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Lifetime’s Pilots ‘Meet Jane’ & Untitled Michael Sardo Not Going Forward

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 27, 2011 @ 12:55am PDTTags: Lifetime, Meet Jane, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Lifetime has quietly passed on its remaining two pilots, Meet Jane and the untitled Michael Sardo project. Of the five pilots ordered under new Lifetime president and general manager Nancy Dubuc, two, Against the Wall and Exit 19, were picked up to series in February. Back then, Lifetime passed on the untitled Josh Berman pilot while keeping Meet Jane in consideration with some retooling and proceeding with production on the fifth pilot, the untitled Michael Sardo drama starring Carrie-Anne Moss. Now those two pilots also are not going forward, leaving the two cop dramas as the only series to come out of Lifetime’s first batch of pilots ordered under the new regime. (Though they were developed under EVP Entertainment JoAnn Alfano, who left Lifetime in March and was replaced by A&E executive Robert Sharenow.) Meet Jane was written by Andi Bushell. She executive produced it with Mark Pedowitz, who has since moved on to a new gig running the CW. Exit 19, renamed The Protector, premiered last month to soft ratings. Against the Wall, starring Rachael Caprani, Treat Williams and Kathy Baker, will be presented at Lifetime’s portion of the summer TCA press tour tomorrow. It premieres on July 31.

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PILOT CASTINGS: Eliza Dushku Exits ‘Bird Dog’, Ricky Schroder Joins ‘Meet Jane’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 6, 2010 @ 6:25pm PSTTags: Bird Dog, Bird Dog Casting, Eliza Dushku, Hound Dogs, Lifetime Pilot, Meet Jane, Meet Jane Casting, Molly Parker, Ricky Schroder, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV
Nellie Andreeva

That was quick: Eliza Dushku has pulled out of TNT’s drama pilot Bird Dog. I hear she exited the project over the weekend, several days after she closed a deal to star in the drama, a mystery fashioned around an unlikely partnership of a father-daughter cop duo.

Meanwhile, NYPD Blue and 24 alum Ricky Schroder has signed on to star opposite Molly Parker in the Lifetime pilot Meet Jane. The project, from Warner Horizon, centers on Jane Bilinski (Parker) whose stale life as an unhappily married mother of two daughters in the Washington, DC area is suddenly re-energized and empowered when the FBI enlists her to spy on her husband (Schroder), a computer technician the government suspects is selling top-secret information to Russia. Read More »

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Molly Parker Set As Lead Of Lifetime Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 17, 2010 @ 7:33am PSTTags: Andi Bushell, Lifetime, Lifetime Pilot, Meet Jane, Meet Jane Casting, Molly Parker, TV, TV Deals, Warner Horizon
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Meet Lifetime’s Jane: Deadwood alumna Molly Parker has landed the lead in the cable network’s drama pilot Meet Jane. The project, from Warner Horizon, centers on Jane Bilinski (Parker) whose stale life as an unhappily married mother of two … Read More »

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Lifetime Greenlights ‘Meet Jane’ Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 30, 2010 @ 2:18pm PDTTags: Andi Bushell, Lifetime, Lifetime Pilot, Mark Pedowitz, Meet Jane, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Lifetime has handed out a pilot order to Meet Jane, a drama from writer Andi Bushell and executive turned producer Mark Pedowitz. This is the first pilot order for Pedowitz, who segued into producing early this year with a … Read More »

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