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ABC Pilot Castings: Natalie Dormer To Star In ‘Poe’, Judith Light Joins ‘Kids’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 8, 2011 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: ABC Pilots, ABC Poe, Judith Light, Other People's Kids, Other People's Kids Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

The Tudors alumna Natalie Dormer is set as the female lead opposite Chris Egan in ABC’s drama pilot Poe. The project, from Warner Bros. TV and Lin Pictures, is a crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe (Egan), the world’s very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston. Dormer, repped by ICM and U.K.’s United Agents, will play Celeste, a beautiful spitfire, with a firm moral center – the logical yin to Poe’s wildly theoretical yang. She owns the newspaper for which Poe writes, having inherited it from her fiancé who died in mysterious circumstances.

Judith Light has been tapped for a regular role in ABC’s half-hour pilot Other People’s Kids. The multicamera comedy, written by Hunter Covington and directed by Michael Fresco, centers on Adam (Jesse Bradford), a 32-year-old guy with no responsibilities who suddenly finds himself with an insta-family when he falls in love with an older woman, Michelle (Bonnie Sommerville) who has two kids, an ex-husband, and ex-in-laws. Light, repped by Gersh and TAO Management, will play Michelle’s ex-mother-in-law, an eccentric older woman living with her lover who likes to keep all 10 fingers deep in family matters.

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Several Pilots Get Showrunners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 7:13am PSTTags: ABC Poe, Cooper & Stone, Cooper & Stone Pilot, John Wirth Cooper & Stone, Jonathan Groff, Kyle Killen, My Frickin' Family, My Frickin' Family Pilot, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Human Target executive producer Brad Kern has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on ABC’s drama pilot Poe. The crime procedural, from writer-exec producer Chris Hollier, Warner Bros. TV and Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures, follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s … Read More »

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Ilene Chaiken To Run CBS Drama Pilot ‘Hail Mary’, Alex Graves To Direct ABC’s ‘Poe’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 6, 2011 @ 4:00pm PSTTags: ABC Pilots, ABC Poe, CBS Pilots, Hail Mary, Hail Mary Jeff Wadlow, Hail Mary Pilot, Ilene Chaiken Hail Mary, Jeff Wadlow, Poe Drama Pilot, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

The L Word co-creator/executive producer Ilene Chaiken has joined CBS’ private eye drama pilot Hail Mary as executive producer/showrunner. The project, created by Jeff Wadlow, is a buddy P.I. show set in Atlanta that focuses on a suburban … Read More »

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NBC Picks Up Brothers Grimm-Themed Cop Drama Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 1:10pm PSTTags: ABC Paul Lee, ABC Poe, David Greenwalt, Grimm, Jim Kouf, NBC Bob Greenblatt, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

New broadcast entertainment chiefs Bob Greenblatt and Paul Lee are shaking things up this pilot season with some out-of-the-box pilot pickup choices. The latest is an order just made by Greenblatt at NBC for Grimm, described as a dark but … Read More »

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