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TV CASTINGS ROUNDUP: Slew Of Actors Book Pilots

Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia) has been cast as the female lead in ABC's comedy pilot Other People's Kids. Johnny Sneed (Unhitched) has also been cast in in the pilot, which centers on Adam, a 32-year-old guy with no responsibilities who suddenly finds himself with an insta-family when he falls in love with the little older Michelle (Somerville) who has 2 kids, an ex-husband (Sneed), and ex-in-laws.

Julie While has joined 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. White will play Gillian's scrappy mom who is a real mother hen. The Tony winner, repped by Paradigm and Himber Entertainment, will next be seen recurring on Damages and in Transformers 3.

Beverly D'Angelo has joined 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 in today’s complicated world. D'Angelo will play Whitney's self-absorbed, damaged and cynical, thrice-divorced mother.

Elyes Gabel (Identity) and Lina Esco (Cane) have landed co-starring roles opposite Ethan Hawke and Megan Dodds in Fox's drama pilot Exit Strategy, a high-octane procedural about a team of 5 experts associated with the CIA led by Eric Shaw (Hawke) who are deployed when a CIA operation goes bad to extract the ones involved before it's too late. Gabel and Esco will play 2 of the 5 team members - Tehran-born Tarik (Gabel), an expert in vehicular transportation, and sassy South Boston girl Mia (Esco), an MIT graduate and computer expert.

Jazz Raycole, Robbie Benson and The Chronicles of Narnia star Anna Popplewell have joined the cast of Peter Tolan's comedy pilot for NBC Brave New World. The single-camera project, from Sony Pictures TV, is a workplace comedy that follows a group of unusual characters at Pilgrim Village, a theme park that specializes in recreations of New England in 1637. Raycole will play a young African American actress who portrays a white Pilgrim. The actress, repped by CESD and Precision, recurred on Jericho and Eastwick. Benson and Popplewell will also play workers at Pilgrim Village.

Jo Koy has been added to NBC's Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea, a multicamera comedy inspired by Chelsea Handler's autobiographical book, which centers on Chelsea (Laura Prepon), an outspoken cocktail waitress. Koy will play a handsome bartender at the bar where she works.

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Thursday 24th February

8:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

American Idol

21.34 Million

7.2/20

The Big Bang Theory

12.51 Million

3.8/11

Community

3.91 Million

1.8/5

The Vampire Diaries

2.94 Million

1.3/4

8:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Rules Of Engagement

9.63 Million

2.8/8

Perfect Couples

2.96 Million

1.4/4

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

CSI

12.48 Million

2.7/7

Grey's Anatomy

9.10 Million

3.4/9

The Office

6.20 Million

3.2/9

Royal Pains

4.05 Million

1.1/3

Nikita

1.99 Million

0.8/2

9:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Parks & Recreation

4.65 Million

2.4/6

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

The Mentalist

14.67 Million

2.8/8

Private Practice

6.70 Million

2.3/7

30 Rock

4.51 Million

2.3/6

Harry's Law

3.05 Million

0.7/2

10:30PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Outsourced

3.40 Million

1.4/4

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Angels' star: 'Reboot takes new direction

Ramon Rodriguez has claimed that the Charlie's Angels reboot will take the franchise in a new direction.

It was confirmed earlier this month that the actor will play a revamped version of Charlie's liaison Bosley in the ABC pilot.

He told Assignment X: "The mere fact of them casting me... shows they're going in a new direction. With respect to everyone else [who went before], this is a whole new take. This is my version of Bosley."

Rodriguez also revealed that the new Bosley will be adept both with technology and in physical combat.

"I'm doing martial arts training," he confirmed. "Bosley is also a tech savvy guy."

The Battle: Los Angeles star joked that he has been "preparing for his role [his] whole life".

"I grew up with three sisters," he explained. "They watched the original show and they got even more excited [about the reboot] when I got [the part of] Bosley."

The Charlie's Angels pilot will begin shooting in Miami next week.

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PILOTS: Frances Fisher Joins 'Partners,' Jennifer Aspen Cast In 'Bitches

Frances Fisher has joined ABC drama pilot Partners. The project, from Ed Bernero,  is a cop drama centered on two female police detectives, Mattie (Scottie Thompson) and Jess (Annie Wersching), who are fiercely loyal to one another since they're also secretly half-sisters. Fisher, repped by Michael Greene & Assoc. and Sanders Armstrong Caserta, will play Mattie and Jess's mother, who is currently serving a long prison sentence for killing her abusive husband.

