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USA To Do Movie Starring Mark Harmon

USA Network has given the green light to Prey, a two-hour movie starring Mark Harmon, as the cable network continues to expand its original programming portfolio beyond hourlong scripted series.

The film is based on the best-selling Prey series of novels by John Sandford. Harmon will play the central character in the books, Minneapolis Deputy Police Chief Lucas Davenport. The movie is based on the 10th of the 20 novels in the series, Certain Prey, in which Davenport goes against a lethal hit woman and a ferociously cunning killer determined to hunt him down. Chris Gerolmo (Citizen X) penned the script for the movie, which is slated to begin production in May. Jaffe-Braunstein Films is producing, with Michael Jaffe, Howard Braunstein and Harmon executive producing. "Mark Harmon could read the phone book and we'd probably want to put it on the air!" USA's president original programming Jeff Wachtel quipped.

While Prey is being done as a one-off, with USA acquiring the rights of all 20 books, it could potentially turn into a movie franchise in the mold of Tom Selleck's Jesse Stone series of films on CBS. Prey is the second original movie USA has greenlighted in the past six months after largely staying away from the genre for the past five years. The other movie, the  Burn Notice prequel Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, premieres on April 17. Both Sam Axe and Prey are extension of signature USA franchises: its flagship series, Burn Notice, and its top off-network series, NCIS, which stars Harmon. But the movies are also part of USA's new strategy of broadening its offerings with reality, half-hour comedy, movies and mini-series.

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Wednesday 2nd March

8:00PM

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Total Viewers

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American Idol

21.70 Million

7.4/21

The Middle

8.11 Million

2.4/7

8:30PM

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Better With You

5.92 Million

1.8/5

9:00PM

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Total Viewers

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American Idol

23.00 Million

8.2/22

Criminal Minds

14.30 Million

3.6/8

Modern Family

10.10 Million

4.1/11

9:30PM

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Mr Sunshine

7.02 Million

2.4/7

Traffic Light

7.39 Million

2.8/8

10:00PM

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Criminal Minds SB

10.30 Million

2.7/7

Off The Map

5.00 Million

1.7/5

Justified

2.65 Million

1.0/3

Hot In Cleveland

1.96 Million

0.4/1

Are We There Yet

N/A

N/A

10:30PM

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Are We There Yet

N/A

N/A

Lets Stay Together

1.18 Million

0.3/1

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Elizabeth Hurley & Tracie Thoms Join NBC's 'Wonder Woman

Elizabeth Hurley has been tapped for a potentially recurring role in David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman reboot for NBC starring Adrianne Palicki as the comic book heroine who, in the new version, is a successful corporate executive working to balance all of the elements in her complicated life. Pending visa clearance, British actress Hurley will guest star in the pilot as villain Veronica Cale, the beautiful, highly educated head of one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the country who is afflicted with serious deep-seated Wonder Woman envy.

Cold Case alumna Tracie Thoms will play the regular role of Etta,Diana Themyscira (Palicki)'s always cheerful personal assistant.

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Ginnifer Goodwin Joins ABC Drama Pilot 'Once Upon A Time' As Snow White

Big Love co-star Ginnifer Goodwin has been tapped for a lead role 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. Goodwin will play Snow White/Sister Mary Margaret, a beautiful woman with dark hair and very pale skin who has been placed under a wicked spell by the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla), and is brought back from a living death by Prince Charming. WME-repped Goodwin has been busy in features lately with He's Just Not That Into You, A Single Man and the upcoming Something Borrowed.

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Four Board CBS Comedy Pilots

Former My Name Is Earl co-star Nadine Velazquez, Ugly Betty alum Tony Plana and Lupe Ontiveros and  are set to co-star opposite Rob Schneider in his untitled comedy pilot for CBS. The project, from CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum  Co., was written by Schneider and Lew Morton. Based on Schneider's life, it centers on solitary guy Rob (Schneider) who marries into a huge Mexican-American family. Velazquez will play Rob's younger, Mexican-American wife Maggie whom he married after knowing her for only 6 weeks. Plana will play Maggie's conservative and authoritative Mexican-born father. Ontiveros will play Maggie's tough and feisty maternal grandmother who only speaks Spanish. APA-repped Plana played Betty's (America Ferrera) Mexican-born father for the entire run of ABC's Ugly Betty. Velazquez most recently did an arc on the FX comedy The League.

