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Poppy Montgomery Set As The Lead Of CBS Drama Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: Without a Trace co-star Poppy Montgomery is returning to CBS as the star of the network's untitled Ed Redlich/John Bellucci pilot. The project, which will be directed by The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo helmer Niels Arden Oplev, centers on a female NYPD detective (Montgomery) who possesses the special ability to remember everything and, although a gift in her job, it’s also a curse in her personal life. In addition to CBS, the pilot reunites Montgomery with Redlich, who served as executive producer/showrunner on Without a Trace for the crime drama's first couple of seasons.

Montgomery, repped UTA and Framework, is currently in Vancouver, filming Strange Magic, a Lifetime biopic of JK Rowling, in which she portrays the Harry Potter author.

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Jaime Pressly To Star In Fox's 'Daughter' Comedy Pilot, 3 Join NBC's 'Prime Suspect

EXCLUSIVE: Former My Name Is Earl co-star Jaime Pressly has been tapped as the lead opposite Katie Finneran in Fox's multicamera comedy pilot I Hate My Teenage Daughter. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and writers/executive producers Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer, centers on two women, Annie  (Pressly) and Nikki (Finneran), who now have daughters just like the girls who picked on them in high school. Pressly, repped by CAA and Luber/Roklin, won an Emmy for her role as the ditsy Joy Turner on NBC's Earl.

Kirk Acevedo (Oz), Tim Griffin (Fair Game) and Joe Nieves are set to co-star opposite Maria Bello in NBC's drama pilot Prime Suspect. The remake of the iconic British series centers on Jane Timoney (Bello), an iconoclastic female detective who has to make her bones in a tough New York precinct that is dominated by men. Acevedo, repped by Fortitude and Abrams, will play Det. Phil Carter, a member of the homicide squad who is disdainful and vocally critical of Jane. Griffin, repped by Pakula/King and Essential, will play Det. Augie Blando, the hen pecked class clown. Also playing a detective, Det. Don Korilko, is Nieves.

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Several Actors Board Broadcast Pilots

ABC's comedy comedy pilot has found the leads for its comedy pilot My Freakin' Family: Ellen Woglom and Ravi Patel. Christopher Rich also has been cast in the project, which centers on two young parents, Anna (Woglom) and Raj (Patel), whose lives change after they have a baby and the four grandparents with very different cultural backgrounds descend upon their lives to fight for the soul of their grandchild. Rich will play Anna's dad, an affable suburban cowboy. Harish Patel was previously cast as Raj's dad. Ravi Patel, repped by TalentWorks and Seven Summits, played the lead in Fox's comedy pilot Nevermind Nirvana last year.

Janet McTeer is set to co-star in the Fox drama pilot Weekends at Bellevue. Based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir, Bellevue centers on a psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit. McTeer, nominated for an Oscar in 2000 for Tumbleweeds,  will play Diane, the head of psychiatry at Bellevue.

Zoe Lister has been cast in NBC's untitled Whitney Cummings comedy pilot. The project, written by Cummings, centers on young couple Whitney (Cummings) and Alex (Chris D'Elia) who tackle the ups and downs of a committed relationship  torn between their friends Lily (Lister) and Neal who think that everyone has to tie the knot and Mark and Roxanne who think no one should.

Wes Ramsey has been added to NBC's drama pilot Playboy, set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. ramsey will play Max, a bartender at the club who has model looks and a model brain.

Lana Parrilla (Miami Medical) is set to co-star in ABC's drama pilot Once Upon a Time. The project, from Lost executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, centers on a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. Parrilla will play Mayor Regina/Evil Queen, a beautiful, terrifying woman who carries herself with evil menace. She's the mortal enemy of both Snow White and Prince Charming, and is determined to have a terrible vengeance upon all the inhabitants of Fairy Tale Land.

