Hi everyone, below you'll find all the casting announcements for the new pilot season. We'll try our best to keep this updated with all new casting as quickly if possible. If you find any that aren't posted, please do submit them in.
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The Jury - J.D. Pardo Joins Cast
Per deadline, J.D. Pardo (Revolution, The Messengers) has joined the cast of ABC's pilot The Jury in an unspecified role.
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The Great Indoors - Chris Williams Cast as a Series Regular
Chris Williams (One Big Happy) is set as a series regular opposite Joel McHale in The Great Indoors, CBS‘ multi-camera pilot written and executive produced by Mike Gibbons.
Williams will play Eddie, Joel’s best friend, who invites him to live in the house he has inherited from his mom. Williams will next be seen as a recurring in Showtime’s Dice. Other TV credits include a leading role on NBC’s One Big Happy, and recurring roles on USA’s Satisfaction and Showtime’s Californication.
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Deadline
The Last Tycoon - Jessica de Gouw to Recur in Amazon’s Drama Pilot
Underground’s Jessica de Gouw has booked a recurring role opposite Matt Bomer and Lily Collins in The Last Tycoon, Amazon’s drama pilot based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel. The pilot, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television, was inspired by the life of film mogul Irving Thalberg, on whom the book’s protagonist Monroe Stahr was based. De Gouw will play Minna Davis, the star of the studio who embodiesboth the glamour and dream that was Hollywood.
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Deadline
Presence - Felicity Huffman Cast in a Guest Role
Felicity Huffman, star of John Ridley’s ABC anthology series American Crime, is guest starring in Ridley’s ABC drama pilot Presence. The gig, limited to the pilot only, stems from Huffman’s relationship with Ridley and fellow Presence executive producer Michael McDonald, who also exec produce Presence, and is the type of favor name actors do for writers and producers they have a strong relationship with. Huffman tweeted about her stint yesterday.
Presence, a stylish update of the classic detective genre, follows Presence Foster (Stephanie 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. Huffman plays a wealthy Beverly Hills shipping heiress who hires Presence to find her son.
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— Felicity Huffman (@FelicityHuffman) February 18, 2016
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Deadline
Untitled Tina Fey & Tracey Wigfield NBC Comedy - Briga Heelan to Star
Briga Heelan (Ground Floor, Undateable) has been cast as the lead in NBC’s untitled Tracey Wigfield comedy pilot from Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. She joins co-lead Andrea Martin, Kimrie Lewis-Davis and Adam Campbell.
Written by Wigfield, the single-camera comedy centers on Katie (Heelan), whose already inseparable relationship with her mother Carol (Martin) becomes more complicated when Carol accepts an internship at Katie’s workplace, a news program where Katie is a segment producer.
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Deadline
Bunker Hill - Brenda Song Cast in CBS' Medical Drama
Brenda Song (The Social Network) has been cast in CBS pilot Bunker Hill, a medical drama written/executive produced by Parenthood‘s Jason Katims.
Bunker Hill follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, “new school” approach to medicine. Song, repped by Curtis Talent Management, will play Angie, a programmer at Bunker Hill Hospital.
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Deadline
The Jury - Hina Abdullah Cast as a Series Regular
Hina Abdullah has been cast as a series regular in ABC’s murder trial drama pilot The Jury, from Sony TV and ABC Studios.
Abdullah, will play Sobia, a devout Muslim. She will next be seen on Starz’s The Last Ship.
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Deadline
Sebastian - Tony Danza to Star in NBC Comedy
The former star of Taxi and Who's the Boss has signed on to star in Greg Garcia's family comedy Sebastian, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The NBC multicam stars comedian Sebastian Maniscalco as a guy whose old-school values, instilled by his opinionated Italian father are constantly put to the test by his new wife, her family and the absurdities of the modern world. Danza will play his father.
Danza reportedly fielded multiple pilot offers this season. The role brings the veteran actor back to NBC after his successful runs on Taxi, which ran on the network for its fifth and final season. (Coincidentally, Danza will appear on NBC Sunday alongside his Taxi cast to pay tribute to director James Burrows.) After Taxi, Danza went onto star in the beloved family comedy Who's the Boss for eight seasons.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Will - Olivia DeJonge To Play Female Lead in TNT's William Shakespeare Drama
On the heels of her first big feature role — playing the co-lead in M. Night Shyamalan’s 2015 horror movie The Visit — rising young Australian actress Olivia DeJonge has landed her first US TV gig as the female lead opposite Laurie Davidson in Will, TNT’s drama pilot chronicling the 20s of William Shakespeare.
