Hi everyone, below you'll find all the casting announcements for the new pilot season. We'll try our best to keep this updated with all new casting as quickly if possible. If you find any that aren't posted, please do submit them in.
The latest pilot castings will be posted at the top.
The Good Doctor - Chuku Modu Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Modu will play Dr. Jared Unger, a resident at the San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital.
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Deadline
Losing It - Tone Bell Joins ABC Comedy Pilot
Bell plays Paul, a stoic repo man who won’t budge when Charlie (Natalie Morales) attempts to persuade him not to take her belongings from her bakery.
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Deadline
Zach Appelman Joins CBS' Untitled Jenny Lumet Drama Pilot
Appelman will play Webb, who’s extremely alert, sees things with a unique straightforward perspective, and is the one who challenges Naomi’s (TBD) thinking.
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Deadline
Real Life - Brenda Song Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Song will play Lauren, Nora’s (Rittenhouse) best friend and roommate.
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Deadline
Drama High - Rosie Perez & Rarmian Newton to Star In NBC Drama Pilot
Perez plays Tracey, the high energy with a no-holds-barred mouth current Drama School teacher and a former high school theater person who is finding someone else with passion and vision can still inspire her. Newton plays Maashous Evers, a mysterious, independent and handsome student from a broken home who works as the lighting technician on all the school’s drama projects.
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Deadline
Max Thieriot Joins CBS' Untitled Navy SEAL Drama Pilot
Thierot will play Clay, a Navy SEAL millennial, who’s extremely capable, but his easy confidence and swagger hides a deep insecurity.
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Deadline
Las Reinas - John Corbett to Co-Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Corbett will play Lt. Donald Worden, Alex’s (Alonso) former partner and her mentor. A great detective in his own right, he taught her everything he knows, and he understands how dangerous it is for Alex to reconnect with her grandmother, Gabriella (Sonia Braga), who is the head of the largest crime family in Miami, in order to solve the case of a missing girl.
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Deadline
Deception - Vinnie Jones Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Jones will play Gunter Gastafsen, hailed as the “world’s greatest illusion builder.”
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Deadline
Salamander - Allison Miller to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Miller plays Nora, a sharply observant Ivy League professional whose sky-high IQ has led her to become a psychiatrist on the staff of Homeland Security.
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Deadline
Grace Rex Joins CBS' Untitled Jenny Lumet Drama Pilot
Rex will play Detective Sarah Jane Lipschitz, the smartest person in the room and a longstanding member of Naomi’s (TBD) team.
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Deadline
Living Biblically - Ian Gomez Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Gomez will play Feather Gene. A dryly funny priest at Chip’s (TBD) church, Father Gene is impressed by Chip’s determination, and they form an unlikely friendship when he helps him translate the rules of the Bible to a modern world.
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Deadline
Doomsday - Claire Holt to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Holt will play Kayla, the newest member of the Doomsday project. Considered the best cyber security analyst in the country, she’s efficient, irreverent, and not particularly interested in making friends.
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Deadline
Searchers - Jacob Buster Joins CW Pilot
Buster will play Cooper at age 14, a time in his life when he’s simply “not interested in his mother’s fairy tales.” (But, oh, he will be!)
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TVLine
Las Reinas - Daniella Alonso to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Detective Sonya De La Reina (Alonso) is forced to confront her past when a case compels her to reconnect with her estranged family – the most powerful criminal outfit in Miami. Thrust back into the world she thought she had left behind, Sonya must walk the murky line between the law and her family, and question her true destiny as a De La Reina.
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Deadline
Hannah Royce’s Questionable Choices - Alice Eve to Star in CBS Comedy Pilot
Eve’s Hanna is a pretty, smart, outspoken nurse who tends to leap before she looks. Even though she’s a bit of a “train wreck,” she’s the glue that holds her messy family together and she’s about to start making better choices. James Earl plays J.L., the well-meaning, disorganized father of Hannah’s son.
