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Scrubs star Zach Braff is returning to series television and to ABC as the star of Start Up, a single-camera comedy based on the podcast Start Up by Alex Blumberg. (Deadline)
Pitch Perfect star Utkarsh Ambudkar and CSI: Miami actor Megalyn Echikunwoke join Jay Pharaoh for Jamie Foxx’s Showtime pilot White Famous. (The Hollywood Reporter)
Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated actress Emily Watson is set to join National Geographic Channel‘s upcoming global anthology series Genius. She’ll play Elsa Einstein, the second wife – and first cousin – of the enigmatic scientist Albert Einstein. (ComingSoon.net)
Anna Paquin and Allen Leech are set to star in the CBC drama Bellevue, a mystery set in a small blue-collar town with a lot of ‘good people’ who ‘live right’ and take it upon themselves to make sure the neighbors do too. (Broadway World)
Michael Ross will adapt the story of counterfeiter Albert Talton for Will Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment. Based on the article from Details magazine, the movie centers on Talton, who counterfeited over $7 million on supplies purchased from Staples. (The Hollywood Reporter)
ABC has landed Doomsday, a thriller drama set during the aftermath of 9/11, when the U.S. government institutes a secret think tank featuring the most creative minds in science and entertainment that is tasked with dreaming up man-made disaster scenarios and their possible solutions. (Deadline)
Narcos star Ana de la Reguera is joining MGM’s teen romance Everything Everything starring Amandla Stenberg and Nick Robinson. Stella Meghie is directing from J. Mills Goodloe’s script, adapted from Nicola Yoon’s young adult novel of the same name. (Variety)
Magic Mike alum Alex Pettyfer is set to star with young actor James Freedson-Jackson in indie film The Strange Ones. The duo will play brothers who are making their way across a remote American landscape. (The Hollywood Reporter)
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