Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, running unopposed, has been elected president of the WGA East. Cullen, who until now had been VP of the guild’s Film/TV/Streaming sector, succeeds Michael Winship, who chose not to seek re-election.
In the WGA East’s other officer elections, two other candidates also ran unopposed. Chris Kyle was re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Erica Saleh, a member of the guild’s Council, will be the next VP of Film/TV/Streaming – the post previously held by Cullen.
Votes were cast by 13.3% of total eligible voters for president and secretary-treasurer.
In the guild’s other races, six Council members representing the Film/TV/Streaming sector also elected: Sofia Alvarez, incumbent Josh Gondelman, incumbent Liz Hynes, incumbent Greg Iwinski, Sarah Montana, and incumbent Sasha Stewart.
Three candidates were also elected to the Council representing the Online Media sector: incumbent Caitlin Cruz, Sie Morley, and Samantha Smylie.
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In the WGA East’s other officer elections, two other candidates also ran unopposed. Chris Kyle was re-elected secretary-treasurer, and Erica Saleh, a member of the guild’s Council, will be the next VP of Film/TV/Streaming – the post previously held by Cullen.
Votes were cast by 13.3% of total eligible voters for president and secretary-treasurer.
In the guild’s other races, six Council members representing the Film/TV/Streaming sector also elected: Sofia Alvarez, incumbent Josh Gondelman, incumbent Liz Hynes, incumbent Greg Iwinski, Sarah Montana, and incumbent Sasha Stewart.
Three candidates were also elected to the Council representing the Online Media sector: incumbent Caitlin Cruz, Sie Morley, and Samantha Smylie.
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- 9/21/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen will be the next president of the WGA East, succeeding Michael Winship, who is not seeking re-election.
Cullen, who is running unopposed in the guild’s upcoming elections, will be its third female president and the first person of color to hold the post, starting next month. She currently serves as VP of the guild’s Film/TV/Streaming sector.
Winship said in a statement today that his decision not to run again “was made right from the start two years ago when I was asked to return to the presidency. Despite having already served five terms as president, from 2007-2017, I agreed to run again in 2021 to help work out issues the guild was facing in terms of constitutional revisions and other membership concerns, but I did say then that it only would be for two years.”
Takeuchi Cullen’s bio on the guild’s website...
Cullen, who is running unopposed in the guild’s upcoming elections, will be its third female president and the first person of color to hold the post, starting next month. She currently serves as VP of the guild’s Film/TV/Streaming sector.
Winship said in a statement today that his decision not to run again “was made right from the start two years ago when I was asked to return to the presidency. Despite having already served five terms as president, from 2007-2017, I agreed to run again in 2021 to help work out issues the guild was facing in terms of constitutional revisions and other membership concerns, but I did say then that it only would be for two years.”
Takeuchi Cullen’s bio on the guild’s website...
- 8/1/2023
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has found its Daredevil: Boardwalk Empire alum Charlie Cox has been cast in the starring role of the upcoming Netflix series, sources confirm. Cox will play Marvel crime-fighter Matt Murdock, who’s a blind lawyer with heightened senses and a secret alter ego.
The 13-episode drama Daredevil also has a new showruuner: Steven S. DeKnight, the man behind Starz’s Spartacus, has taken over the post from previously tapped showrunner Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who will remain on board as an executive producer. Since Cox made his mark as the doomed Irish love interest and mob...
The 13-episode drama Daredevil also has a new showruuner: Steven S. DeKnight, the man behind Starz’s Spartacus, has taken over the post from previously tapped showrunner Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who will remain on board as an executive producer. Since Cox made his mark as the doomed Irish love interest and mob...
- 5/28/2014
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
CBS and CBS Studios really believe in Charlie Cox‘s TV leading man potential. After casting the British actor as the lead of the drama pilot The Ordained last season, the network and the studio have tapped the Boardwalk Empire alum as the male lead of another drama pilot, executive produced by John Cusack. The untitled project is set in the world of Wall Street power and money. Cox plays Jackson, a smart, sophisticated, Wall Street hedge fund trader, who served his country in Iraq, and possesses integrity and the desire to do good. The pilot was written by Taylor Elmore and Ben Cavell from a story the two co-wrote with Cusack and Kevin McCabe. The four executive produce with Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly.