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Deadline
Black Lightning - Nafessa Williams & China Anne McClain to Star in CW Pilot
McClain plays Jefferson’s younger daughter, the teenage Jennifer Piere, an independent, outspoken scholar-athlete with a wild streak of her own. Williams is Anissa Pierce — passionate and quick-witted, Jefferson’s twenty-something daughter balances the demands of medical school with her job teaching part-time at her father’s school.
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Deadline
Dynasty - Grant Show Joins CW Drama Pilot
Grant Show will assume the role of billionaire Blake Carrington.
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Entertainment Weekly
Amy Acker to Star; Emma Dumont and Percy Hynes White Join FOX's Untitled X-Men Pilot
Acker will star as Kate Stewart, a woman who is struggling with her separation from her husband Reed (Moyer) and her increasingly challenging teenage children. When her family situation takes a dark turn, she finds that she's stronger than she thinks. Dumont, meanwhile, will take on the role of Lorna Dane/Polaris — a strong-willed, brave and loyal mutant who has the ability to manipulate magnetism. White will portray Andy, a sensitive kid and bit of a loner who keeps to himself to avoid the turmoil he faces at school and at home.
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The Hollywood Reporter
What About Barb? - Jessica Gunning & Leah Remini to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot
What About Barb? centers on psychotherapist Suzanne (Remini) who tries to cut ties with her most overbearing patient, Barb (Gunning) but is unsuccessful and gains an annoying family member in the process.
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Deadline
Ghosted - Ally Walker to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
Walker will play Captain Lafrey, the head of the Underground Investigative Service.
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Deadline
S.W.A.T. - Lina Esco & Kenny Johnson Join CBS Drama Pilot
Esco will play Chris. Fueled by nerves, he is a skilled officer and exceedingly calm under pressure. She isn’t pleased with her leader’s sudden departure and a shift in power but doesn’t spend too much time focused on the negatives; the mission is the only thing that matters. Johnson is Luca, the team’s expert driver and a skilled combat officer himself. He lives for the job and almost has too much fun behind the wheel. He’ll follow orders, no questions asked — a necessary skill when part of such an efficient team.
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Deadline
Deception - Justin Chon Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Chon will play Jordan Monroe, a witty and energetic street magician who is part of Cameron’s team.
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Deadline
Life Sentence - Elliot Knight Joins CW Pilot
Knight will play Wes, Stella’s (Hale) husband, a handsome Londoner, Wes was totally unhappy (working in finance in the UK) until he met Stella while traveling in Paris and she inspired him to change his life. He is now cool, laid back and very happy making hand-hewn wooden furniture and living in the moment with Stella in Asheville, NC.
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Deadline
Natalie Alyn Lind Joins FOX's Untitled X-Men Pilot
Lind will play Lauren, the Stewarts' daughter who is smart, pretty, popular, organized and already ahead on her college applications — essentially the model of a perfect child.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Doomsday - Taye Diggs to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Diggs will topline the drama as Dr. Davis Albright, an engineer and architect who at one point was the youngest-ever head of disaster prevention for FEMA and the ex-husband to Elle Trask (currently uncast).
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The Hollywood Reporter
Splitting Up Together - Oliver Hudson to Co-Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Hudson’s Martin adjusts to his suddenly divorced life with hopeful optimism, but as a newly single parent, he can’t help but wonder — during unfamiliar moments of freedom — what went wrong in his marriage.
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Deadline
Me, Myself and I - Bobby Moynihan Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Moynihan will play the present-day version of Alex Riley, a lifelong inventor who is always trying to glimpse into the future. But, to get over his current case of inventor’s block, Alex must instead look to his past.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Behind Enemy Lines - Gabriel Chavarria & Melia Kreiling Join FOX Drama Pilot
Chavarria will play Ziggy Rodriguez, a Navy pilot, and the son of lifetime career Senior Navy Executive Officer Mateo Rodriguez. Kreiling will portray Shia Irivani, a Naval officer of deep faith, strong, principled, a woman of integrity, not without a sense of humor.
