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HBO CASTINGS: Alice Eve To Recur On ‘Entourage’, Ana Ortiz On ‘Hung’ & More

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 20, 2011 @ 4:20pm PDTTags: Alice Eve, Ana Ortiz, Entourage, HBO, Hung, Peter Macdissi, True Blood
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: She’s Out Of My League star Alice Eve has been tapped for a four-episode arc on the upcoming final season of the HBO comedy series Entourage. In a role created for her, she will play a journalist assigned to write a profile piece on Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) who subsequently becomes a possible love interest for the actor. Brit Eve, repped by UTA, U.K’s ARG and Untitled, recently wrapped Men in Black III and next stars in Rogue Pictures’ The Raven and Lionsgate’s ATM.

Ugly Betty alumna Ana Ortiz is set for a multi-episode arc on another HBO comedy series, Hung. She will play a woman with serious anger issues who becomes a client of part-time male prostitute Ray (Thomas Jane). He ends up helping her deal not only with her voracious sexual appetite but also supporting her strong emotional needs. Ortiz, repped by Gersh, manager Geordie Frey and attorney Brad Small, recently starred in the Fox comedy pilot Outnumbered. READ MORE »

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HBO Orders ‘Death’ Pilot From Alan Ball

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 9, 2010 @ 8:51am PDTTags: Alan Ball, All Signs of Death, Cable TV, Charlie Huston, HBO, HBO Pilots, Peter Macdissi, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death, The Southern Vampire Mysteries, True Blood, TV, TV Casting, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Alan_BallEXCLUSIVE: His HBO series True Blood landed its first best series Emmy nomination yesterday. Now Alan Ball is prepping a new hourlong project for the pay cable network. HBO has greenlighted a pilot for All Signs of Death, a dark comedic … Read More »

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