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Thursday 10th March

8:00PM

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American Idol

21.73 Million

6.5/19

The Big Bang Theory

12.13 Million

3.8/11

8:30PM

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Rules Of Engagement

9.48 Million

2.8/8

9:00PM

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CSI

13.58 Million

3.1/9

Bones

10.95 Million

3.4/10

10:00PM

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The Mentalist

14.36 Million

3.0/9

Fairy Legal

2.81 Million

0.9/3

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Eddie Cibrian To Play The Lead In 'Playboy

EXCLUSIVE: The lead in the NBC drama pilot Playboy is being recast.Third Watch alum Eddie Cibrian has been tapped for the role, replacing Jeff Hephner, who landed the part last week after a marathon of auditions. The decision was made after the pilot's table read. Sources close to the show say that Hephner, who had never played a major role on a series before, was great in the tests, and the producers love him as an actor, but he didn't work out in the pilot, whose cast includes Laura Benanti, Amber Heard, Naturi Naughton and David Krumholtz. Cibrian is expected start immediately as Playboy is slated to begin filming in Chicago on Tuesday.Playboy, from 20th Century Fox TV, Imagine TV and writer/executive producer Chad Hodge, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. It centers on Nick Dalton (Cibrian), described as "the ultimate playboy." He is an attorney in Chicago and a Keyholder at the glamorous, exclusive club. A fixer who knows how to make problems disappear, he has mysterious ties to the mob. The pilot, directed by Alan Taylor, also co-stars Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Leah Renee and Wes Ramsey.Cibrian, repped by ICM and Steve Sauer, recently co-starred on CSI: Miami for a season and did an arc on NBC's freshman drama Chase this season.

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Tom Sizemore, Eric Winter Join Fox Pilots

EXCLUSIVE: In his first regular series role in almost a decade, Tom Sizemore is set to co-star opposite Ethan Hawke in Fox's drama pilot Exit Strategy, a high-octane procedural about a team of five 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. Sizemore will play Jonathan Marks, a veteran CIA spymaster and mentor to Shaw who is the Exit Strategy unit's LOGPAC (support officer). A man who has been everywhere and done everything, Marks is the man who can get you anything, anywhere, anytime. Sizemore, repped by Global Artists Agency, last did a pilot in 2002, the drama Robbery Homicide Division, which was picked up to series and had a brief run on CBS. He has since done arcs on CBS' Dr. Vegas and Starz's Crash.

Eric Winter, who has been recurring on CBS' The Mentalist this season, has been cast in Fox's drama pilot Weekends at Bellevue. Based on Julie Holland's memoir, Bellevue centers on Ellie (Lauren Ambrose), the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift of Bellevue Hospital's psychiatric unit. Winter, repped by ICM and Brillstein, will play a scruffy and sexy doctor attending in the ER.

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Scott Foley, Kyle MacLachlan & Michael Boatman Cast In CBS Pilot 'The Doctor

Scott Foley, Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Boatman are set to co-star opposite Christine Lahti in CBS' medical-family drama pilot The Doctor. Written by Privileged creator Rina Mimoun and directed by David Nutter, the project, from Warner Bros. TV, centers on Emily (Lahti) a mother who reconnects with her two adult children - son David (Foley) and daughter Natasha (Eva Amurri) when she joins the family medical practice after the death of her husband Ben. Emily is taking over Ben's third of the practice, which he ran with his friend Jason (MacLachlan), a sympathetic pediatrician who has always harbored feelings for Emily, and David. Spin City alum Boatman will play the chief of staff at the hospital where Emily is doing her residency who becomes her mentor. Both Foley and MacLachlan recently did stints on hit ABC series: Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives, respectively.

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Fox pushes back 'Terra Nova' to fall

Fox is pushing back the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s dino drama Terra Nova — again!

Instead of launching with a May 23 preview as originally planned, the adventure series will now debut next fall.
The decision comes after Fox teased the series with an ad during the Super Bowl last month. Explained Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly:
“Terra Nova is one of the most ambitious television series ever produced,” Reilly said. “The cutting-edge visual effects used to create the world of Terra Nova, which is of massive scope and scale, require more time to be realized. This aspect of the series is essential, so we are pushing back the special early preview date to give the visual effects team the time needed for their groundbreaking work.”