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Deadline
The Sackett Sisters - Casey Wilson to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot
Wilson will topline the comedy as Sutton Sackett, the cautious, humble and smartest in the Sutton family of train wrecks who moved as from them as possible the minute she was old enough. Now living a normal and boring life for herself in California, she works as a cost accounting supervisor for a canned fruit and vegetable distributor who has dated three straight guys named Dave.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Raised By Wolves - Lulu Wilson Joins ABC Comedy Pilot
Wilson will play Yoko Gable, a gentle, wide-eyed 11-year-old who wants to save the world.
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Variety
Happy Peppers - Jon Rudnitsky to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot
Henry Pepper (Rudnitsky) and Heather Pepper (Angelson) — who wind up living together for the first time since they were kids after one of them suffers a big loss. The golden child of scrap metal parents, Henry has all the anxiety and drive of someone trying to compensate for a crappy childhood. A year after his wife dies, Henry must deal with another crisis: His crazy younger sister, Heather, has come back to “take care of him,” but needs caretaking of her own.
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Deadline
Redliners - Hannah Ware to Star in NBC Drama Pilot
Ware will star as Anne Dewitt, a fiercely intelligent, formidably lethal, charmingly mysterious force of nature. One of Anne’s many secrets is that she is an ex-teacher/trainer (in the fine art of assassination) for a Blackwater-like security firm known as The Service.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Household Name - Mary Holland to Co-Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Holland’s Wendy is a bit neurotic and a helicopter parent who is hesitant to move in with Burnett’s character – they do not see eye to eye about a lot of things, but concedes because the deal is too good to pass up!
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Deadline
Sean Teale to Co-Star in FOX's Untitled X-Men Pilot
Teale will play Marcos Diaz/Eclipse. A natural rebel compelled by circumstances to cooperate with others, Marcos is a passionate and strong-willed fighter who sometimes lets his emotions overrule reason. His alter ego, Eclipse, who possesses the ability to absorb and manipulate photons, is a newly created mutant for this expanded X-Men universe.
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Deadline
Lyric Lewis Joins NBC's Untitled Seth Meyers Comedy Pilot
Lewis will play Stef, a teacher at Whitlock High School.
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Deadline
For God And Country - Noah Mills Joins NBC Drama Pilot
Mills will play Joseph J McGuire, the fourth member of ISA Special Operations Group Unit 7 and a veteran of the front lines. He’s also the team’s medic who is the quickest to violence, fond of mixed martial arts and J.K. Rowling.
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Deadline
Drama High - Amy Forsyth Joins NBC Drama Pilot
Forsyth plays Gwen Strickland. Doesn’t just get what she wants — she demands it; unfortunately, “trouble at home and then trouble on stage start to rattle what had been a very confident high school student.”
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TVLine
Splitting Up Together - Jenna Fischer to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Fischer will play the lead role of Lena, the always-prepared character who is struggling to navigate a new life after her divorce from her ex-husband Martin (currently uncast), whose laid-back approach to raising their three children appalls her.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Rita Wilson Joins FOX's Untitled Sheldon Turner Drama Pilot (formerly Controversy)
Wilson will play Constance Hawthorne, the dignified but fierce head of UCI Board of Trustees.
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Deadline
S.W.A.T. - Shemar Moore to Star in CBS Drama Pilot
Daniel ‘Hondo’ Harrelson (Moore), torn between loyalty to the streets and duty to his fellow officers when he’s tasked to run a highly-trained unit that is the last stop for solving crimes in Los Angeles. Moore’s Harrelson, exuding calmness but always ready for action, has all the ability to become a leader – he’s just not happy with the reason he just became one.
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Deadline
Archie Panjabi to Star FOX's Untitled Sheldon Turner Drama Pilot (formerly Controversy)
Panjabi will star as Jourdan Price, the crisis management consultant who is brought in to help with the scandal.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Lyndon Smith and Ben Shenkman Joins ABC's Untitled Shondaland Pilot
Smith will one of the six, Allison, a wealthy, confident, very smart, competitive and energetic new public defender who lives with her boyfriend, rookie prosecutor Seth, and her best friend Sandra (Britne Oldford), who is staying with them until she finds her own place. Shenkman will play Roger, the Deputy U.S. Attorney in charge of the newly minted prosecutors who is terse and to the point as he hands out the cases to his new charges.
