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Riverdale - Luke Perry Cast as Archie's Father in Co-Starring Role
EXCLUSIVE: Former Beverly Hills, 90210 resident Luke Perry is moving to a new zip code. Perry has been tapped for a co-starring role in Riverdale, the CW pilot from producer Greg Berlanti based on the Archie Comics characters.
Perry will play Archie’s dad Fred Andrews, who is clearly getting a makeover for the TV series. Usually easygoing, Fred Andrews is the owner of a construction firm who is hoping his son, who worked for him all summer, will someday take over the family business.
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Deadline
The Exorcist - Brianne Howey Cast as a Series Regular
Brianne Howey (Scream Queens) has signed on for a series regular role in Fox drama pilot The Exorcist, a modern reinvention inspired by William Blatty’s 1971 book. Written by Jeremy Slater, The Exorcist is described as a propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession and confronting the face of true evil.
Howey will play Charlotte, a former ballet dancer, once the golden child, she has not been the same since her terrible accident. Now depressed and anti-social, she’s closed off and guarded. So much so that her mother has begun to believe she might be influenced by a demon, though the thought would make Charlotte laugh.
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Deadline
Spark - Tracy Ifeachor Cast as a Series Regular
Tracy Ifeachor (The Originals) has joined the series regular cast of ABC pilot Spark, from writer Michael Cooney and producers Ian Sander & Kim Moses. Spark is a lavish primetime drama series of passion, greed and hope in a Steampunk reality, circa 2016. Set in an alternate history where gas and coal fuel the world, the drama centers on the battle for power between two rival families and a rebellious young woman with a spark of invention that could level both their empires.
Ifeachor will play Logan Reese, an attractive, quick and confident young forensic investigator who has just transferred to the Investigative Division of the city’s Watch. Ifeachor currently recurs on The Originals.
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Deadline
Good Fortune - Jessy Hodges to Star, Blake Lee to Co-Star
Jessy Hodges (Hindsight) is set to lead the ensemble cast of NBC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Good Fortune. Rounding out the core quintet in the project, from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack’s Le Train Train, is Blake Lee (Mixology, Parks & Recreation). Hodges and Lee join previously cast Tone Bell, Beau Mirchoff and Diane Guerrero. 20th TV is the studio.
Written by Matt Zinman & Craig Gerard and directed by Pam Fryman, Good Fortune focuses on June (Hodges), 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 (Lee) plan to always stick together, impending doom or not. Lee’s Metzger is June close friend who is realizing after announcing he is gay, that it was obvious all along.
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Deadline
Untitled Kevin James Comedy - Erinn Hayes Cast as the Female Lead
Childrens Hospital star Erinn Hayes has signed on to star opposite the King of Queens alum in his new CBS comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
In the untitled multi-cam series, which was first picked up for 13 episodes in October, James plays a newly retired cop looking forward to spending more quality time with his wife and three kids. However, he soon discovers he faces much tougher challenges at home than he ever did at work.
Hayes will play Donna, Kevin's wife of 20 years who's had to hold the family together until he retires from the police force. She joins a cast that also includes Taylor Spreitler, Ryan Cartwright, Leonard Earl Howze, Mary-Charles Jones and James DiGiacomo.
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Fluffy Shop - Richard Gant Joins Cast
Richard Gant (Men Of A Certain Age) has been cast opposite Gabriel Iglesias in ABC comedy pilot The Fluffy Shop. The project was inspired by Iglesias’ life experience including the challenges of managing a home life during the few days he spends off the road each week.
Gant will play Lance, a gruff guy with a military bearing who built the Fluffy Shop and maintains it. He functions as a father figure to Gabe (Iglesias) and the others employees at the shop.
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Deadline
Untitled Amy Poehler NBC Comedy - Patrick Gallagher Cast as a Series Regular
Patrick Gallagher (Glee) is set as a series regular on NBC’s untitled royal family comedy pilot (aka Dumb Prince) written by Charlie Grandy and executive produced and directed by Amy Poehler.
