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Midnight, Texas - François Arnaud Cast as the Lead
François Arnaud, who recurs on NBC’s breakout freshman drama Blindspot, has been cast as the lead in the network’s drama 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.
Written by Monica Owusu-Breen and directed by Niels Arden Oplev, Midnight, Texas is described as “Twin Peaks meets True Blood” in Midnight, Texas, a remote town where your neighbor could be a vampire, a witch, a werewolf, or even an angel. The show centers on traveling psychic Manfred Bernardo (Arnaud) who, having grown tired of life on the road, takes the advice of his dead grandmother and decides to settle in the small Texas down of Midnight. Perfectly content with going about his business letting others think he’s a hack, Manfred soon realizes that he has much more in common with the locals than he originally thought. It would seem that he’s found more evil than he left, so he’ll have to bond with his supernatural neighbors to figure out what’s going on.
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Deadline
The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez - Eric Close Cast as the Male Lead
Nashville alum Eric Close is set as the male lead opposite Gina Torres in ABC’s drama pilot The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez.
Written by Cuban-American playwright Charise Castro Smith, The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez is described as a sexy revenge drama with a supernatural twist. It centers on Eva Sofia Valdez (Torres), a Cuban immigrABC Logoant 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 Blair Monroe (Close) who betrayed her, and ghosts from the past who threaten to reveal the dark sacrifices Eva Sofia made to attain the American Dream.
Close’s Blair Monroe is a handsome and wealthy Miami aristocrat whose family has ruled the city for decades. Once deeply in love with Eva Sofia, he abandoned her, leaving her pregnant and destitute. Now a candidate for mayor, he meets Eva Sofia by chance at a public function — and pretends he has no recollection of her. However, he vividly recalls their affair — and in truth, there’s still a powerful attraction between them, even almost 30 years later. But his insulting and cowardly reaction to their chance meeting enrages Eva Sofia, whose thirst for vengeance may have tragic consequences for all involved.
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Deadline
Real Good People - Ross Kimball Joins Cast
Ross Kimball has been cast opposite Nick Zano and Lenore Crichlow in Real Good People (formerly known as the Untitled Garcia/Weir Project, Y’all In The Family). CBS’ multi-camera comedy project, written/executive produced by writer-actress Stephnie Weir and executive produced by Greg Garcia, centers on a conservative small-town family forced to reconcile their values when they discover their children’s lives are less than perfect.
Kimball will play Beau, the eldest son, a good ol’ boy who adores his momma (TBD) and worships his father (TBD), but didn’t inherit their strong moral compass.
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Deadline
Notorious - Ryan Guzman Joins Cast
Ryan Guzman (Heroes Reborn) is set as a series regular opposite Piper Perabo and 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 longtime Larry King Live executive producer Wendy Walker. Written by Drop Dead Diva creator Josh Berman and blogger Allie Hagan, Notorious is described as a provocative look at the interplay of criminal law and the media. It follows the professional and personal relationship between charismatic attorney Jake Gregorian (Sunjata) and powerhouse TV producer Julia George (Perabo) as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately each other.
Guzman will play Ryan Mills, Julia’s eager-to-please intern, son of the network president. Despite his youth and innocent facade, he’s ambitious and conniving, desperate to prove himself to his overbearing father.
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Deadline
I'm Not Your Friend (Matt LeBlanc CBS Comedy Pilot) - Matt Cook & Grace Kaufman Join Cast
Matt Cook (Clipped, The Comeback) and Grace Kaufman (Bubble Guppies, Clarence) have joined the cast of CBS comedy pilot the Untitled LeBlanc Filgos Project, written by Jeff and Jackie Filgo. The project stars Matt LeBlanc as a contractor who learns that raising his kids is more challenging than expected when his wife goes back to work.
Cook will play Lowell, a sweet, offbeat intellectual dad at Adam’s (LeBlanc) school who is drawn to his “alpha male” vibe.
