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John Stamos Tapped For Season-Long Arc On USA’s ‘Necessary Roughness’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 13, 2013 @ 10:38am PDTTags: John Stamos, Necessary Roughness, USA Network
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of signing on for the lead in the NBC drama pilot I Am Victor, John Stamos has been tapped for a major recurring role on the upcoming third season of USA Network‘s Necessary Roughness. He will appear in all 10 episodes of the show starring Callie Thorne. The gig keeps Stamos in the NBCUniversal family. He has been recurring on freshman NBC comedy The New Normal and is prepping for the network’s I Am Victor pilot. He will segue from the pilot to Necessary Roughness on sibling USA, wrapping his gig in time to return to I Am Victor if it gets picked up to series.

Stamos’ character on Necessary Roughness Connor McClane is a departure from the good, likable  guys he usually plays. The founder of V3, a big global sports and entertainment management company, McClane sees Dr. Dani’s (Thorne) success with TK (Mehcad Brooks) and the New York Hawks, and is willing to do whatever it takes to get her into the V3 family. I hear USA went aggressively after Stamos and landing him for the role shows the network’s commitment to Necessary Roughness, which has not been among USA’s flashiest series despite doing solidly in the ratings. Stamos’ presence is sure to give the series extra attention going into Season 3.

Created and executive produced by Liz Kruger & Craig Shapiro and exec produced by Kevin Dowling, Necessary Roughness is co-produced by Sony Pictures TV and Universal Cable Prods. ER alum Stamos, repped by WME and Brillstein Entertainment, is coming off a Broadway run in The Best Man.

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John Stamos To Star In NBC Pilot ‘I Am Victor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 4:45pm PSTTags: I Am Victor, John Stamos
Nellie Andreeva

John StamosER alum John Stamos is returning to NBC as the lead of I Am Victor, a drama pilot from former House executive … Read More »

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Pilot Season: Rainn Wilson, John Stamos & Corey Stoll The Latest Hot Actors For Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday February 16, 2013 @ 2:29pm PSTTags: Corey Stoll, John Stamos, Rainn Wilson
Nellie Andreeva

As the pilot casting season gradually shifts from straight offers to tests — a lot of tests — the broadcast networks are racing against the clock to lock in names as the leads of its pilots. Of the early offer magnets, Rose Byrne and Kevin Kline passed on everything they … Read More »

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NBC’s ‘The New Normal’ Cast & Producers On Show’s Gay Themes: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 2:14pm PSTTags: Ellen Barkin, John Stamos, NBC, TCA, The New Normal

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

John Stamos dropped by a TCA panel discussion today for NBC‘s The New Normal held on the set at Paramount featuring the cast and executive producer Ali Adler (co-creator with Ryan Murphy). Stamos is guesting in an episode in which he plays a character of ambiguous sexual orientation (to explore the fallacy of “gay-dar”). Stamos was asked to compare today’s TV sitcom world — which can accommodate the “new normal” of a gay couple who are expectant parents via a surrogate — to his days on Full House. “It was three men living together in San Francisco raising a couple of kids. It’s the same thing,” Stamos quipped.

Ellen Barkin, who portrays the bigoted mother of the pregnant surrogate (Georgia King), said she was not surprised by the controversy surrounding the show (a Utah TV station has refused to air it). “It’s part of the reason why many of us got involved in the show, it was saying something that is not always said in a sitcom,” she said. Barkin last summer told Deadline she believes an affiliate has the right to ban something, but considers it censorship. Read More »

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John Stamos Joins ‘My Man Is A Loser’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday June 12, 2012 @ 12:41pm PDTTags: John Stamos, The Best Man

John Stamos is about to get busy in New York. The Glee guest star has joined the cast of the indie comedy My Man Is A Loser, which follows two … Read More »

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John Stamos Set To Star In Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Little Brother’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 10, 2012 @ 8:58am PSTTags: Fox, John Stamos, Little Brother
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John Stamos Circling Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Little Brother’

John Stamos has closed a deal to star in the Fox comedy pilot Little Brother. The actor has been actively involved in tweaking … Read More »

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John Stamos Circling Fox Comedy Pilot ‘Little Brother’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 5:00pm PSTTags: Fox, John Stamos, Little Brother
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: John Stamos is in preliminary talks to star in the Fox comedy pilot Little Brother. I hear Stamos’ decision hinges largely on a rewrite, which is now being done by the project’s scribe, Everybody Loves Raymond alum Mike Royce. … Read More »

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Sony TV Revives ‘Dead Lawyers’ With John Stamos As Lead, Graham Yost As Writer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday August 2, 2011 @ 8:26am PDTTags: Graham Yost, John Stamos, Sony Pictures Television
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures TV is resurrecting Dead Lawyers, the high-concept legal drama it originally developed for SyFy eight years ago, with Graham Yost on board to co-write/executive produce and John Stamos attached to star. The project’s first incarnation, written by … Read More »

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Fox 2000 Wins Beach Boys Musical Pitch For North Of $2 Million

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday October 1, 2010 @ 11:04am PDTTags: Beach Boys, Craig Zadan, Elizabeth Gabler, Fox 2000, John Stamos, Movie Deals, Movies, Neil Meron, Susannah Grant
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EXCLUSIVE AND UPDATED: Fox 2000 has beat out Universal Pictures by paying north of $2 million for a pitch by Susannah Grant and rights to songs from the Beach Boys song catalogue that will form the basis for … Read More »

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‘Glee’ Taps Newcomer For New Role

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 26, 2010 @ 10:10am PDTTags: Chord Overstreet, Cory Monteith, Glee, Glee Casting, John Stamos
Nellie Andreeva

There had been a lot of buzz surrounding a new character that will be introduced on Fox’s Glee next season, a new member of the New Directions glee club at the center of the show. After a several rounds of testing a large pool of newcomers, Chord Overstreet was just cast in the recurring role of Sam, a McKinley high school athlete who starts off as Finn (Cory Monteith)’s protégé but becomes his competition. Read More »

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