Gallagher will play Brutus, the Palace chef. He’s also Karl’s confidant and one of the few people at the Palace who speaks the truth to Karl. Gallagher is best known for his role as Coach Ken Tanaka on Glee.
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Deadline
Bunker Hill - Dermot Mulroney to Star
The Shameless actor has been tapped to topline the network's Jason Katims medical drama, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Bunker Hill follows a young Silicon Valley tech titan (Augustus Prew) who enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting edge, ""new school"" approach to medicine.
Mulroney will portray Walter Wallace, a brilliant surgeon committed to saving lives who might care a little too much about his patients. He joins a cast that also includes Brenda Song as Angie, a programmer at the hospital.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Future Man - Eliza Coupe Cast as the Female Lead in Hulu's Comedy Pilot
Happy Endings alumna Eliza Coupe is set as the female lead opposite Josh Hutcherson in Future Man, Hulu’s half-hour comedy pilot from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. The gig expands Coupe’s relationship with Hulu where she has recurred on Jason Reitman’s Casual.
Written by Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir and executive produced by Matt Tolmach, Future Man is a high-concept comedy that 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.
Coupe will play futuristic soldier Tiger, a sexy, tough and intense character in the Cybergeddon video game, who, along with her cohort Wolf, recruits Josh to travel back in time to save the world from the hellish landscape she left behind. However, she’s hiding a secret that could unravel everything.
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Deadline
Speechless - Cedric Yarbrough Cast as a Series Regular
Cedric Yarbrough (The Goldbergs) is set as a series regular in ABC comedy pilot Speechless from Scott Silveri and 20th Century Fox TV. The project centers on a family with a special-needs child described as being “good at dealing with the challenges it faces and excellent at creating new ones.”
Yarbrough will play Kenneth, a groundskeeper at Bronxville High. He has a run-in with Maya who throws a fit because the wheelchair ramp doubles as a ramp for garbage dumpster. Yarbrough’s other recent TV credits include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Comedy Bang! Bang!
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Deadline
Drew - Anthony Edwards to Co-Star
ER alum Anthony Edwards is set for a co-starring role in Drew, CBS’ drama based on the Nancy Drew character from the classic mystery book series.
Edwards will play Carson, Nancy’s father who graduated at the top of his class at Yale Law. In the 2007 movie with a younger Nancy, played by Emma Roberts, Carson was played by Tate Donovan.
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Deadline
Pitch - Elisabeth Shue to Co-Star
CSI alumna Elisabeth Shue is set for a leading role opposite Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Pitch, Fox‘s drama pilot written by Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer and directed by Paris Barclay.
The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, follows Ginny (Bunbury), a young female pitcher who defies the odds when she becomes the first woman to play in the major leagues. Shue will play the sleek and confident Amelia Slater: Image-maker extraordinaire and Ginny’s personal guru/protector.
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Deadline
The Jury - Brandon Jay McLaren & Ben Esler Join Cast
Graceland alum Brandon Jay McLaren and Australian actor Ben Esler (Hell On Wheels) have been cast as series regulars 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.
McLaren will play Jared, one of the individual jurors with a dark past and penchant for speaking his mind. Esler will play Ernest, an awkwardly mild-mannered professional.
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Deadline
The Last Tycoon - Kerry O’Malley & Annika Marks to Recur
Kerry O’Malley (Terminator Genisys) and Annika Marks (The Sessions) have landed recurring roles opposite Lily Collins and Matt Bomer on Amazon’s pilot The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final unfinished novel. The project, 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.
O’Malley will play Kay Maloney, a writer on the Brady-American studio lot. Marks is Bernadette Davis, Declan Davis (Ryan O’Nan) loving wife. Marks is repped by TalentWorks and LINK. O’Malley is with Primary Wave and Professional Artists.
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Deadline
I Love Dick - Kathryn Hahn Cast as Female Lead in Amazon Comedy Pilot
Kathryn Hahn, who is recurring on Jill Soloway’s acclaimed Amazon comedy series Transparent, has been tapped as the female lead in Soloway’s followup project for Amazon — comedy pilot I Love Dick.
