ABC got busy putting the pieces of its 2006-07 schedule together Wednesday, handing series orders to the dramas The Nine, Six Degrees and Day Break and comedies In Case of Emergency, Help Me Help You and Notes From the Underbelly. NBC, which will kick off the broadcast networks' upfront week Monday, was widely expected to make the bulk of its series pickups Wednesday but did not. Pilots that are expected to get a formal series greenlight today or Friday include the dramas Friday Night Lights, Heroes and Raines and the untitled Tina Fey comedy. The comedies 20 Good Years, Community Service and The Singles Table are understood to be in contention for the remaining NBC comedy slots. Sources said NBC is passing on Andy Barker, P.I., Conan O'Brien's single-camera gumshoe comedy starring Andy Richter, and the project will be shopped to Fox.
- 5/11/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mena Suvari and Blair Underwood have been tapped to star in two CBS drama pilots, Orpheus and Company Town, respectively. Additionally, Mitch Rouse landed the lead in CBS' comedy pilot The Angriest Man in Suburbia, Kiele Sanchez has been tapped as the lead in ABC's comedy pilot What Happens on a Bus and Josh Meyers will play the lead in Fox's comedy pilot That Guy. Also, Matt Letscher has been cast as the male lead opposite Christine Taylor in ABC's comedy pilot 52 Fights, Nick Zano landed the second lead opposite Kevin Brennan in NBC's untitled Jace Richdale comedy pilot, Lori Loughlin joined the cast of the ABC comedy series In Case of Emergency, Will Patton has been cast in ABC's drama pilot The Way and Kerr Smith has come on board Fox's drama pilot American Crime. In other pilot castings, Rebecca Gayheart has joined Fox's drama Vanished, Jonathan LaPaglia and Patricia Wettig have been added to ABC's drama Brothers & Sisters, Bill Smitrovich and Nestor Serrano have been cast in ABC's drama A House Divided, Reiley McClendon and Jessica Stroup have joined Fox's drama Southern Comfort, while Tony Plana has come on board the ABC one-hour Ugly Betty.
David Arquette has joined the cast of the ABC comedy series In Case of Emergency. Meanwhile, ABC has added names to four of its drama pilots: Peter Facinelli has signed on as the second lead in Enemies, Sarah Clarke has joined A House Divided, Charlotte Ross has come aboard Ugly Betty, and Sean Patrick Flanery has joined Secrets of a Small Town. In other pilot castings, Fox has confirmed that Lenny Clarke will co-star with Rob Corddry in the comedy pilot Becoming Glen. Cameron Richardson has signed on to the Fox comedy pilot If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now, while Natalie Garza has joined another Fox comedy pilot, The 12th Man. Also, CBS has booked Michael Gaston in the drama pilot Jericho, and USA Network has tapped Lesley Ann Warren for its drama pilot In Plain Sight. ABC's Emergency, which has a six-episode commitment, revolves around four high school friends who unexpectedly reunite during a crossroads in their lives.
Regina King is in negotiations and Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon and Jill Ritchie are set to join ABC's dramedy pilot Women in Law, while Madeleine Stowe has been tapped as the lead in Fox's drama pilot Southern Comfort. Additionally, Jonathan Silverman has come on board ABC's comedy series In Case of Emergency, Christine Taylor has been cast in ABC's comedy pilot 52 Fights, Adam Baldwin has joined Taye Diggs in ABC's drama pilot Day Break and Tia Mowry has landed a role in the CW network's comedy pilot The Game. In Women in Law, a dramedy about women working at a law firm, King, Beauvais-Nilon and Ritchie are joining previously cast Kelli Williams.
- 2/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kelly Hu and Greg Germann have been cast in ABC's comedy series In Case of Emergency. Meanwhile, Cary Elwes will lead the cast of NBC's one-hour pilot Sky, which also includes Missi Pyle, Bruno Campos has landed one of the two leads in NBC's untitled Chris Sheridan comedy pilot, and Dondre Whitfield and Sarah Lafleur have joined ABC's comedy pilot Our Thirties. On the cable side, Todd Williams and Fred Weller have come aboard the USA Network pilot In Plain Sight. Emergency, from Touchstone TV, revolves around four friends from high school who reunite unexpectedly when each hits a crossroads in their lives.
- 2/23/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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