Jennifer Aspen has become the first actress cast in ABC's dramedy pilot Good Christian Bitches, from producer Darren Star. Based on Kim Gatlin's book, it centers on 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. Aspen, who co-starred on the ABC comedy Rodney and did an arc on Glee, will play one of the GCBs, beautiful but full-figured, a compulsive eater who is super-sensitive about her weight.

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David Krumholtz To Co-Star In 'Playboy

EXCLUSIVE: Now that's a gig few male actors could pass up -- playing the boss of a Playboy club. After a slew of castings of beautiful young actresses as Playboy bunnies, former Numbers star David Krumholtz is set for a co-starring role in NBC's drama pilot Playboy. In the 20th/Imagine TV project, set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963, Krumholtz will play the club's general manager, a young Albert Brooks and a bottom-line kind of guy, a bit of a nerd who now gets to play with the cool kids.

Additionally, Krumholtz, repped by CAA and the Collective, is developing Igotchaback, a half-hour single-camera comedy  for FX based loosely on the lives of legendary rap artist and Wu Tang Clan founding member GZA and his publicist Heathcliff Berru. The project, which Krumholtz is executive producing with an eye to star, centers on an up-and-coming music industry manager tasked with representing an aging rap star mired knee-deep in existential crisis.

Last pilot season, Krumholtz starred in another 20th TV/Imagine pilot, Fox comedy Tax Man.

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Exclusive: NBC's Grimm Adds Lincoln Heights Alum Russell Hornsby

Things are looking Grimm for Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights) and Bitsie Tulloch (Quarterlife).

The duo have joined NBC’s buzzy drama pilot, which is being described as a fantastical cop drama in which characters from Grimm’s Fairy Tales exist.

Created by David Greenwalt (Profit) and Jim Kouf (Angel), it revolves around Nick (David Giuntoli), a cop who starts to see some humans for what they actually are — animals/beasts — and realizes it’s his destiny to protect society from them.

Hornsby and Tulloch will play Bruce’s partner in crime and love interest, respectively.

Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner (Hot in Cleveland) also serve as exec producers.

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Don Johnson Set To Star In Michael Patrick King's NBC Drama Pilot 'A Mann's World

Former Miami Vice star Don Johnson is returning to NBC. After lengthy negotiations, Johnson just closed a deal to star in the network's drama pilot from Michael Patrick King 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. Not  ready to give up his passion for what he does, he rolls the dice and risks it all to expand his beauty empire by purchasing the building next door to his salon to transform into a day spa. Johnson was the original choice for the role and the fist actor approached for it.

Nash Bridges alum Johnson's most recent regular TV gig was on the WB series Just Legal. Last year, the actor, repped by Gersh and Untitled, co-starred in the ABC pilot Southern Discomfort, did an arc on HBO's Eastbound & Down and appeared in the movies Machete and When In Rome.

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Several Actors Join Broadcast Pilots

Frances O’Connor is set to co-star in Marc Cherry's ABC pilot Hallelujah. It us set in the town of Hallelujah, Tenn., which is being torn apart by the forces of good and evil and whose fortunes change when a stranger, Rye Turner, comes to town, bringing justice, peace and possibly restoring faith. O'Connor will play Rye's wife dealing with the aftermath of their son's brain injury. This marks O'Connor's return to ABC where she had a role on Cashmere Mafia. The actress, repped by Gersh, Rob Marsala and U.K.'s Artists Rights Group, joins previously cast Jesse L. Martin.

Scrubs alumna Kerry Bishe has landed the lead in the Fox single-camera pilot Iceland. The project, from writer-executive producer Andy Bobrow and Sony TV, centers on Mackenzie (Bische), a 20something woman whose fiance recently passed away. Also cast in the pilot is John Boyd.

Tony Goldwyn has joined ABC's Shonda Rhimes drama pilot, now named Damage Control. The project revolves around the life and work of professional fixer Olivia Price (Kerry Washington) and her dysfunctional staff. CAA-repped Goldwyn will play President Fitzgerald Grant, the charismatic Kennedy-esque U.S. President of the U.S. who taps Olivia to quiet a young woman who's claiming she had an affair with him.