- 2/21/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: The 400-year-old Roanoke Colony mystery is getting a galactic twist with Colony, a drama project at The CW from CBS TV Studios and the studio-based Kennedy/Marshall Co. Written by Ian Goldberg (Once Upon A Time), Colony is a thriller about a group of explorers sent to colonize Mars, willing to leave their lives behind to brave the dangers of another planet, and the terrifying reality they discover. It is inspired by the story of The Lost Colony, the 16th century British settlement on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, whose inhabitants vanished without a trace, sparking a slew of theories about their fate. Goldberg will executive produce with Kennedy/Marshall’s Robert Zotnowski and Frank Marshall. The project stems from Kennedy/Marshall’s deal at CBS TV Studios. In the first year of the pact, the company, repped by CAA and Alan Hergott, landed a pilot...
- 10/10/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
The Fall TV Season presentations for all the new network shows take place this week with the fourth announced today. Here's a full breakdown of which concepts have made the final list over on CBS.
The king of the networks easily remains in charge despite "Elementary" being their only fresh hit of last season's new shows. The network's line-up remains fairly stable with only a few key moves such as Thursday being expanded to include two hours of comedy programming, and "Hawaii Five-0" moving to Fridays.
Several other pilots didn't make the cut this week including the series sequel to the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies, a TV version of the comedy "Bad Teacher", the "NCIS" mobile spin-off "NCIS: Red," a procedural based on Leif G.W. Persson's literary homicide detective Everett Backstrom, the Frank Marshall-produced political thriller "The Ordained" about a priest turned lawyer trying to save his sister from assassination,...
The king of the networks easily remains in charge despite "Elementary" being their only fresh hit of last season's new shows. The network's line-up remains fairly stable with only a few key moves such as Thursday being expanded to include two hours of comedy programming, and "Hawaii Five-0" moving to Fridays.
Several other pilots didn't make the cut this week including the series sequel to the "Beverly Hills Cop" movies, a TV version of the comedy "Bad Teacher", the "NCIS" mobile spin-off "NCIS: Red," a procedural based on Leif G.W. Persson's literary homicide detective Everett Backstrom, the Frank Marshall-produced political thriller "The Ordained" about a priest turned lawyer trying to save his sister from assassination,...
- 5/15/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: On the heels of the premiere of R.J. Cutler‘s well-received documentary The World According To Dick Cheney on Showtime, the pay cable network has signed a two-year, first-look deal with the Emmy-winning filmmaker for him to produce and direct new documentaries. The first film under the pact will be a profile of legendary actor Marlon Brando, which Cutler will executive produce, along with executive producer John Battsek (Searching For Sugarman) and director Stevan Riley (Fire In Babylon). Cutler’s documentary credits include the Oscar-nominated The War Room, Emmy-nominated A Perfect Candidate, The September Issue and Emmy-winning series American High. On the scripted side, Cutler, repped by CAA and attorney Jeanne Newman, has a first-look deal with Lionsgate TV and executive produces/directs the studio’s ABC drama series Nashville, and just directed the CBS drama pilot The Ordained. The World According To Dick Cheney examined the pivotal role...
- 4/26/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer has come on board CBS‘ drama pilot The Ordained as executive producer/showrunner. Balcer has a history with the project, having helped the creator, journalist-turned-author Lisa Cullen, with conceptualizing the idea when she first conceived the show in 2011. Back then, Cullen took out Ordained as a pitch but it didn’t sell. Cullen went on to write it as a spec, developing it with her management company, The Shuman Co. The spec was sent out to TV studios last summer, landing at CBS TV Studios where studio-based Frank Marshall came on board as executive producer. After the script was picked up to pilot by CBS, the producers looked for a showrunner. Because of Balcer’s previous involvement, he was a top choice and was available, leading to his deal on the project. He will be executive producer alongside Marshall, Larry Shuman and A.B. Fischer.
- 3/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Former "House" star Omar Epps has found his next TV role after a year away from the small screen.
Epps will have a lead role in ABC's drama "The Returned," about how people react when loved ones who have died suddenly start returning to them. He'll play an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who looks into the case of Jacob, a boy who suddenly pops up in rural China.
