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CW Update: ‘Awakening’, Heavenly’ Dead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 5:46pm PDTTags: Awakening, CW, Heavenly
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Since so many of you asked, all CW pilots besides the picked up today The Secret Circle and Hart of Dixie are not going forward. That includes Awakening, Heavenly, Cooper and Stone and Danni Lowinski.

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Primetime Pilot Panic: Screenings Updates

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday May 5, 2011 @ 11:30pm PDTTags: Awakening, Bad Mom, Cooper & Stone, Council of Dads, Danni Lowinski, Exit Strategy, Family Album, Good Christian Bitches, Grace, Grimm, Hail Mary, Hart of Dixie, Heavenly, How To Be a Gentleman, Metro, My Freakin' Family, Other People's Kids, Person of Interest, playboy, Prime Suspect, Primetime Pilot Panic, REM, Rookies, Scandal, Smash, Smothered, Suburgatory, The Rememberer, The Secret Circle, Touch, TV Pilots, Two Broke Girls, Untitled Peter Knight, Untitled Susannah Grant, Weekends at Bellevue, Wonder Woman
Nellie Andreeva

The marathon pilot screenings at the broadcast networks are in full force. While they are rarely the deciding factor in the networks’ final series pickup decisions, they help solidify early standouts’ frontrunner positions and sometimes breathe life into pilots that might have been written off too soon. Here are some … Read More »

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TV CASTINGS: Slew Of Actors Join Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 11:12pm PSTTags: Awakening, Grace, Iceland, Kari Lizer, Lamorne Morris, Lost and Found, Tagged, The Assistants, The River, Titus Welliver, Zach Gilford
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Saturday Night Live alum Tim Meadows has joined NBC’s untitled Kari Lizer project. The workplace comedy centers on Mary (Sarah Paulson), a relationship-challenged woman who, with the help of her co-workers, guides people through unexpected career transitions and downsizings. Meadows, repped by APA and Brillstein Entertainment, will play Mary’s  partner, a psychotherapist and the reality check to Mary’s eternal optimism.

Off the Map co-star Zach Gilford has been cast as the male lead in the Fox single-camera pilot Iceland. The project centers on Mackenzie (Kerry Bishe), a twentysomething woman whose fiance recently passed away. Gilford, from WME and D/F Management, will play a guy friend of Mackenzie described as “bad influence.” For Gilford, the casting is in second position to Off the Map. He is the third cast member from the midseason drama to book a pilot this season along with Martin Henderson and Rachelle Lefevre, both cast in NBC’s Reconstruction.

Paul Blackthorne (Lipstick Jungle) has just been cast in the ABC drama pilot The River directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The horror thriller centers on Lincoln Cole (Joe Anderson) who, after his famous TV explorer father Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood) goes missing way up the Amazon, reluctantly abandons his medical studies and follows in his father’s footsteps. Blackthorne, repped by SDB Partners, Seven Summits & Optimism, will play the producer of Emmet Cole’s long-running documentary series. Read More »

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Emily VanCamp Set As The Lead In ABC’s ‘Revenge’ & Other Pilot Castings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday March 7, 2011 @ 10:00pm PSTTags: ABC, Awakening, Awakening Pilot, CBS, Cooper & Stone, CW, Grace Pilot, Jeff and Jackie Filgos, My Freakin' Family Pilot, Nancy Travis, Revenge, Revenge Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Brothers & Sisters alumna Emily VanCamp is returning to ABC as the star of a potential new primetime drama, Revenge. VanCamp has landed the lead in the project, written by Swingtown creator Mike Kelley and to be directed by Phillip … Read More »

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‘The River’ & ‘Awakening’ Find Their Leads, Two Board ‘Tagged’ & ‘Wonder Woman’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 3, 2011 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: ABC, Awakening, CW, Fox, Joe Anderson, Lucy Griffiths, NBC, Tagged, The River, Twilight, Wonder Woman
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British actor Joe Anderson (Across the Universe) has landed the lead in ABC’s drama pilot The River directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. The horror thriller, from DreamWorks TV, ABC Studios and Paranormal Activity mastermind Oren Peli, centers on Lincoln Cole (Anderson) … Read More »

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CW Makes Last-Minute Spec Buy With Zombie Drama From Canadian Writers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 7:00am PSTTags: Awakening, CW, TV, TV Deals, TV Spec Scripts, Zombies
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It’s like The Walking Dead for young females. The CW is yet to make its first in-cycle pilot order this season, but the network just made a late spec script purchase with Awakening, a zombie drama from Canadian … Read More »

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