Ed Burns

The story is under wraps but the film will be set in 1980’s summertime on Long Island.

A recap of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: The story will chronicle the fall of hockey player Derek “Turk” Sanderson and how his teammate Bobby Orr helped him get his life back together.

Follows Detective Alex Cross as he crosses paths with the man who murdered his pregnant wife years earlier.

Logline: A long absent family patriarch decides to a family Christmas, resulting in disaster.

Lots and lots of casting news. A few tidbits… FX superhero pilot cast a Battlestar Alum – Bibb set to become a Good Christian Bitch, A Twilight castaway (and current network series star) lands the lead in a new pilot about The Crossing, A King joins Rachel Bilson in Dixie, Two Rescue Me alums adds new shows to their resumes with USA’s Over/Under and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire… and lots more inside.

Logline: Thirty-something best friends decide to have a child together while still dating others to remedy the stress that normally plague couples with children.

Logline: An ex-cop turned con uses a suicide attempt on a Manhattan hotel rooftop as cover for a diamond heist.

Logline: Follows Detective Alex Cross as he crosses paths with the man who murdered his pregnant wife years earlier.