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The Exorcist - Kurt Egyiawan Joins Cast
Kurt Egyiawan (Beasts Of No Nation) has been cast as a series regular 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.
Egyiawan, repped by Gersh and Lou Coulson Associates, will play Father Bennett, a liaison for the Vatican.
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Deadline
Bull - Geneva Carr Cast in CBS Drama Pilot
Geneva Carr (Love & Other Drugs) is set as a series regular in CBS drama pilot Bull, from Amblin TV and CBS TV Studios. Written by Phil McGraw and Paul Attanasio, Bull is based on popular daytime talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw’s early days as head of one of the most prolific trial consulting services of all time. Carr will play Marissa, a psychologist, neurolinguistics expert and licensed sex therapist working on Dr. Bull’s (not yet cast) team.
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Deadline
Lethal Weapon Remake - Jordana Brewster to Co-Star
The remake of the feature film has tapped Jordana Brewster to co-star, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Like the feature, the Fox pilot centers on Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs (uncast), who after suffering the loss of his wife and baby, moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he gets partnered with LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans Sr.), who, having recently suffered a ""minor"" heart attack, must avoid any stress in his life.
Brewester will play Dr. Maureen ""Mo"" Cahill, the LAPD's hostage negotiator and in-house therapist. She helps cops deal with their trauma and occassionally gets stuck with a real hard case like Riggs. The role marks her latest small-screen gig following roles on FX's American Crime Story, ABC's Secrets and Lies and TNT's Dallas. Her film credits include the Fast and the Furious franchise.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Mars Drama - Georgina Haig Cast as the Female Lead
Georgina Haig (Limitless) is set as the female lead opposite Neal Bledsoe in The CW’s Untitled Mars Project pilot, from CBS TV Studios.
Written by Doris Egan (Reign), the thriller follows an explorer team that arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons. Haig plays Gina Nolan, the mission’s botanist, a woman who is intense, motivated and sharp. Nolan’s a true explorer, believing it is the destiny of mankind to investigate the universe- but before she can become a Mars colonist, she must prove herself. Bledsoe plays Lewis, who’s charged with selecting members of the explorer team who will follow him to the Red Planet. Cast also includes Mouzam Makkar, Carl Beukes, Tongayi Chirisa and Peter Mark Kendall.
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Deadline
Designated Survivor - Tanner Buchanan and McKenna Grace Joins Cast
Tanner Buchanan will be a series regular and McKenna Grace will recur on the drama, which was ordered straight to series in December.
Sutherland plays Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member who becomes president after everyone before him in line to the office dies in a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union.
Buchanan will play Leo Kirkman, Tom’s 16-year-old son who is described as rebellious and self-absorbed but steps up to the plate when he needs to comfort his little sister, Penny (Grace).
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TheWrap
Crushed - Bashir Salahuddin Cast in Hulu Comedy Pilot
Bashir Salahuddin has found his next role.
He’s been cast as the male lead in Hulu’s comedy pilot, Crushed. Produced by Lionsgate Television and Homegrown Pictures, Crushed follows siblings Will and Celia (Regina Hall) as they challenge the Napa Valley culture. As the only African American winery in town, they attempt to transform their parents abandoned vineyard into a business.
Salahuddin will play Will, a chemist and Harvard med school drop-out who goes off the grid squatting at his parents’ abandoned Napa property until his sister, Celia, persuades him to use his knowledge to help her build a legit winery. Tina Gordon Chism (Peeples, ATL) penned the script and serves as executive producer with Stephanie Allain (Hustle & Flow, Peeples).
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The Hollywood Reporter
Training Day - Drew Van Acker Joins Cast
Note: Originally posted with the Katrina Law casting, Deadline then expanded the details on his role.
Drew Van Acker (Pretty Little Liars) has been cast opposite Bill Paxton and Katrina Law in CBS’ drama pilot Training Day, a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua’s acclaimed 2001 feature.
Set 15 years after the film left off, the TV show, written by Will Beall and directed by Danny Cannon, centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle Craig, is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with seasoned, morally ambiguous detective Frank Rourke (Paxton).
Van Acker will play Tommy Campbell, an officer with the LAPD’s Special Investigation Section (S.I.S.), a unit that goes after the worst of the worst, Tommy Campbell is a former pro surfer who’s usually seen in board shorts; he may still look like a surfer, but he’s traded in riding the waves for the dangerous highs that come from swimming with a different type of shark.