“The world of Terra Nova is visually stunning on multiple levels, and effects play an enormous part,” added executive producer René Echevarria. “Premiering in the fall will give us the proper time to create a world never before seen on television.”

Terra Nova: It’s so amazing, we can’t even make it!

The drama was originally set to premiere midseason. In August, Fox pushed back the bulk of the show until fall, electing to air just a two-hour preview in May (like the way the network launched Glee).

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NBC's Pilot 'My Life As An Experiment' Finds Lead And Casts Paget Brewster

Comedian Jon Dore has landed the lead in NBC's comedy pilot My Life As an Experiment. And, in big (and not so good) news for fans of CBS' Criminal Minds, series co-star Paget Brewster has been cast as the female lead in the pilot, from Sony, Reveille and Jack Black's Electric Dynamite.

Written by Cathy Yuspa and Josh Goldsmith based on the book by A.J. Jacobs, My Life As an Experiment centers on magazine immersion journalist A.J. Wilder (Dore), who explores all sorts of unique experiences. Brewster will play A.J.'s feisty and adorable lawyer wife. Brewster has no deal for Criminal Minds beyond this season, so if My Life As an Experiment goes to series, she won't return to the CBS drama (at least not as a regular). UTA-repped Brewster was given the option to do a pilot this year when CBS modified her series regular deal for Criminal Minds in the summer, reducing the number of her guaranteed episodes. She took advantage of the opportunity and tested for a couple of half-hour pilots, landing My Life As an Experiment. (Neither the network nor studio behind Experiment is associated with Criminal Minds as CBS, series producer ABC Studios as well as CBS TV Studios and ABC refrained from casting the actress in their projects to avoid conflict with her possible return to the veteran drama.) Because of her situation, Brewster's storyline on Criminal Minds this season ends with a cliffhanger that will allow the producers to bring her back or write her off if needed. But CBS and the show's team are hoping she will come back, and the network's entertainment president Nina Tassler stressed that at TCA in January.

As for Dore, this represents a major break for the comedian, who starred in The Jon Dore Show on IFC. He’s with Gersh and Diamondfield Entertainment.

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PILOT CASTINGS: NBC's 'I Hate That I Love You' And ABC's 'Identity' Find Leads

Comedian Nick Thune has been cast as the male lead in NBC's comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You. The single-camera project, from writer/exec producer Jhoni Marchinko and 20th TV, is described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad (Thune) and Missy, introduce their lesbian roommates, Brad's Allie and Missy's Sarah (Anna Camp), to each other. Earlier this season, Thune was attached to another NBC comedy project, an ensemble show penned by Spike Feresten. Thune, repped by WME and 3 Arts, has a Web series, Nick's Big Show.

Colin O'Donoghue (The Rite) has landed the male 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 that centers on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Irish-born O'Donoghue will play John Bloom, an intensely private, psychologically insightful former undercover FBI agent who's secretly never left his undercover identity behind, even though he is now working with his old comrade Martha Adams (Angela Bassett) in the FBI's new Identity Crimes Unit.

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Terry Kinney, Della Reese, Cheryl Hines Among Latest Broadcast Pilot Castings

Terry Kinney has joined the cast of CBS' drama pilot Rookies, an ensemble cop show about six NYPD rookies who balance their personal lives with learning the beat on the streets of Manhattan. Kinney, repped by ICM and Brookside Artist Management, will play Yoda, the Field Training Officer for the rookies. On TV, Kinney, who co-founded the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, had a recurring role on The Mentalist.

Touched by an Angel alumna Della Reese has been cast in another drama project with spiritual elements, Marc Cherry's pilot Hallelujah for ABC. The project is set in the town of Hallelujah, Tenn., where the forces of good and evil are exemplified by hardworking, moral diner owner Rye Turner (Donal Logue), a family man who has had a run of tragic luck, and his longtime nemesis, corrupt millionaire Del Roman (Terry O'Quinn), who is a law unto himself. Del seems to be winning the battle until mysterious newcomer Jared O'Neal (Jesse L. Martin) arrives in town. Reese will play a wicked old conniver who has been the rock of Del's life since his earliest memory. Also cast in the pilot are Robbie Amell as Del's cocky, hunky young son, and Zoey Deutch as Rye's daughter.

Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star Cheryl Hines has joined ABC's comedy pilot Suburgatory. The pilot, from creator Emily Kapnek, centers on Tessa (Jane Levy), a teenage girl who moves with her dad George (Jeremy Sisto) from Manhattan, where she grew up, to her version of hell: the suburbs. Hines will play the plastic surgery-enhanced wife of a rich businessman who will prove an unlikely confidante to Tessa and George. This would be the second ABC comedy series for Hines, who also starred on In the Motherhood.

Brad Morris has landed a co-starring role in NBC's untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from writer/exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote (Andrew J. West), a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Morris, recently out of Chicago's Second City, will play Adam's older brother Matt, the only non-doctor in the family. Morris is with Innovative and 3 Arts.

Raphael Sbarge has joined the cast of ABC's drama pilot Once Upon a Time, from writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It centers on Anna (Jennifer Morrison), a woman drawn into the small town of Storybrook, where the magic and mystery of fairy tales may be real. Sbarge, repped by Domain and Main Title, will play Archie/voice of Jiminy Cricket, an eccentric-looking gentleman walking a Dalmatian and carrying an umbrella who lives in Storybrooke and cheerfully welcomes Anna to town.

Newcomer Eric Andre has been added to the cast of ABC's single-camera comedy pilot Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. Written by Nahnatchka Khan and to be directed by Jason Winer, Bitch centers on June (Dreama Walker), an  earnest, honest, optimistic girl from the heartland who, due to circumstances beyond her control, is forced to move in with Chloe (Krysten Ritter), a sexy, unstable New York City party girl who has the morals of a pirate. Andre, repped by ICM and Generate, will play a potential love interest for June.

Noureen DeWulf had been added to CBS' buddy P.I. pilot Hail Mary. Penned by Jeff Wadlow, the project centers on Mary Beth Baker (Minnie Driver), a suburban single mom in Atlanta who, after her teen son is killed, teams up with her son's best friend KZ (Brandon T. Jackson), a fast-talking con artist, to solve her son's murder and other crimes. DeWulf, repped by Innovative and Evolution, will play a high school guidance department's administrative assistant who works with Mary Beth.

Michael Gaston, Daya Vaidaya and Kevin Rankin have been added to CBS' untitled Ed Redlich/John Bellucci pilot, which centers on a female NYPD detective (Poppy Montgomery) who possesses the special ability to remember everything and, although a gift in her job, it’s a curse in her personal life. Gaston, Vaidaya and Rankin will play detectives.

Brett Tucker has been cast in NBC's drama pilot Wonder Woman.

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Friday 11th March

8:00PM

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The Defenders

9.03 Million

1.5/5

9:00PM

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CSI NY

11.04 Million

2.0/6

Fringe

3.76 Million

1.5/5

10:00PM

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Blue Bloods

11.75 Million

1.9/6

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Sunday 13th March

8:00PM

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The Simpsons

5.44 Million

2.5/8

8:30PM

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Bob's Burgers

4.06 Million

2.0/6

9:00PM

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Army Wives

3.35 Million

1.0/3

Big Love

1.37 Million

0.6/2

Californication

0.633 Million

0.9/3

9:30PM

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The Cleveland Show

4.75 Million

2.5/6

10:00PM

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CSI Miami

11.75 Million

2.7/8

Breakout Kings

2.38 Million

0.9/3

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Julie Benz To Star In CBS Drama Pilot

EXCLUSIVE: Julie Benz has joined her No Ordinary Family co-star Michael Chiklis in booking a pilot in second position. Benz has joined CBS' untitled Susannah Grant drama pilot which, like NOF, has high-concept elements. Jonathan Demme is directing he supernatural medical drama, from CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly, which centers on Michael (Patrick Wilson), an ultra-competitive surgeon whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle), a doctor running a free clinic, dies and begins teaching him what life is all about from the here-after. Benz will play Michael's sister, an unfocused and overwhelmed single mother with a huge heart. Benz co-starred on Showtime's Dexter and recurred on ABC's Desperate Housewives before she was cast as the female lead in NOF last year. The show's star, Chiklis, last week signed on to topline another CBS pilot, comedy Vince Uncensored. Both are in second position to the ABC superhero drama, which has struggled in the ratings and is doubtful to return.