Written by playwright Sarah Gubbins based on Chris Kraus’ 1997 novel and directed by Soloway, I Love Dick is set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas. It centers on a struggling married couple, failing wife and independent filmmaker Chris (Hahn) and Sylvere, and their mutual obsession with an off-putting but charismatic professor, Dick. Through that obsession, Chris goes on a journey of self-discovery and eventually transformative power. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, I Love Dick charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the reluctant deification of a man named Dick.
Hahn plays Rabbi Raquel Fein on Transparent, recently sharing a SAG Awards ensemble nomination with the rest of the series’ cast. The actress, who also recurred on NBC’s Parks & Recreation, is repped by Gersh, Lighthouse Management and attorney James Adams.
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Deadline
Powerless - Danny Pudi, Alan Tudyk & Christina Kirk Join Cast
Tudyk is set to play Del, Emily's new boss in the claims department. Del has just been promoted — not through any merit of his own, but because he’s the owner’s son. A self-proclaimed “rich, over-educated globetrotting wastrel,” Del is a power-mad disastrous dictator of a boss.
Pudi, who last season starred in NBC pilot Strange Calls, will play Teddy, Emily's best friend at work and her trusted confidante. He spends his days creating time-wasting pranks as a way to make their office, the ""least super place on earth,"" just a little less ""unsuper."" The casting brings the actor back to NBC, where Community started its run before wrapping up at Yahoo.
Kirk, who will reunite with A to Z writer/exec producer Ben Queen on Powerless, will portray Jackie. A fan of super heroes, Jackie has plastered her office cubicle with beefcake shots of super guys. New claims department boss Del makes her his personal assistant, and she begins buckling under his unreasonable and impossible demands.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Pitch - Mo McRae, Meagan Holder & Tim Jo Cast as Series Regulars in FOX Baseball Drama Pilot
Mo McRae (Wild, Murder In The First), Meagan Holder (Born Again Virgin) and The Neighbors‘ alum Tim Jo are set as series regulars opposite Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in Pitch, Fox‘s baseball drama pilot, written by Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer and directed by Paris Barclay.
McRae will play Blip, an All-Star outfielder, who’s as fleet of mouth as he is of foot. As Ginny’s (Bunbury) only pre-existing friend, Blip serves as her big brother on the team and tries to make sure she feels at home in the dugout right off the bat. Holder is Evelyne, Blip’s wife and an old friend of Ginny’s. Knowing what immense pressure her friend must be under, Evelyne takes it upon herself to distract Ginny with some much needed girl talk and a round of Bloody Mary’s. Jo will play Eliot, an awkward but social media savvy manager brought on to Ginny’s team to run her online presence now that she’s exploded as a celebrity. This reunites Jo and Fogelman from their work together on The Neighbors.
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Deadline
Cruel Intentions - Taylor John Smith Cast as Male Lead, Samantha Logan Also Cast
You can see the family resemblance — Taylor John Smith (American Crime) is set to play the son of Ryan Phillippe’s Sebastian and Reese Witherspoon’s Annette from the cult 1999 movie Cruel Intentions, which also starred Sarah Michelle Gellar. Smith is set as the male lead in NBC’s pilot based on the film, with Gellar in negotiations to reprise her role. She was approached shortly after the project was picked up to pilot. Also cast in the pilot is Samantha Logan (The Fosters).
Set in present day, Cruel Intentions picks up more than 15 years after the movie left off. It follows the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil — the role played in the movie by Gellar — as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey (Smith), the son of her brother, the late Sebastian Valmont, and Annette Hargrove. Upon discovering his late father’s legacy in a hidden journal, Bash is introduced to a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined. Logan plays Cassidy, the spoiled daughter of Kathryn’s husband Pascal.
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Deadline
Midnight, Texas - Sarah Ramos to Co-Star
Parenthood alumna Sarah Ramos is returning to NBC as one of the leads in another drama series project, pilot Midnight, Texas, which is based on the bestselling trilogy by Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse books that were adapted into HBO’s vampire drama True Blood.