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deadline
Kevin Williamson’s Paranormal CW Pilot - Megan West Cast as the Female Lead
Thanks to Spindae2 for the heads up.
How to Get Away With Murder alumna Megan West has landed the female lead opposite Bailey Chase in the CW’s untitled Kevin Williamson paranormal pilot.
Written by Williamson and directed by David Nutter, the project centers on Sarah Roberts (West), a young woman who seeks help from a parapsychologist (Chase) and his team when she begins to experience paranormal phenomena. Jessica Szohr co-stars.
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Deadline
The Infamous - Jason O’Mara Joins A&E Pilot
Complications star Jason O’Mara is set as the co-lead opposite Bokeem Woodbine in A&E’s hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous. Written by Joshua Zetumer and directed by Anthony Hemingway, the project revolves around two complicated men on a collision course: an ambitious reformed gangster poised to break out of South Central (Woodbine) and the LAPD detective (O’Mara) hell-bent on taking him down. It will be set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the LA Riots.
O’Mara’s Bill Slidell is a hard-charging LAPD officer who is notorious for attracting trouble. A good cop who believes himself to be morally upright, Bill also has some questionable views on race and mountains of family baggage to contend with. Emily Rios co-stars.
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Deadline
Chunk & Bean - Cyrus Arnold Cast in the Lead Role
“Zoolander 2” star Cyrus Arnold has landed the lead role in ABC comedy pilot “Chunk & Bean,” TheWrap has learned.
“Chunk & Bean,” from writers and executive producers Ed Herro and Brian Donovan, is about two friends who benefit from having two very different sets of parents living next door to each other.
Arnold’s character, Brian Dawson, a.k.a. Chunk, is a hefty, teenage curmudgeon with 10 percent of his ample girth devoted to the giant chip on his shoulder. His favorite things in the world are sarcasm, cheesecake and angering his mother.
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The Wrap
Chunk & Bean - Simon Belz & Sophia Gonzalez Cast in ABC Comedy Pilot
ABC has found its Bean. Simon Belz has been tapped to co-star as title character Bean (aka Ed Rogerson) in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Chunk & Bean. In addition, Sophia Gonzalez (Barely Famous) has joined as a series regular.
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.
Belz’s Bean is as small as Chunk (Cyrus Arnold) is wide. When Bean and his dad, Jim (Adam Rodriguez), move in next door, Chunk’s bad attitude runs smack into Bean’s optimism. They start as friends, quickly become enemies, and circle back to friends again — just like real teenage boys. Gonzalez will play Sarah Diamond, the pretty, snarky high school guidance counselor who is Chunk and Bean’s best hope at turning their teenage weirdo streak around. She loves her job, but she also hates it, and has to work at Chilis on the weekend to pay rent.
In addition to Rodriguez and Arnold, Belz and Gonzalez join previously cast Andy Daly and Anna Gunn.
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Deadline
Untitled Stephnie Weir & Greg Garcia CBS Comedy Pilot - Lenora Critchlow to Star
Lenora Crichlow has been cast in CBS’s comedy pilot from Stephnie Weir and Greg Garcia, Variety has learned exclusively. She will star opposite Nick Zano. The British actress is best known for starring on BBC’s “Being Human.” She showed off her comedy chops two pilot seasons ago with NBC’s short-lived comedy “A to Z” on which she was a series regular, appearing in all 13 episodes.
The untitled mutli-cam CBS comedy is about a conservative small town family that is forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
Crichlow will play Anna, a whip-smart young woman who served in Afghanistan with Billy (Zano), the golden boy of his family who gets her pregnant.
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Variety
The Mick - Kaitlin Olson to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
Fox is staging an It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia reunion. The network has tapped Sunny star Kaitlin Olson to star in (and co-exec produce) family comedy pilot The Mick, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
From Sunny duo John Chernin and Dave Chernin, the single-camera comedy revolves around a hard-living, foul-mouthed woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, Conn., to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who has fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what everyone else already knows: other people's children are awful.
Olson will star as Mackenzie ""Mickey"" Murphy (aka The Mick), a hapless mess, a wry-humored, hard-drinking, cigarette smoking, living large kind of gal, always ""between"" jobs, and always broke. A scrappy survivor, who's run out of options, she decides to pay her rich sister a visit, hoping for a little handout. What she gets, instead, is a full-time baby-sitting gig, when her sister and husband are forced to flee the country in a hurry.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Training Day - Katrina Law & Drew van Acker Joins Cast
Katrina Law (Arrow) has been cast opposite Bill Paxton in CBS’ drama pilot Training Day, a present-day reimagining of Antoine Fuqua’s acclaimed 2001 feature.