DeJonge will play Alice Burbage. Talented and beautiful, Alice is a rebel who tests the limits of her world with a wit and charm that masks an underlying anger and frustration; although the daughter of impresario James Burbage, society forbids her to pursue a career in the theatre. Attracted to Will’s naïve genius, an explosive, star-crossed passion quickly develops between the two. Together they scale the highest peaks and are plunged to the lowest depths of love – Alice ultimately makes a decision that rocks Will to his core and threatens to tear The Theatre apart.
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Deadline
Miranda’s Rights - Rebecca Breeds Cast as the Lead
Rebecca Breeds (The Originals) has landed the lead in NBC pilot Miranda’s Rights.
Breads will play the title character Miranda Coale, an attorney who’s pretty and smart, but plagued for the past six years by a youthful mistake. Miranda’s much-publicized and scandalous affair with a married State Senator in her early 20s changed the course of her life forever. Though she was, in many ways, victimized by the digisphere, she never acts like a victim. Instead, Miranda survives the pain of her past by joking about it (often at inappropriate moments) and by wearing her flaws on her sleeve.
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Deadline
Lethal Weapon - Golden Brooks to Co-Star
Girlfriends alumna Golden Brooks is set to co-star opposite Damon Wayans Sr. in Lethal Weapon, Fox’s hourlong pilot based on the hit buddy cop action comedy movie franchise.
In the pilot, written by Matt Miller and directed by McG, when Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he is partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh (Wayans), who, having recently suffered a “minor” heart attack, must avoid stress in his life.
Brooks will play Roger’s hard-working, perceptive and loving wife Trish who worries about him and is not thrilled when she hears about his new adrenaline-crazed partner. In the movies, Trish was played by Darlene Love and Roger by Danny Glover.
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Deadline
Chunk & Bean - Andy Daly to Co-Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Andy Daly will co-star opposite Anna Gunn 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.
Daly will play Chuck’s dad, Stuart Dawson, who is married to Dr. Connie Dawson (Dunn).
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Deadline
Legion - Jeremie Harris Cast as a Series Regular in FX/Marvel Pilot
Newcomer Jeremie Harris has booked a series-regular role on the drama pilot from Fargo's Noah Hawley, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Harris will take on the role of Ptonomy, an outsider by nature, stand-offish and sardonic, who is a former child prodigy who feels trapped in the past.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Midnight, Texas - Arielle Kebbel Joins Cast in a Series Regular Role
Arielle Kebbel has booked a series regular role on 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, the pilot is set in the remote town of Midnight, Texas, where your neighbor could be a vampire, a witch, a werewolf or even an angel. Kebbel will play Olivia, a freelance hit-woman who is a vital part of the community with a mysterious past.
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Deadline
Recon - Sarita Choudhury & Karan Oberoi Cast in Caroline Dries' FOX Drama Pilot
Sarita Choudhury (Homeland) and Karan Oberoi (NCIS) have booked series regular roles on Fox’s drama pilot Recon, from Warner Bros. TV.
Written by The Vampire Diaries exec producer Caroline Dries and exec produced by TVD co-developers/exec producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, Recon is about a rookie FBI agent who embeds herself in a suspected terrorist family.
Choudhury will play Farrah, a successful businesswoman who struggles to balance work, family, and the Five Pillars of Islam. Oberoi is Jared, son of Farrah (Choudhury) and her husband Omar (not yet cast) a charming badboy and heir to his family’s company with ambitions that don’t align with his father’s business plan.
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Deadline
Bunker Hill - Augustus Prew to Star in CBS' Medical Drama Pilot
Kick-Ass 2 star Augustus Prew is set to star in the Parenthood alum's CBS medical drama pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Picked up to pilot last month, Bunker Hill follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, ""new school"" approach to medicine. Prew will play the tech billionaire, James Bell. Described as having comet-like energy, James is relentless, unapologetic, maybe brilliant, maybe just nuts, but definitely magnetic and determined to revolutionize healthcare.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Chuck and Bean - Anna Gunn to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Anna Gunn has set her next TV role. The Breaking Bad alum has been tapped to star in ABC comedy pilot Chunk and Bean, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera comedy centers 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. Inspired by the lives of writers Ed Herro and Brian Donovan. Gunn will topline the ABC Studios comedy and play Connie Dawson, the mother to ""Chunk,"" who is described as a hovering mother who is trying to control his every move. She works as a therapist from home and is a bit neurotic when the new neighbors move in.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Trail - Nick D’Agosto Cast as the Lead in NBC Comedy Pilot
Nick D’Agosto has landed the sought-after lead role in The Trail, NBC’s documentary-style procedural comedy from comedy veteran Jeff Astrof, Forever creator Matt Miller and Warner Bros. TV.
