s drama pilot for ABC and ABC Studios.
Anderson will play Tre Davis, Presence’s openly gay, half-brother who works as an event planner for high end clubs.
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Deadline
The Interestings - Matt Barr Joins Cast
Matt Barr has joined the cast of Amazon pilot The Interestings, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television. Written by Nip/Tuck alums Lyn Greene and Richard Levine and directed by Mike Newell, The Interestings is described as a grounded. character-driven drama based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel about a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they’re 15 in 1974.
The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older. Barr will play Goodman Wolf, the brother of Ash Wolf.
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Deadline
Barry - Glenn Fleshler Cast as a Series Regular
Glenn Fleshler (True Detective) has booked a series regular role on HBO’s Barry, a half-hour comedy pilot starring, directed and co-written by Bill Hader.
It 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.
Fleshler, will play Goran, a Russian gangster. He has a season-long arc on Billions, recurred on Boardwalk Empire and played lawn-mowing monster Errol Childress on the first season of True Detective.
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Deadline
Crushed - Colm Feore, Alex Kingston & Jacob Vargas Join Cast
Colm Feore (House Of Cards), Alex Kingston (Doctor Who) and Jacob Vargas (Sons Of Anarchy) will co-star opposite Regina Hall in the Hulu pilot Crushed, from Peeples writer-director Tina Gordon Chism and Lionsgate TV.
The comedy, written by Chism, centers on an African-American family, led by brother and sister Will and Celia (Hall) who stumbles into a successful wine business in Napa. The comedy is described as a fish-out-of-water story following the family’s unorthodox approach to wine making and their unique life style.
Feore will play Roberto Stella, an eccentric, savvy wine-maker whose successful label underpays for Will’s perfect grapes to make his special reserve wine. After Celia (Hall) disrespects him, he cuts business ties with Will, and sets out to thwart the siblings’ plans for their vineyard. Kingston will play Cricket Stella, Roberto’s bored Napa Valley wife, who amuses herself by having an affair with Will, only to parlay it into a power play. Vargas will play Jose Alturo, a Mexican-American vineyard manager of the venerable Stella Winery who’s tired of working for the “man,” so he moonlights with the fledgling Black Estate to make a better life for his family.
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Deadline
Superior Donuts - Jermaine Fowler to Star
Jermaine Fowler has closed a deal to star in and co-executive produce Superior Donuts, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by The Odd Couple showrunner Bob Daily and Community alums Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan. James Burrows has come on board to direct the pilot for CBS TV Studios.
Based on the play by Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, Arthur, his new young employee, Franco (Fowler), and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago. Fowler’s Franco is a high-energy, fast-talking force of nature who sees Superior Donuts as a symbol of everything he loves about the neighborhood — it’s authentic and real. As Arthur’s new (and only) employee, he’s going to make it his mission to drag the shop — and Arthur — into the 21st century …
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Deadline
Presence - Rick Gonzalez Cast as Male Lead *Updated*
Rick Gonzalez (USA’s Rush) is set as a male lead opposite Stephanie Sigman in Presence, John Ridley’s drama pilot for ABC and ABC Studios.
Gonzalez plays Manny Acevedo, Presence’s best friend, a small business owner who runs a very funky consignment space, lounge, emporium.
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Deadline
Untitled Amy Poehler & Charlie Grandy NBC Comedy - Nico Evers-Swindell to Star; Tim Baltz & Jessie Ennis Join Cast
The comedy is set in the country of Modaria, known for the manufacture of mopeds and tiny cars, where the Faber family has ruled for generations.
Evers-Swindell will play Prince Karl (known as The Dumb Prince –not affectionately) who returns home from a year’s exile in America after having passed out at the coronation of his seemingly hapless father, King Adrian.
Baltz will play Prince Marco, the second son of Modaria’s ruling family, and Ennis will play Princess Jana, the youngest child of the royal family.
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Deadline
The Jury - Jeremy Sisto to Co-Star
The Wicked City alum has booked a co-starring role on the network's anthology drama pilot The Jury, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The anthology is described as 12 Angry Men meets podcast Serial. It follows a single murder trial as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence their judgment and how their preconceptions change along the way.