Set 15 years after the film left off, the TV show, written by Will Beall, centers on an idealistic young African-American police officer, Kyle Craig, is appointed to an elite squad of the LAPD where he is partnered with seasoned, morally ambiguous detective Frank Rourke (Paxton).
Law will play Detective Rebecca Lee, an LAPD officer with the LAPD’s Special Investigation Section (S.I.S.). She was rescued from human traffickers by Frank (Paxton) when she was 4 years old and looks up to him as the father she never had.
Cast also includes Drew van Acker as LAPD officer Tommy Campbell.
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Deadline
Prototype - Jack Davenport to Star in Syfy's Quantum Physics Pilot
Smash alum Jack Davenport is set to topline Prototype, Syfy’s sci-fi thriller drama pilot written by Tony Basgallop (24: Live Another Day). It centers on three unlikely cohorts who inadvertently stumble upon an invention that challenges the very nature of quantum physics – a discovery which in turn puts their lives in grave danger.
Davenport will play the now aging playboy and former Silicon Valley wunderkind, Edward “Eddy” Conway, who has retreated from the tech world to return to UCLA as a physics professor. Eddy’s lack of self-control, be it coeds or sports cars, has made him familiar with some unsavory characters, but his latest project might prove to be his most dangerous endeavor to date.
Oscar nominee Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (Esposados) will direct the pilot and executive produce with Basgallo and Escape Artists Productions (Southpaw). Taylor Latham (Freeheld) will be co-executive producer.
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Deadline
The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez - Christina Pickles Joins Cast
Friends alumna Christina Pickles has joined the cast of 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.
Pickles will play Astrid, Blair’s mother, a “90 pound ballbuster in a Chanel suit” whose family has ruled the Miami roost for decades. She is repped by Domain.
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Deadline
Drew - Rob McClure Joins Cast
Rob McClure (Noises Off) has joined the cast of Drew, CBS’ drama pilot based on the Nancy Drew character from the classic mystery book series. Written by Joan Rater and Tony Phelan and directed by James Strong, Drew is described as a contemporary take on the character from the books, with Nancy (Sarah Shahi), now in her 30s, working as a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.
McClure will play Dan Bennett, a photographer and family man who Nancy investigated for murder.
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Deadline
Mars Drama - Neal Bledsoe Cast in the Lead Role in CW Pilot
Neal Bledsoe (The Mysteries Of Laura) has been tapped for a lead role in The CW’s Untitled Mars Project pilot, from CBS TV Studios.
Written by Doris Egan (Reign), the thriller follows an explorer team that arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons. Bledsoe plays Lewis, handsome, charming, brilliant and resolute, the clear first choice for the first colonizing expedition to Mars. Lewis is in charge of selecting the best to follow him to the Red Planet and winds up falling in love with one of them in the process. He joins previously cast Mouzam Makkar, Carl Beukes, Tongayi Chirisa, and Peter Mark Kendall.
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Deadline
Time - Paterson Joseph & Malcolm Barrett Join Cast
British actor Paterson Joseph (HBO’s The Leftovers) and Malcolm Barrett (ABC’s Better Off Ted) have been cast in Time, NBC’s action adventure drama pilot from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke and The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.
Joseph will play entrepreneurial legend and dedicated eccentric Mason Lark, who runs Lark Industries. He’s developed a time machine in secrecy, previously hidden from the government until now. Knowing the implications of leaving a time machine in the wrong hands, Lark helps guide the recovery team. Barrett plays Rufus, a brilliant engineer.
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Deadline
The Interestings - Sasha Frolova Joins Cast
Amazon’s “The Interestings” pilot, which is the TV adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s novel, has cast newcomer Sasha Frolova as a series regular, Variety has learned exclusively.
“The Interestings” is about friends who meet at an arts camp in 1974 when they’re in their teens, and follows the group over the 30 years following their camp experience.
Frolova will play the young version of Collins’ character, Cathy Kiplinger.
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Variety
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport - Ali Wong Joins Cast
Comedian-actress Ali Wong is set as a series regular opposite Katy Mixon in ABC’s single-camera comedy 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.