Kurtwood Smith ("That '70s Show") has also joined the cast as Jacob's father, who along with his wife (Frances Fisher) buried Jacob more than 30 years earlier.
More pilot-season news:
- Hope Davis ("The Newsroom," "In Treatment") will star in CBS' drama "The Ordained" as the sister of lead actor Charlie Cox. Her character is the mayor of New York and may be the target of an assassination attempt, which causes Cox's character to leave the priesthood in an effort to protect her.
Epps will have a lead role in ABC's drama "The Returned," about how people react when loved ones who have died suddenly start returning to them. He'll play an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who looks into the case of Jacob, a boy who suddenly pops up in rural China.
Kurtwood Smith ("That '70s Show") has also joined the cast as Jacob's father, who along with his wife (Frances Fisher) buried Jacob more than 30 years earlier.
More pilot-season news:
- Hope Davis ("The Newsroom," "In Treatment") will star in CBS' drama "The Ordained" as the sister of lead actor Charlie Cox. Her character is the mayor of New York and may be the target of an assassination attempt, which causes Cox's character to leave the priesthood in an effort to protect her.
- 3/8/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Alcatraz was a J. J. Abrams series that didn’t quite take flight. It may have aired on Fox, but today’s casting news features an Alcatraz reunion taking place on the set of a new CBS pilot called The Ordained.
One half of the Alcatraz mini-reunion is a Kiwi (from New Zealand). The other half is a giant? We’re talking about Sam Neill and Jorge Garcia. Garcia has been appearing on ABC’s Once Upon a Time as, well, the Giant.
In the CBS drama pilot, The Ordained, Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox, who also played an unsavory Duke early on in Downtown Abbey, will star as the son of a “Kennedy-esque” family who chooses to leave the priesthood to become a lawyer. Why? His sister is a politician and the target of some sort of assassination plot. I’m not sure how one thing prevents the other,...
One half of the Alcatraz mini-reunion is a Kiwi (from New Zealand). The other half is a giant? We’re talking about Sam Neill and Jorge Garcia. Garcia has been appearing on ABC’s Once Upon a Time as, well, the Giant.
In the CBS drama pilot, The Ordained, Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox, who also played an unsavory Duke early on in Downtown Abbey, will star as the son of a “Kennedy-esque” family who chooses to leave the priesthood to become a lawyer. Why? His sister is a politician and the target of some sort of assassination plot. I’m not sure how one thing prevents the other,...
- 3/7/2013
- by Sasha Nova
- Boomtron
Hope Davis has been "Ordained" into the CBS pilot roster. "About Schmidt" star Davis has been cast in CBS's upcoming drama pilot "The Ordained." The pilot, which is being written and co-produced by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, follows Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family (played by "Boardwalk Empire" alum Charlie Cox) who abandons the priesthood and joins the legal profession to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Also read: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Sam Neill Cast in CBS Political Drama Pilot Davis will play the endangered sister. The cast also includes "Entourage" alum Emmanuelle Chriqui...
- 3/7/2013
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
Hope Davis (In Treatment) has been tapped for CBS‘ drama pilot The Ordained, executive produced by Frank Marshall. Directed by Rj Cutler from a script by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Ordained centers on Tom Reilly (Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer at a top New York firm to prevent his politician sister Packy (Davis) from being assassinated. Packy is a first-term mayor of New York City who’s just announced her bid for re-election — big of heart, loud of mouth, spine of iron. Davis recently recurred on HBO’s The Newsroom. Whitney co-star Tone Bell has been cast in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot To My Future Assistant. Written by Sherry Bilsing-Graham & Ellen Kreamer and directed by Peyton Reed, Assistant revolves around the assistants at a big New York law firm who band together as a family to help each other...
- 3/7/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Hope Davis (In Treatment, Six Degrees) has joined the cast of CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
Related | TVLine’s Guide to Pilot Season 2013: Get All the Scoop on This Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project from author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen focuses on Tom (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Davis — who in addition to her many film credits also appeared in HBO’s The Newsroom and the cabler’s miniseries Mildred Pierce...
Related | TVLine’s Guide to Pilot Season 2013: Get All the Scoop on This Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project from author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen focuses on Tom (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Davis — who in addition to her many film credits also appeared in HBO’s The Newsroom and the cabler’s miniseries Mildred Pierce...