Kaufman will play Kate, Adam and Andi’s (not yet cast) oldest child, a bright but hormonal teenage girl who initially is delighted when Adam takes over as the main caregiver of their family. She quickly learns that if she thinks Adam is going to be the pushover she expected, she has another think coming.
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Deadline
The Jury - Brian Howe & Jayne Taini Join Cast as a Series Regular
UPDATED: Brian Howe (Masters of Sex) and Jayne Taini (Ray Donovan) have booked series regular roles opposite Jeremy Sisto and Archie Panjabi in ABC’s murder trial drama pilot The Jury. 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. Described as “12 Angry Men meets the podcast Serial,” the series follows a single murder trial a season as seen through the eyes of the individual jurors, exploring the biases and experiences that influence the jurors’ judgment, and how their preconceptions change along the way.
Howe will play Reverend Jim Pyken, who is obviously a religious man, the kind to say grace before eating his morning bagel, or to reference scripture in his arguments. But he’s also an avuncular Texan who can crack a joke to ease the tension in a room, or use charming Southernisms while making a complex point.
Taini will play Maria, a maternal grandmother, who seems a bit dotty and irrelevant, but when people start listening to her, they notice she’s a lot sharper than they assumed and makes some more enlightening revelations in the case.
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Deadline
Pearl - Richard Masur Cast as a Series Regular
Richard Masur is set as a series regular opposite Candice Bergen in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Pearl. Written/executive produced by Andrew Reich and directed by Smith, Pearl centers on Pearl (Bergen), a larger-than-life family matriarch who, after she finds out she has cancer, becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family’s life before she dies. Perkins will play Virginia, Pearl’s daughter who has the not-so-easy task of trying to get along with her mother, given the news about her health.
Masur will play Len, Pearl’s second and current husband, a retired plastics engineer, a sweet nerd who is interested in everything and everyone he meets. He clearly adores Pearl and is in total denial that she’s got six months to live.
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Deadline
Miranda's Rights - Monique Coleman and Noel Fisher Cast as Series Regulars
Monique Coleman and Noel Fisher have booked series regular roles opposite Rebecca Breeds in NBC pilot Miranda’s Rights.
Written/co-executive produced by Katie Lovejoy and executive produced by John Glenn, Miranda’s Rights is a one-hour legal soap about an idealistic group of lawyers who not only work together but live together at their start-up firm.
Coleman will play Emily Ellison, one of the founding partners and attorney at YLG (Young Law Group), described as friendly, warm and even-keeled, the resident peace keeper.
Fisher is Jacob Mizrahi, another partner with YLG. Described as no-nonsense, curt, and the eternal straight-man, he does what he has to in order to rein in his rage (even if that means sitting on zafu pillows and striking meditation bowls). In addition to Breeds, they join previously cast Jamie Chung and John Gabriel.
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Deadline
Reese Witherspoon's Divorce ABC Drama Pilot - Charity Wakefield & Thad Luckinbill Join Cast
The Player alumna Charity Wakefield and Thad Luckinbill (The Young and the Restless) have booked series regular roles in ABC’s untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer drama pilot, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Written by Oppenheimer, the project follows the personal and professional life of Gemma, a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas, which begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces, triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing long-hidden family secrets.
Wakefield will play Jules, Gemma’s younger sister. Described as manic, emotionally unstable, and lacking any trace of a filter, Jules is the epitome of loneliness gone wrong. Whereas her older sister Gemma has built up walls of icy protection around her, Jules is desperate for any bit of love she can get.
Luckinbill is Oliver, Gemma’s trophy fiance, the preppy trust fund kid with classic good looks. He would be detestable if he weren’t such a nice guy.