Wong will play Doris, a responsible and hands-on mother who cares about things like throwing large Easter Egg hunts and sending out the right Christmas cards. She doesn’t fit in with the Westport Mombots, but they consistently abuse her good nature when they need help of any kind. Wong has a one-hour stand-up comedy special coming up on Netflix and most recently was a staff writer on Fresh Off The Boat.
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Deadline
The Exorcist - Ben Daniels & Alfonso Herrera Join Cast
Fox’s modern reinvention of The Exorcist has cast Ben Daniels (Flesh and Bone, House of Cards) and Alfonso Herrera (Sense8) in series-regular roles.
Daniels will play Father Marcus, described by the network as “the intense holy warrior carrying out an occupation that the church no longer acknowledges in public.”
Herrera, meanwhile, has been cast as Father Tomas, “the warm, selfless and compassionate leader of a small but hearty little church.”
The potential series is being described as an hour-long “modern reinvention” of William Blatty’s 1971 book (which spawned the classic 1973 horror film of the same name). Adapted by up-and-coming screenwriter Jeremy Slater, the project is being 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.""
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TVLine
Four Stars - Ashley Zuckerman to Co-Star
CBS has found the second of its Four Stars. Manhattan graduate Ashley Zuckerman has been tapped to co-star in the military drama pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The drama revolves around two powerful rival families in the military community of Tampa, Fla., who make decisions at the highest levels in the interest of national security.
Zuckerman will portray Danny, the son of four-star special ops legend Gen. Buckley (uncast), who has all of his father's swagger and rough edges — but none of the internal censor.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Zoobiquity - Peter Facinelli and Kim Raver to Star
Peter Facinelli and Kim Raver have joined Zoobiquity, Fox’s unconventional medical procedural pilot, TVLine has learned.
The potential series, based on the book of the same name, follows Dr. Kara Martins (played by Marsha Thomason), a successful cardiologist at a Boston hospital who decides to partner with a socially challenged veterinarian to pioneer cross-species medicine.
Facinelli will play the vet, Dr. Lucas Court, whose bond with his animal patients verges on the uncanny. Raver, meanwhile, will portray Dr. Julia Fowler, the chief of medicine at Chicago Hospital.
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TVLine
Notorious - Piper Perabo to Co-Star
Ex-Covert Affairs agent Piper Perabo is spying a return to TV as the co-lead opposite Daniel Sunjata in the ABC drama pilot Notorious, TVLine has learned.
Written by Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman and blogger Allie Hagan (“Suri’s Burn Book”), the project is inspired by the true-life stories of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos (Sunjata) and cable news producer Wendy Walker, promising a provocative look at “the unique, sexy, and dangerous interplay of criminal law and the media.”
Perabo will play Julia (i.e. the Wendy role), a driven producer of the No. 1 TV news program in the country. She’s squeaky clean on paper, but fights in the mud when necessary. She not only controls the nation’s headlines, she owns them.
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TVLine
The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez - Christian Ochoa Cast as a Series Regular
Christian Ochoa 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.
Ochoa will play Nicolas Valdez, Eva Sofia’s youngest son, he’s a handsome, Latino lawyer, an “effortless prince” who is his mother’s undeniable favorite.
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Deadline
Reese Witherspoon's ABC Divorce Drama Pilot - Penelope Ann Miller to Co-Star
Penelope Ann Miller is extending her time at ABC. The actress, currently on anthology American Crime and who has had a recurring role on summer series Mistresses, has been tapped to co-star in the network's Reese Witherspoon-produced drama pilot.
Miller will play Elizabeth, the wife of a Texas oil billionaire who is seeking revenge after having been left for a woman 20 years younger than her.
From writer Meaghan Oppenheimer, the drama centers on a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney (uncast) whose life begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing long-hidden family secrets.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Superior Donuts - Brian d’Arcy James Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Brian d’Arcy James (Spotlight, NBC’s Smash) has been cast as the co-lead opposite Jermaine Fowler in Superior Donuts, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot written/executive produced by The Odd Couple showrunner Bob Daily and Community alums Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan.