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Monday 28th February

8:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

House

10.96 Million

3.8/10

How I Met Your Mother

9.26 Million

3.4/10

Chuck

5.30 Million

1.7/4

Pretty Little Liars

2.68 Million

1.0/3

90210

1.44 Million

0.7/2

8:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Mad Love

7.95 Million

2.7/7

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

The Chicago Code

8.00 Million

2.2/5

The Cape

4.06 Million

1.2/3

Gossip Girl

1.40 Million

0.7/2

Being Human

1.40 Million

0.9/1

Greek

0.889 Million

0.5/1

9:30PM

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Mike & Molly

11.41 Million

3.4/9

10:00PM

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Castle

10.12 Million

2.8/8

Harry's Law

9.10 Million

1.8/5

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Ashley Judd & Jenna Elfman Now Set For Starring Roles In ABC Projects

Ashley Judd and Jenna Elfman who had been in negotiations to topline ABC's action drama series Missing and comedy pilot Bad Mom, respectively, have now closed their deals for the projects. Missing, which eyes an early fall launch, centers on Becca Winstone (Judd), a devoted single mom who, after her 18-year-old son disappears in Italy, takes it upon herself to travel to Europe and track him down. It soon becomes clear that Winstone is a former CIA agent who will stop at nothing to bring her son home alive. Steve Shill is on board to direct multiple episodes of the series, including the opener. He will also executive produce with writer Poirier, Grant Scharbo and Gina Matthews. Production is scheduled to begin late next month in Rome, Vienna and Prague.

Bad Mom, from ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment, centers on Julia (Elfman), a single mom whose two kids had been raised largely by her mom. When her mom decides to get her life back, Julia has to do it alone. Bad Mom was created by British writer-actress-comedienne Sharon Horgan who is executive producing with Aaron Kaplan as well as co-starring. Jen Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan recently joined the pilot as executive producers/showrunners.

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Rachelle Lefevre To Star In NBC's 'The Crossing'

Twilight alumna Rachelle Lefevre has been tapped as the female lead in the NBC drama pilot The Crossing. Written by Josh Brand, it is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and centers on Jason, a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior. Lefevre will play Anna, a war widow in the town who watched helplessly as Union soldiers burned her husband and two little boys alive in their barn. Now living with her five-year-old daughter, Anna is smitten with Jason at first meeting and embarks on a torrid affair with the troubled outsider. For Lefevre, the casting is in second position to ABC's midseason medical drama Off the Map. Lefevre, repped by Gersh and Pearl Hanan Management, most recently co-starred in the features Barney's Vision and Casino Jack.

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HBO Greenlights Doug Ellin's Comedy Pilot '40' Starring Ed Burns

HBO has picked up to pilot 40, an ensemble comedy from Entourage creator/executive producer Doug Ellin co-starring Ed Burns.

The show, set in New York, revolves around four lifelong friends who help each other navigate life at 40, which isn't all they expected it to be. Burns will play one of them, married with kids guy, who used to work at Bear Stearns making over 2 million a year but has now been out of work for almost a year. The quartet also includes a rich metrosexual guy, a a ripped personal trainer and a schlumpy neurotic married guy.The project falls under Ellin's overall deal with HBO.

40 joins HBO's recent pilot orders to Armando Ianucci's Veep starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Aaron Sorkin's untitled News Show project. Entourage's eighth and final season airs this summer.

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Steven Pasquale To Star In USA Network's Pilot 'Over/Under

EXCLUSIVE: Meet USA Network's new leading man. Rescue Me co-star Steven Pasquale has been tapped as the lead of USA Network's hourlong pilot Over/Under. The project, from Fox TV Studios and Universal Cable Prods., centers on Paul (Pasquale), a day trader with a massive gambling problem who is fired from his job six months after a bad trade costs his firm millions.  Shut out of the job market, he and his wife move to Brooklyn. There, Paul  finds an unlikely partner, expectant father Marino (Anthony Carrigan), to start a high-end bookie business. Bronwen Hughes is set to direct the pilot from a script by Sheila Callaghan. Pascuale, repped by ICM and Emily Gerson-Saines, is best known for his role as young firefighter Sean Garrity on the FX drama Rescue Me, which is wrapping its seven-season this summer. On stage, he co-starred in Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty on Broadway and is about to open in Tony Kushner's new play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures at New York's Public Theater.