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Deadline
The Enforcers - Ryan Hansen to Co-Star in FOX's Comedy Pilot
Veronica Mars alum Ryan Hansen has booked a co-starring turn on the pilot starring Christine Woods and Niecy Nash, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera buddy comedy focuses on two wildly different single mothers (Woods, Nash) with dreams of being police officers who find themselves partnered as inspectors in the Code Enforcement Department. Instead of fighting crime, they have been relegated to handling petty code breaking like noise complaints, tree trimming and water misues.
Hansen will play the series regular role of Sean, a sexy, charming senior ""code cop"" in the office who doesn't take the job too seriously.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Untitled Dan O'Shannon Comedy (Now Titled 'Furst Born') - Kelli Goss Joins Cast
Kelli Goss (The Young and the Restless) is set as a series regular opposite Katey Sagal and John Carroll Lynch in CBS comedy pilot Furst Born (aka untitled Butler/Hope/O’Shannon). Written by Dan O’Shannon, Robyn Butler and Dan Hope, the extended-family show is about a wife and mother who learns she was adopted and that her birth parents are a flamboyant but loving family of drag racers.
Goss will play Brianna, the youngest of the three legitimate children of Wayne and Julie, who can add glitz and glitter to a public event just by showing up.
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Deadline
Hail Mary - Sarah Baker Joins Cast
Go On alumna Sarah Baker has been cast opposite Casey Wilson in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Hail Mary, from Sony TV and ABC Studios. Written by The McCarthys creator Brian Gallivan and directed by Julie Anne Robinson, Hail Mary centers on Mary Wolf (Wilson), a young small-town mayor named 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.
Baker will play Mary’s older sister, Janice, an upbeat mess who doesn’t realize she’s a mess. She’s also highly dramatic. Baker was a series regular on NBC’s Go On, appeared on Louie and recurs HBO’s Big Little Lies.
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Deadline
Hail Mary - Retta to Co-Star in ABC's Comedy Pilot
Retta is returning to primetime. The Parks and Recreation favorite has booked a co-starring role in ABC comedy pilot Hail Mary, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Based on the Austrian Broadcasting Corp. series Braunschlag, created by David Schalko, the single-camera comedy centers on a young small-town mayor named Mary Wolf (Happy Endings star Casey Wilson) 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.
Retta, who fielded multiple pilot offers this season, will portray Ruthie, Mary's friend.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Dream Team - Wanda Sykes to Co-Star
Wanda Sykes is staying put at ABC. The actress, who has recurred on the network's Black-ish, has booked a co-starring role in family comedy pilot Dream Team.
The single-camera comedy revolves around Marty Schumacher (Justin Long), who coached his last club soccer team for 10 years, ultimately taking them to the national championships. He now has to start from scratch with a diverse group of 8-year-olds and their disparate parents.
Sykes will portray Leslie, a competitive OB-GYN who has a passion for sports. The character is excited to help her daughter, Miley, land a spot on a nationally ranked soccer team — and upset that her wife, the artsy Michaela (Lindsey Kraft), doesn’t share her same enthusiasm and is trying to dissuade Miley from playing.
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The Hollywood Reporter
24: Legacy - Dan Bucatinsky, Charlie Hofheimer and Coral Pena Join Cast
Scandal grad Dan Bucatinsky has joined the cast of 24: Legacy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Also boarding the Fox pilot are Mad Men's Charlie Hofheimer and Blue Bloods' Coral Pena.
Bucatinsky, who won an Emmy for his guest turn as James, will play Andy, a communication analyst at CTU who has enjoyed Rebecca's (Miranda Otto) trust and is unhappily paired with a bright, young, self-taught Gia (Pena) — a computer analyst. She is self-taught and eager to prove that she's better than others. Hofheimer will portray Marcus, Eric's former partner in the Army Ranger unit who is now suffering from PTSD. All three roles are series regulars.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Reese Witherspoon's Divorce ABC Drama Pilot - Blair Underwood Cast as the Male Lead
Blair Underwood is set as the male lead in ABC’s untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer drama pilot, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon.