Based on the play by Tracy Letts, Superior Donuts follows the relationship between the owner of a donut shop, Arthur (James), his new young employee, Franco (Fowler), and their patrons in a gentrifying neighborhood of Chicago. As Arthur’s new (and only) employee, Franco’s going to make it his mission to drag the shop — and Arthur, a typically gruff, to-the-point Chicagoan and the patriarch to his loyal customers — into the 21stcentury…
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Deadline
Model Woman - Madeline Blake Joins Cast
Newcomer Madeline Blake has booked a key role on the ABC soap.
ABC's 1970s-set Model Woman, a fictionalized family soap inspired by Robert Lacey's book, Model Woman: Eileen Ford and the Business of Beauty, model-actress Blake will play Gemma, a model from a small town who becomes the new ""it girl."" The newcomer is repped by APA and 23 Management Group. Helen Childress will pen the script for the drama.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Frequency Reboot - Anthony Ruivivar Joins CW Pilot
Joining Frequency is Banshee's Anthony Ruivivar.
In Frequency, based on the New Line feature and from Supernatural's Jeremy Carver, Ruivivar will portray Detective Stan Hope, a plainclothes detective who served as Frank's (Peyton List) handler with the NYPD and who managed his day to day undercover operation. Ruivivar's credits also include American Horror Story and Southland).
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The Hollywood Reporter
The Infamous - Jahmil French Joins A&E Drama Pilot
Jahmil French (The Divide) is set as a series regular on A&E’s hip-hop crime drama pilot The Infamous. It revolves around two complicated men on a collision course: an ambitious reformed gangster poised to break out of South LA and the LAPD detective hell-bent on taking him down. It will be set against real events in turbulent 1990s Los Angeles leading up to the LA Riots.
French will play a 17-year-old rapper from South Central LA torn between a life in music and a life in a gang. French is best known for his recurring role on WEtv’s The Divide as the son to Damon Gupta and Nia Long.
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Deadline
Sebastian - Steve Talley Cast in NBC Comedy Pilot
Steve Talley (Hindsight) is set as a series regular opposite Sebastian Maniscalco and Tony Danza in NBC’s multi-camera pilot Sebastian, produced by Greg Garcia. The project, from CBS TV Studios and Garcia’s Amigos De Garcia Productions, was inspired by Maniscalco’s life. Written by Austen Earl and to be directed by Scott Ellis, it chronicles Sebastian’s (Maniscalco) old-school values, instilled by his opinionated Italian father (Danza), which are constantly put to the test by his new wife, her family, and the absurdities of the modern world.
Talley will play Trevor, Chloe’s (not yet cast) husband, an attractive, charming and cocky frat guy who comes from a similar background as Sebastian…the difference is while Sebastian would never take handouts from Lana’s family, Trevor takes every single one.
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Deadline
Untitled Ed Weeks & Brit Mackay ABC Comedy Pilot - Andy Ridings Cast as the Male Lead
Andy Ridings (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) is set as the male lead in ABC’s untitled Weeks/Mackay comedy pilot.
Written by The Mindy Project co-star Ed Weeks & Brit Mackay (Peep Show) and directed by Leslye Headland, the single-camera project centers on Hilda, an unapologetic lesbian, and her best friend Randall (Ridlings), a neurotic straight male, as they navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.
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Deadline
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport - Carly Hughes Joins Cast
Newcomer Carly Hughes is set as a series regular opposite Katy Mixon in 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.
Hughes will play Angela, a hip, brutally honest woman who is going through a messy divorce. This marks Hughes’ network debut. She was recently seen as Georgia Brown in Cabin in the Sky at New York City Center and in the Broadway productions of Chicago and Pippin. She is repped by Cyd LeVin & Associates.
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Deadline
A.P.B. - Taylor Handley Joins Cast
Vegas alum Taylor Handley is set as a series regular opposite Natalie Martinez and Caitlin Stasey 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.
Handley will play Officer Roderick Brandt, a Marine combat veteran turned cop who sometimes has difficulty making the distinction between the urban streets and the battlefield. Handley has previously appeared on series including Scorpion, Southland and The O.C.
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Deadline
When The Street Lights Go Out - Max Burkholder Cast as the Lead in Hulu's Drama Pilot
EXCLUSIVE– Max Burkholder has been set as the lead in the Hulu pilot, When The Street Lights Go Out. The project is adapted from the Black List feature script by writers Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe. Production is scheduled to commence in mid-April in Atlanta.
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.
