Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Development News - Rose McIver Lands Lead on 'iZombie'; Scott Cohen Joins 'Coercion'; Plus 4 More Updates!

Development News - March 12, 2014

ABC's Far East Orlando & Sea of Fire; CBS' Scorpion; The CW's iZombie; and NBC's Coercion & Love is Relative.





THE CW's IZOMBIE
  • Rose McIver (Once Upon a Time, Masters of Sex) is set as the lead on the drama pilot from writer Rob Thomas. She will play Olivia "Liv" Moore, a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner's office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. 
NBC's COERCION
  • Scott Cohen (Necessary Roughness, The Carrie Diaries) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Hope Davis. He will play the father of the O'Connor family, who - along with his wife (Davis) and eldest daughter (Margarita Levieva) - is part of a dormant Russian sleeper cell that has just been reactivated.
CBS' SCORPION
  • Elyes Gabel (Game of Thrones, Body of Proof) has been cast as the lead on the drama pilot from writer Nick Santora. He will play Walter, an eccentric genius who assembles an international network of super-geniuses to fight against the complex threats of the modern age.
ABC's FAR EAST ORLANDO
  • After a lengthy search, the comedy pilot (formerly Fresh Off the Boat) has cast Hudson Yang as its young lead. He will play Eddie Huang, a well-meaning likable kid and a recent transplant from Washington, D.C., now living in homogenized, all-white Orlando, Florida where his dad (Randall Park) is opening a restaurant.
NBC's LOVE IS RELATIVE
  • Barry Rothbart (The Wolf of Wall Street) is set as the male lead opposite Leslie Bibb and the comedy pilot. He will play Josh, Rose's (Bibb) brother, a handsome, by-the-book kind of guy who's always played by the rules and is heartbroken after discovering his wife has been unfaithful to him.
ABC's SEA OF FIRE
  • Morgan Taylor Campbell (The Killing) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Jennifer Carpenter and Jack Davenport. She will play Jane McAllister, the pretty, preppy and seemingly straight-laced daughter of Reverend Bobby (Jeffrey Nordling) and Adine McAllister (Amanda Detmer) who goes missing on the night of the town festival.