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NBC Pilot ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’ Pushed

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 29, 2013 @ 9:21am PDTTags: Christina Ricci, Girlfriend In A Coma, NBC
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EXCLUSIVE: The decision was made mutually by NBC and the project’s creator, Liz Brixius, and producers, Wolf Films and Universal TV. It comes 10 days after Christina Ricci, who had been cast as the lead in Girlfriend In A Coma, exited the pilot. After seeing a number of actresses, the pilot’s auspices concluded that the talent pool so late in the pilot season is just not wide enough to find a suitable replacement for the Karen role, which carries the project. Based on Douglas Coupland’s book, Girlfriend In A Coma centers on Karen, a woman who was in a coma for many years and unexpectedly wakes up to find she has a 17-year-old daughter, Evie (Miranda Cosgrove). Daniel Stern and Ann Cusack play Karen’s parents, who have been raising Evie. The Girlfriend In A Coma script was a favorite of NBC executives who remain committed to making the pilot as part of the current cycle, with filming tentatively scheduled for June.

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Christina Ricci Exits NBC Pilot ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 19, 2013 @ 3:15pm PDTTags: Christina Ricci, Girlfriend In A Coma, NBC
Nellie Andreeva

Christina RicciEXCLUSIVE: NBC comedy pilot Girlfriend In A Coma will be recasting its lead following the departure of Christina Ricci. I hear Ricci left the project after the table read. She was the first … Read More »

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Ann Cusack Joins ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’, John Billingsley Added To ‘Intelligence’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday March 12, 2013 @ 12:17pm PDTTags: Ann Cusack, Girlfriend In A Coma, Intelligence, John Billingsley
Nellie Andreeva

Ann Cusack (Private Practice) is set to co-star opposite Christina Ricci, Daniel Stern and Miranda Cosgrove in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Girlfriend In A Coma, from Wolf Films and Universal TV. It centers on Karen … Read More »

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Nicole Beharie Lands Female Lead In Fox’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’, Daniel Stern Joins NBC’s ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 21, 2013 @ 10:30am PSTTags: Daniel Stern, Girlfriend In A Coma, Nicole Beharie, Sleepy Hollow
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In her biggest break to date, up-and-coming actress Nicole Beharie has scored the female lead in Sleepy Hollow, Fox’s drama pilot written by Alex Kurtzman, Bob Orci and Phillip Iscove and directed by Len Wiseman. A modern–day supernatural thriller based on The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, the project, from 20th TV and K/O, follows Ichabod Crane as he partners with Sleepy Hollow’s Detective Abbie Archer (Beharie) to solve the mysteries of a town ravaged by the battle between good and evil. Abbie is about to leave for the FBI Academy when she witnesses the brutal murder of someone close to her, and her story is corroborated by only one person — a man called Ichabod Crane. Beharie, repped by ICM Partners and ATA Management, joins recently cast Orlando Jones and Katia Winter in the pilot exec produced by Kurtzman, Orci, Wiseman and Heather Kadin.

Daniel Stern has been cast in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Girlfriend In A Coma, from Wolf Films and Universal TV. Written by Liz Brixius based on Douglas Coupland’s book, it centers on Karen (Christina Ricci), a woman who was in a coma for many years and unexpectedly comes out of the coma to find she has a 17-year-old daughter, Evie (Miranda Cosgrove). Stern plays Karen’s father Tom McNeil, a salt of the earth electrician who, along with his wife, has been raising Evie. Read More »

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Miranda Cosgrove Joins NBC’s ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’; ‘Holding Patterns’ & ‘Hostages’ Also Add To Casts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 15, 2013 @ 12:00pm PSTTags: Girlfriend In A Coma, Humphrey Kerr, Miranda Cosgrove, Quinn Shephard
Nellie Andreeva

iCarly alumna Miranda Cosgrove has been cast as a lead opposite Christina Ricci in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Girlfriend In A Coma, from Wolf Films and Universal TV. Written by Nurse Jackie‘s Liz Brixius based on Douglas Coupland’s book, it centers on Karen (Ricci), a woman who was in a coma for many years and unexpectedly comes out of the coma to find she has a 17-year-old daughter, Evie (Cosgrove). Evie is a small-town, overachieving loner whose world is turned upside down when her mom wakes up, and every hope she ever had of keeping her nose to the grindstone, saving money, and getting grades for an out-of-state college is thrown out the window. Cosgrove, who has Despicable Me 2 coming out July 3, is with WME and Anonymous Content.

British actor Humphrey Ker has been cast as one of the leads in another NBC comedy pilot, Justin Spitzer’s Holding Patterns, from Peter Traugott’s TBD Prods and Uni TV. It is an ensemble multi-camera comedy about a group of friends whose lives completely change after they survive a plane crash. Ker will play one of them, Griffin, a cautious, often-uptight, over-analytical workaholic. Read More »

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Christina Ricci To Topline NBC’s ‘Girlfriend In A Coma’, Parker Posey To Star In DJ Nash

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 8, 2013 @ 3:45pm PSTTags: Christina Ricci, Girlfriend In A Coma, Parker Posey
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NBC has tapped Christina Ricci and Parker Posey for starring roles in two of its comedy pilots as the network is looking to shake … Read More »

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2ND UPDATE: NBC Orders Four Drama & Three Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 22, 2013 @ 5:30pm PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Girlfriend In A Coma, NBC, The Blacklist, The Sixth Gun
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2ND UPDATE 5:30 PM: NBC has added another drama pilot to its roster, from Life creator/executive producer Rand Ravich. The untitled drama project, produced by 20th Century Fox TV, is described as an emotionally charged action thriller set in and around the world of Washington DC. It follows an idealistic Secret Service agent who finds himself at the epicenter of an international crisis on his first day on the job. He will need to cross moral and legal lines as he navigates the highest levels of power and corruption on his search for the truth. Ravich is executive producing with his producing partner Far Shariat, making a return to NBC where he landed his first series, the 2007 drama Life.

UPDATE 4:30 PM: It has been a busy pickup day at NBC. The network just ordered four more pilots: the Carlton Cuse-produced drama The Sixth Gun and comedies from Nurse Jackie co-creator Liz Brixius, Up All Night executive producer DJ Nash and The Office‘s Justin Spitzer. All four hail from Universal TV.

Related: NBC Greenlights Three Comedy Pilots Read More »

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