Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Development News - Chace Crawford Joins 'Boom'; Tim DeKay to Co-Star on 'Frankenstein'; Plus 13 More Updates!

Development News - March 11, 2015

ABC's Boom, The Catch, Flesh and BloodMix & Uncle Buck; CBS' For Justice & Sneaky Pete; The CW's Dead People; FOX's Frankenstein, Grandpa, The Perfect Stanleys & Untitled Todd Harthan; and NBC's Game of Silence, Sharing & Untitled Aseem Batra.



THE CW's DEAD PEOPLE
  • Echo Kellum (Ben & Kate, Sean Saves the World) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Andrew J. West. He will play Doug, Floyd's (West) best friend, a successful attorney who lives with his wife and two children, worries about Floyd and wants to help him in any way he can.
ABC's MIX
  • Joaquim de Almeida (Fast Five) and Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue) have been cast on the drama pilot written by Jennifer Cecil. De Almeida will play Ray, owner of Mix, a popular Austin restaurant. Lawrence will play Stella, Ray's ex-wife who runs her own restaurant next door to Mix, but can't resist helping her charming ex and family get their restaurant back in the black.
FOX's FRANKENSTEIN
  • White Collar star Tim DeKay will co-star on the drama pilot, with Philip Baker Hall also booking a recurring role on the pilot today. DeKay will play FBI Agent Duval Pritchard, Ray's son who he teams with in order to take down the bad guys. Hall will play the older version of Ray before he is brought back from the dead.
FOX's THE PERFECT STANLEYS
  • Bret Harrison (Reaper, Breaking In) has been tapped to replace Brian Austin Green on the comedy pilot (formerly Untitled Dana Klein) after Green had to pull out for medical reasons. He will play Jack Stanley, an undisciplined, laid back, ruler breaker who pretty much does whatever he wants and doesn't worry about the consequences - except when it comes to his wife (Liza Lapira) who terrifies him.
NBC's SHARING
  • Christine Taylor (Dodgeball) and Jerry Minor (Saturday Night Live) have joined the cast of the comedy pilot written by Jeremy Bronson. They will play married couple Polly and Mike, who co-own Open Spaces. She wishes her husband would stand up for himself and to the people in the office.
ABC's FLESH AND BLOOD
  • Andrew McCarthy (Weekend at Bernie's) has been cast on the drama pilot written by Jenna Bans. He will play Hank, Claire's (Joan Allen) former neighbor who spent 12 years in prison for Adam's (Liam James) presumed murder.
NBC's GAME OF SILENCE
  • Claire van der Boom (The Pacific) and Deidrie Henry (Beyond the Lights) have booked regular roles on the drama pilot starring David Lyons. Boom will play Marina, the beautiful, intelligent partner of her law firm who is engaged to Jackson (Lyons). Henry will play Detective Liz Winters, a police detective in the Gangs Squad.
CBS' SNEAKY PETE
  • Shane Mcrae (The Following) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Giovanni Ribisi. He will play Taylor, a small-town cop thrilled to be reunited with his long-absent cousin Pete (Ribisi).
NBC's UNTITLED ASEEM BATRA PROJECT
  • Rizwan Manji (Outsourced) will co-star on the comedy pilot starring Michael Cassidy and Christine Woods. He will play Dale's (Cassidy) workplace confidant and right-hand man.
FOX's UNTITLED TODD HARTHAN PROJECT
  • Anna Konkle (Project Reality) has landed a regular role on the drama pilot starring Morris Chestnut. She will play Kathy Fern Clyde, a hyper-neurotic DNA specialist who works in the lab.
ABC's BOOM
  • Gossip Girl alum Chace Crawford has been tapped to play the lead role on the drama pilot written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne. The project tracks the epic pilgrimage of a young, ambitious couple, Billy (Crawford) and Kelly (Rebecca Rittenhouse), to the oil fields of the Bakken seeking their fortune and a better life. Handsome and ambitious, with moxie and savvy to burn, Billy is a born hustler who trusts his luck and his quick wits. After a road accident leaves him and Kelly stranded on foot, broke and heavily in debt, he gets wind of a big deal and moves fast to secure an impregnable position for himself - but in so doing, he's betting his life.
CBS' FOR JUSTICE
  • Shawn Hatosy (Southland, Reckless) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Anika Noni Rose. He will play Jess, a lawyer with the Department of Justice, a Boston jock who wears his heart on his sleeve.
ABC's UNCLE BUCK
  • Sayeed Shahidi (The First Family) has been cast as one of the young leads on the comedy pilot starring Mike Epps. He will play Miles, Will and Alexis' (Nia Long) only son, a precocious kid who is too bright for his own good.
ABC's THE CATCH
  • Rose Rollins (The L Word) and Alimi Ballard (Numb3rs) have booked regular roles on the drama pilot starring Mireille Enos. They will play Evan and Andie Derringer, a couple who are confused when they find out that Alice (Enos) didn't know her fiancé Kieran (Damon Dayoub) was lying to her the entire team.
FOX's GRANDPA
  • Singer-actress Christina Milian has been cast on the comedy pilot starring John Stamos and Josh Peck. She will play Vanessa, a hip, hot mess of a girl who had a one-night stand with Gerald (Peck) and is the mother of his daughter. Just when she seems to be warming up to Gerald, she meets Jimmy (Stamos) and is instantly attracted to this older, cooler man - a complication that doesn't bode well for Gerald.