Danny Comden has been cast in another untitled CBS comedy pilot from CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaums, the untitled sports radio show sitcom inspired by ESPN personality Colin Cowherd’s outspoken sports talk show. On the workplace comedy set behind the scenes of a sports radio show, which was written by Bill Martin and Mike Schiff, Comden will play the show's manipulative producer.

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Enrique Murciano, Rebecca Mader & James Callis Among Latest Pilot Cast Additions

Without a Trace alum Enrique Murciano is back at the network with a co-starring role opposite Minnie Driver in the hourlong pilot Hail Mary. The project, from Warner Bros., is a buddy P.I. show centered on Mary Beth (Driver), a suburban single mom in Atlanta who teams up with a streetwise hustler to solve crimes. Murciano will play Carlos Moreno, a detective with the Atlanta P.D. working the Major Crimes Division who went to high school with Mary Beth  and has had a crush on her ever since. He winds up being Mary Beth's de facto mentor in criminology, although he yearns for something more. In addition to Hail Mary, Murciano, who was pursued for several pilots this season, just landed a multi-episode arc on CBS' hit NCIS as Garza, new love interest for Ziva (Cote de Pablo). He is with Gersh and Untitled.

Lost alumna Rebecca Mader, who is recurring on ABC's freshman drama No Ordinary Family, is staying at the network but switching to comedy with a role in ABC' comedy pilot Work It. The  multicamera project, from Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen, is about out-of-work car salesmen Lee and Angel (Amaury Nolasco) who realize that it is now a woman's world and decide that in order to find work again and succeed they are going to have to dress as women to get jobs as pharmaceuticals reps. Mader, repped by Innovative and Mosaic, will play a bitchy and pseudo-sophisticate drug sales rep with a know-everything attitude.

Greek alumna Amber Stevens has boarded Fox's medical drama pilot Weekends at Bellevue. The project, from UMS, BermanBraun and Lisa Zwerling, centers on Ellie (Lauren Ambrose), the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital psychiatric unit. Stevens, repped by ICM and Red Baron, will play a fresh faced psychiatry intern. She will  be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man.

Battlestar Galactica alum James Callis is reuniting with the series' developer-executive producer Rob Moore on Moore NBC pilot 17th Precinct. The Deep End star Matt Long has also joined the project set in the fictional town of Excelsior where magic and supernatural elements rule over science and revolving around the cops at the local 17th Precinct. Long recently recurred on Mad Men.

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Pilot Scoop: Aidan Quinn Joins Prime Suspect

Aidan Quinn 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. Quinn will play Jane's boss, Lt. Kenny Rowe, the squad commander. Quinn, repped by Framework and Paradigm, co-stars opposite Liam Neeson in Unknown. Peter Berg is executive producing the UMS-produced pilot and directing from a script by Alexandra Cunningham.

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'The River' & 'Awakening' Find Their Leads, Two Board 'Tagged' & 'Wonder Woman

British actor Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) has landed the lead in ABC's drama pilot The River directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The horror thriller, from DreamWorks TV, ABC Studios and Paranormal Activity mastermind Oren Peli, centers on Lincoln Cole (Anderson) who, after his famous TV explorer father goes missing way up the Amazon, reluctantly abandons his medical studies and follows in his father's footsteps - accompanied by a small camera crew, and with Something Deadly in the water, waiting for him. Anderson, repped by CAA, Management 360 and U.K.'s United Agents, co-stars in the two-part The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, in which he plays English nomadic vampire Alistair.

