Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Development News - Laverne Cox Boards 'The Trustee'; Tim DeKay & Zachary Knighton Join 'Linda From HR'; Plus 14 More Updates!

Development News - March 7, 2017

ABC's The Gospel of Kevin, Salamander, The Trustee, Unit Zero & Untitled Marc Cherry; CBS' Perfect Citizen & Wisdom of the Crowd; The CW's Dynasty Insatiable; FOX's Behind Enemy Lines, Linda From HR, The Resident, Untitled Matt Nix & Untitled Sheldon Turner; and NBC's For God and Country & Redliners.


FOX's LINDA FROM HR
  • White Collar star Tim DeKay and Happy Endings alum Zachary Knighton have been cast on the comedy pilot starring Lauren Graham. DeKay will play Dan Plugh, Linda's (Graham) husband, an average guy who can't help but win people over. Knight will play Alan, an accountant on a work trip who has been enjoying spending lunches with Linda and is hiding a secret.
ABC's THE TRUSTEE
  • Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox will play the co-lead on the comedic drama pilot starring Meaghan Rath. She will play Amanda Jones, the precinct's trustee, a larger-than-life ex-con finishing out her prison sentence doing menial tasks for the police department. She and Eliza Radley (Rath) have completely opposing views on crime and punishment, but a highly entertaining and successful partnership is born. 
FOX's BEHIND ENEMY LINES
  • Nestor Carbonell (Bates Motel) and Colm Feore (The Borgias) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Marg Helgenberger. Carbonell will play Mateo Rodriguez, a respected career Navy man and Executive Officer on the USS Tyson aircraft carrier. Feore will play Undersecretary of State David Alexander, a former Naval Officer working for Secretary of State Byron James and husband to Navy Admiral Bobbie Decker (Helgenberger).
FOX's UNTITLED SHELDON TURNER PROJECT
  • Jessica Jones alum Erin Moriarty has booked a series regular role on the drama pilot starring Archie Panjabi and Austin Stowell. She will play Cassie, a female student who accuses several star football players of sexual assault. It's an accusation that leads to an out-of-control scandal on the university campus.
ABC's UNTITLED MARC CHERRY PROJECT
  • Roslyn Ruff (A Gifted Man, Madam Secretary) is set as a series regular on the drama pilot starring Reba McEntire. She will play Inez Winemiller, a jolly church lady who runs the local bed and breakfast.
ABC's UNIT ZERO
  • Dana Powell (Modern Family) has landed a series regular role on the comedic drama pilot starring Toni Collette. She will play Midge, a 35-year veteran of the CIA and Jackie's (Collette) loyal friend.
CBS' PERFECT CITIZEN
  • Shanley Caswell, Adrienne Warren and Stephanie Szostak have joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Noah Wyle. Caswell will play Viv, Deck's (Wyle) daughter, a gifted young lawyer dealing with the personal and professional impact caused by the controversy swirling around her father. Warren will play Ingrid, Deck's deputy at the NSA, intelligent, resourceful, unflappable - and most importantly, unswervingly loyal. Szostak will play Tess, one of the two female partners at the law firm. She is charismatic, glamorous, works off her instincts and knows how appealing she is to men and women.
ABC's SALAMANDER
  • John Leguizamo (Bloodline, Ice Age) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Allison Miller. He will play David Vargas, an ex-cop who is now a bartender at a 10th Avenue bar. He is one of Ethan's best friends.
THE CW's INSATIABLE
  • Dallas Roberts (The Good Wife) will play the male lead on the drama pilot starring Debby Ryan. Sarah Colonna (Chelsea Lately) has also been cast today. Roberts will play Bob, a handsome, immaculately dressed married father of two teenage kids who is bullied by his wife and his dad (his boss, the head of the law firm), but he's devoted to the young women whom he coaches in beauty pageants, and clearly thinks of it as his calling. Colonna will play Angie, Patty's (Ryan) mother, a sexy (almost Miss Georgia, back in the day) alcoholic single mom. She is recently sober and wants to do the right thing by Patty.
FOX's UNTITLED MATT NIX PROJECT
  • Coby Bell (Burn Notice, The Game) has booked a series regular role on the drama pilot starring Stephen Moyer and Amy Acker. He will play Jace Turner, a weathered man who quietly wrestles with the moral ambiguities of a job that regularly requires cold-blooded, calculating efficiency on a day-to-day basis.
NBC's REDLINERS
  • Newcomer Alan Powell has been cast on the drama pilot starring Hannah Ware. He will play Wynn Rhymer, a cop in Anne's (Ware) quiet New York suburb, the vigilant father of a teenage daughter, and a bit suspicious of what his new girlfriend is getting up to.
NBC's FOR GOD AND COUNTRY
  • Sofia Pernas (Jane the Virgin) is set as a series regular on the drama pilot starring Mike Vogel and Anne Heche. She will play Hannah Archer, a member of Patricia's (Heche) team of analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
THE CW's DYNASTY
  • Alan Dale (The O.C., Lost) has joined the cast of the drama pilot remake of the hit 1980s primetime soap. He will play Anders, the butler.
ABC's THE GOSPEL OF KEVIN
  • Cristela star Cristela Alonzo is returning to ABC as the female lead on the comedic drama pilot starring Jason Ritter. She will play Yvette, a tough-talking but compassionate warrior for God who must explain to Kevin (Ritter) that he's been tasked with a sacred mission.
CBS' WISDOM OF THE CROWD
  • Richard T. Jones (Santa Clarita Diet, Criminal Minds) has landed a series regular role on the drama pilot starring Jeremy Piven. He will play Detective Cavanaugh, a traditional crime solver who's recruited by Tanner (Piven) to join the CrowdSolver team, but he'll have to get used to the high-tech way of doing things.
FOX's THE RESIDENT
  • Shaunette Renée Wilson (Billions) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Manish Dayal and Bruce Greenwood. She will play Mina Okafor, a Nigerian rising surgical star recently trained on a new device that could redefine surgery.