As revealed exclusively by Deadline, Odessa Young is also on-board as 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
Legion - Katie Aselton Cast in Marvel/FX Pilot
Katie Aselton has been cast opposite Dan Stevens, Aubrey Plaza and Jean Smart in Legion, FX’s X-Men-universe pilot from Fargo creator Noah Hawley, Marvel TV and FX Prods.
Legion introduces the story of David Haller (Stevens), based on the Marvel comics character Legion, the son of X-Men founder Charles Xavier. Since he was a teenager, David has struggled with mental illness. A haunted man, David is getting tired of finding his way back to sanity and is about to give up when he meets the girl of his dreams, a fellow patient, and is confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real. Aselton will play Amy.
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Deadline
Cruel Intentions - Kate Levering Cast as Annette
Another main character from the cult 1999 movie Cruel Intentions is returning for the NBC reboot. Drop Dead Diva alumna Kate Levering has been cast in the pilot as Annette Hargrove, the role played by Reese Witherspoon in the film. Levering joins Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is reprising her role as Kathryn Merteuil from the movie, in which she starred alongside Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe.
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 (Gellar) as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey (Taylor John Smith), the son of her brother, the late Sebastian Valmont (played in the movie by Ryan Phillippe), and Annette. 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. Kathryn is privately shaken by the arrival of Bash and the re-appearance in her life of Annette, the girl she wronged years ago.
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Deadline
Mars Drama - Peter Mark Kendall Joins Cast
Peter Mark Kendall (The Americans) has booked a series regular role on The CW’s Untitled Mars Project pilot, from CBS TV Studios. Written by Doris Egan (Reign), the thriller follows an explorer team that arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation and survival, while navigating the hostile planet and their own personal demons.
Kendall will play Mason, a member of the explorer team. Kendall recurs on FX’s The Americans and NBC’s Chicago Med and previously recurred on MTV’s Eye Candy and HBO’s Girls.
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Deadline
The Enforcers - Matt Oberg Joins Cast
Matt Oberg (The Comedians) is set as a series regular 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 — M.J. (Niecy Nash) and Nora (Christine Woods) — 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.
Oberg will play Sweet Pete; a bit of an emotional roller coaster, he’s the PR guy in the office whose job is to inform the public in a “cheerful” way that things like a drought could be the end of mankind. He’s also the right-hand man to George (Ian Gomez), a job he takes quite seriously. Oberg is coming off a season on FX’s The Comedians. He’s also set as a recurring on The Real O’Neals and Veep.
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Deadline
What Goes Around Comes Around - Jason Lee Cast as the Male Lead
My Name Is Earl alum Jason Lee is set as the male lead in What Goes Around Comes Around, CBS’s single-camera comedy pilot from Dan Kopelman and Aaron Kaplan.
Written by Kopelman and directed by Tim Story, the project centers on two fortysomething parents — Kenny (Lee), a husband, father and owner of a hip music management company; and Robin — who were wild and reckless teenagers now face their worst nightmare—raising three teenagers of their own.
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Deadline
Charity Case - Kyle Bornheimer Joins FOX's Comedy Pilot
Kyle Bornheimer has booked his follow-up to CBS' Angel From Hell. The actor has been tapped to play the stepson of Friends alum Courteney Cox in Fox's comedy pilot Charity Case, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera comedy revolves around Hailey (Cox), who after she inherits her late billionaire husband's charity, quickly finds that changing the world is far less glamorous than she had imagined.
Bornheimer is set as Adam, Hailey's stepson who is now chairman of the board of the Waller Foundation since his father's passing. Described as self-important, Adam has nothing but disdain for Hailey, whom he refers to as ""Philanthropist Barbie.""
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The Hollywood Reporter
Hail Mary - Casey Wilson to Star
Casey Wilson is heading back to ABC. She'll play the small-town mayor in the comedy from Brian Gallivan and Sony Pictures TV.
The comedy centers on a young small-town mayor named Mary Wolf who has dysfunctional siblings, a dying father, disgruntled citizens, a nearly bankrupt town and the mafia breathing down her neck. Only a miracle can help her — so she fakes one. Based on the Austrian Broadcasting Corp. series Braunschlag, created by David Schalko.
Wilson will star as Mary, who is additionally described as less of a rule-follower and more of a rule breaker, she's got the charisma of a young Bill Clinton.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Time - Matt Lanter Cast as the Male Lead
Matt Lanter has been cast as the male lead in Time, NBC’s action adventure drama pilot from Supernatural creator Eric Kripke and The Shield creator Shawn Ryan.