Another twentysomething Brit, Lucy Griffiths, has landed the lead in the CW's zombie thriller Awakening. The project, from WBTV and Reveille, is about two sisters coming of age and facing off against one another amidst the beginning of a zombie uprising. It centers on the older sister, Jenna (Griffiths), an attorney in the New York City's public defender's office who, like her sister, is a zombie. This marks the first U.S. acting gig for Griffiths, which stems from the talent holding deal she inked last month with CW's sibling network CBS. In the U.K., the actress, repped by the Kohner Agency, Principal and the U.K.'s Hamilton/Hodell, played Maid Marian on BBC's Robin Hood.

Robin Givens has joined the cast of Fox's pilot Tagged. The hybrid comedy, from Sony TV, Reveille and writers David Guarascio and Moses Port, is a workplace ensemble set at the Los Angeles County's coroner's office that centers on Wally Percy (Tommy Dewey) who, just fresh out of medical school, joins his father, respected coroner James Percy (Gary Cole), and his team at the coroner's office. Givens, repped by Marshak/Zachary, will play the relentlessly cheerful, marginally bone-headed new head of the county department, who doesn't know a thing about forensics or pathology.

Pedro Pascal, who has been recurring on CBS' The Good Wife, is the latest actor to join David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman reboot for NBC. The project stars Adrianne Palicki as comic book heroine Wonder Woman/Diana Themyscira/Diana Price who is a successful corporate executive working to balance all of the elements in her complicated life. Pascal will play a liaison to the police department who is devoted and loyal to Diana. Pascal is the third actor cast in Wonder Woman in the past 24 hours, following deals for Tracie Thoms as a regular and Elizabeth Hurley as guest star.

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Jeff Hephner Set As The Lead In 'Playboy

EXCLUSIVE: Actor Jeff Hephner just got his big break, landing the lead role in NBC's drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV, Imagine TV and writer-executive producer Chad Hodge, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. Hephner went through rigorous auditioning process, beating a number of better known actors for the role, the last major part in the pilot to get cast. And he certainly has the right last name for it that sounds exactly like the  moniker of the father of the Playboy empire, Hugh Hefner.

Playboy centers on Nick Dalton (Hephner), described as "the ultimate playboy." He is an attorney in Chicago and a Keyholder at the glamorous, exclusive Playboy Club. A fixer who knows how to make problems disappear, he has mysterious ties to the mob. The pilot, directed by Alan Taylor, co-stars Laura Benanti, Amber Heard, Naturi Naughton, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Leah Renee, David Krumholtz and Wes Ramsey. Hephner, repped by Paradigm and the Group Entertainment, is recurring on CW's Hellcats and has also done arcs on NBC's Mercy and Fox's The O.C.

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Jean Smart, Gabrielle Union & Kelly Hu Among Latest Pilot Casting Additions

Jean Smart is set to star in NBC's untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from BermanBraun, UMS and writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote, a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Smart will play Adam's doting, meddlesome mom, Dr. Barbara Foote. Emmy winner Smart recurs on 2 CBS series this season, drama Hawaii Five-0 and comedy $#*! My Dad Says.

Gabrielle Union is set to co-star opposite Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall and Kevin Hart in Rob Thomas' single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. The WBTV-produced pilot is about 3 families united through their kids’ little league sports. It centers on the Wellers (Corddry, Marshall) who move from San Jose, CA to Austin, TX, but find that their adjustment won't be quite that easy, considering that their Latino neighbors, the Pachecos, have a radically different approach to child-rearing than they do, while their other new neighborhood acquaintances, the African American Burlesons (Hart, Union), take sports very seriously. Union's Nicole Burleson is a lobbyist on the fast track to success who is every bit as competitive and intense as her husband.


