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Eliza Dushku To Co-Star In ‘The Saint’ Backdoor Pilot, Roger Moore To Co-Produce

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 10, 2012 @ 10:14am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Eliza Dushku, Roger Moore, The Saint
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EXCLUSIVE: Buffy The Vampire Slayer alumna Eliza Dushku is set to co-star opposite Adam Rayner in The Saint, a backdoor pilot from Brad Krevoy’s film and TV production company MPCA. No network has been attached. Simon West is directing the pilot from a script by Jesse Alexander. Alexander is set as showrunner of the project, a new take on Leslie Charteris’ The Saint 70-book franchise. It will follow the exploits of Simon Templar (Rayner), a brilliant criminal who uses his considerable illicit skills as a modern-day Robin Hood as he infuriates local law enforcement and woos Patricia Holm (Dushku), his on-again, off-again romance.

Related: Adam Rayner Lands Lead In ‘The Saint’ Remake

Roger Moore, who played Templar in Lew Grade’s popular 1962 Saint British TV series, has joined as a co-producer along with with his son Geoffrey Moore, Lulu Moore, and Louisa Macdonald. Author Ian Dickerson, an expert on the history of Charteris’ creation, will serve as a creative consultant. READ MORE »

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PILOT CASTINGS: Eliza Dushku Exits ‘Bird Dog’, Ricky Schroder Joins ‘Meet Jane’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 6, 2010 @ 6:25pm PSTTags: Bird Dog, Bird Dog Casting, Eliza Dushku, Hound Dogs, Lifetime Pilot, Meet Jane, Meet Jane Casting, Molly Parker, Ricky Schroder, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV
Nellie Andreeva

That was quick: Eliza Dushku has pulled out of TNT’s drama pilot Bird Dog. I hear she exited the project over the weekend, several days after she closed a deal to star in the drama, a mystery fashioned around an unlikely partnership of a father-daughter cop duo.

Meanwhile, NYPD Blue and 24 alum Ricky Schroder has signed on to star opposite Molly Parker in the Lifetime pilot Meet Jane. The project, from Warner Horizon, centers on Jane Bilinski (Parker) whose stale life as an unhappily married mother of two daughters in the Washington, DC area is suddenly re-energized and empowered when the FBI enlists her to spy on her husband (Schroder), a computer technician the government suspects is selling top-secret information to Russia. Read More »

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Eliza Dushku To Star In TNT Pilot ‘Bird Dog,’ D.B. Sweeney To Lead TBS Pilot ‘Brain Trust’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 2:12pm PSTTags: Bird Dog Pilot, Brain Trust, Eliza Dushku, Mike Robe Bird Dog, TBS Brain Trust, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku is returning to series television as the female lead in Mike Robe’s TNT drama pilot Bird Dog, while  D.B. Sweeney has landed the lead in … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS And ABC Down, CBS’ ‘$#*!’ & ‘The Mentalist’ Hit Season Lows

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 12, 2010 @ 9:21am PSTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, ABC Ratings, Bones, CBS Ratings, Community, Eliza Dushku, Fox Ratings, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, Kaley Cuoco Returns Big Bang, NBC Ratings, Outsourced, Private Practice, Ratings, Ratings Rat Race, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TV Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE 2PM: As expected, NBC’s series were adjusted down in the finals which the NFL game in Baltimore was taken out. Community, The Office and Outsourced slipped a tenth each to 2.0, 3.6 and 2.6, respectively; 30 Rock and The Apprentice dropped two tenths each to 2.4 and 1.4, respectively. … Read More »

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RATINGS RAT RACE: CBS Comedies & ABC Dramas Up Led By Surging ‘Private Practice’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday November 5, 2010 @ 9:26am PDTTags: $#*! My Dad Says, 30 Rock, ABC Ratings, Bones, CBS Ratings, Community, Eliza Dushku, Fox Ratings, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, Kaley Cuoco, Kaley Cuoco Broken Leg, NBC Ratings, Outsourced, Private Practice, The Big Bang Theory, The Mentalist, TV, TV Ratings
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With leading lady Kaley Cuoco back from her injury break and fan favorite Eliza Dushku as guest star, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory (4.6/14, 13.9 million) rose 12% from last week’s fast national demo delivery. (The hit comedy always … Read More »

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