Minnie Driver will star in ABC drama Speechless, Bill Bellamy will join Becki Newton in new Fox comedy, Mighty Aphrodite’s Michael Rapaport reteams with Woody Allen on Amazon, and more in our daily TV casting round-up!
Barry Katz
Logline: Kept under wraps.
The “Mr. Box Office” star joins the agency.
Industry executive moves of the week.
Logline: A washed-up athlete working as a trainer at a struggling gym squares off with a new owner who wants to turn the gym into a reality series.
Six Shows a Go at ABC – CBS Revs Up 1 more comedy – FOX adds 2 laughers – and NBC Adds Five.
ABC greenlights its first series of the Fall 2011 season, CBS explores the Buddy System, Fox seeks Chinese based crime fighters with Will Smith, while also putting the plug in the Good Guys, and Alphas finds a new showrunner, while a Two and a Half Men EP says, Fugget About It.