Underwood is a familiar face to ABC, as he’s been on Marvel drama “Agents of SHIELD.” He joins cast members Penelope Ann Miller and T.R. Knight in the pilot.
Underwood will play James, Gemma’s boss and sometimes lover. Gemma’s law professor and mentor for years, who instilled in her a sense of cutthroat ambition, he is the one person unafraid to belittle her.
Written by Oppenheimer, the project follows the personal and professional life of Gemma, a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas, which 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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Deadline
Pearl - Kathleen Rose Perkins Joins Cast
Episodes’ co-star Kathleen Rose Perkins has been cast opposite Candice Bergen in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot Pearl, reuniting with director Jim Field Smith who helmed the second season of the Showtime comedy.
Written/executive produced by Andrew Reich and directed by Smith, Pearl centers on Pearl (Bergen), a larger-than-life family matriarch who, after she finds out she has cancer, becomes intent on controlling and orchestrating every aspect of her family’s life before she dies. Perkins will play Virginia, Pearl’s daughter who has the not-so-easy task of trying to get along with her mother, given the news about her health.
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Deadline
Riverdale - Mädchen Amick Cast as Alice Cooper
Twin Peaks alumna Mädchen Amick has been cast as Betty’s mom Alice Cooper in Riverdale, the CW pilot based on the Archie Comics characters from producer Greg Berlanti.
Set in present time, Riverdale is a subversive take on Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes) and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.
Amick’s Cooper is editor of the local paper, described as a steely perfectionist who places exceedingly high expectations on her daughter, Betty (Reinhart).
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Deadline
The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez - Gina Torres Cast as the Lead
Suits co-star Gina Torres is set for the title role in ABC drama pilot The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez. The casting won’t impact Torres’ status on the popular USA drama for the time being. Suits, which just ended its fifth season, has been renewed for Season 6 to launch this summer. I’ve learned that Torres will remain a regular through season 6, fulfilling her six-year contract, with her character likely phased out.
Written by Cuban-American playwright Charise Castro Smith, The Death Of Eva Sofia Valdez is described as a sexy revenge drama with a supernatural twist and MacBeth with a Cuban twist. It centers on Eva Sofia Valdez (Torres), an immigrant who rose from rags to riches and is a celebrated Miami entrepreneur and a champion for immigrant rights. But the success of this ” modern-day Havana-born Cleopatra” 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.
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Deadline
The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport - Diedrich Bader to Co-Star
The Drew Carey Show alum Diedrich Bader is returning to ABC as the male lead opposite Katy Mixon in the network’s single-camera comedy pilot The Second Fattest Housewife In Westport, from Kapital Entertainment and ABC Studios.
Bader will play Jeff Otto, Katie’s husband, and father of teenagers Taylor and Harrison and 5-year-old Anna-Kat. Jeff adores Katie and has absolutely no problem with the fact that she’s a larger sized woman. He is always reasonable, the voice of logic, and often the only barrier between the rest of the world and Katie’s somewhat ill conceived plans. The cast of the pilot also includes Ali Wong.
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Deadline
A.P.B. - Tamberla Perry Joins Cast
Tamberla Perry is set as a series regular 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.
Perry will play Goss, an officer with the 13th precinct, where her partner is the hot-headed Officer Roderick Brandt (Taylor Handley).
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Deadline
The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez - Angelica Celaya Joins Cast
Constantine star Angelica Celaya has been cast 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.
Celaya will play Dominique, a “shadow woman” who mysteriously enter Eva Sofia’s life and although she is ancient, she take the shape of a younger woman that will cut you or be with you – whatever it takes to lure another desperate soul into her collection.
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Deadline
Dream Team - Carlos Leal Cast in ABC Comedy Pilot
Spanish actor Carlos Leal is set 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.