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Emily Rutherfurd, Rhys Darby Join CBS Comedy Pilots

Emily Rutherfurd is set to co-star in Tucker Cawley's comedy pilot for CBS The Assistants, a young ensemble about four assistants who work for celebrity couple Mike and Ali. Rutherfurd will play Ali's friendly, a bit manic and socially awkward sister who has lived her life in her famous sister's wake and now works for her as house manager, keeping tabs on everything, including the assistants.

Flight of the Conchords alum Rhys Darby has been cast in CBS' comedy pilot How To Be A Gentleman, written by and starring David Hornsby. It revolves around a magazine that has changed ownership and centers on Alan (Hornsby) who writes a column on how to be a gentleman - in all aspects of life. Darby will play Alan's  brother in law.  Darby, who played the band's manager on Conchords, co-starred in Pirate Radio and Yes Man. The actor-comedian, repped by CAA and Principato-Young, also tours internationally.

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Christina Ricci, Jaime King And Annie Potts Get Pilot Starring Roles

In her first major TV gig, Christina Ricci has closed a deal to star in ABC's drama pilot Pan Am. The project, from Sony Pictures TV, writer Jack Orman and director Thomas Schlamme, is a sexy soap set against the Jet-Age about pilots and flight attendants working at the iconic Pan Am airline in the 1960s. Ricci, repped by ICM and Management 360, will play the lead, Maggie, a fiery stewardess who is leading a double life - on duty she is a beautiful, perfectly groomed and poised stewardess, and off duty she is earthy, bohemian living among the beatniks and intellectuals of Greenwich Village. Exec producing are Orman, Schlamme and producer Nancy Hult Ganis, a former Pan Am flight attendant.

Jaime King is set to co-star opposite Rachel Bilson in CW's drama pilot Hart of Dixie. The project, from  writer Leila Gerstein, WBTV and Fake Empire, is a comedic drama centered on a young New York City doctor (Bilson) who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town inhabited by an eclectic and eccentric group of characters. King, repped by Gersh and Raw Talent, will play a beautiful, overly effusive young woman, one of the elite "Blue Belles", a group of southern debutante-types who keep the town history alive by performing in period dress.

Annie Potts has been tapped for a lead role in the ABC's dramedy pilot Good Christian Bitches, from writer-exec producer Robert Harling and exec producer Darren Star. Based on Kim Gatlin's book, it centers on Amanda, a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of gossip, Botox and fraud. Potts will play Amanda's overbearing Dallas mother. Potts fielded 3 pilot offers this season before settling on Bitches. Additionally, she has been approached for a guest spot on CW's Hart of Dixie. Potts, repped by Innovative and manager Craig Dorfman, is currently starring in Aftermath at  the Odyssey. She most recently appeared on Broadway in God of Carnage and is rumored for the upcoming Ghostbusters movie.

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Leslie Bibb Set As The Lead In ABC's 'Bitches', Jennifer Ehle To Star In CBS Pilot

Leslie Bibb has been tapped for the lead in ABC's dramedy pilot Good Christian Bitches, from ABC Studios, Kapital Entertainment, writer-exec producer Robert Harling and exec producer Darren Star. Based on Kim Gatlin's book, it centers on Amanda (Bibb), a recently divorced mother of two who moves back to the affluent  neighborhood where she grew up to find herself in the whirling midst of gossip, Botox and fraud. Crossing Jordan alumna Bibb, repped by ICM and manager John Carrabino, co-starred in the two Iron Man movies. She will next be seen in the feature comedy Zookeeper. Bibb joins previously cast Jennifer Aspen and Annie Potts.

The King's Speech co-star Jennifer Ehle is set as the female lead opposite Patrick Wilson in CBS' untitled Susannah Grant drama pilot. Jonathan Demme is directing he supernatural medical drama, from CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly, which centers on an ultra-competitive surgeon (Wilson) whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife (Ehle), a doctor running a free clinic, dies and begins teaching him what life is all about from the here-after. Two-time Tony winner Ehle, repped by ICM and Independent Talent Group, recently shared a best ensemble SAG Award with the rest of the King's Speech cast. She just finished shooting Contagion and The Ides of March.

