Thursday, March 3, 2016

Development News - 'The Infamous' Sets Jason O'Mara as Co-Lead; Bashir Salahuddin Joins 'Crushed'; Plus 13 More Updates!

Development News - March 3, 2016

A&E's The Infamous; ABC's The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez, Dream Team, Spark & Untitled Mackay/Weeks; CBS' Bull; The CW's Riverdale, Untitled Doris Egan & Untitled Kevin Williamson; FOX's A.P.B., The Exorcist & Lethal Weapon; Hulu's Crushed; and NBC's Cruel Intentions & Miranda's Rights.



THE CW's UNTITLED KEVIN WILLIAMSON PROJECT
  • Megan West (How to Get Away With Murder) has been cast as the female lead on the drama pilot written by Kevin Williamson. She will play Sarah Roberts, a young woman who seeks help from a parapsychologist (Bailey Chase) and his team when she begins to experience paranormal phenomena.
A&E's THE INFAMOUS
  • Jason O'Mara (Terra Nova, Complications) is set as the co-lead opposite Bokeem Woodbine on the drama pilot. He will play Bill Slidell, an LAPD officer, a good cop who considers himself morally sound but who holds some questionable views on race.
HULU's CRUSHED
  • Bashir Salahuddin (Looking, Brothers in Atlanta) has joined the comedy pilot as the male lead. He will play Will, a chemist and Harvard med school drop-out who goes off the grid squatting at his parents' abandoned Napa property until his sister, Celia (Regina Hall), persuades him to use his knowledge to help her build a legit winery.
THE CW's UNTITLED DORIS EGAN PROJECT
  • Georgina Haig (Once Upon a Time, Limitless) has been cast as the female lead opposite Neal Bledsoe on the drama pilot written by Doris Egan. She will play Gina Nolan, the mission's botanist, a woman who is intense, motivated and sharp. She's a true explorer, believing it is the destiny of mankind to investigate the universe - but before she can become a Mars colonist, she must prove herself.
FOX's LETHAL WEAPON
  • Jordana Brewster (Fast and the Furious, Dallas) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Damon Wayans Sr. She will play Dr. Maureen "Mo" Cahill, the LAPD's hostage negotiator and in-house therapist. She helps cops deal with their trauma and occasionally gets stuck with a real hard case like Martin Riggs.
CBS' BULL
  • Geneva Carr (Love & Other Drugs) is the first series regular cast on the drama pilot written by Dr. Phil McGraw and Paul Attanasio. She will play Marisa, a psychologist, neurolinguistics expert and licensed sex therapist working on Dr. Bull's team.
FOX's THE EXORCIST
  • Kurt Egyiawan (Beasts of No Nation) has booked a regular role on the drama pilot starring Alfonso Herrera and Ben Daniels. He will play Father Bennett, a liaison for the Vatican.
NBC's MIRANDA'S RIGHTS
  • Jamie Chung (Once Upon a Time) and John Gabriel (If Loving You Is Wrong) have landed regular roles on the drama pilot starring Rebecca Breeds. Chung will play Lana Harris, the alpha-female attorney at the firm, Tanner's fiancĂ©e, and is fiercely protective of her career and the firm - leading her to immediately dislike Miranda (Breeds). Gabriel will play Marcus Reed, a former attorney with the firm, a guy who thinks money and power will make him happy. He bailed to worked at the more prestigious and better-paying firm headed by Tanner's mother.
NBC's CRUEL INTENTIONS
  • Coby Bell (The Game, Burn Notice) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. He will play Pascal Barrett, Kathryn's (Gellar) husband, a dashing and smug California power lawyer who is he attorney for billionaire Edward Valmont. Polite and concerned when he first meets Bash Casey (Taylor John Smith), Pascal quickly drops his pleasant facade with Kathryn as the two plan their strategy.
ABC's SPARK
  • Lena Olin (Welcome to Sweden) and Tom Brittney (The Syndicate) have been cat on the drama pilot written by Michael Cooney. Olin will play Hazel Stockton, an up-by-her-bootstraps, self-made woman who now controls the powerful Stockton Coal Company. She uses her wealth more altruistically than her arch rivals at Lavelle Gas. Despite her philanthropic outreaches to the city's poor, she still craves absolute power, and is not above using strong-arm tactics to achieve it. When deadly sabotage starts claiming innocent lives across the city, she denies any involvement. Brittny will play Aiden, Hazel's son, Captain of the Investigative Division of the Watch, who is investigating the incidents.
ABC's UNTITLED HANNAH MACKAY & ED WEEKS PROJECT
  • Julie Goldman (The People's Couch) will co-star on the comedy pilot written by Hannah Mackay and Ed Weeks. She will play JoJo, a fun-loving Southern biker who runs Austin's friendliest gastropub.
THE CW's RIVERDALE
  • Marisol Nichols (Teen Wolf, NCIS) has been cast on the drama pilot based on the Archie Comics characters. She will play Hermione Lodge, Veronica's (Camila Mendes) mother.
ABC's THE DEATH OF EVA SOFIA VALDEZ
  • Constantine alum Angelica Celaya has booked a regular role on the drama pilot written by Charise Castro Smith. She will play Dominique, a "shadow woman" who mysteriously enters Eva Sofia's life. Although she is ancient, she takes the shape of a younger woman who will cut you or be with you - whatever it takes to lure another desperate soul into her collection.
ABC's DREAM TEAM
  • Carlos Leal (Devious Maids, The Last Ship) has landed a regular role on the comedy pilot starring Justin Long. He will play Carlos Diaz, Olga's (Michelle Buteau) husband, an affable and easy-going owner of a successful restaurant.
FOX's A.P.B.
  • Tamberla Perry (Boss) is set as a series regular on the drama pilot written by David Slack. She will play Goss, an officer with the 13th precinct who is partnered with the hot-headed Roderick Brandt (Taylor Handley).