Ramos will play Creek, a girl next door beauty who works two jobs, a waitress at the local restaurant, and behind the counter at the Gas and Go convenience store her dad owns. She is bright, funny and dreams of more but lives at home to protect her teen brother from their father who is oppressively strict, protective.
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Deadline
Adam F. Goldbergs' Untitled ABC Live-Action CGI Comedy Pilot - Jenna Elfman Cast as the Lead
Jenna Elfman is set as the lead in ABC’s untitled live-action/CGI comedy pilot from The Goldbergs creator/executive producer Adam F. Goldberg and executive producer David Guarascio, as well as animator Patrick Osborne, Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV.
Written by Goldberg and Guarascio and directed by Shawn Levy, the untitled comedy centers on Alice (Elfman), a bachelorette whose life is turned upside-down when she finally meets the love of her life — a divorced father (Stephen Schneider) with three kids. This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend Alice created as an only child suddenly reappears in her life to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.
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Deadline
Model Woman - Dan Byrd to Co-Star
Former Cougar Town star Dan Byrd has lined up his follow-up series project, signing on for a co-starring role in the drama pilot Model Woman at ABC, the network where comedy Cougar Town started before migrating to TBS.
The project, from Sony TV’s TriStar Television and ABC Studios, is a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey’s book Model Woman: Eileen Ford And The Business Of Beauty, the recently published biography of the outspoken and controversial woman who started as a model and went on to co-found the famous Ford Modeling Agency with her husband Jerry.
Written by Reality Bites scribe Helen Childress and directed by Richard Shephard, Model Woman is set in the late 1970s during the notorious Model Wars and centers on Bertie Geiss – a tempestuous matriarch and uncompromising businesswoman at the helm of an internationally renowned modeling agency. Byrd will play Bertie’s oldest son, Lonnie Geiss, SVP of Geiss Agency, who makes the trains run on time but longs to prove himself in other ways, and wants to find the next new face.
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Deadline
Untitled Amy Poehler NBC Comedy - Tiya Sircar Cast as a Series Regular
Tiya Sircar has booked a series regular role on NBC’s untitled royal family comedy pilot (aka Dumb Prince) written by Charlie Grandy and executive produced and directed by Amy Poehler.
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. Sircar will play Maria, the new maid in the royal household, described as smart, strong-willed and likable.
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Deadline
Adam F. Goldbergs' Untitled ABC Live-Action CGI Comedy Pilot - Stephen Schneider Set as the Male Lead
Stephen Schneider is set as the male lead in ABC’s untitled live-action/CGI comedy pilot from The Goldbergs creator/executive producer Adam F. Goldberg and executive producer David Guarascio, as well as animator Patrick Osborne, Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV.
Written by Goldberg and Guarascio and directed by Shawn Levy, the untitled comedy centers on a thirtysomething bachelorette whose life is turned upside-down when she finally meets the love of her life — a divorced father with three kids (Schneider). This triggers even more upheaval when the slightly unhinged imaginary friend she created as an only child suddenly reappears in her life to help her navigate the transition from single girl to a woman ready for a family.
Schneider’s Ben is an attractive, adorable and quick-witted divorced dad of 3 who charmingly seduces the full-time bachelorette into falling in love with him. The imaginary friend was conceived as a CGI creation in a live-action environment. Goldberg, Guarascio, Osborne and Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson executive produce.
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Deadline
The Interestings - Jessica Paré Joins Cast
Jessica Paré just can’t get away from period dramas. The Mad Men star has been cast in The Interestings, Amazon’s pilot about friends who meet at an arts camp in 1974 when they’re in their teens, TVLine has learned exclusively.
Paré will play Cathy, a former dancer who becomes a highly successful, married financier. At one point in the action, Cathy and Jules (a failed actress-turned-therapist played by Six Feet Under‘s Lauren Ambrose, who was cast earlier in February) have a big confrontation.
