ABC's Agatha, Damaged Goods & Exposed; CBS' Madam Secretary & Only Human; The CW's iZombie & The Messengers; FOX's Empire; HBO's Untitled Winter/Scorsese; and NBC's The Money Pit.
ABC's AGATHA
- Sleepy Hollow vet Clancy Brown has landed the co-lead role on the drama pilot starring Bojana Novakovic. He will play Hank McAuliffe, Agatha's (Novakovic) estranged chief detective father, a salt of the earth guy who also happens to be a struggling alcoholic.
ABC's EXPOSED
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Smashed) has been tapped as the lead for the drama pilot from writer Charles Randolph. She will play Anna, an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, including making questionable alliances.
CBS' ONLY HUMAN
- Nick Jandl (Green Lantern) and Cameron Scoggins (The Happy Sad) have been cast on the drama pilot starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Jandl wil play Jonathan, the oldest of the quadruplets who's fresh out of his residency and new to Easton Hospital. Scoggins will play Michael, another quadruplet who runs an inner-city clinic.
CBS' MADAM SECRETARY
- Katherine Herzer has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Tea Leoni. She will play Caroline, Elizabeth's (Leoni) popular teenage daughter.
THE CW's IZOMBIE
- Saturday Night Live alum Nora Dunn is set as a regular on the drama pilot from writer Rob Thomas. She will play Eva Moore, Olivia's mother and a hospital administrator.
ABC's DAMAGED GOODS
- Anna Camp (Pitch Perfect, True Blood) will topline the single camera comedy pilot from writer Lauren Iungerich. She will play Nicole, a smart and successful lawyer who is totally bewildered and betrayed when her boyfriend Tim (Justin Hartley) tells her he can't be happy for her or continue to date if she takes the promotion she was offered at the law firm where they both work - the promotion he expected to get.
NBC's THE MONEY PIT
- NBC has decide to push the multi-camera comedy pilot from writer Justin Spitzer and Amblin Television - which was ordered to pilot in January 2014 - to off-cycle development. The delay likely stems from difficulty over casting the lead characters. Inspired by the 1986 film starring Tom Hanks and Shelley Long, the project centers on a newlywed couple that navigates the challenges of modern romance while their house crumbles around them.
FOX's EMPIRE
- Kaitlin Doubleday (Catch Me If You Can) will round out the regular cast of the drama pilot starring Terrence Howard. She will play Rhonda, the wife of Andre (Trai Byers), a sexy, manipulative woman who shares Andre's Ivy League background and intends to help him scrap his way to the head of Empire Entertainment.
THE CW's THE MESSENGERS
- One Tree Hill alum Shantel VanSanten has been tapped for the leading role on the drama pilot from writer Eoghan O'Donnell. She will play Vera, a NASA scientist who works at a remote New Mexico observatory who investigates a strange impact site. Her casting is in first position to FOX's upcoming drama Gang Related, which she co-stars on.
HBO's UNTITLED TERENCE WINTER & MARTIN SCORSESE PROJECT
- The drama project - which still doesn't an official pilot production order but is also gearing toward production in early summer 2014 with Martin Scorsese directing - has tapped Olivia Wilde (House, Rush) to co-star. She will play Devon Finestra, Richie's (Bobby Cannavale), a former actress/model who lived a Bohemian life in 1960s New York. Richie's crisis causes strain on their family and propels her to re-immerse in her for former lifestyle.