The project, from Sony Pictures TV and studio-based Davis Entertainment, is described as “Back To The Future meets Mission: Impossible.” It is a high-octane drama following an unlikely trio who travel through time to battle a master criminal intent on altering the fabric of human history with potentially catastrophic results.
Lanter and Abigail Spencer, who was cast as the female lead, with play two of the time-travelers at the center of the show.
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Deadline
Bunker Hill - Ward Horton Joins Cast
Ward Horton (Annabelle) has joined the cast of Bunker Hill, CBS’ medical drama pilot written by Jason Katims and directed by David Semel. The project follows James Bell (Augustus Prew), a young Silicon Valley tech titan who enlists Walter Wallace (Dermot Mulroney), a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, “new school” approach to medicine. Wallace is described as a brilliant surgeon committed to saving lives who might care a little too much about his patients.
Horton will play Dr. Scott Strauss, an intense neurologist with an Ivy league pedigree and the son of a world class physician.
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Deadline
The Trail - Krysta Rodriguez Joins Cast
Krysta Rodriguez (Smash, Chasing Life) has been cast opposite John Lithgow 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 (Nick 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 Larry Henderson (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.
Rodriguez will play Summer Henderson, Larry’s (Lithgow) free-spirited adopted daughter, who comes back to town to help her father.
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Deadline
The Kicker - Joanna Garcia Swisher Cast in CBS' Comedy Pilot
Joanna Garcia Swisher is set to co-star opposite Geoff Stults and David Spade in The Kicker, CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from the 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt trio of Tina Fey, Jack Burditt and Robert Carlock.
Written by Burditt, The Kicker centers on Daryl Thorkelsonan (Stults), an oddball athlete who drives family, friends and strangers insane after he unexpectedly finds himself cut from his professional football team.
Swisher will play Bambi, Daryl’s (Stults) intelligent and patient wife and a physical therapist to pro athletes. Spade plays Russ Thorkelson, Daryl’s (Stults) brother and sports agent.
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Deadline
Untitled Dan O'Shannon Comedy - Brooke Elliott to Co-Star
Drop Dead Diva star Brooke Elliott is returning to the small screen. The actress has been tapped to co-star in CBS' adaptation of family comedy Upper Middle Bogen, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Starring Katey Sagal, the comedy is an extended family show inspired by the Australian format about a wife and mother who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag-racers.
Elliott will portray Amber, one of the three (legitimate) children of Wayne (John Carroll Lynch) and Julie (Sagal). She's the tough-minded, responsible, business-like, level-headed one in the family — and she lets everyone know it.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Drew - Steve Kazee Cast as the Male Lead
Steve Kazee has been cast as the male lead opposite Sarah Shahi in Drew, CBS’ drama pilot based on the Nancy Drew character from the classic mystery book series.
Kazee will play Ned, an investigative reporter for the New York Times and Nancy’s former boyfriend.
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Deadline
The Mick - Sofia Black D’Elia Cast in FOX Comedy Pilot
Sofia Black D’Elia (Project Almanac) has joined the cast of Fox comedy pilot The Mick (working title), from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia co-executive producers John Chernin and Dave Chernin. Written by the Chernins, the project has a fish-out-of-water theme. It centers on a hard-living, foul mouthed woman who moves to affluent Greenwich, CT to raise the spoiled kids of her wealthy sister who has fled the country to avoid a federal indictment. She quickly learns what the rest of us already know — other people’s children are awful.
D’Elia will play Sabrina, the oldest of the three kids that Mickey has to care for.
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Deadline
The Exorcist - Hannah Kasulka Joins Cast
Hannah Kasulka has been cast opposite Brianne Howey 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. Rupert Wyatt is set to direct.
Howey will play Casey Rance, the wall-flower of the family. Casey is worried about her sister Charlotte (Howley), who has been holed up in her room ever since her serious accident. Kasulka recently wrapped a role opposite Charlie Day and Ice Cube in New Line’s Fist Fight and recurred in The Fosters.
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Deadline
Pitch - Dan Lauria to Co-Star
Veteran Dan Lauria is set to co-star 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. Lauria will play Al Sciutto, the baseball team’s grizzled but steady manager.
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Deadline
Conviction - Merrin Dungey Joins Cast
“Alias” alum Merrin Dungey has joined the cast of ABC drama pilot “Conviction,” Variety has learned.