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TVLine
The Great Indoors - Shaun Brown Joins Cast
Shaun Brown has been cast opposite Joel McHale in The Great Indoors, CBS‘ multi-camera pilot written and executive produced by Mike Gibbons. The comedy, from CBS TV Studios, centers on Joel (McHale), an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
Brown will play Dwayne, Joel’s new colleague in the magazine’s digital department, a hip and obnoxiously peppy “urban outdoorsman” who has actually spent zero time outside.
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Deadline
The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez - Raúl Castillo Cast as a Series Regular
Looking alum Raúl Castillo is set as a series regular in ABC drama pilot The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez, from writer Charise Castro Smith and producers Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters.
Described as a sexy revenge drama with a supernatural twist and as MacBeth with a Cuban twist, it centers on Eva Sofia Valdez, an immigrant who rose from rags to riches and is a celebrated Miami entrepreneur and a champion for immigrant rights. But her success is fueled by an insatiable ambition that could destroy her family, a vendetta against the lover who betrayed her, and ghosts from the past who threaten to reveal the dark sacrifices Eva Sofia made to attain the American Dream.
Castillo, repped by CAA and TMT Management, will play Sebastian, Eva Sofia’s oldest son. He will next be seen in the upcoming Netflix movie Special Correspondents with Ricky Gervais and HBO’s Looking TV movie slated for release this year.
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Deadline
Recon - Tracy Spiridakos to Star; Alexander Siddig Also Joins Cast
Former Revolution star Tracy Spiridakos has landed the lead in Recon, Fox’s drama pilot executive produced by The Vampire Diaries’ co-developers/exec producers Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec. Also cast in the pilot, written by TVD exec producer Caroline Dries, is Alexander Siddig (Game of Thrones).
Recon centers on Alexa (Spiridakos), a young, driven FBI analyst tasked with embedding herself in a suspected terrorist family. Siddig plays her target Omar, a father, husband and devout Muslim who has no idea the Feds have been tracking his every move.
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Deadline
Transylvania - Laura Brent Cast as the Female Lead
Young Australian actress Laura Brent (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader) has been cast as the female lead in the CW genre-themed drama pilot Transylvania.
Written by Hugh Sterbakov and directed by Jason Ensler, Transylvania is set in 1880 and centers on Victoria (Brent), a headstrong young woman in search of her missing father who ventures from NYC to Transylvania where she teams up with a wrongfully disgraced Scotland Yard Detective, and together they witness the births of the most famous monsters and villains in history.
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Deadline
Untitled Dan O'Shannon Comedy - John Carroll Lynch Cast in CBS Pilot
John Carroll Lynch is shifting gears to comedy
Lynch, who most recently had a memorable guest role on The Walking Dead and played Twisty the Clown on American Horror Story: Freak Show, is set to co-star in a CBS comedy pilot. Lynch has signed on to co-star as Wayne Wheeler in the network's untitled Dan O'Shannon, Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope comedy based on Australian format Upper Middle Bogan.
The single-camera comedy revolves around a wife and mother who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers. Lynch will play the patriarch of Team Wheeler, a man whose life revolves around his profession and his extended family.
O'Shannon, Butler and Hope will pen the script and exec produce alongside Todd Holland, with the latter set to direct the pilot. The comedy is a co-production between CBS Television Studios and ABC Studios in association with Dark Toy Entertainment.
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THR
Powerless - Vanessa Hudgens to Star
Vanessa Hudgens is getting back to work.
The Grease Live alum has been tapped to star in NBC's DC Comics comedy pilot Powerless, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera workplace comedy is set at one of the worst insurance companies in America — with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics. The comedy is about the reality of working life for a normal, powerless person in a world of super heroes and villains.
Hudgens will topline the pilot and portray Emily Locke, an insurance claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people, Emily likes to fly under the radar and just get her work done. She finds herself increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various Super Heroes that proliferate in her city.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Untitled NBC Amy Poehler Comedy Pilot - Elizabeth Perkins & Kevin Nealon to Co-Star
The network has tapped Weeds alums Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Nealon to co-star in the untitled comedy pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera comedy revolves around Karl, who after years of partying that earned him the ""black sheep"" label, returns home to compete with his brother for the family throne. Grimm's Nico Evers-Swindell stars as Karl. Tim Baltz and Jessie Ennis co-star.