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Deadline
Stephen Moyer to Star in FOX's Untitled X-Men Pilot
Moyer will play the dad, Reed, an ambitious attorney trying to balance the demands of his job at the DA’s office with his responsibilities to his family.
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Deadline
Amy's Brother - Annie Mumolo to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
Annie plays the estranged sister of her successful type-A brother, Amy who with her two children, find themselves not only back in one another’s lives but also living under one roof.
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Variety
Drama High - Auli’i Cravalho Joins NBC Drama Pilot
Cravalho will play one of the students, Lilette (a lead role), in the project, which will no doubt showcase her performing skills.
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Deadline
Rob Riggle to Star in ABC's Untitled Dannah Phirman & Danielle Schneider Comedy Pilot
Riggle is an intellectual but emotionally challenged single dad, Josh who moves to Queens with his two young daughters and forms an unlikely family with the other residents in their apartment building.
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Deadline
Derek Hough Joins NBC's Untitled Kourtney Kang & Nahnatchka Kahn Comedy Pilot
Hough is formally a guest star in the pilot, but with an expectation to recur upon availability. He will play Mr Riley, the new social studies teacher at Katie’s Catholic school and the hottest man she has ever seen. Fun, charismatic, and good-natured, he is surprised when Katie expresses interest in him.
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Deadline
JJ Totah Joins NBC's Untitled Mindy Kaling & Charlie Grandy Comedy Pilot
Totah is Michael, Vince’s teenage son. He is dropped on their Queens, NY doorstep by Priya (Kaling), one of Vince’s high school flings. Michael is a gay, opinionated teenage handful, and a talented pianist/singer who’s moved from Ohio to New York City to go to the Manhattan Academy of Arts until his sponsor fell through.
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Deadline
Searchers - Josh Kidd Joins CW Pilot
Kidd will play Paul “Zin” Shepherd, a former military pilot who joins Fable’s team for the paycheck but stays for a deeper, more personal reason.
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Deadline
Roberto Aguire Joins CBS' Untitled Paul Attanasio Drama Pilot
Aguire will play Gustavo “Tavo” Medina, the middle child and undisputed “brain” of the Medina family, a computer and technology expert with the San Diego PD.
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Deadline
Me, Myself & I - Kelen Coleman Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Coleman will play Abby who, having inherited her dad’s love of basketball, is the general manager of the Chicago Bulls in 2042.
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Deadline
Wisdom of the Crowd - Jeremy Piven to Star in CBS Drama Pilot
Piven will play Jeffrey tanner, a charismatic visionary determined to solve his daughter's murder.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Doomsday - Rachelle Lefevre to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Lefevre will play Faye, the whip-smart and shrewd Deputy Director of Homeland Security who is at the helm when the Doomsday team reassembled to help thwart an attack on U.S. soil. Coldly pragmatic, she initially has little reverence for her assemblage of geniuses but during the course of the mission, she develops a growing respect for the team.
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Deadline
Perfect Citizen - Lenny Platt Joins CBS Drama Pilot
Platt will play Felix, the self-proclaimed “Alpha Associate” at the firm. Felix is brilliant, and knows it.
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Deadline
For God and Country - Demetrius Grosse Joins NBC Drama Pilot
Grosse will play Juice, the third member of ISA Special Operations Group Unit 7. The team’s computer and communications expert and all-around tech badass, Juice is a lethal MacGyver.
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Deadline
Thin Ice - Trond Fausa & Dan Gill Join FOX Comedy Pilot
Fausa will play Gunnar, a bit of a wild man who fled his homeland for the McMurdo station in Antarctica after his heart was broken. Gill will portray Pete, a medic who is something of a womanizer stationed in Antarctica after stints in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Deadline
Life Sentence - Brooke Lyons Joins CW Pilot
Lyons will play Elizabeth, Stella’s sister/the type-A oldest child. Since Stella got sick, Elizabeth has always put her dreams aside to take care of her family, including having children to give her parents something positive to focus on — which she now realizes she might regret.
