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Zach Cregger Joins NBC’s ‘Assistance’, Frances Fisher Boards ABC’s ‘The Returned’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 1, 2013 @ 8:15pm PSTTags: Frances Fisher, Gary Sanchez Productions, Krysten Ritter, Zack Cregger
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EXCLUSIVE: Guys With Kids‘ Zach Cregger is set to co-star opposite Krysten Ritter in NBC‘s single-camera comedy pilot Assistance, from Gary Sanchez Prods. and Universal TV. Written by Leslye Headland, Assistance centers on Nora (Ritter), an idealistic “working girl” assistant who is pulled between her colleague (Cregger) and her real-life fiance (Peter Cambor) while trying to manage a demanding boss. Cregger’s casting is in second position to Guys With Kids. Both projects are with NBC/Universal TV. I hear that was important to Cregger who wanted to remain loyal to his current series and didn’t entertain interest from pilots on other nets. Cregger, repped by WME and Principato-Young, is starring in the Lionsgate film Gay Dude as well as the indie The Bounceback, which premiers at the SXSW film festival. He is a founding member and creator of the sketch group The Whitest Kidsu’know.

Frances Fisher has been cast in ABC’s drama pilot The Returned, from Brillstein Entertainment, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and ABC Studios. Written by Aaron Zelman and directed by Charles McDougall, the project chronicles how the lives of the people in Arcadia are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return. Fisher, repped by Greene & Assoc., Sanders Armstrong Caserta and attorney Jeff Bernstein, will play Lucille, who lives with her husband Harold in Arcadia and is amazed when her eight year old son, Jacob, who drowned 32 years ago, somehow reappears in 2013. She will next be seen in the features The Host and You’re Not You.

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Frances Fisher Joins Cast Of ‘The Host’

By BRIAN BROOKS | Friday February 24, 2012 @ 2:40pm PSTTags: Frances Fisher, Stephenie Meyer, The Host

EXCLUSIVE: Fisher will star in the sic-fi feature written by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer. Fisher joins Diane Kruger, Saoirse Ronan and Jake Abel in the cast and will play Maggie, a stern aunt to Melanie (Ronan) and sister to Uncle Jeb (William Hurt). … Read More »

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PILOTS: Frances Fisher Joins ‘Partners,’ Jennifer Aspen Cast In ‘Bitches’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 12:57pm PSTTags: ABC Good Christian Bitches, ABC Partners Pilot, Frances Fisher, Good Christian Bitches, Good Christian Bitches Casting, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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Frances Fisher has joined ABC drama pilot Partners. The project, from Ed Bernero,  is a cop drama centered on two female police detectives, Mattie (Scottie Thompson) and Jess (Annie Wersching), who are fiercely loyal to … Read More »

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EXCLUSIVE: SAG Natl Board To Consider “Affected Member Voting” This Weekend; Petition Drive Softens Original Proposal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday April 8, 2008 @ 8:21pm PDTTags: Actors, Affected Member Voting, AFTRA, Amy Brenneman, Finance, Frances Fisher, Guilds, Ned Vaughn, Ron Livingston, Stephen Collins

sag_logo.jpgI’m told that the actors behind that SAG petition drive for ”affected member” voting have made what they’re calling a “significant change” in their proposal to soften its impact. As you know, DHD has been active in this debate by letting actors post … Read More »

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