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Jean Smart Cast In NBC’s Craig Robinson Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday March 24, 2013 @ 3:56pm PDTTags: Craig Robinson, Greg Daniels, Jean Smart, NBC
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EXCLUSIVE: Jean Smart has become a late addition to NBC‘s untitled Craig Robinson comedy pilot. She replaces Jane Adams who exited after the table read last week. The single-camera comedy is executive produced by Greg Daniels and Owen Ellickson, who wrote the script. It centers on a rough-edged musician Craig (Robinson) who’s adjusting to his new life as a music teacher in a big-city middle school where he encounters teacher politics and the temptations of single moms. Smart will play Jeannette, an erratic, stressed-out junior high principal who’s constantly in damage control mode. Multiple Emmy-winner Smart, repped by WME and Untitled, recently recurred on Hawaii Five-O and Harry’s Law.

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Jean Smart Joins ABC’s ‘Smart One’, TNT’s ‘Chelsea General’ & CW’s ‘Beauty’ Add Cast

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 16, 2012 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Ellen DeGeneres, Jean Smart, Portia de Rossi
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Jean Smart, who had been pursued for multiple comedy pilots this season, is set to co-star opposite Portia de Rossi in ABC’s dueling sisters single-camera comedy pilot The Smart One. (Maybe the title spoke to her — it had her … Read More »

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Mark Valley Nabs Big Role In ‘Harry’s Law’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 12, 2011 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: Harry's law, Jean Smart, Mark Valley, NBC, TV Casting, Warner Bros. TV

Mark Valley is reuniting with David E. Kelley. The former Boston Legal regular, who most recently starred on Fox’s action drama Human Target before it got the ax last season, has landed a series-regular role in Kelley’s Harry’s Law … Read More »

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Jean Smart, Gabrielle Union & Kelly Hu Among Latest Pilot Casting Additions

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 12:09am PSTTags: A Mann's World Casting, A Mann's World Pilot, Berman/Braun, Dan Goor Pilot Project, Gabrielle Union, Jean Smart, Little in Common Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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 Jean Smart is set to star in NBC’s untitled Dan Goor pilot. The multicamera comedy, from BermanBraun, UMS and writer-exec producer Dan Goor, centers on Adam Foote, a young doctor who joins his parents’ medical practice and spends as much time tending to his family as to his patients. Smart will play Adam’s doting, meddlesome mom, Dr. Barbara Foote. Emmy winner Smart recurs on two CBS series this season, drama Hawaii Five-0 and comedy $#*! My Dad Says.

Gabrielle Union is set to co-star opposite Rob Corddry, Paula Marshall and Kevin Hart in Rob Thomas’ single-camera comedy pilot for Fox Little in Common. The WBTV-produced pilot is about three families united through their kids’ little league sports. It centers on the Wellers (Corddry, Marshall), who move from San Jose, CA to Austin, TX, but find that their adjustment won’t be quite that easy considering that their Latino neighbors, the Pachecos, have a radically different approach to child-rearing than they do, while their other new neighborhood acquaintances, the African American Burlesons (Hart, Union), take sports very seriously. Union’s Nicole Burleson is a lobbyist on the fast track to success who is every bit as competitive and intense as her husband. Read More »

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