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Abigail Spencer To Star In ABC's 'Grace', Several Other Actors Join Pilots

Abigail Spencer (Mad Men) has landed the female lead opposite Eric Roberts in ABC's drama pilot Grace, from writer Krista Vernoff. A dysfunctional family drama set in the world of professional dance, it centers on Michael Grace (Roberts), a famous choreographer who tends to sleep with his dancers and has three daughters  with different mothers. He is in danger of losing his studio until his daughter Sarah (Spencer), a former dancer-turned-lawyer, decides to buy her father's studio and run it for him before he loses it. Spencer, repped by ICM and Untitled, recently filmed the features Cowboys and Aliens and A Haunting in Georgia.

Heroes alum Stephen Tobolowsky has joined CBS' drama pilot Hail Mary. The project, created by Jeff Wadlow and exec produced by Ilene Chaiken, is a buddy P.I. show set in Atlanta that stars Minnie Driver as Mary Beth, a suburban single mom who teams up with a streetwise hustler to solve crimes. Tobolowsky will play a private detective hired by Mary Beth to investigate her son's death who helps her get her own PI license so she can investigate the death herself.

Jay Paulson has been added to ABC's drama pilot Identity. The project, from ABC Studios and writer John Glenn, is an action procedural based on a British  format, which is centered on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Paulson will play the rookie agent on the squad.

Daniella Alonso has boarded Stephen Gaghan's pilot for NBC S.I.L.A., a complex drama in the style of  Traffic and Syriana set in the world of crime, law enforcement and politics in sprawling modern-day Los Angeles. The project, from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, centers on detective Terry Mullins, who works in L.A. Mayor Virgilio Zaragoza's Special Investigations Unit. Alonso will play a former newscaster type who's now the press liaison for Mayor Zaragoza. Also cast in the pilot is Matthew Levy as Max, an adrenaline junkie teen.

Mark Povinelli has been added to the NBC multicamera comedy pilot Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, inspired by Chelsea Handler's autobiographical book of the same name about her life in her 20s.

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Tuesday 1st March

8:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

American Idol

20.50 Million

7.0/21

NCIS

19.50 Million

3.8/11

No Ordinary Family

4.22 Million

1.2/3

One Tree Hill

1.75 Million

0.7/2

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

NCIS Los Angeles

15.60 Million

3.2/8

V

4.95 Million

1.7/5

Hellcats

1.46 Million

0.6/2

9:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

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Raising Hope

8.77 Million

3.4/9

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

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The Good Wife

11.25 Million

2.2/6

Parenthood

5.00 Million

2.0/5

The Game

3.74 Million

1.8/5

White Collar

3.30 Million

1.1/3

Southland

1.85 Million

0.5/2

Lights Out

0.802 Million

0.4/1

10:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Lets Stay Together

2.41 Million

1.1/3

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Katie Cassidy Among ABC Pilot Additions

Melrose Place alumna Katie Cassidy is joining another primetime soap. Cassidy has been cast opposite Jimmy Wolk in ABC's drama pilot Georgetown. Also cast in the the hourlong project, written by Will Fetters, is Australian Daisy Betts (Persons Unknown). Described as a sexy soap centered around the young people behind the power brokers of Washington, DC. It centers on Andrew Pierce (Wolk), an effortlessly charming and brilliant Yale graduate and the youngest Presidential speech-writer on record. Cassidy will play Nikki, a smart and quick-witted junior staffer in the White House Communications Office with connections to the First Lady. Nikki, who is also a model, is friends and roommates with Andrew and Samantha (ICM-repped Betts), an idealistic young staffer with the Democratic President, daughter of a political dynasty who shares a romantic history with Andrew. Georgetown, from Warner Bros. TV and Josh Schwarz's Fake Empire, reunites Cassidy with Schwartz and Savage, on whose CW show Gossip Girl she recently recurred. Cassidy, whose series credits include CW's Supernatural and CBS' Harper's Island, was also offered the CW pilot Heavenly this season.