- 3/7/2013
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
CBS has cast its tough politico. In Treatment's Hope Davis has booked the female lead in the network's political thriller The Ordained, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2013 Ordained centers on Tom (Boardwalk Empire's Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Davis will portray Tom's older sister Patricia, dubbed Packy because she packs a punch. She's a first-term mayor of New York City who has just announced a bid for re-election who fights hard for
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- 3/7/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CBS' The Ordained political thriller has cast Hope Davis as the female lead with Charlie Cox already starring, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Scripted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, with the pilot directed by Rj Cutler, the show tells of on Tom (Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer in order to prevent his politician sister Patricia (called Packy as she packs a punch apparently) from falling victim to an assassination. Davis will play Packy, a New York City Mayor in her first term who has announced her bid for re-election. She's married, has two daughters and is described as working hard for what she believes in.
- 3/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
CBS' The Ordained political thriller has cast Hope Davis as the female lead with Charlie Cox already starring, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Scripted by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, with the pilot directed by Rj Cutler, the show tells of on Tom (Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer in order to prevent his politician sister Patricia (called Packy as she packs a punch apparently) from falling victim to an assassination. Davis will play Packy, a New York City Mayor in her first term who has announced her bid for re-election. She's married, has two daughters and is described as working hard for what she believes in.
- 3/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sam Neill has joined "The Ordained."
According to EW, the "Jurassic Park" actor and "Entourage" vet Emmanuelle Chriqu have joined the CBS pilot.
Starring Charlie Cox, "The Ordained" centers on a Kennedy-like family dealing with the trials of priesthood, the law and politics. Neill will play Tom’s (Cox) father, with Chriqui playing Tom's next-door neighbor.
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Neal Bledsoe has joined "Ironside." Bledsoe will co-star alongside Blair Underwood in the NBC pilot as Teddy, a wealthy, highly-educated police officer. [Deadline]
Beau Bridges is headed to CBS. Bridges is set to play Jack (Will Arnett)'s father in a still-untitled CBS comedy pilot from Greg Garcia. [TVLine]
Eli Baker and Ava Deluca-Verley are NBC-bound. The teen actors have joined J.K. Simmons and Parker Posey in D.J. Nash's still-untitled comedy pilot. Baker will appear as Henry, a "son who idolizes his blind father," while Deluca-Verley will play Henry's sister. [Deadline]
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According to EW, the "Jurassic Park" actor and "Entourage" vet Emmanuelle Chriqu have joined the CBS pilot.
Starring Charlie Cox, "The Ordained" centers on a Kennedy-like family dealing with the trials of priesthood, the law and politics. Neill will play Tom’s (Cox) father, with Chriqui playing Tom's next-door neighbor.
In other pilot news...
Neal Bledsoe has joined "Ironside." Bledsoe will co-star alongside Blair Underwood in the NBC pilot as Teddy, a wealthy, highly-educated police officer. [Deadline]
Beau Bridges is headed to CBS. Bridges is set to play Jack (Will Arnett)'s father in a still-untitled CBS comedy pilot from Greg Garcia. [TVLine]
Eli Baker and Ava Deluca-Verley are NBC-bound. The teen actors have joined J.K. Simmons and Parker Posey in D.J. Nash's still-untitled comedy pilot. Baker will appear as Henry, a "son who idolizes his blind father," while Deluca-Verley will play Henry's sister. [Deadline]
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- 3/6/2013
- by Leigh Weingus
- Huffington Post
Today's biggest pilot castings include new roles for alumni from "Fringe," "Desperate Housewives" and "Gossip Girl," plus Sam Neill, Beau Bridges, Kyle MacLachlan and more:
Sam Neill ("Alcatraz") and Emmanuelle Chriqui ("Entourage") have joined CBS' "The Ordained" opposite Charlie Cox priest-turned-lawyer
Seth Gabel ("Fringe") will play Roderick Usher, a district attorney from a prominent family, in ABC's horror soap "Gothica"
Ricardo Chavira ("Desperate Housewives") has landed the role of a divorced Latino father who clashes with the white parents (Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack) of his son's pregnant girlfriend in NBC's "Welcome to the Family"
James Cromwell ("American Horror Story: Asylum") will head up a powerful, and possibly criminal, Chicago family in ABC's "Betrayal"
Beau Bridges ("Stargate: Sg-1") will play Will Arnett's father and Margo Martindale's estranged husband in the untitled Greg Garcia comedy at CBS
Jessica Szohr ("Gossip Girl") has booked the female lead as a FBI agent...
