A round-up of this week’s pilot and series TV casting and sales!
Wayne Knight
A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!
Logline: Story follows a med student whose failed suicide attempt lands him with a doctor who forces him to quit drugs and join a geriatric men’s group, and he soon falls for the doctor’s daughter.
ABC fills roles big and smalle in No Ordinary Family, Grey’s Anatomy and Charlie’s Angels, while HBO adds an Arrested Development veteran to VEEP, NBC adds Will Ferrell, Whitney Cummings, and a Housewife, TBS adds a trio to Hound Dogs, Newman tackles a new pilot for TV Land, and Common Law adds some McGee… Jack, that is.
Torchwood finds a female lead, Bob Newhart returns to TV, Fox adds a new face to a new pilot, HBO adds a familiar face to a new pilot, NBC adds a Soprano to SVU, and TV Land signs a roster of guest stars for Hot In Cleveland.
Logline: A neurotic writer making his next feature film becomes conflicted after an A-list starlet shows interest in playing the lead role, which he has already promised to a struggling actress – his girlfriend.
