Look who’s in the bread line after pilot season!
Lots of exciting stars will join the broadcast TV lineup this fall (Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Tea Leoni, Ioan Gruffudd) but an equal amount were left jobless after the networks announced their schedules last week in New York. Here’s who (and what projects) we will miss now that the upfronts are over:
Anthony Lapaglia. Last seen: Without a Trace. Rejected fall pilot: Field of Play, a CBS drama about a retired CIA operative pulled back into action.
Jamie Lee Curtis. Last seen: New Girl. Rejected fall pilot: Soapy medical...
Lots of exciting stars will join the broadcast TV lineup this fall (Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Tea Leoni, Ioan Gruffudd) but an equal amount were left jobless after the networks announced their schedules last week in New York. Here’s who (and what projects) we will miss now that the upfronts are over:
Anthony Lapaglia. Last seen: Without a Trace. Rejected fall pilot: Field of Play, a CBS drama about a retired CIA operative pulled back into action.
Jamie Lee Curtis. Last seen: New Girl. Rejected fall pilot: Soapy medical...
- 5/19/2014
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Andrea Parker (Desperate Housewives) has been cast in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me, from Witt-Thomas and Universal TV. Written by Sally Robinson and starring Mary-Louise Parker, it centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. Andrea Parker will play Amanda, the angry, spiteful and vengeful ex-wife of John (Ed Quinn) who’s been dragging out their divorce for five years and is determined to make his life miserable. Apa-repped Parker recurs on Pretty Little Liars. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots Ryan Devlin (Cougar Town) has landed a recurring role on the CW‘s drama pilot Jane The Virgin. Based on the successful Venezuelan telenovela Juana la Virgen, Jane The Virgin centers on Jane (Gina Rodriguez), a hardworking religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Devlin, repped by TalentWorks and Michelle Grant at Grant Management, will play Andre,...
- 3/29/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Just after the announcement that Boris Kodjoe will join season three of CBS crime drama Unforgettable, we've now learned that the Real Husbands of Hollywood star has been added to the cast of ABC drama The Club. Written and executive produced by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich, The Soloist), the show will center on the different classes that inhabit a private country club. Kodjoe will co-star as Deacon Harris, an NFL Hall of Famer and new member of the club. Toks Olagundoye (The Neighbors) has joined the cast of NBC pilot Feed Me. Starring Mary Louise Parker, the comedy focuses on a dysfunctional family that co-owns and operates a...
- 3/28/2014
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Toks Olagundoye, one of the leads of sophomore comedy The Neighbors, has been cast as a regular in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me in second position to the ABC series. Feed Me, from Witt-Thomas and Universal TV, stars Mary-Louise Parker and centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. Nigeria-born Olagundoye plays Meryl, the live-in girlfriend-turned-fiancee of John (Ed Wuinn), one of three grown-up children of restaurateur parents and brother of Emma (Parker). On Neighbors, Toks, repped by Shelter Entertainment and The Glick Agency, plays alien matriarch Jackie Joyner-Kersee. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots JoBeth Williams is set as a regular in TBS comedy pilot Your Family Or Mine, from Greg Malins, Sony Pictures TV and Fanfare. Based on an Israeli format, the show revolves around a young couple and their relatives, with each episode focusing on a different side of the family. Williams plays Ricky,...
- 3/28/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Sara Chase and Lauren Adams have joined NBC comedy series Tooken from 30 Rock’s Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. It centers on Kimmy (Ellie Kemper), who escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York. Chase, repped by TalentWorks and Perennial Entertainment, will play Cyndee, Kimmy’s best friend from the cult. Adams will play Gretchen, a member of the cult for the past 10 years and the only member who has been successfully brainwashed and believes everything she was told. Adams is with Cesd, Luber/Rocklin and attorney Jeffrey Hynick. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots Emmy and Tony Award winner Debra Monk has been booked on NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me, from Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Written by Sally Robinson and starring Mary-Louise Parker, Feed Me centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. Monk, repped by Brs/Gage and Principal Entertainment La,...
- 3/19/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Updated: Ethan Peck (10 Things I Hate About You), Eureka alum Ed Quinn and Hart Bochner (The Starter Wife) will co-star opposite Mary-Louise Parker in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me. The project centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. The three adult children of restaurant owners Alice and Len Carroll are all struggling with various romantic/sexual/marital crises, all of which seem to come to a head as they gather in a hospital waiting room to support Emma (Parker) as her husband Will (Bochner) recovers from a heart attack suffered during an extra-marital tryst. Peck plays Ned, Emma’s terminally adolescent younger brother, a culinary artist who tries hard to bring some sophistication and modernity to his family’s decades old restaurant, but his menu changes only infuriate his dad. Quinn plays John Carroll, the eldest and the most cynical and...