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Deadline
Insatiable - Erinn Westbrook and Michael Provost Join CW Pilot
Westbrook will portray the role of ‘Azalea,’ a stunning, smart, confident and manipulative beauty queen who hires Bob to be her pageant coach. Provost will play Brick, a seemingly typical High School jock who is a little more complicated underneath the surface.
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Deadline
Hope Davis, Vondie Curtis Hall and Rege-Jean Page Join ABC's Untitled Shondaland Drama Pilot
Davis will play Jill, a smart and savvy federal public defender who is the boss of all the newly minted public defenders and who makes it clear to them from the moment they get their cases that they’ve got an uphill climb. Curtis-Hall will portray William Byrne, an intelligent, eloquent, formidable, seasoned and fair chief judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who welcomes and swears in the newly minted prosecutors and public defenders. Page is set as Leonard, an arrogant and animated new prosecutor who is taking his first case at the prestigious United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Household Name - Timothy Omundson Joins ABC Comedy Pilot
Omundson will play Edward Von Glimpse, Vivian’s longtime, gay best friend. Edward’s her confidant, hype man, and apologist — sometimes all within the span of a single sentence. He’s droll with a dry wit and seen-it-all attitude, a throwback to a more civilized, elegant time.
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Deadline
Matthew James Thomas and Paola Lazaro Join NBC's Untitled Warren Leight Drama Pilot
Thomas will play Dr. Sam, young doctor at Our Lady Of Salvation and Lazaro will play Gloria, a triage nurse at Our Lady Of Salvation.
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Deadline
For God And Country - Hadi Tabbal Joins NBC Drama Pilot
Tabbal will play Amir, who, before joining Dalton’s team spent nearly six years as a lone wolf penetration agent in ISIS, yet managed to retain his humanity during 72 months of horrors and bloodshed.
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Deadline
Real Life - Rebecca Rittenhouse to Star in CBS Comedy Pilot
Rittenhouse’s Nora is smart, creative, funny and refreshingly honest. She works at Kenny & Kit’s Groovy Snacks in LA and starts dating Drew’s business school roommate, but she can’t stop thinking about how much fun she has with her Skype buddy, Drew.
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Deadline
The Resident - Matt Czuchry Joins FOX Drama Pilot
Czuchry will play Conrad Hawkins, a cocky third-year resident at Kings County Hospital.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Saamer Usmani (Male Lead) and W. Earl Brown Join ABC's Untitled Marc Cherry Drama Pilot
Tag Fayad (Saamer Usmani) is sent to help her solve a horrific crime. Fayad is met with suspicion and hostility by the local populace. A brilliant man, he can be fairly snarky and disdainful to those he sees as intellectual inferiors. W. Earl Brown will play Deputy Joe Paul, who works under Ruby (McEntire) and shares immense tension with Fayad.
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Deadline
Searchers - Alex McGregor to Star in CW Pilot
McGregor’s (female lead) rebellious Fable Brooks is strong, smart and soulful. She has never given up hope in the 10 years since her parents’ disappearance and now, she’ll break every rule in the book to discover the truth.
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Deadline
The Crossing - Sandrine Holt to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Holt will play Emma Peralta, a federal customs agent who is all business, and her keen mind is always processing its surroundings, which allows her to perpetually exude control amongst chaos. Heavily skeptical of the refugees story and the concept of time travel, she nonetheless is sympathetic enough to find the truth due to her rough past as an immigrant herself.
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Deadline
The Sackett Sisters - Bradley Whitford Joins NBC Comedy Pilot
Whitford will play Henry
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Deadline
Valor - Charlie Barnett Joins CW Pilot
Barnett will play Ian, Nora’s on-again off-again boyfriend, a West Point graduate who works as a special ops Intelligence Officer.
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Deadline
Dynasty - Robert Christopher Riley Joins CW Pilot
Riley will play Culhane, the Carrington family’s well-paid chauffeur.
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Deadline
Reverie - Kathryn Morris to Co-Star in NBC Drama Pilot
Morris will play Monica Shaw, an official with the Department of Defense who has a vested interest in Alexis Barret’s (Jessica Lu) virtual reality Reverie project. Very concerned when she learns that some users have gone into comas after refusing to return to their own reality, Monica works with Alexis’ security chief, Charlie Ventana (Dennis Haysbert), to come up with a way to do some damage control and save the program–otherwise, DoD is out.