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Friday 25th February

8:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

The Defenders

8.72 Million

1.2/4

Smallville

2.55 Million

1.0/4

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

CSI NY

10.83 Million

1.7/5

Fringe

4.04 Million

1.5/5

Supernatural

2.17 Million

1.0/3

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Blue Bloods

11.58 Million

1.7/5

Gods Of The Arena

N/A

N/A

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Two More Actors Join Broadcast Pilots

TJ Miller is the first actor cast in Tucker Cawley's comedy pilot for CBS The Assistants, a young ensemble about four assistants who work for a celebrity couple. WME-repped Miller will play one of them, who at night he plays drums for a struggling band.

Claire Wellin has joined NBC's 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. Wellins will play a scrappy girl left alone in the world after losing her father and two brothers in the war, who is taken under Jasons wing.


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Sunday 27th February

9:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Big Love

N/A

N/A

Californication

N/A

N/A

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

CSI Miami

8.18 Million

2.0/5

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NBC's 'S.I.L.A.' & CBS' 'Girls' Find Leads

Cold Case alum Danny Pino has become the first actor cast in 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's Special Investigations Unit. He is partnered with Douglas Romero (Pino), a 3rd generation Angelino and a great surfer. Pino, repped by ICM and manager Geordie Frey, was approached for several pilots this season.

Little known Beth Behrs beat out several established young actresses to land the lead opposite Kat Dennings in CBS' multicamera comedy pilot Two Broke Girls, co-written and executive produced by former Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King and comedian Whitney Cummings. The project, from Warner Bros., centers on two girls from very different backgrounds - Max (Dennings), poor from birth, and Caroline (Behrs), born wealthy but down on her luck - who wind up as waitresses in the same Brooklyn diner, and strike up an unlikely friendship that could lead to a successful business venture... if they can come up with $250,000 in start-up expenses. Behrs is with Stone Manners Salners and Binder & Assoc.

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Showtime Gives Second-Season Pickups To 'Shameless' & 'Episodes

Showtime has renewed both of its freshman series, drama Shameless and comedy Episodes, for a second season.  The William H. Macy-Emmy Rossum-starring family drama Shameless received a 12-episode order, while the size of the order for the Hollywood-centric Episodes starring Matt LeBlanc is yet to be determined. Both series premiered on January 9, with Shameless logging Showtime's best drama launch ratings performance. Production on both series will begin later this year.

“The viewer loyalty and critical acclaim that has met both SHAMELESS and EPISODES since their January debuts makes it clear that these two brash and sophisticated series are burgeoning hits,” said Showtime entertainment president David Nevins. “John Wells is carving out a tone that is truly unique in the television landscape—equal parts drama and comedy.  And EPISODES marks the universally embraced and hilarious return to television of an inspired comedy triumvirate: Matt LeBlanc, and creators Jeffrey Klarik and David Crane..”

From John Wells and Paul Abbott, SHAMELESS is based on the long-running hit UK series and stars Macy as a working class patriarch of an unconventional Chicago brood of six kids headed by the eldest sibling (Rossum) who keep the home afloat while their dad is out drinking and carousing. The series averages nearly four million weekly viewers across multiple platforms and is on pace to be the network's second-highest rated drama series behind DEXTER (5.2 million).  SHAMELESS hails from with John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV, with Wells, Abbott and Andrew Stearn executive producing.

EPISODES is a co-production between Showtime Networks in the U.S. and the BBC in the UK, written and executive produced by David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik. Jimmy Mulville also executive produces through his Hat Trick production company. The show centers around a husband  and wife producing  team who are forced to navigate the many pitfalls of the Hollywood television business when their successful British show is brought to America.

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TV Land Renews Comedy 'Hot In Cleveland' For Third Season

TV Land's first original scripted series, Hot in Cleveland, is quickly amassing episodes. The hot sitcom just received a 22-episode third season pickup by TV Land. Production on the new season will begin in the summer. After a scorching debut with 4.8 million viewers tuning to the series premiere last June, Hot in Cleveland continues to be a hit for TV Land, averaging 3.2 million viewers, 1.6 rating in TV Land's target adults 25-54  demographic. The comedy also has earned the cable network its first major awards recognition: 2 SAG Award nomination and a win for co-star Betty White. Meanwhile, there is no word yet on the fate of TV Land's second original series, sitcom Retired at 35, which launched last month.

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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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looks good. I think I'm going to have a busy pilotseason

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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

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

Mike & Molly

11.41 Million

3.4/9

10:00PM

Show Name

Total Viewers

18-49 Ratings + Share

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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