Development News - March 1, 2014
ABC's Exposed, How to Get Away With Murder, Irreversible & Saint Francis; The CW's The Messengers; NBC's Coercion & Love is Relative; and TNT's Black Box.
TNT's BLACK BOX
- Script Commitment - Drama
- Written by Jason Fuchs (Ice Age: Continental Drift, Pan) and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, Black Box centers on three strangers whose lives are forever changed after the accidental crash of a civilian airliner over the Long Island Sound when clues begin to emerge that the crash may not have been accidental. Fuchs, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank will executive producer.
THE CW's THE MESSENGERS
- Jon Fletcher (The Good Wife) will co-star on the drama pilot from producer Basil Iwanyk. He will play Joshua, a charismatic and compelling pastor at a Texas mega-church.
- Additionally, Stephen Williams (Lost) has been tapped to direct the pilot.
NBC's COERCION
- Alexandra Peters (Sage Paints the Sky) has joined the cast on the drama pilot starring Hope Davis. She will play Sarah, Alex's (Gavin Stenhouse) younger teenage sister who idolizes her older brother.
ABC's EXPOSED
- Brian F. O'Byrne (Prime Suspect, FlashForward) has landed a lead role on the drama pilot from writer Charles Randolph. He will play Quigg, a very powerful, mysterious man who works for the Pentagon.
ABC's IRREVERSIBLE
- Jessica Knappett (The Inbetweeners) and Iris Bahr (The Last Exorcism) are set as the female leads on the comedy pilot starring David Schwimmer. Knappett will play Sarah, a neurotic and feisty morning show host on a second-rate channel who dreams of becoming an important newswoman someday. Bahr will play Stacey, Sarah's older yet less mature sister.
ABC's SAINT FRANCIS
- Henry Simmons (NYPD Blue) has been cast on the multi-camera comedy pilot starring Michael Imperioli. He will play Francis' (Imperioli) business partner at the bar they own.
ABC's HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
- The Carrie Diaries star Katie Findlay has joined the cast of the Viola Davis-starring drama pilot. She will play Rebecca, the edgy, pierced neighbor to struggling law student Wes Gibbins (Alfred Enoch), who becomes entangled in the murder sage that shakes their university. Her casting is formally in second position to The Carrie Diaries.
NBC's LOVE IS RELATIVE
- Utkarsh Ambudkar (Pitch Perfect, The Mindy Project) has landed a role on the single camera comedy pilot starring Leslie Bibb. He will play a character named Deepak.