- 3/19/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Bille Woodruff has been tapped to direct VH1′s Drumline 2: A New Beat, co-written by Karen Gist and Regina Hicks. Fox Television Studios is co-financing and looking at the project as a possible back-door pilot. Story focuses on strong-willed and talented Dani Bolton, who defies her parents, bypassing Spelman College for Seu so she can join the Rolling Red Thunder Drumline. Nick Cannon will exec produce. Woodruff, repped by ICM Partners, Greenlight Management, and attorney Peter Nichols, directed features Honey and Beauty Shop. His current film Addicted for Lionsgate is slated to be released in October. Gist is repped by ICM Partners; Hicks is with Resolution. Michael Trim (Orange Is The New Black, Parks And Recreation, Weeds) will direct NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me, from Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas. Written by Sally Robinson and starring Mary-Louise Parker, Feed Me is described as a comedic exploration...
- 3/18/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
ABC's drama project "American Crime" is lining up one of the deepest casts you'll find this pilot season. The latest addition is Timothy Hutton, who has landed a lead role in the show.
The pilot, from "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner John Ridley, is about a racially charged murder trial in California's Central Valley and its effect on those involved. Hutton, formerly of TNT's "Leverage," will play the father of the murder victim. His character is a gambling addict who has managed to turn his life around.
Felicity Huffman ("Desperate Housewives") is in talks to play Hutton's wife, and Penelope Ann Miller has signed on to play the mother of the victim's wife, who was badly beaten when her husband was killed. The cast also includes Benito Martinez ("The Shield"), W. Earl Brown ("Deadwood"), Caitlin Gerard, Elvis Nolasco and Richard Cabral.
Other pilot casting:
- "Weeds" star Mary-Louise Parker will...
The pilot, from "12 Years a Slave" Oscar winner John Ridley, is about a racially charged murder trial in California's Central Valley and its effect on those involved. Hutton, formerly of TNT's "Leverage," will play the father of the murder victim. His character is a gambling addict who has managed to turn his life around.
Felicity Huffman ("Desperate Housewives") is in talks to play Hutton's wife, and Penelope Ann Miller has signed on to play the mother of the victim's wife, who was badly beaten when her husband was killed. The cast also includes Benito Martinez ("The Shield"), W. Earl Brown ("Deadwood"), Caitlin Gerard, Elvis Nolasco and Richard Cabral.
Other pilot casting:
- "Weeds" star Mary-Louise Parker will...
- 3/6/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
It's official: Mary-Louise Parker is returning to primetime. The Weeds alum has closed a deal to star in NBC's half-hour comedy pilot Feed Me, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The actress, who has fielded multiple offers this pilot season, was circling the role last month. Photos: Faces of Pilot Season 2014 The single-camera vehicle, which was written on spec, is described as a comedic exploration of adult intimacy and desire that centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together. And when daughter Emma's husband has an affair, they circle the wagons
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- 3/6/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When you think charming, complicated mother of a dysfunctional family, you think Mary-Louise Parker, which is perfect since the Weeds actress is now heading up the NBC comedy pilot Feed Me. Parker will star as a matriarch running a family-owned restaurant who must come to her daughter Emma's aid after her husband strays. Actually, turn the restaurant into a bakery and this could just be yet another chapter of Nancy Botwin's insane life. It could be Nancy under an alias! Or in an alternate timeline! No, you're right. Save that for the Feed Me series finale reveal.
- 3/6/2014
- by Halle Kiefer
- Vulture
Mary-Louise Parker‘s reunion with NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt is now official as the former Weeds star has closed a deal to topline NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Feed Me. The project, from veteran producers Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, received a pilot green light last month based on Parker’s intention to star in it. Following the end of Weeds, which Greenblatt put on the air while running Showtime, NBC had been pursing the actress for multiple projects, and Feed Me was the script she responded to. Talks with Parker had already commenced when Feed Me was picked up to pilot three weeks ago, now they have been successfully completed. Written by Sally Robinson, who penned Lifetime’s successful Steel Magnolias remake, Feed Me is described as a comedic exploration of adult intimacy and desire that centers on a dysfunctional family bound by love and the restaurant they run together.
- 3/6/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
NBC's new pilot "Feed Me" has a casting director attached, Backstage has learned. The late-order dark comedy centers on Emma, the daughter of a restaurant-owning family, whose husband cheats on her. Mary-Louise Parker is set to star and Dava Waite, of Dava Waite Peaslee Casting, is set to cast. Meanwhile, "Divergent," the first film installment based on the young adult novels by Veronica Roth, won't hit theaters until later this month but casting is already gearing up on the sequel. Mary Vernieu and Venus Kanani of Betty Mae, Inc. will return to cast "Insurgent," the sequel in Roth's trilogy. In the sci-fi romance, Shailene Woodley, who played George Clooney's daughter in "The Descendants," stars as Beatrice "Tris" Prior, a "divergent" young woman living in a futuristic world where society is divided based on individuals' virtues. The fifth installment of "Mission: Impossible," meanwhile, will be cast by Mindy Marin, of Casting Artists,...
- 2/25/2014
- backstage.com
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