Perkins will play Queen Tuesday, the controlling and frosty royal family's queen of Modaria, who rules with her husband, King Adrian (Nealon). She's generally displeased with the choices her children have made though she has hope that Princess Jana will become an item with Prince Harry.
King Adrian is described as the somewhat clueless King of Modaria, a sweet guy who would rather his wife wear the pants in the family.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Citizen - Augusto Aguilera & Alex Gonzalez Cast in Lead Roles in Hulu's Supernatural Drama Pilot
Chasing Life alum Augusto Aguilera and Alex Gonzalez have signed on for lead roles in Citizen, Hulu’s supernatural drama pilot, from Me And Earl And The Dying Girl director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Paramount TV, and Anonymous Content.
Set against the backdrop of a vibrant, ‘supernaturalized’ Los Angeles, Citizen is a hero origin story, blending gritty vigilantism with elements of magical realism.
Aguilera will play Julio, a small town dreamer in over his head in the deep waters of the Los Angeles underworld. Gonzalez is Gabriel, the drama’s stoic hero who must reconcile a crushing guilt from a tragic past.
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Deadline
Legion - Amber Midthunder to Co-Star in FX/Marvel Pilot
Amber Midthunder (Banshee) is set to co-star opposite Dan Stevens and Aubrey Plaza in Legion, FX’s X-Men-universe pilot from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, Marvel TV and FX Prods.
Midthunder will play Kerry, a woman of action with a childlike sense of wonder. A true savant, Kerry has lived a sheltered, but never dull life.
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Deadline
Frequency - Mekhi Phifer to Co-Star
ER grad Mekhi Phifer has been tapped to co-star in the drama pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Phifer will take on the role of Lt. Satch DeLeon, a veteran police officer who was a good friend of Frank's who became a surrogate father to Raimy (not yet cast) after Frank’s death. Andre Braugher played the part in the film, which was written and produced by Toby Emmerich.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Notorious - Aimee Teegarden Cast as a Series Regular
Friday Night Lights alumna Aimee Teegarden is set as a series regular opposite Daniel Sunjata in ABC’s drama pilot Notorious.
The project, from Sony Pictures TV and Jeff Kwatinetz’s The Firm, was inspired by the relationship between famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos and long-time Larry King Live executive producer Wendy Walker. Written by Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman and blogger Allie Hagan (Suri’s Burn Book), Notorious is described as a provocative look at the interplay of criminal law and the media. It follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney (Sunjata) and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately – each other.
Teegarden will play Ella Benjamin, book smart and seemingly confident but covering her vulnerability. She is the daughter of a convicted felon and became a lawyer to prove her father’s innocence.
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Deadline
Dream Team - Wynn Everett Cast as a Series Regular
The Newsroom alumna Wynn Everett has been cast as a series regular in ABC’s Dream Team comedy pilot from Kari Lizer and Bill Wrubel.
It 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. The project draws on personal experiences by Lizer, who — like so many others — is a soccer mom on the weekends.
Everett will play Denise Johnson, a stay-at-home supermom who’s determined to see her youngest daughter, Tiffnee, realize her dream and potential as a great soccer player. Everett, repped by Gersh, Principal Entertainment LA, and Gotham/Principal, is coming off her villainous turn as Madame Masque in ABC’s Agent Carter.
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Deadline
A.P.B - Caitlin Stasey Joins Cast
Reign alum Caitlin Stasey is set to co-star opposite Natalie Martinez in Fox’s drama pilot A.P.B., from writer David Slack and 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.
Stasey will play Ada Hamilton, the striking, fiercely intelligent, cynical, and tough head of the team of tech troubleshooters brought in by the billionaire taking over the police precinct. She has an iconoclastic, edgy personal style.
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Deadline
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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Deadline
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.
Figuring out the look for PRESENCE - you guys like? pic.twitter.com/y2swNU1XBa
— 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.
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