Development News - February 20, 2014
ABC's Clementine, Keep It Together, Saint Francis & Untitled Kenya Barris; The CW's Supernatural: Tribes; FOX's Here's Your Damn Family; and NBC's A to Z, Bad Judge, Odyssey & One Big Happy.
ABC's UNTITLED KENYA BARRIS PROJECT
- Tracee Ellis Ross (Girlfriends) has been cast on the comedy pilot starring Anthony Anderson. She will play the liberal wife of Anderson's leading man.
FOX's HERE'S YOUR DAMN FAMILY
- Natasha Bassett (Camp) has landed the final regular role on the comedy pilot starring Jon Heder. She will play Emma, a pretty and smart but rebellious 17-year-old who's upset her dad (David James Elliott) remarried so quickly after her mother's death.
ABC's SAINT FRANCIS
- Criminal Minds alum Paget Brewster will co-star on the comedy pilot starring Michael Imperioli. She will play Francis' (Imperioli) age-obsessed wife who dreads her upcoming 40th birthday but she is also the glue of the family and rallies support for her sister-in-law.
NBC's ODYSSEY
- Treat Williams (Everwood) is expanding his relationship with NBC. The actor - who has been recurring on the first two seasons of Chicago Fire - has been cast on the drama pilot as Col. Glen, a significant member of the cover-up of the assassination of the 24th Special Ops unit. He's an expert at being simultaneously upbeat and duplicitous.
THE CW's SUPERNATURAL: TRIBES
- The potential spinoff - which will air as a backdoor pilot on April 29 - has found its leading duo in Lucien Laviscount (Episodes) and Nathanial Buzolic (The Vampire Diaries). Laviscount will play Ennis Roth, a determined police academy trainee determined to learn the truth about what really lurks in the shadows after his fiancée is killed. Buzolic will play David Hayden, a shapeshifter from one of Chicago's ruling monster families who has been living as a human after giving up the monster life years ago.
NBC's A TO Z
- Henry Zebrowski (The Wolf of Wall Street) will co-star on the comedy pilot starring Cristin Milioti. He will play Stu, a great guy and loyal friend, roommate and co-worker to Andrew despite his outward obnoxiousness and often unsolicited advice.
NBC's BAD JUDGE
- Whitney vet Tone Bell has landed a regular role on the comedy pilot starring Kate Walsh. He will play Edward, the bailiff in Rebecca's (Walsh) courtroom who gets swept up in her flawed, impulsive and chaotic personal life.
ABC's CLEMENTINE
- Nick Gehlfuss (Shameless, Murder in the First) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Sarah Snook. He will play Sebastian, Clementine's (Snook) mysterious older brother.
NBC's ONE BIG HAPPY
- After fielding multiple pilot offers, Happy Endings alum Elisha Cuthbert has been tapped as the female lead opposite Nick Zano on the multi-cam comedy pilot. She will Lizzy, a lesbian who lives with her best friend, Luke (Zano) while trying to have a baby together via artificial insemination.
ABC's KEEP IT TOGETHER
- Amber Stevens (Greek) will co-star opposite Romany Malco on the multi-cam comedy pilot. She will play Mircea, Derek's (Malco) new live-in girlfriend, a former supermodel who once jet-setted around the world but now works as a hostess at a local restaurant.
