Development News - March 6, 2014
ABC's American Crime, Keep It Together, Selfie, Untitled Richard LaGravenese & The Visitors; CBS' How I Met Your Dad, Madam Secretary & Untitled Kevin Williamson; FOX's Red Band Society; and NBC's Coercion, Ellen More or Less, Lifesaver & State of Affairs.
CBS' MADAM SECRETARY
- Patina Miller (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Tea Leoni. She will play Daisy, Elizabeth's (Leoni) press coordinator.
FOX's RED BAND SOCIETY
- Ciara Bravo (Big Time Rush) and Nolan Sotillo (Prom) have joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Octavia Spencer. Bravo will play Emma, a beautiful patient on the pediatric ward struggling with anorexia. Sotillo will play Jordi Palacios, a very smart and resourceful young man who refuses to take no for an answer.
ABC's AMERICAN CRIME
- Leverage star Timothy Hutton is set as the male lead on the drama pilot from Oscar winning-writer John Ridley. He will play Chuck Skokie, a former gambling addict-turned-honest working man whose adult son Matt is the victim.
- Mistresses vet Penelope Ann Miller has also been added to the cast today. She will play Eve, the emotionally shattered mother of the killed man's badly beaten wife who is on life support.
NBC's LIFESAVER
- Chris Butler (King & Maxwell, The Good Wife) has booked a role on the multi-camera comedy pilot. He will play Campbell Carter, the entitled and selfish childhood friend and neighbor of Dr. Graham Permenter (Christian Borle).
CBS' HOW I MET YOUR DAD
- Smash alum Krysta Rodriguez has landed a lead role on the potential How I Met Your Mother spinoff. She will play Juliet, Sally's (Greta Gerwig) best friend, a sexy and flamboyant force of nature who runs the most successful fashion blog in the country.
NBC's COERCION
- Annie Ilonzeh (Charlie's Angels, Drop Dead Diva) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Hope Davis. She will play Julia, a no-nonsense Special Agent with the FBI assigned to work closely with Alex (Gavin Stenhouse).
NBC's STATE OF AFFAIRS
- Cliff Chamberlain has been cast on the drama pilot starring Katherine Heigl. He will play Brett Welker, a quirky CIA linguist.
ABC's KEEP IT TOGETHER
- The comedy pilot starring Romany Malco has added Bresha Webb to its cast. She will play the female lead Lorraine, Derek's (Malco) ex-wife who tries to forge a friendship with him for the sake of their kids.
ABC's THE VISITORS
- Brianna Brown (Devious Maids) has been added to the cast of the drama pilot starring Lily Rabe and Barry Sloane. She will play Lena, whose husband Wes works for the Defense Department and is investigating an alien spaceship.
ABC's UNTITLED RICHARD LAGRAVENESE PROJECT
- Rufus Sewell (Eleventh Hour) has been tapped as the male lead in the drama pilot from writer Richard LaGravense. He will play Philip Fitzgerald Julien, an imposing, confidant and smart bisexual man who is a master manipulator and adept at seduction and deceit. His cynical world view creates a reality for him that protects a heart that loved once too strongly and refuses to be hurt again.
ABC's SELFIE
- David Harewood (Homeland) has landed a co-starring role on the comedy pilot from writer Emily Kapnek. He will play Sam, the president of the company where Eliza (Karen Gillan) works. He is rich, confident, a bit eccentric and very involved in his employee's lives.
CBS' UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT
- Devious Maids star Mariana Klaveno has joined the drama pilot starring Dylan McDermott. She will play Janice, who is usually the smartest person in the room and is one of Threat Assessment Unit's detectives. She is often underestimated because of her somewhat flashy appearance. Her casting is in first position to the Lifetime drama which she's starred on for two seasons.
NBC's ELLEN MORE OR LESS
- Chris Diamantopoulos (Episodes) will co-star opposite Stacey McGunnigle on the single camera comedy pilot. He will play Jerry, Ellen's (McGunnigle) hunky colleague.