Allie Grant (Weeds) has been cast in another ABC/WBTV pilot, comedy Suburgatory. The pilot, from creator Emily Kapnek, centers on Tessa (Jane Levy), a teenage girl who is moved by her dad George from Manhattan, where she grew up, to her version of hell: the suburbs. Grant will play Lisa, a socially awkward girl at school who befriends Tessa. Grant, repped by TalentWorks and Sweeney Management, recently guest starred on Private Practice.

Anabelle Acosta (the upcoming Greatest Movie Ever Made) is set to co-star in ABC's drama pilot Grace, from creator Krista Vernoff and Carrie Ann Inaba. A dysfunctional family drama set in the world of professional dance, it centers on Michael Grace (Roberts), a famous choreographer who tends to sleep with his dancers and has three daughters  with different mothers. He is in danger of losing his studio until his daughter Sarah (Abigail Spencer) decides to buy the studio and run it. Acosta, repped by CESD Talent and Leverage, will play Eden,  a beautiful mixed-race Latina/Caucasian girl and a talented dancer who is the daughter Michael Grace never knew he had.

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Exclusive: Michael Rosenbaum Confirmed for Full-Time Sitcom Gig

And now, some news that is breaking in more ways than one: TVLine has confirmed that TV viewers will be getting a double helping of Michael Rosenbaum this spring, now that the actor — on top of his Smallville encore — has been booked for all seven episodes of the new Fox comedy Breaking In.

Rosenbaum cameos in the comedy’s pilot as Dutch, the “enterprising” (he peddles clean urine) boyfriend of Odette Yustman’s sexy safecracker. Producers were so pleased with the performance — as well as the character’s potential — that they set out to include him in the entire freshman run of episodes, which kicks off Wednesday, April 6

Production on the six remaining episodes began Monday in Los Angeles.

Breaking In stars Christian Slater as Oz, the head of a team of counter-security experts. Bret Harrison (Reaper) plays a new recruit who immediately is attracted to Yustman’s Melanie. As such, “We’re thinking about bringing Dutch into the office and making him a part of the team, and maybe play out that triangle a little bit,” exec producer Doug Robinson told me in January.

Also on the romantic front: Alyssa Milano (Charmed) appears in Episode 2 as Oz’s ex-wife, a potentially recurring role.
Yes, but what about Rosie’s return to Smallville for the two-hour series finale airing May 13? Fret not, superfriends: Rosenbaum wrapped his scenes last week in Vancouver, so you’ll get your long-awaited Lex appeal as planned.

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CW's 'Cooper & Stone' Finds Cooper

Alex Breckenridge (Life Unexpected) has been tapped as one of the 2 leads in CW's pilot Cooper & Stone. The pilot, from writer-exec producer Laurie Arent and CBS TV Studios, is about Jenna Cooper (Breckenridge) and Stone, two smart young female detectives on Chicago’s North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music, pop culture as they are solving homicides. John Wirth serves as showrunner.

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Kyle Bornheimer To Star In Fox's Comedy Pilot 'Council Of Dads

EXCLUSIVE: The always in-demand Kyle Bornheimer is set to co-star in Peter Tolan's comedy pilot for Fox Council of Dads. Inspired by Bruce Feiler's non-fiction book, the pilot, which is being directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, tells the story of Michael who, just before he dies, enlists five of his guy friends from all aspects of his life to become a “council of dads” to his two young children. Bornheimer will play the "fun dad" on the council, a childhood friend of Michael's who is loud and larger than life, funny though sometimes inappropriate. On the Sony TV-produced pilot, Bornheimer joins previously cast Diane Farr, Patrick Breen and Ken Howard.

