Development News - February 15, 2014
ABC's American Crime & Saint Francis; FOX's Here's Your Damn Family; NBC's Coercion, Salvation & Two to Go; and TNT's Agent X & Guilt by Association.
TNT's GUILT BY ASSOCIATION
- Elisabeth Rohm (Power, Beauty and the Beast) has landed a lead role on the drama pilot. She will play tough-as-nails LAPD detective Bailey Keller, who is by-the-book and uneasy when Rachel starts digging into Jake's death despite the FBI taking over.
ABC's SAINT FRANCIS
- The Sopranos vet Michael Imperioli has been tapped for the lead on the multi-camera comedy pilot from writer Chris Moynihan. The project centers on Francis Quinlan (Imperioli), a blue-collar, no-nonsense Long Island cop and family man who butts heads with the modern, liberal world when his 29-year-old sister gets pregnant out of wedlock.
TNT's AGENT X
- Gerald McRaney (House of Cards, Southland) will round out the cast of the drama pilot starring Sharon Stone. He will play Malcolm Millar, the refined Chief Steward of the Vice President's mansion, and keeper of its many secrets.
ABC's AMERICAN CRIME
- Elvis Nolasco and Caitlin Gerard have been cast on the drama pilot from writer/director John Ridley. The duo will play an interracial couple, both of whom are drug addicts.
NBC's TWO TO GO
- Sean Saves the World co-star Echo Kellum is staying at NBC with a co-starring role on the comedy pilot from Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. The project centers on a group of friends trying to prove that longtime best friends Kurt and Laura are destined to be together. He will play one of the friends, who is a stay-at-home dad.
NBC's SALVATION
- Warren Kole (Common Law, The Following) has booked a regular role on the drama pilot from writer Liz Heldens. He will play Jacob, a charismatic, fresh-out-of-jail, fire-and-brimstone, rattlesnake-handling, poison-drinking Pentecostal preacher who found his faith in prison.
NBC's COERCION
- Gavin Stenhouse (Iconicles, Person of Interest) has been cast as the lead in the drama pilot from writer-director George Nolfi. He will play Alex O'Connor, a decorated American war hero and newly minted CIA analyst who is a true patriot and loves his country and family.
FOX's HERE'S YOUR DAMN FAMILY
- David James Elliott (JAG) will co-star opposite Jane Kaczmarek in the multi-cam comedy pilot. He will play Mike, Carol's (Kaczmarek) new husband who moves in with his three teenage children. He is described as a ruggedly handsome, straightforward, "man's man" widower. Also cast on the pilot are Peter DaCunha and Brendan Meyer as two of Mike's three children.