The pilot centers around a young attorney (Hayley Atwell), 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.
Dungey will play Maxine, the lead investigator for the Conviction Integrity Unit. Maxine is a former NYPD detective from a cop family who is described as being tough and no-nonsense. She’ll find her previously unfailing loyalty to the badge tested as she delves into her former colleagues’ cases.
Dungey will next be seen in HBO’s limited series “Big Little Lies,” starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, and has recently appeared on ABC drama “Once Upon a Time” and Fox comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” She’s the sister of newly-promoted ABC entertainment president Channing Dungey, who replaced outgoing ABC topper Paul Lee earlier this month.
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Variety
Drew - Sarah Shahi Cast as the Lead
CBS has found their Nancy Drew in Sarah Shahi, who will play the titular role in “Drew,” the network’s modernized spin on the classic detective character, Variety has learned.
Since ordering the pilot, CBS has been very vocal about wanting to cast a diverse actress in the lead role, with network president Glenn Geller saying the star would not be Caucasian and the search would be open to all other ethnicities. Born in Texas, Shahi is from Iranian, Persian and Spanish ancestry.
Titled “Drew,” the potential series is described as a contemporary take on the character from the iconic Nancy Drew book series. The pilot will center around a 30-something who is a more mature version of Nancy than the one in the popular novels. Nancy is now detective for the NYPD, where she investigates and solves crimes using her uncanny observational skills, all while navigating the complexities of life in a modern world.
Shahi is a familiar face to the network, as she has starred in the network’s crime drama “Person of Interest” since its second season. Though that series’ cancellation has not officially been announced, exec producer J.J. Abrams has hinted that the fifth season would be the last, and with Shahi’s casting in a hot pilot at CBS, it seems likely “Person of Interest’s” fate is sealed.
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Variety
Square Roots - Adhir Kalyan, Noureen DeWulf, Bernard White & Nina Wadia Join ABC Comedy Pilot
Adhir Kalyan, Noureen DeWulf, Bernard White and Nina Wadia are set as series regulars on ABC single camera comedy pilot Square Roots, written and exec produced by Vijal Patel. Square Roots is about a man from a family of logic-driven engineers who is determined to use his “gift” to help the people he loves with their everyday issues. . .whether they like it or not.
Kalyan will play Daneesh “Dan” Desai, an engineer by trade, by disposition, and by genetic inheritance, Dan is a high IQ guy who is always thinking (and always venting), and he believes that everything is capable of being improved and adjusted with a little bit of engineering. He’s happily married to Ruth.
DeWulf is Leena Desai, Dan’s wry and just a bit misanthropic sister, Leena has followed the family trade, and is an environmental engineer (who despises the nuclear power industry). But she has also stayed single, a shocking decision that has outraged the other members of her family.
White plays Mukesh, a patriarchal uber-nerd and electrical engineer who believes adamantly in the old-fashioned virtues of hard work, self-determination and self-reliance.
Wadia is Seema Desai, the mother of Dan and Leena, and grandmother of Owen and Paige (not yet cast), is in some ways a traditional Indian woman: she loves polyester, dotes on her family, and wants her daughter to start punching out grandchildren. But Seema is also a chemical engineer with a high IQ, and she’s proud of her achievements outside the family.
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Deadline
Untitled Chris Case FOX Comedy Pilot - Becki Newton Cast as the Female Lead
Ugly Betty MVP Becki Newton has landed the female lead in Fox’s Untitled Chris Case sitcom pilot, TVLine has learned.
The potential series, penned by former Reba and Legit scribe Case, is being billed as an interracial comedy that follows Jay “Havoc” Hammond, an African American, ex-NFL lineman who recently moved in with his Caucasian bride and her two oddball sons, as he struggles to win the most challenging game of his life: fatherhood.
Newton will play Havoc’s strong and soulful wife Christy, a psychologist who works with athletes to help them overcome anything from an addiction to drugs to an addiction to food.
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TVLine
Notorious - Kate Jennings Grant & J. August Richards Join Cast
Kate Jennings Grant (Love & Other Drugs) and Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce’s J. August Richards have been cast opposite Daniel Sunjata and Aimee Teegarden 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. 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.
Grant will play Louise, the host of a news program at the center of the series. Richards, is Bradley, Jake’s (Sunjata) brother who once had the potential to be the shining star of the law office but is now overshadowed by Jake.
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