Kelly Hu, Sandra Vergara and JR Bourne have joined Michael Patrick King's NBC pilot A Mann's World. In the vein of Shampoo, the project, from Warner Bros. TV, centers on Allan Mann (Johnson), a 50something handsome and sexy straight Beverly Hills hairdresser who is struggling to stay young and relevant in a place where looks are everything. Hu, repped by Kohner Agency and Untitled, will play Allan's second wife and the mother of their 4 year old daughter, a brilliant  architect who is is a killer in the boardroom and a bombshell in the bedroom. Main Title-repped Vergara, the younger sister of Modern Family star Sofia Vergara, will play a gorgeous junior stylist. She will next be seen  in Fright Night. Bourne will play one of the star stylists at the salon, a "shaggy", handsome, gay man who is a loyal friend and confidant to Allan.

Also signed for pilots are Krysta Rodriguez (Fox comedy Iceland), Hannah Simone (Fox comedy Chicks & Dicks) and Damaris Diaz (Fox comedy Family Album)

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'Battlestar' Alumna Tricia Helfer Joins Ron Moore's NBC Pilot '17th Precinct

EXCLUSIVE: The more, the merrier. Battlestar Galactica developer/ executive producer Ron Moore has tapped a third co-star from the hit Syfy series, Tricia Helfer, to join his new sci-fi project, NBC's pilot 17th Precinct. The Sony TV-produced drama is set in the fictional town of Excelsior where magic and supernatural elements rule over science and revolves around the cops at the local 17th Precinct. Helfer will play Morgana, a necromancer, the magical equivalent of a coroner, who is an expert at manipulating the potions, tools, herbs and spells of her trade.In the pilot, Helfer joins fellow Battlestar alumni James Callis and Jamie Bamber.

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Thursday 3rd March

8:00PM

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American Idol

23.60 Million

7.6/23

10:00PM

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Fairly Legal

3.20 Million

0.9/3

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Cary Elwes Joins NBC's 'Wonder Woman

EXCLUSIVE: Cary Elwes is set to co-star opposite Adrienne Palicki in David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman reboot for NBC. The project stars Palicki as comic book heroine Wonder Woman/Diana Themyscira/Diana Price who is a successful corporate executive working to balance all of the elements in her complicated life. Elwes will play Henry Detmer, the acting CEO of Themyscira Industries who is deeply devoted to Diana. He runs the day to day operations of the company and acts like an Uncle to Diana although he could be a possible love interest down the line. Elwes' only previous regular TV series gig was his starring role on The X-Files. He recently did a couple episodes of USA's Psych. The actor, repped by APA and KLWG, is filming  Gary Marshall's New Year’s Eve and was recently seen in No Strings Attached. He has Tin Tin coming out later this year.

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Jim Caviezel To Star In Jonah Nolan/J.J. Abrams CBS Drama Pilot 'Person Of Interest

CBS has found its 'Person of Interest'. In what would be his first series gig, The Passion of the Christ star Jim Caviezel has signed on to topline CBS' crime drama pilot Person of Interest. Written/exec produced by Jonah Nolan and executive produced by J.J. Abrams, the project centers on  ex-CIA agent Reese (Caviezel), presumed dead, who teams up with reclusive billionaire Finch (Michael Emerson) to prevent violent crimes in New York City. On TV, ICM-repped Caviezel previously starred in the AMC miniseries The Prisoner.

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Becki Newton To Star In CBS Comedy Pilot

CBS' comedy pilot from Jeff and Jackie Filgo has won the Becki Newton sweepstakes. With several pilots vying for the former Ugly Betty co-star, Newton picked the CBS family comedy (formerly Homegrown) as her starring vehicle this pilot season. The pilot is formally in second position to Newton's NBC series Love Bites, which is yet to be scheduled and has little chance of returning for a second season.

The untitled Filgos project centers on a blue-collar guy who wrestles with how to parent his unmarried grown daughter (Newton) and her 12-year-old son while sharing a house with them as well as his wife and his recently widowed mother. Newton is with Gersh.

In other pilot castings, singer-songwriter-actress Caitlin Crosby has joined NBC's drama A Mann's World, starring Don Johnson as a fiftysomething Beverly Hills hairdresser. Crosby, repped by Paradigm and John Carrabino, will play the genius hair colorist at the salon.

