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EXCLUSIVE: High School Musical alumna Ashley Tisdale has been cast as a lead in CBS’ untitled Louis CK/Spike Feresten multicamera comedy pilot, an ensemble of young people trying to achieve their creative dreams in these tough financial times. Tisdale will play Petra, the beautiful and sarcastic assistant to a vintage clothing designer struggling to carve out her niche in New York. Louis CK and Spike Feresten wrote the pilot, an update of a script the two originally penned 13 years ago. BermanBraun, Universal TV and CBS TV Studios are producing. Earlier this development season, Tisdale was attached to star in and executive produce a semi-autobiographical multicamera comedy at ABC penned by David Holden. Tisdale, repped by CAA and manager Bill Perlman, starred on the CW drama Hellcats last season.
Chris Egan (Letters To Juliet) has become the first actor cast in ABC’s drama pilot Beauty And The Beast, a fantasy re-imagining of the classic Beauty and the Beast tale wherein an embattled princess, Grace, discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast. Egan, repped by WME and Anonymous Content, will play one of the leads, Grace’s fiance Gorrick, who is her father’s most trusted soldier. The casting stems from the former Kings star’s talent holding deal with ABC. Last year he toplined another drama pilot for the network, Poe. Yves Simoneau is directing Beauty And The Beast from a script by Jon Steinberg for ABC Studios and Gary Fleder’s Mojo Films. The ABC Beauty And Beast is yet to lock in the two title roles while the CW pilot of the same name, based on the 1980s series, recently cast Kristin Kreuk as Belle.
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Egan’s agent better monitor the scripts Matt Damon is attached to. If any of them have a younger brother character, this kid’s a shoo-in.
Wow. Brilliant insight. Really. OneandDone, you are a genius. Einstein I say, and i said! Blown away O&D, Buh-LONE-away! I mean, really, ‘Oh and the Dee’ you are an amazing man. An absolute Twat you are. A total Player, ‘Oooo slash da-Dee’!
Easy, gunslinger.
I’m sure an intellectual spitfire like yourself isn’t so rotten from cynicism that he’d fail to understand that all I said was that Egan is a Damon look-alike.
If I had written that as insight from a superagent, then yes… I’d be a twat. Not unlike the guy who pounces on innocuous internet posts in the guise of a witty goofball, when the very act itself stinks of a miserable, ineffectual douchebag.
LOL. I thought he was just joking, but your comeback made me LOL.
OMG haha, totally agree, he resembles Matt Damon so much!
So so so proud and happy for Ashley! I love her so much, she’s one of my longtime role models! I will stick with her until the end of this show! Gosh, she’s amazing, love her so much. <33
Ashley Tisdale? Of the failed CW’s Wildcats? If she can’t have a hit on a network with a demo who might know who she is how can she have one on a network geared towards grandparents? The show itself sounds like a ‘Friends’ knock-off…hence why it first existed 13 years ago…but maybe their thinking it would pair well with 2 Broke Girls(?). Still it’s high time that folks realize that the actors from ‘High School Musical’ are NOT stars and don’t have drawing power. Zac Efron has potential but Tisdale isnt going to be a name.
Yeah.. she may be from the failed CW drama, but hence the DRAMA. Ashely Tisdale has always starred on comedies and if you’ve watched her on HSM or Suite Life of Zack and Cody or maybe even Phineas and Ferb you would see that she has some decent comedic chops and can hold up with the other comedians in the broadcast world. I know comedic wise, she’ll do her thing.
She’s not the lead, she’s something like fifth on the breakdown. The show won’t ride on her.
Awww so happy for ash..congrats baby..you is my blondie always
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I still miss Kings! NBC messed up!
Great! You had to remind me!
Is Egan’s character an oomph loompa? sweet child needs to lay off the spray-tan.
I love ashley tisdale
Congratz on your new production Ash! I’ll offer you a part in Hunting the Alien Hunter if you would consider casting me as an extra or something in your show. Thanks! ~Dave
Am hapi 4 Ashley..gud luck wit da film..lve u nd I knw ul make ur fans vry proud!!
My God, I must be getting old. I can’t figure out if this poster really meant to write this, or it’s a joke.
If it’s a joke…haha.
If this is a serious post…ugh. Let me know how things work out for you at DeVry.
Then, what happened to “Under Construction” ??? Is it still airing?
I heard it’s canceled !
Oh Ash! Im so xcitd 4 u……u knw hw it rolls….go Rock! I know u alwys do
I heard young singing sensation Emily Harder was to star in this but turned it down so Ashley got offered the part.
It wasn’t her acting that caused the CW show Hellcats to fail, it was the writing. The plot was not interesting at all, they had no idea what to do with the characters.
CBS is getting a real wonderful young lady in Ashley Tisdale. Not only can she act, she is very nice, AND is beautiful beyond words!!! CBS will not regret this choice!!!
Hellcats was short lived because it wasn’t advertised as much as it could’ve been, and I’m sure Ashley Tisdale will do a great job as she has the comedic acting chops and the experience that comes along with them. So far, Under Construction is still in the pre-production stages and is set for ABC, but this new pilot series sounds quite perfect for her to do more mature roles, if she is playing a sarcastic character, she’ll be perfect, and set in NYC? Nothing better.
That Dave Holden pilot was rubbish. Tisdale is lucky to have landed on someone else’s show.
lmfao that’s funny, seeing as how she’s ALREADY a name. she’s not just successful with acting. she’s released two albums, released 6 movies, 4 of which had amazing ratings, she was in a show that lasted longer than most disney shows do, she’s doing voiceover work, and she OWNS a production company, which is doing fairly well. who cares if hellcats was a flop? she wasn’t the only one in that. the cancellation isn’t solely based on her. before bashing somebody, do your research.
Ashley is really good actress! she’s good in comedy that’s why I’m so excited with this. That CW drama don’t really have a good story for me
Tisdales Pilot sounds like if CBS pass’s on it the CW could pick it up like it did with Ringer sounds like a comedy that could work on The CW
If CBS pass’s on the Tisdale pilot it sounds like something The CW could possibly pick up for midseason or even fall. kinda young skewing
So excited. Go the Aussie actors!
I’M SO HAPPY FOR ASHLEY *——–*
Can’t wait to see Ashley Tisdale, she’s such a great comedian <3
Ashley is great. She has really good comedic timing and should be cast in comedies!