Sisto will portray Dan, a juror described as professorial, well dressed and handsome who is widely liked within the group of jurors.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Will - Colm Meaney & Mattias Inwood Join Cast as Regulars
Colm Meaney (Hell On Wheels) and Mattias Inwood have booked regular roles on Will, TNT’s drama pilot chronicling the 20s of William Shakespeare.
It tells the wild story of young William Shakespeare’s (Laurie Davidson) arrival onto the punk rock theater scene that was 16th century London – the seductive, violent world where his raw talent faced rioting audiences, religious fanatics and raucous side-shows. It’s described as the hot, contemporary, dangerous version of Shakespeare’s life, played to a modern soundtrack, exposing all his recklessness, lustful temptations and brilliance.
Meaney will play James Burbage, a carpenter with a vision: to build the first theatre in London since Roman times, a 3,000-seat auditorium that became so famous it was simply called The Theatre. Actor, producer, and fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants entrepreneur, James must battle the authorities, rival theatres, and a fickle and at times riotous public to keep himself and his company of talented misfits afloat.
Inwood will play Richard Burbage, James’ son. Although innately talented, he is a little too much in love with himself and prone to overact. Through personal tragedy and Will’s influence, Richard eventually realizes that there is more to being an actor than the crowd’s adoration and he and Will go on to form the greatest actor-writer partnership the world has ever seen.
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Deadline
Marlon - Essence Atkins cast as the Female Lead
Essence Atkins has landed the female lead opposite Marlon Wayans in NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Marlon.
Loosely inspired by Wayans’ life, Marlon centers on Marlon (Wayans), an inappropriate, but loving father who is committed to successfully co-parenting with his polar opposite ex-wife Angie (Atkins). Angie is a type-A interior designer by trade and something of a control freak who did one reckless and spontaneous thing in her life: fell in love with Marlon.
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Deadline
The Interestings - Jessica Collins & Corey Cott Cast as Regulars
Jessica Collins (The Young And The Restless) and Corey Cott have booked series regular roles on Amazon pilot The Interestings, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television.
Written by Nip/Tuck alums Lyn Greene and Richard Levine and directed by Mike Newell, The Interestings is described as a grounded. character-driven drama based on Meg Wolitzer’s novel about a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they’re 15 in 1974. The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older.
Collins will play Cathy, a very stylish and attractive woman, immaculately coiffed and svelte.
Cott is Jonah, a gay, former musician who now designs tech innovations for the disabled.
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Deadline
My Time/Your Time - Jane Levy Cast as Female Lead
Suburgatory‘s Jane Levy has landed the lead in My Time/Your Time, CBS’ relationship comedy from How I Met Your Mother co-creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas.
Levy will play Marly, an inherent optimist living in New York City who wants to be a playwright but is having trouble breaking away from a traditional life for the life of an artist.
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TVLine
Infamous - Emily Rios Cast As Female Lead
Breaking Bad alumna Emily Rios has landed the female lead on A&E’s hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous. It revolves around two complicated men on a collision course: an ambitious reformed gangster poised to break out of South Central (Bokeem Woodbine) and the LAPD detective hell-bent on taking him down. It will be set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the LA Riots.
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Deadline
Shut Eye - Isabella Rossellini to Co-Star
Rossellini will play Rita, the matriarch of the Romani clan. Rita is described as drop-dead gorgeous — and as vicious as she is beautiful. If "there were ever the antithesis of the old gypsy woman from a Wolfman movie," that's Rita. She wears Armani — and she wears it well. Dangerous and sadistic, she takes pleasure in making people pay for their foibles
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THR
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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Deadline
Barry - HBO Pilot - Sarah Goldberg to Co-Star
Thanks to RD for the heads up.
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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Deadline
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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Variety
Presence - ABC Pilot - Stephanie Sigman Cast in the Lead Role
Thanks to RD for the heads up.
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