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Deadline
David Castaneda Joins CBS' Untitled Paul Attanasio Drama Pilot
Castaneda will play Bembe Medina, Chief Medina’s (TBD) son, a cop in Tijuana who works his beat with Yuni (TBD), his twin brother.
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Deadline
Me, Myself and I - Brian Unger Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Unger will play Ron, a commercial airline pilot and Alex’s (TBD) new stepfather. Although initially intimidating, Ron ultimately will become the guiding figure throughout Alex’s life.
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Deadline
The Good Doctor - Nicholas Gonzalez Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Gonzalez plays Dr. Neil Melendez, the boss of the surgical residents at the hospital.
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Deadline
The Good Doctor - Freddie Highmore to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Dr. Shaun Murphy (Highmore), a young surgeon with Savant syndrome who is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. Highmore ‘s Dr. Murphy is a young man with autism, awkward at the best of times, not good with social interaction but possessed of an engaging honesty and directness. A medical savant, Shaun has survived a troubled childhood to become a talented doctor.
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Deadline
Life Sentence - Gillian Vigman Joins CW Pilot
Vigman will play Ida, Stella’s mother, the glue that held her family together, until she decides to shirk her maternal responsibility and follow her heart into a lesbian relationship with her best friend Poppy, the owner of a cheese shop called Brie Yourself.
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Deadline
Mary Sohn Joins NBC's Untitled Seth Meyers Comedy Pilot
Sohn will play Mary, a loud and sassy art teacher at Whitlock High, the kind of teacher who tells her students to draw a flattering picture of her to take home to their dads. She has a way of ripping people open where they don’t know it’s happening and often talks in street slang.
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Deadline
Lea Michele Joins ABC's Untitled Mayoral Comedy Pilot
Details on the role Michele will play were not immediately available as the part is being adjusted to specifically accommodate the actress. The character originally was planned to be Courtney's chief of staff. It's unclear if that will remain as the part continues to shift with Michele's commitment to the project. Sources say Murphy released Michele from her deal for Scream Queens. Michele's casting does not have any bearing on if the series returns. Instead, it means her character of Hester is not going to be returning for a potential third season.
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The Hollywood Reporter
No character name and description are being released for Michele at this time as they are likely are being tailored to her and may exploit her musical talents, given the premise of the show. The role that she was offered was originally conceived as Valentina Flores, Courtney’s Chief of Staff and reliable foil.
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Deadline
LA -> Vegas - Dylan McDermott to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
McDermott will play the pilot on Flight 1710, Captain Dave, all-American, cocky but also a baby, a likable narcissist who feels connecting with his passengers is just as important as flying the plane.
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Deadline
Spaced Out - Brett Goldstein Joins NBC Comedy Pilot
Goldstein will play Leon Ness, the brilliant and unpredictable founder of Space One, the eccentric Ness is a man who dreams big and never gives up.
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Deadline
Instinct - Daniel Ings Joins CBS Drama Pilot
Ings will play Tracy, Dylan’s (Cumming) “all-American” husband of one year.
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Deadline
Insatiable - Debby Ryan to Star in CW Pilot
Patty (Ryan), a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client, and has no idea what he’s about to unleash upon the world. Patty used to be a fat girl who found solace through eating, but after she has her jaw broken, she loses about 70 pounds and turns out to be gorgeous. The daughter of a beautiful alcoholic who’s just gotten her 60 day AA chip, Patty finds her life taking an unexpected turn when her lawyer, Bob, who’s also a beauty pageant coach, offers to help her become a professional beauty queen.
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Deadline
Unit Zero - Rob Huebel Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Huebel will play Phineas Bog, CIA computer genius with an off-beat and unconventional manner. He manages to keep a lid on his feelings (huge crush) on Jackie (Toni Collette), long enough to head up the CIA’s Cyber Security (even though everyone views him as just the IT guy). Sweet and soft-hearted, Phineas is sharp as a tack and quite possibly the smartest guy in the room.
