Kat Dennings To Star In CBS’ Whitney Cummings/Michael Patrick King Comedy

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• Love Kat Dennings. But -wow- to the continued trend of movie/feature actors jumping onto TV pilots. (Kat, Claire, Zooey, Ethan, etc.) Been following pilot season for the last couple years and yes, you see big time film actors jumping aboard projects here and there but this season does it seem a lot more film actors are jumping aboard pilots more than usual? Can someone wiser comment on if that’s so, why and what it might mean?

  thanks for the education.

  Comment by pilot season student — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 2:37pm PST  Reply to this post

  • They’re making fewer and fewer movies.

    Comment by Anonymous — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 4:10pm PST  Reply to this post

  • lack of job opportunities in film? because the film industry will die in 10 yrs?

    Comment by john — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 5:34pm PST  Reply to this post

  • cmon she’s hardly an in-demand/high profile “feature actor”. i’m sure she would have jumped at the chance to join a potential sex and the city for teens show.

    Comment by pssyeah — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 6:04pm PST  Reply to this post

• The premise of the show sounds promising. Where will CBS put all it’s new comedies given they hardly have slots to fill? Maybe fridays at 8? That would be a very interesting move. Let’s wait for May.

  Comment by Sam — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 3:08pm PST  Reply to this post

• I had heard this might happen on Monday.

  Kat is talented, funny and beautiful. I look forward to this show, even though I am not the biggest Whitney Cummings fan around.

  Comment by brick — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 3:12pm PST  Reply to this post

• I would assume the idea of a permanent job, a place to go every day, a regular paycheck for however long and working with talented writers and producers with good track records might be the reason. Also the lack of good roles in films, the ability to fall right off the face of the acting planet very, very fast when each day there’s some new talented person hitting town. It’s not bad insurance for a future in films, a relief from the fear of never working again. If the quality is good, and sometimes it is, so much the better. The competition just seems overwhelming and many of these actors are smart to stay in front of the camera and get the experience and exposure, if the material is good. If they hit the motherload so much the better. It’s a real crapshoot but the stigma seems to have lifted.

  Comment by karen — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 3:37pm PST  Reply to this post

  • “but the stigma seems to have lifted.”

    therein lies the key.

    Comment by pilot season student — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 7:14pm PST  Reply to this post

• Was genuinely shocked by this news. Love Kat Dennings – find her to be very funny and talented – but this script was completely predictable and lacking in humor. I understand why feature actors might make the jump to tv (they all have their reasons), but to attach yourself to such a mediocre project is mind-boggling. Hope she is getting a big pay day and they are doing major re-writes.

  Comment by Gwen — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 4:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• If you want to sing out, sing out…

  Love Kat Dennings.

  Comment by SurferDoc — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 4:40pm PST  Reply to this post

• aside from kat dennings, we learn today that former “It”-girl leelee sobieski is now joining the tv world too to play a cop role.

  Comment by john marzan — Friday February 18, 2011 @ 5:48pm PST  Reply to this post