Written by Astrof and Miller and to be directed by Jeffrey Blitz, The Trail, whose title is a scrambled version of Trial, follows Josh Simon (D’Agosto), a young big-city lawyer and his oddball defense team during a high-profile murder trial in a small southern town. Sent from his big New York law firm to small town South Carolina to prep a rag-tag team in defending a poetry professor (John Lithgow) accused of murdering his wife, Josh Simon tries to keep his optimism while feeling a bit out of his element — both professionally and as the first “Northeasterner” many of the townspeople have seen.
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Deadline
The Kicker - Geoff Stults to Star in Tina Fey's CBS Comedy Pilot
Geoff Stults will star in “The Kicker,” the multi-cam CBS comedy pilot from exec producers Tina Fey, Robert Carlock and writer Jack Burditt, Variety has earned.
Stults will play the lead role of Daryl Thorkelson, a NFL kicker who is known more for his controversial opinions and know-it-all habits than his skill on the field. After bouncing around teams throughout the NFL, Daryl is coming close to the all-time scoring record, but jeopardizes his entire career by writing an unapologetic book that has the NFL fandom up in arms. Now that he’s suspended, he finds it hard to stay out of trouble and do something constructive with his newfound free time.
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Variety
The Enforcers - Ian Gomez Joins Cast
Christine Woods (Hello Ladies) is set as the co-lead opposite Niecy Nash in The Enforcers, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from Warner Bros. TV. Also cast in the project is Cougar Town alum Ian Gomez.
Gomez will play George, Nora (Woods) and M.J.’s (Nash) supervisor in the city code enforcement office. George struggles a bit to put up with the eccentricities of the workers in his office, but he is an affable, easygoing guy and extremely proud of the very (nondescript) city he lives in.
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Deadline
The Jury - Adina Porter Cast in a Series Regular Role
Adina Porter (True Blood, The Newsroom) has booked a series regular role on ABC’s murder trial drama pilot The Jury.
Porter will play Angela, a mother of three that works two jobs to support an unemployed husband battling clinical depression, and her kids who are living a comfortable middle-class life unaware that the family is massively in debt.
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Deadline
The Enforcers - Christine Woods to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
Christine Woods is going back to comedy. The actress, who last season had a memorable arc on AMC zombie drama The Walking Dead, has been tapped to star in Fox comedy pilot The Enforcers.
Woods will star as Nora, a bright, feisty and a little uptight woman who put her dreams of becoming a detective on hold while she raised her son as a single mom — until now; unfortunately, her dreams are quickly dashed and she ends up taking a job as a city code enforcer, aka a “code cop.” Scream Queens and Getting On breakout Niecy Nash co-stars.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Greg Garcia/Stephnie Weir CBS Comedy Pilot - Nick Zano to Co-Star
Nick Zano is the first actor cast in CBS’s untitled multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by writer-actress Stephnie Weir and executive produced by Greg Garcia.
The project (aka Y’all In The Family) centers on a conservative, small town family forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
Zano will play Billy. The baby. The golden child. A smart, handsome, war vet who maps a course for his life and follows it without deviation.
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Deadline
Me & Mean Margaret - Stockard Channing to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot
Stockard Channing is ready to get mean for NBC. The West Wing and Grease alum has been tapped to star in the network's comedy pilot Me & Mean Margaret.
Margaret is an unlikely buddy comedy that follows a fiercely candid and often offensive legendary actress and the ambitious 27-year-old lawyer forced to babysit her. Channing will play the legendary actress, Margaret.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Pearl - Zach Knighton Joins ABC Comedy Pilot
Happy Endings alum Zach Knighton is back at ABC with another single-camera comedy project. Knighton is set as the male lead opposite Candice Bergen in the network’s pilot Pearl.
Written/executive produced by Andrew Reich and directed by Jim Field Smith, the project centers on Pearl (Bergen), a larger-than-life family matriarch who, after she finds out she has cancer, becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family’s life before she dies. Knighton will play Pearl’s son. ABC Studios is the studio.
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Deadline
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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