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Deadline
Controversy - Austin Stowell to Star in FOX Drama Pilot
Stowell is Matt Kincaid, the Junior Counsel of a prestigious Illinois university who must deal with an out-of-control scandal when a young co-ed accuses several star football players of sexual assault.
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Deadline
Linda From HR - Lauren Graham to Star in FOX Comedy Pilot
Graham will star as Linda Plugh, an HR employee whose life explodes as she must juggle a huge secret that threatens both her work and home life. The comedy is part family comedy and part Mr. Robot.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Reverie - Dennis Haysbert to Star in NBC Drama Pilot
Haysbert will play Charlie Ventana, a former police chief who was Mara’s boss when she used to work in law enforcement. Now he works for the inventor of Reverie and recruits Mara to help stop the dangerous consequences of this new virtual reality program.
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Deadline
Instinct - Naveen Andrews to Co-Star in CBS Drama Pilot
Andrews will play Julian, Dylan’s (Cumming) old friend from the CIA who rivals Dylan in brilliance and wit.
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Deadline
Thin Ice - Ramona Young Joins FOX Comedy Pilot
Young will play Isis, the weird and overbearing member of the research team in Antarctica.
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Deadline
Neil Brown Jr. Joins CBS' Untitled Navy SEAL Drama Pilot
Brown will play Ray, the longest-tenured member of Jason’s (not yet cast) assault team, and his most trusted friend and colleague.
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Deadline
Wesam Keesh Joins ABC's Untitled Shondaland Pilot
Keesh will play Jay, a recent law school grad who’s about to begin his career as a public defender in the prestigious district court.
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Deadline
Charlie Foxtrot - Ana Ortiz to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
Torres’ Angelina is a well-meaning, fierce single mother-lion who believes in putting her kids first, even if that means crossing a few lines.
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Deadline
Searchers - Zane Holtz to Star in CW Pilot
Holtz’s Cooper is a brilliant tech innovator and former soldier, who has accepted his parents’ deaths. But all that changes when his younger sister Fable, drags him on a dangerous mission to learn what truly happened to them 10 years ago.
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Deadline
The Get - Brad Garrett Joins CBS Drama Pilot
Garrett will play Bill, a hardworking reporter who has spent his life working up to the position of executive producer at The Get.
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Deadline
Paula Abdul to Co-Star in NBC's Untitled Kourtney Kang & Nahnatchka Kahn Comedy Pilot
Abdul will play what’s described as a “fun, imaginary friend version of herself.”
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Deadline
For God And Country - Anne Heche Cast as the Female Lead in NBC Drama Pilot
Heche will play Deputy Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Patricia Campbell who is Dalton’s opposite number. She supervises a team of surveillance analysts who uncover and interpret threats, often sharing vital intelligence with Dalton in real-time as his team is working in the field. A woman with a 19-year-old son serving in the Marines, and a 7-year-old son at home, Patricia is coolly used to going from sleep to work at 3 AM, and is expert at keeping calm while supervising a crisis situation.
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Deadline
Jamie Chung Cast as Blink in FOX's Untitled X-Men Pilot
Chung’s character Blink — real name Clarice Fong — is described as sarcastic, lively and a bit of a tomboy. Her naturally strong exuberance has taken a hit after a sudden and traumatic upheaval of her life. As she adjusts to the new people and places that are suddenly “home,” she is slowly becoming herself again.
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Variety
Emily Rose Joins ABC's Untitled Marc Cherry Drama Pilot
Rose will play Vonda Jean, County Coroner for the small town and former pageant runner-up.
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Deadline
The Resident - Manish Dayal to Star in FOX Drama Pilot
Dayal’s Devon is a first-year resident at Kings County Hospital. Top of his class at medical school, the type to follow rules, driven and passionate when it comes to medicine, Devon is a hard-working perfectionist from a working-class background.
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Deadline
The Get - Emayatzy Corinealdi Joins CBS Drama Pilot
Corinealdi will play Noelle, a fearless journalist who never backs down from a story she cares about.