Sam Neill ("Alcatraz") and Emmanuelle Chriqui ("Entourage") have joined CBS' "The Ordained" opposite Charlie Cox priest-turned-lawyer
Seth Gabel ("Fringe") will play Roderick Usher, a district attorney from a prominent family, in ABC's horror soap "Gothica"
Ricardo Chavira ("Desperate Housewives") has landed the role of a divorced Latino father who clashes with the white parents (Mike O'Malley, Mary McCormack) of his son's pregnant girlfriend in NBC's "Welcome to the Family"
James Cromwell ("American Horror Story: Asylum") will head up a powerful, and possibly criminal, Chicago family in ABC's "Betrayal"
Beau Bridges ("Stargate: Sg-1") will play Will Arnett's father and Margo Martindale's estranged husband in the untitled Greg Garcia comedy at CBS
Jessica Szohr ("Gossip Girl") has booked the female lead as a FBI agent...
- 3/6/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
"Alcatraz" actor Sam Neill and "Entourage" alum Emmanuelle Chriqui have been cast in the CBS pilot "The Ordained." The drama project follows Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family (played by "Boardwalk Empire" alum Charlie Cox) who abandons the priesthood and joins the legal profession to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Also read: CBS Pilots 2013 Neill will play Michael Thomas Riley, Tom's father, who's also known as "The Governor." Chriqui (left) will play Sam, who lives next door to Sam. R.J. Cutler ("Nashville") is directing the pilot, which comes from CBS...
- 3/6/2013
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
The Mentalist’s Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
Related | TVLine’s Guide to Pilot Season 2013: Get All the Scoop on This Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project from author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen focuses on Tom (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Chriqui — who currently recurs as Red John’s “agent” Lorelei Martins on The Mentalist, but is best known for Entourage — will play Sam, the girl-next-door to Tom.
Related | TVLine’s Guide to Pilot Season 2013: Get All the Scoop on This Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project from author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen focuses on Tom (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Chriqui — who currently recurs as Red John’s “agent” Lorelei Martins on The Mentalist, but is best known for Entourage — will play Sam, the girl-next-door to Tom.
- 3/6/2013
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
Sam Neill and Entourage alumna Emmanuelle Chriqui has been cast in the CBS drama pilot The Ordained, executive produced by Frank Marshall. Directed by Rj Cutler from a script by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Ordained centers on Tom Reilly (Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer at a top New York firm to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Neill plays Tom’s dad, Michael Thomas Riley aka The Governor. Chriqui plays Sam who lives next door to Tom.
- 3/6/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS is staging an Alcatraz reunion. Sam Neill has been added to the cast of the network's drama pilot The Ordained, reuniting with his co-star on the short-lived mystery drama Jorge Garcia, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Additionally, Entourage alum Emmanuelle Chriqui has joined the cast of the legal thriller starring Boardwalk Empire's Charlie Cox. Photos: The Faces of Pilot Season 2013 Ordained centers on Tom (Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Neill will play Michael Thomas Riley, Tom's dad, who
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- 3/6/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Add two more notable names to CBS’ The Ordained pilot.
Veteran actor Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and starlet Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) have joined the show. The Ordained stars Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) as Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer in a bid to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Neill will play Tom’s father, who’s often called “The Governor” (no eye patch, presumably) while Chriqui plays Tom’s literal girl next door.
Veteran actor Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and starlet Emmanuelle Chriqui (Entourage) have joined the show. The Ordained stars Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) as Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer in a bid to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Neill will play Tom’s father, who’s often called “The Governor” (no eye patch, presumably) while Chriqui plays Tom’s literal girl next door.
- 3/6/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Former "CSI" star Marg Helgenberger could be back on CBS next season. She's taken a key role in the network's drama pilot "Intelligence."
