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James Wolk To Co-Star In David E. Kelley’s CBS Comedy Pilot Starring Robin Williams

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 7, 2013 @ 1:30pm PSTTags: CBS, Crazy Ones, James Wolk
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James Wolk is set to co-star opposite Robin Williams in Crazy Ones, CBS‘ single-camera workplace comedy pilot written by David E. Kelley and directed by Jason Winer. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, is set at the Lewis, Roberts & Roberts Ad Agency and stars Williams as Simon Roberts, the brilliant head of the agency who is working alongside his daughter. Wolk will play Zach Cropper, a confident and charming copywriter at the ad agency. Per the role breakdown: “he is George Clooney — cool, only better looking.” Kelley and Winer executive produce the pilot with Bill D’Elia, Winer, Dean Lorey, John Montgomery and Mark Teitelbaum. This marks Wolk’s return to 20th TV where he played the lead in the studio’s Fox drama series Lone Star. Wolk, repped by WME, Greenlight Management and attorney Amy Nickin, recently co-starred in USA Network’s limited drama series Political Animals.

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TV Castings Roundup: Several Lined Up For Broadcast, Cable Gigs

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday July 11, 2011 @ 10:04pm PDTTags: Dexter, Harry's law, James Wolk, Karen Olivo, Lamorne Morris, Mariana Klaveno, New Girl, Shameless, Teddy Sears, The Firm, TV Castings

Lamorne Morris has been cast in Fox’s New Girl, the Zooey Deschanel series that set to premiere Sept. 20. He will play Winston, a former athlete who is one of three roommates that takes in a fourth … Read More »

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TCA: Fox ‘Lone Star’ Deep In Heart Of Texas

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday August 2, 2010 @ 10:50am PDTTags: ABC My Generation, Fox, Fox Lone Star, James Wolk, Kyle Killen, Lone Star, NBC Chase, TCA, The Good Guys

What’s up with TV and Texas this season? This fall’s crop of new TV series includes NBC’s Chase shooting in Dallas, and ABC’s My Generation, shooting in Austin. At today’s TCA, Fox presented the new drama Lone Star — which, with that title, couldn’t really be set anywhere else. The show’s lead character (played by relative newcomer James Wolk) has two wives and two lives in two different locations, Houston and Midland. It will actually be shot in Dallas, the setting for another Fox series introduced earlier this year, The Good Guys. (Executive producer Peter Horton, who plans to direct some episodes, he joked of his involvement: “I thought it was going to be shot in San Francisco.”)

Lone Star creator/executive producer (and native Texan) Kyle Killen explained that when he pitched the series, ”I sold it as Dallas without the cheese.

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