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Noah Emmerich To Star In NBC's 'S.I.L.A.' & More Pilot Castings

Noah Emmerich is set to star in Stephen Gaghan's pilot for NBC S.I.L.A., a complex ensemble drama in the style of  Traffic and Syriana set in the world of crime, law enforcement and politics in sprawling modern-day Los Angeles. Also cast in the pilot, from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, is Emma Dumont. Working in Mayor Virgilio Zaragoza's Special Investigations Unit, detective Terry Mullins (Emmerich) has returned to Los Angeles to re-connect with his 15-year-old daughter Jennifer (Dumont) and try to get along with his ex-wife and Jennifer's mother, high-powered attorney Mary McCarthy (Madchen Amick). Emmerich, repped by Gersh and Brillstein Entertainment, recently did arcs on USA's White Collar and AMC's The Walking Dead. He will next be seen in J.J. Abrams' Super 8.

Amanda Loncar and Sean Maguire have landed lead roles in NBC's comedy pilot Lovelives. The multi-camera comedy, from 20th TV and Chernin Entertainment, revolves around married couple Tim (Ryan Hansen) and Holly (Loncar) who, along with Tim's siblings Blake (Maguire) -- who works on Wall Street and believes that monogamy is impossible -- and Maddie, and Blake's ex-wife Kate, navigate the twists and turns of love in New York City.

Christa B. Allen has joined the cast of ABC's drama pilot Revenge, a contemporary re-imagining of The Count of Monte Cristo from a female perspective that centers on Emily Thorn (Emily VanCamp), a mysterious woman who comes to the Hamptons to exact revenge on the people who destroyed her family. Allen, repped by Pantheon and Holly Williams, will play the teen daughter of the family Emily is after.

Bree Turner has been added to ABC's drama pilot Identity, an action procedural based on a British format that centers on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Turner, managed by Brillstein Entertainment, will play the computer wizard at the FBI's Identity Crimes Division

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Five Actors Cast In Kyle Killen's 'REM' Pilot

That '70s Show alum Wilmer Valderrama, The Practice veteran Steve Harris and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit co-star BD Wong have been cast opposite Jason Isaacs in NBC's drama pilot REM, from Lone Star creator Kyle Killen and 20th Century Fox TV. Also cast in the project, described as an Inception-style thriller, are Laura Allen (Terriers) and teen Dylan Minnette. REM centers on Detective Mark Britten (Isaacs), who wakes up after an accident to find he is living in two different realities, one in which he has killed his son Rex (Minnette) and one in which he has killed his wife Hannah. Valderrama will play Detective Richard Vega, Britten's gregarious new partner in one reality, while Harris will play a seasoned, cynical, wry-humored police detective who's Britten's partner in the other reality. Wong will play Britten's therapist in the reality where he has killed his son. Allen will play Rex's tennis coach, who has become his confidante in the wake of the recent loss of his mother. Valderrama's casting stems from his talent deal with 20th TV.

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CW's 'Cooper & Stone' Casts Stone

Vanessa Ferlito has landed the second title role opposite Alex Breckenridge 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 (Ferlito), two smart female detectives on Chicago’s North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music and pop culture as they are solving homicides. Ferlito, repped by Innovative and attorney Carlos Goodman, did stints on 24 and CSI: NY and was recently seen in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.

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Leslie Hope To Star In ABC's 'The River

24 alumna Leslie Hope has landed the female lead in ABC's drama pilot The River, a thriller/horror drama from Paranormal Activity mastermind Oren Peli, which is being directed by by Jaume Collet-Serra. Described as being in the mold of Paranormal Activity, The River centers on Tess (Hope), a world traveler and top-notch producer who, six months after her TV explorer husband Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) goes missing in the Amazon, receives a signal from his beacon. Convinced that Emmet is alive, Tess forces her reluctant son Lincoln (Joe Anderson) to abandon his medical studies and lead a rescue expedition. Hope, repped by Domain and manager Perry Zimel, has been recurring on The Mentalist.