Bornheimer fielded several pilot offers before choosing to go with Council. For him, the Fox pilot is in second position to NBC's softly-rated midseason series Perfect Couples, on which he co-stars. This is the second consecutive year, in which Bornheimer has booked a pilot in second position to a midseason series. Last year, he was heavily pursued for 4 pilots before the delayed launch of his midseason ABC comedy Romantically Challenged. He eventually settled on the lead role in the Bays/Thomas CBS comedy pilot. When that pilot didn't go to series, Bornheimer was quickly ast in a lead role on NBC's newly picked-up comedy Perfect Couples, replacing Kyle Howard, who had to pull out because of his obligation to TBS' My Boys. Bornheimer, repped by CAA and Flutie Entertainment, got his big break when he was cast as the male lead in the 2008 CBS comedy Worst Week.

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Martin Henderson, Sarah Paulson & Lauren Ambrose Tapped As The Leads Of 3 Pilots

Three high-profile pilots just landed their leads: Martin Henderson will headline NBC's drama The Crossing, Sarah Paulson will star in NBC's Kari Lizer comedy and Lauren Ambrose will topline Fox's drama Weekends at Bellevue.

Written by Josh Brand and directed by Peter Horton, The Crossing is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and centers on Jason (Henderson), a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior - whether he likes it or not. The casting is in second position to Henderson's current series, ABC's softly-rated midseason drama Off the Map. The Crossing's female lead is Henderson's Off the Map co-star Rachelle Lefevre who is also in second position to the ABC medical drama, so NBC is making a big gamble that Off the Map won't come back for a second season.

The untitled Kari Lizer multicamera comedy, from Warner Bros. TV, is a workplace comedy about a relationship-challenged woman (Paulson) who, with the help of her co-workers, guides people through unexpected career transitions and downsizings. The casting of Paulson lifts the contingency on the project. ICM-repped Paulson was the female lead on NBC's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and ABC's Cupid. Martha Marcy May Marlene, in which she stars, was recently picked up by Fox Searchlight. Lizer is with Scott Schwartz.

Based on Dr. Julie Holland's memoir, Weekends at Bellevue centers on Ellie (Ambrose), the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit. The project hails from former ER writer-producer Lisa Zwerling, BermanBraun and UMS. Six Feet Under alum Ambrose, repped by UTA and Kipperman Management, co-stars on the upcoming season of Torchwood on Starz.

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Angela Bassett To Star In ABC Pilot 'Identity'

Angela Bassett is set as a lead in ABC's drama pilot Identity. The project, from ABC Studios, Mark Gordon Co. and writer John Glenn, is an action procedural based on a British  format, which centers on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Bassett will play Martha, the Special Agent in charge of the FBI's new Identity Crimes Unit. Bronx-tough Vassar graduate from Greenwich, Martha is determined to make a go of this division, using sophisticated technology combined with good old fashioned investigative methods. The casting extends Bassett's relationship with ABC, ABC Studios and producer Mark Gordon. Earlier this pilot season, she was attached to ABC's drama project One Police Plaza, which was developed for her through ABC Studios and studio-based Mark Gordon Co. In it, she was slated to play another top New York law enforcement officer, the city's first female commissioner. Bassett, repped by Gersh and Lighthouse, will next be seen in Jumping the Broom and Green Lantern. On TV, she most recently co-starred on the final season of ER.

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CW's 'Heavenly' Finds Male Lead, NBC's 'The Crossing' Taps Villain

British actor Ben Aldridge has landed the male lead in the CW supernatural drama pilot Heavenly. The project, from CBS TV Studios and writer Richard Hatem, centers on Lily, a dedicated young female attorney, and a former angel, Dashiel Coffee (Aldridge), only recently turned human, who tackle cases at the attorney's legal aid clinic - she saves clients' butts while he saves their souls. Hatem is exec producing with showrunner Rob Doherty and Mimi Leder, who will direct. Aldridge, repped by Industry and UK's Hamilton Hodell, most recently starred on the BBC series Lark Rise to Candleford.

Bill Sage (Precious) has landed a co-starring role on NBC's drama pilot The Crossing. Written by Josh Brand and directed by Peter Horton, The Crossing is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and centers on Jason (Martin Henderson), a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior. Sage will play the Grey Ghost aka the Colonel, a disfigured former Colonel in the Confederate Army with prematurely grey hair who lives nearby in a sumptuously appointed cave - his base of operations to wreak terror on the townsfolk.

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