Leal will play Carlos Diaz, Olga’s (Michelle Beutau) husband an affable and easy-going owner of a successful restaurant. Leal has had arcs on Devious Maids and The Last Ship and will next be seen in indie Spaceman (fka The Wrong Stuff) opposite Josh Duhamel.
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Deadline
Riverdale - Marisol Nichols Cast as Hermione Lodge
Marisol Nichols (Teen Wolf) has been cast as Hermione Lodge in Riverdale, the CW pilot from producer Greg Berlanti.
Set in present time, Riverdale is a subversive take on Archie (KJ Apa), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes) and their friends, exploring the surrealism of small-town life — the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome façade.
Nichols will play Hermione Lodge, Veronica’s mother.
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Deadline
Untitled Ed Weeks & Brit Mackay ABC Comedy Pilot - Julie Goldman Joins Cast
Julie Goldman (The People’s Couch) has joined the cast of ABC’s Untitled Weeks & Mackay comedy pilot from writers Ed Weeks & Hannah Mackay and exec producer Andrew Reich.
The project centers on an unapologetic lesbian and her best friend, a neurotic straight male, as they navigate their dysfunctional, co-dependent friendship and the world of dating.
Goldman will play JoJo, a fun-loving Southern biker who runs Austin’s friendliest gastropub.
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Deadline
Good Place - Manny Jacinto Joins NBC's Straight to Series Comedy
Manny Jacinto (The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story) is set for a regular role opposite Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in Good Place, NBC’s 13-episode straight-to-series comedy from Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Mike Schur. Good Place centers on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be “good” or “bad,” and then trying to make up for her past behavior.
Jacinto will play the sweet and good-natured Jason. His dream is to make a living as a DJ in South Florida. Not an intellectual guy by any means, he probably only went to school thru 11th grade and then repeated a couple times. We like him — we just don’t want to be him.
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Deadline
Spark - Lena Olin & Tom Brittney Join Cast
Lena Olin (Welcome To Sweden) and Tom Brittney (The Syndicate) are set as series regulars as mother and son in 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.
Olin will play Hazel Stockton, an up-by-her-bootstraps self-made woman who now controls the powerful Stockton Coal Company. She uses her wealth more altruistically than her arch rivals at Lavelle Gas — but despite her philanthropic outreaches to the city’s poor, she still craves absolute power, and is not above using strong-arm tactics to achieve it. However, when deadly sabotage starts claiming innocent lives across the city, she denies any involvement to her son Aiden, Captain of the Investigative Division of the Watch, who is investigating the incidents.
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Deadline
Cruel Intentions - Coby Bell to Co-Star
Burn Notice alum Coby Bell is set to co-star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions, NBC’s drama pilot based on the cult 1999 feature that starred Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon.
Bell plays Kathryn Merteuil’s husband, Pascal Barrett, a dashing and smug California power lawyer, who is the attorney for billionaire Edward Valmont. Polite and concerned when he first meets young Bash Casey, Pascal quickly drops his pleasant facade with Kathryn as the two plan their strategy.
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Deadline
Miranda's Rights - Jamie Chung & John Gabriel Join Cast
Jamie Chung (Once Upon A Time) and John Gabriel have landed series regular roles on NBC pilot Miranda’s Rights.
Written/co-executive produced by Katie Lovejoy and executive produced by John Glenn, Miranda’s Rights is a one-hour legal soap about an idealistic group of lawyers who not only work together but live together at their start-up firm.
Chung will play Lana Harris, an attorney, the alpha-female at YLG (Young Law Group), she is Tanner’s (not yet cast) fiancée. Blunt, a total boss bitch, Lana is fiercely protective of her career and, more importantly, the firm — which is why she takes an immediate dislike to Miranda (Breeds).
Gabriel is Marcus Reed, a former attorney with YLG, he’s a guy who “thinks money and power will make him happy (because it will).” He bailed on YLG to work at the more prestigious and better-paying Klein & Associates, headed up by none other than Tanner’s mother.
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Deadline
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