Helgenberger will play the director of the U.S. Cyber Command in the pilot, which follows a unit built around an agent (Josh Holloway of "Lost") who has a microchip implanted in his brain that lets him "access the entire electromagnetic spectrum." James Martinez ("The Sessions," "Gravity") has also joined the show.
"Intelligence" will be the first role for Helgenberger since she left "CSI" midway through last season. She had starred in the crime drama since it debuted in 2000.
More pilot casting news:
- Audra McDonald ("Private Practice") has joined another CBS drama, "The Ordained," about the son of a political dynasty (Charlie Cox) who leaves the priesthood and re-enters his family's life to protect his sister. McDonald will play a partner at the law firm where Cox's character gets a job.
Helgenberger will play the director of the U.S. Cyber Command in the pilot, which follows a unit built around an agent (Josh Holloway of "Lost") who has a microchip implanted in his brain that lets him "access the entire electromagnetic spectrum." James Martinez ("The Sessions," "Gravity") has also joined the show.
"Intelligence" will be the first role for Helgenberger since she left "CSI" midway through last season. She had starred in the crime drama since it debuted in 2000.
More pilot casting news:
- Audra McDonald ("Private Practice") has joined another CBS drama, "The Ordained," about the son of a political dynasty (Charlie Cox) who leaves the priesthood and re-enters his family's life to protect his sister. McDonald will play a partner at the law firm where Cox's character gets a job.
- 3/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
If I was calling the shots, Audra McDonald would be starring in Scandal right now over Kerry Washington. I'm not trying to start any trouble, nor do I have any issue with Kerry Washington. It's just an observation... But, as the Scandalistas would probably say, I'm obviously not calling the shots, so my opinion means nada, right? Anyway, I'm always glad to see Audra working! Glad to see Kerry working too. Ms McDonald has now landed a co-starring role on CBS' drama pilot The Ordained, which revolves around Tom (Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Audra will play a...
- 3/1/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Private Practice alumna Audra McDonald has been cast in the CBS drama pilot The Ordained, executive produced by Frank Marshall. Directed by Rj Cutler from a script by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Ordained centers on Tom Reilly (Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer at a top New York firm to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. McDonald will play Anthea, a senior litigator at the firm. McDonald is the second Private Practice co-star to book a pilot; KaDee Strickland is in NBC’s Bloodline. Ella Rae Peck and Aramis Knight have been added to Welcome To The Family, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot from Mike Sikowitz and Sony TV. It chronicles how cultures collide when a white family and a Latino family are bonded together by their children who fall in love followed quickly by an unplanned pregnancy. Peck will play Molly,...
- 3/1/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Former Private Practice doc Audra McDonald is trading medicine for law as one of the stars of CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Related | Your Complete 2013 Pilot Season Guide: Get the Scoop on All of Next Fall’s Possible Newcomers
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The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Charlie Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Related | Your Complete 2013 Pilot Season Guide: Get the Scoop on All of Next Fall’s Possible Newcomers
McDonald, who left...
- 3/1/2013
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Audra McDonald is staying put at CBS. The Private Practice actress, currently guest-starring on the network's The Good Wife, has landed a co-starring role on the network's drama pilot The Ordained, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Story: TV Pilots 2013: The Complete Guide Ordained centers on Tom (Boardwalk Empire's Charlie Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. McDonald will play Anthea, a senior litigator at the law firm where Tom works and his main mentor, immediate boss and ally who runs Iron Man
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- 3/1/2013
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
New shots from The Hangover Part III, Jack the Giant Slayer, Olympus Has Fallen, Dead Man Down, Emperor, I'm So Excited, and a set photo of Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone filming Grudge Match.
There's also Hugh Jackman on the set of The Wolverine, Vin Diesel in Riddick, Hailee Steinfeld in Ender's Game, and Ashley Greene in Random.
Posters for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mud, Black Rock, No Place on Earth, In the House, Tyler Perry Presents Peeples, Manhunt, The Last Exorcism Part II, To the Wonder, The Silence, Spring Breakers, Two Mothers, Dead Man Down, Evil Dead.
"Riddick" filmmaker David Twohy has penned an excellent posting about his friend, the great sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison. He also touches upon a project the pair briefly worked on together.
"New Blu-ray release dates include 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Dexter: Season 7' on May 14th, and 'Chasing Ice' on September 10th…...
