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Just days after announcing her exit from Grey’s Anatomy, Sarah Drew has landed the the role of Cagney in CBS’s Cagney & Lacey reboot. Michelle Hurd has nabbed the role of Lacey. All this and more on today’s TV casting round-up.

Looking for any way to get away from the life and town he was born into, a high school senior builds a Monster Truck from bits and pieces of scrapped cars – which may turn out to be the key to getting out of town and a most unlikely friend.

Paul Scheer is the latest actor to join David Wain’s A Futile & Stupid Gesture, the upcoming Netflix original movie about National Lampoon co-founder Doug Kenney.

Lennon’s & Garant’s script will have Fleisher helming and Neeson starring.

Logline is kept under wraps, but from the casting, title and writers, it would seem to be a comic vigilante film.

Logline: Two American insurance executives journey on a business trip to the Tropics, where they spiral into a psychedelic vortex of sex, violence and goats.

When Larry discovers that there’s something wrong with the ancient tablet that brings the characters of his museum to life, he travels to the British Museum in search of a way to save his friends.

When Larry discovers that there’s something wrong with the ancient tablet that brings the characters of his museum to life, he travels to the British Museum in search of a way to save his friends.

But who doesn’t?

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Logline: Family comedy in the tone of “Night at the Museum” about a take-your-child-to-work day at Area 51 that goes terribly wrong.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: Kept under wraps but will be based on Hasbro’s “Monster Trucks” toy line.

Follows a couple who moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans, and is forced to call on the Vatican to help rid them of their demonic baby.

Follows a couple who moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans, and is forced to call on the Vatican to help rid them of their demonic baby.

Story follows smart-mouthed teenagers Ben and Lindsey, during the fallout of the religious apocalypse, as they fight against potheaded wraiths and rains of blood in order to destroy the Anti-Christ.

Story follows smart-mouthed teenagers Ben and Lindsey, during the fallout of the religious apocalypse, as they fight against potheaded wraiths and rains of blood in order to destroy the Anti-Christ.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

Logline: A veteran limo driver is tasked with babysitting the spoiled kids of a mob boss who has gone missing.

Logline: Follows a couple who moves into the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans, and is forced to call on the Vatican to help rid them of their demonic baby.

Logline: A group of nerds attempt to steal a highly coveted 1938 Action Comics comic book, featuring the first appearance of Superman.

Logline: A group of nerds attempt to steal a highly coveted 1938 Action Comics comic book, featuring the first appearance of Superman.

Thomas Lennon and Amir Talai join the daddy group in the film.

Logline: Based on the series of books where each story is written from a second person point-of-view with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character’s actions.

Two Robs and a Thomas join forces in a post-apocalyptic comedy!

Doug Kenney, co-founder of National Lampoon, becomes a victim of his own success when he develops a substance abuse problem while writing the films Animal House and Caddyshack – comedies that would become iconic.

Logline: Story follows smart-mouthed teenagers Ben and Lindsey, during the fallout of the religious apocalypse, as they fight against potheaded wraiths and rains of blood in order to destroy the Anti-Christ.

A group of oddballs compete in a wild and illegal cross-country car race.

Logline: To save his job, an over the hill insurance salesman convinces his skeptical friend to go on one last Boondoggle (an all-expense paid company trip) to a tropical resort in order to land a big client. Unfortunately, as soon as they arrive, their bosses back at home are arrested in an Enron like scandal forcing the two to experience the island paradise without the company credit card.