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Deadline
Brad William Henke Joins CBS' Untitled Jenny Lumet Drama Pilot
Henke will play Tucker, a military man with paternal instincts.
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Deadline
Behind Enemy Lines - Marg Helgenberger Joins FOX Drama Pilot
Helgenberger will play Admiral Bobbie Decker, a Navy Admiral, the most powerful woman in the military, fierce but fair, a no BS straight shooter, who will do anything to keep her men and women safe.
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Deadline
Distefano - Chazz Palminteri Joins CBS Comedy Pilot
Palminteri will play Tony, Chris’ (Distefano) dad, a charismatic, flirtatious, devoted grandpa, and ex-bad boy. Potts plays Helen, Chris’ mom.
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Deadline
The Gospel of Kevin - Jason Ritter to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Ritter will play Kevin Flynn, a cluelessly self-serving jerk on a dangerous path to despair. After a failed suicide attempt, he's going home to stay with his widowed twin sister and niece for a time, only to be met with a crisis that presents itself very real in the person Yvette, a warrior for God, whose job is to guide Kevin back to the road of righteousness, and make him understand his mission in this life.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Raised by Wolves - Georgia King to Star in ABC Comedy Pilot
King will star as Sheila, a tough mother struggling to support her five opinionated, eccentric kids on a shoestring budget in a Midwestern town.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Life Sentence - Dylan Walsh to Co-Star in CW Pilot
Walsh will play Stella’s father Paul. Paul spent most of the past ten years being strong for his family and crying in the shower as he tried to deal with the fact that his daughter had cancer. Now that Stella is cured, he has to face a few extremely unpleasant things that have him gobsmacked.
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Deadline
Charlie Foxtrot - Swoosie Kurtz Joins ABC Comedy Pilot
Charlie Foxtrot –– military slang for a clusterf*ck — centers on Captain Charlie Taylor (Biggs), a cautious, lovable dentist stationed at Fort Bragg who promises to look after his brother’s impulsive fiancée and her two misfit teens while his brother is deployed in Iraq.
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Deadline
Susannah Flood Joins ABC's Untitled Shondaland Pilot
Flood will play Kate Littlejohn, a smart and steadfast young prosecutor beginning her career at the US District Court in New York.
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Deadline
Life Sentence - Jayson Blair Joins CW Pilot
Blair will play Aiden, Stella’s brother/the slighted middle child. Aiden is described as super-charming, though emotionally immature, a womanizer who still lives at home with his parents and sells Adderall to soccer moms who he often ends up sleeping with.
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The Wrap
The Good Doctor - Antonia Thomas Cast as the Female Lead in ABC Drama Pilot
Thomas plays Claire Browne, a strong willed, caring and talented doctor who forms a special connection with Shaun while wrestling her own challenges.
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Deadline
Instinct - Bojana Novakovic Cast as the Female Lead in CBS Drama Pilot
Novakovic will play Lizzie, a top detective with the NYPD who approaches Dylan to help with a case. “Instinct” — formerly titled “Killer Instinct” and “Dr. Death” — is about Dylan, a former CIA operative, played by Alan Cumming.
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Variety
Saidah Ekulona Join ABC's Untitled Marc Cherry Drama Pilot
Ekulona will play Velma Winemiller, a church lady who runs the local bed and breakfast with her sister, Inez.
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Deadline
Unit Zero - Kimberly Hébert Gregory Joins ABC Drama Pilot
Gregory will play Brie, the motorcycle-riding best friend to Jackie (Collette) and fellow CIA agent.
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Deadline
Andy Favreau to Star in NBC's Untitled Mindy Kaling & Charlie Grandy Comedy Pilot
The younger brother of Vince, Michael (Favreau), a gorgeous idiot.
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Deadline
Las Reinas - Sonia Braga to Star in ABC Drama Pilot
Braga will play Gabriella De La Reina, the head of one of the most powerful crime syndicates in the world. After her husband was killed, Gabriella took over their small criminal enterprise and turned it into a multi-national, multimillion-dollar behemoth of illegal and legal interests. She has it all — except the one thing she wants more than anything: to bring her estranged