There's also Hugh Jackman on the set of The Wolverine, Vin Diesel in Riddick, Hailee Steinfeld in Ender's Game, and Ashley Greene in Random.
Posters for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Mud, Black Rock, No Place on Earth, In the House, Tyler Perry Presents Peeples, Manhunt, The Last Exorcism Part II, To the Wonder, The Silence, Spring Breakers, Two Mothers, Dead Man Down, Evil Dead.
"Riddick" filmmaker David Twohy has penned an excellent posting about his friend, the great sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison. He also touches upon a project the pair briefly worked on together.
"New Blu-ray release dates include 'Cloud Atlas' and 'Dexter: Season 7' on May 14th, and 'Chasing Ice' on September 10th…...
- 2/25/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lost alum Jorge Garcia has been cast opposite Charlie Cox in the CBS drama pilot The Ordained, executive produced by Frank Marshall. Directed by Rj Cutler from a script by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, The Ordained centers on Tom Reilly (Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer at a top New York firm to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Garcia will play Carlos, the law firm’s staff investigator. Nestor Serrano co-stars. Garcia has been recurring on ABC’s Once Upon A Time. Joe Lo Truglio (Wreck-It Ralph, Free Agents) has landed the last series regular in the Andy Samberg-starring Fox comedy pilot, from Mike Schur, Dan Goor, Universal TV and 3 Arts. Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directing the single-camera pilot, which revolves around a diverse group of detectives in a precinct at the very edge of New York City.
- 2/23/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Dude, Jorge Garcia is getting his private eye on.
The Lost and Once Upon a Time actor has joined CBS’ Kennedy-esque legal drama The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
Related | 2013 Pilot Guide: Scoop on Next Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Garcia will play Carlos, the law firm’s staff investigator — a.
The Lost and Once Upon a Time actor has joined CBS’ Kennedy-esque legal drama The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
Related | 2013 Pilot Guide: Scoop on Next Fall’s Possible Newcomers
The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Boardwalk Empire‘s Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
Garcia will play Carlos, the law firm’s staff investigator — a.
- 2/23/2013
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Boardwalk Empire’s Irish hunk Charlie Cox is making his way toward primetime.
The English actor has been cast in the starring role in CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained. Cox plays Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated as part of a deadly conspiracy.
On HBO’s Boardwalk, Cox played gangster Owen Slater who fell in love with with his boss’s woman and was tragically gunned down last season. He’s also made an appearance in the international hit Downton Abbey. The Ordained...
The English actor has been cast in the starring role in CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained. Cox plays Tom, the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated as part of a deadly conspiracy.
On HBO’s Boardwalk, Cox played gangster Owen Slater who fell in love with with his boss’s woman and was tragically gunned down last season. He’s also made an appearance in the international hit Downton Abbey. The Ordained...
- 2/22/2013
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Charlie Cox (Stardust) has been cast as the lead of CBS’ drama pilot The Ordained, executive produced by Frank Marshall. Directed by Rj Cutler from a script by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, The Ordained centers on Tom Reilly (Cox), the son of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated. Cullen and Robert Zotnowski co-executive produce, while Marshall, Larry Shuman and A.B. Fischer exec produce for CBS TV Studios. Brit Cox recently co-starred on HBO’s mob drama Boardwalk Empire and had a small part on Downton Abbey. On The Ordained, he joins Nestor Serrano.
- 2/22/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Boardwalk Empire alum Charlie Cox has been tapped to headline CBS’ Kennedy-esque drama The Ordained, TVLine has learned.
Related | Pilot Season 2013: Get the Scoop on This Fall’s (Possible) Newcomers — and Who’s In Them!
The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
The cast also includes Nestor Serrano (24, Dexter).
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Related | Pilot Season 2013: Get the Scoop on This Fall’s (Possible) Newcomers — and Who’s In Them!
The project, penned by author/journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen and exec-produced by Frank Marshall (War Horse, The Bourne Legacy) and Larry Shuman (Devious Maids), centers on the son (played by Cox) of a Kennedy-esque family who leaves the priesthood and becomes a lawyer to prevent his politician sister from being assassinated.
The cast also includes Nestor Serrano (24, Dexter).
Follow @MichaelAusiello...
- 2/22/2013
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
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