Development News - March 4, 2014
ABC's Untitled Kenya Barris; FOX's Empire; NBC's A to Z, Babylon Fields, Ellen More or Less & Salvation; and TBS' Untitled Kohan & Mutchick.
NBC's SALVATION
- Rob Brown (Treme) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Ashley Judd. He will play Miles Strickland, the adopted son of Jennifer (Judd) and Daniel Strickland who returns home after a 6-years absence out of a sense of loyalty to the family but does not share in their beliefs.
NBC's A TO Z
- Christina Kirk (Girls) has joined the cast of the comedy pilot starring Cristin Milioti and Ben Feldman. She will play Lydia, the general manager of an online dating company where Andrew (Feldman) works who believes that her job is not to help people find love but to keep them paying the monthly membership fee.
ABC's UNTITLED KENYA BARRIS PROJECT
- Yara Shahidi (Scandal) will co-star on the comedy pilot starring Anthony Anderson and Laurence Fishburne. She will play Zoey, the teenage daughter who is always on her phone.
NBC's ELLEN MORE OR LESS
- After a lengthy search, actress-writer Stacey McGunnigle has been cast in the title role on the single camera comedy pilot. She will play Ellen, an average-size woman who, after losing 100 pounds, begins reinventing herself in life and love.
FOX's EMPIRE
- Top music producer/songwriter Timothy "Timbaland" Mosley has joined the drama pilot starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson as songwriter and song producer.
TBS' UNTITLED DAVID KOHAN & MAX MUTCHICK PROJECT
- Pilot Ordered - Comedy (Multi-Camera)
- From Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchick, the untitled project is about a group of kids from high school, who ran in different circles, but now all work together at a local Charlestown, Massachusetts barbershop called Buzzy's. Their dreams may lie across the Charles River in Boston, but for now, their work, their lives, their loves and their worries remain in the town they grew up in. Warner Horizon Television and KoMut Entertainment will produce the pilot.
NBC's BABYLON FIELDS
- Virginia Madsen (Witches of East End), Ritchie Coster (Luck) and Yul Vazquez (Magic City) will round out the regular cast on the drama pilot from Michael and Gerald Cuesta. Madsen will play Rhonda Wunch, Thomas' (Kyle Schmid) mother who is close to her son and wants him to stay home in Babylon. Coster will play Ernie Wunch, Thomas' father and a former cop who most people thought ran away to Daytona. Vazquez will play Chief of Police Matt Conte.