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Anjelica Huston Joins NBC's 'Smash

In what would be her first regular series gig, Oscar winner Anjelica Huston has been tapped to co-star opposite Debra Messing and Christian Borle in NBC's drama pilot Smash, which follows a cross-section of characters who come together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway. Huston will play a shrewd, classy but cynical New York theater producer who is at home with the elite. Also co-starring in the pilot are Megan Hilty, Jack Davenport and Katharine McPhee. On TV, Huston recently recurred on the NBC/CBS drama Medium.

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ABC Finds Leads For Drama 'Poe' And Comedy 'Other People's Kids

Chris Egan is set as the lead in ABC's drama pilot Poe. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and Lin Pictures, is a crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe (Egan), the world’s very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston. The casting stems from Egans' talent deal with ABC. The actor previously played the lead in NBC's drama Kings. Also cast in Poe today was The Legend of the Seeker alumna Tabrett Bethell as Poe's muse.

Jesse Bradford (NBC's Outlaw) has landed the lead in ABC's half-hour pilot Other People's Kids. The multicamera comedy, written by Hunter Covington and directed by Michael Fresco, centers on Adam (Bradford), a 32-year-old guy with no responsibilities who suddenly finds himself with an insta-family when he falls in love with an older woman (Bonnie Sommerville) who has two kids, an ex-husband, and ex-in-laws. Bradford also recurred on NBC's The West Wing and co-starred in Flags of Our Fathers.

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Bruce Greenwood Among Latest ABC Pilot Castings

After fielding multiple pilot offers, Bruce Greenwood has signed on to co-star in the ABC drama pilot The River directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The horror thriller, from DreamWorks TV, ABC Studios and Paranormal Activity mastermind Oren Peli, centers on Lincoln Cole (Joe Anderson) who, after his famous TV explorer father (Greenwood) goes missing way up the Amazon, reluctantly abandons his medical studies and follows in his father's footsteps - accompanied by a small camera crew, and with something deadly in the water, waiting for him.

Swingtown alumna Miriam Shor has joined the cast of ABC's dramedy pilot Good Christian Bitches. The sexy soap centers on Amanda (Leslie Bibb), onetime “mean girl” in high school who returns home humbled following a scandalous divorce, hoping to get a second chance at winning over her old classmates. Shor, repped by Gersh and Impression, will play one of the girls hurt by Amanda in high school who is now determined to ruin her life.

Darby Stanchfield (Mad Men), Jeff Perry and Liza Weil (Gilmore Girls) have been added to Shonda Rhimes' ABC drama pilot Damage Control, an ensemble based on the career of legendary crisis management consultant Judy Smith which stars Kerry Washington as Olivia, a professional fixer with a dysfunctional staff. Stanchfield will play a tireless investigator working for Olivia. Perry, who has been recurring on Rhimes' series Grey's Anatomy, will play an aide to the U.S. President Tony Goldwyn. Weil will play the recurring role of Amanda who may be romantically involved with the president. All 3 are with Principal Entertainment.  Perry is also with Innovative

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Friday 4th March

8:00PM

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Total Viewers

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The Defenders

8.56 Million

1.5/6

Smallville

2.24 Million

1.0/3

9:00PM

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Supernatural

2.22 Million

1.0/3

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Andrew J. West, Marcia Gay Harden, Sherri Saum Get Pilot Leads

Andrew J. West (Greek) is set as the lead in NBC's untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote (West), a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Jean Smart was recently cast as his mom. West is with ICM and Group Management.

Marcia Gay Harden is set for a co-starring role in the ABC multi-camera comedy pilot Smothered, from Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen. The project centers on young couple Zack (Kyle Howard) and Gillian, who find themselves smothered by their two very different sets of parents. Harden will play Zack's pretentious, often overbearing mother.

Sherri Saum (Gossip Girl) has landed a lead 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 (Eric 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), a dancer-turned-lawyer, decides to buy her father's studio and run it for him. Saum will play Grace's second daughter, a beautiful, bright Bohemian artist. She's Sarah's half-sister and best friend.

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