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Cybill Shepherd To Star In ABC Comedy Pilot 'My Freakin' Family

EXCLUSIVE: Cybill Shepherd has been tapped for a lead role in ABC's comedy pilot My Freakin' Family. The project, penned by Erica Rivinoja, centers on young parents Anna (Ellen Woglom) and Raj (Ravi Patel), whose lives change after they have a baby boy and the four grandparents with very different cultural backgrounds descend upon their lives. Shepherd will play Raj's uptight and sophisticated mom, Nell. She dresses in the traditional Indian garb and wants to be involved in baby Clark's life so he doesn't turn out "white" like her son did, and she is prepared to go to war with Anna's mom Maureen (Mo Gaffney) over Clark's mixed cultural heritage. Shepherd, repped by Fortitude and Hofflund, had her first big success on ABC with Moonlighting. She recently did an arc on USA's Psych.

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Kristin Chenoweth To Co-Star In ABC's 'Good Christian Bitches

Oklahoma-born Kristin Chenoweth has Southern belle written all over her. Now the Broadway star will be able to show off her heritage with a co-starring role in ABC's dramedy pilot temporarily titled Good Christian Bitches. After lengthy on-again, off-again negotiations, Chenoweth has closed a deal to join the project, written by Robert Harling and produced by Darren Star. It stars Leslie Bibb as Amanda, a mother of two and onetime “mean girl” in high school who returns home to Dallas humbled following a scandalous divorce, hoping to get a second chance at winning over her old classmates. Chenoweth will play Darlene, the beautiful and manipulative  head of this group of women, the G.C.B.'s. A classic Dallas housewife and villain motivated by her skewed sense of goodness, Darlene goes to church regularly, knows her Scripture and has no compunctions about breaking a few Commandments here and there. She was once one of the girls Amanda was mean to, but she's now too much of a good Christian to do anything more than forgive Amanda and welcome her back. This marks Chenoweth's return to ABC, where she co-starred on another dramedy, Pushing Daisies, which earned her an Emmy. Chenoweth will next reprise her character April on Fox's Glee.

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Fran Drescher's Comedy Pilot 'Happily Divorced' Nears Series Pickup At TV Land

EXCLUSIVE: They've done it again - almost 10 years after they co-created The Nanny, Fran Drescher and Peter Marc Jacobsen are close to landing another comedy series starring the nasal-voiced actress. I hear TV Land is finalizing a series pickup for Drescher and Jacobsen's pilot, Happily Divorced.  Based on Drescher's real life, it stars The Nanny alumna as a woman who re-enters the dating world after finding out that her husband is gay and juggles her relationship with her current boyfriend and ex-husband. Drescher and Jacobsen are the writers-executive producers.

It is unclear how the pending series order for Happily Divorced would affect the chances of TV Land's other 2 pilots: the untitled Mark Reisman project, about 3 divorced guys (David Alan Basche, Donald Faison,  Wayne Knight) who live in an apartment building where their landlord is their sexy female divorce attorney (Kristen Johnston), and the untitled Terri Minsky project, an office comedy set at a regional beverage manufacturer and distributor in Oregon which stars Christine Taylor. TV Land recently renewed its first original comedy series, Hot In Cleveland, for a third season.

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Monday 14th March

8:00PM

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House

10.20 Million

3.5/11

Chuck

5.00 Million

1.6/4

Pretty Little Liars

2.93 Million

1.1/3

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Mad Love

6.50 Million

2.1/6

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The Chicago Code

7.20 Million

2.0/5

The Event

4.19 Million

1.2/3

Being Human

1.37 Million

0.6/2

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Harry's Law

10.00 Million

1.9/5

Stargate Universe

0.928 Million

0.5/1

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Frances Conroy To Co-Star In ABC Comedy Pilot 'Bad Mom

EXCLUSIVE: Six Feet Under alumna Frances Conroy is set to co-star opposite Jenna Elfman in ABC's comedy pilot Bad Mom. The project, from ABC Studios and Kapital Entertainment, centers on Julia (Elfman), a mom whose two kids had been raised largely by her mom (Conroy). 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 also co-starring in the pilot. On ABC, ICM-repped Conroy recently co-starred on drama series Happy Town and did a guest stint on Grey's Anatomy.

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