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Jason Isaacs To Star In NBC Pilot ‘REM’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 20, 2011 @ 3:42pm PSTTags: Howard Gordon, Jason Isaacs, Kyle Killen, NBC REM, REM, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the hottest actors this pilot season, Jason Isaacs, is off the market. After fielding more than half-dozen offers, Isaacs has settled on the lead role in NBC’s drama pilot REM, from Lone Star creator Kyle Killen and 20th Century Fox TV.  In addition to starring, Isaacs will serve as producer on the project, described as an Inception-style thriller. It centers on a cop (Isaacs) who wakes up after an accident to find he is living in two different realities. The casting of Isaacs lifts the contingency on the pilot, exec produced/run by  former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon. 20th TV-based Tim Minear serves as a consulting producer.

REM brings Brit Isaacs back to 20th TV where he starred in the drama pilot for Fox Pleading Guilty last season. Additionally, he developing and producing a drama project at 20th TV’s cable division Fox 21. Safe, set up at FX, is being written by Chris Gerolmo.

Brotherhood star Isaacs had been in demand since the Showtime drama ended in 2008. He was first pursued in the 2009 pilot season but was unavailable because of commitments to the Harry Potter movies, in which he plays Lucius Malfoy. Last pilot season, he received eight offers and went with Pleading Guilty. Isaacs, repped by Gersh, the Collective, U.K.’s Independent Talent and attorney Karl Austen, will next be seen in the final Harry Potter movie and the Taylor Lautner starrer Abduction.

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Several Pilots Get Showrunners

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 7:13am PSTTags: ABC Poe, Cooper & Stone, Cooper & Stone Pilot, John Wirth Cooper & Stone, Jonathan Groff, Kyle Killen, My Frickin' Family, My Frickin' Family Pilot, REM Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Human Target executive producer Brad Kern has been tapped as executive producer/showrunner on ABC’s drama pilot Poe. The crime procedural, from writer-exec producer Chris Hollier, Warner Bros. TV and Dan Lin’s Lin Pictures, follows Edgar Allan Poe, the world’s … Read More »

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Joe And Anthony Russo Among Latest Pilot Director Hires

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 1:54pm PSTTags: ABC Smothered, Andy Ackerman, Anthony and Joe Russo, David Slade, Franklin & Bash, REM Pilot, Russo The Council of Dads, Smothered, Smothered Pilot, The Council of Dads, Traffic Light, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilot Directors
Nellie Andreeva

The Emmy-winning team of Anthony and Joe Russo have come on board to direct Fox’s comedy pilot The Council of Dads, from writer-executive producer Peter Tolan and Sony Pictures TV. Last year, the Sony TV-based directors who won an Emmy … Read More »

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NBC Picks Up 4 More Pilots: Drama From ‘Lone Star’ Creator, 3 Comedies

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 5:19pm PSTTags: Dan Goor Pilot Project, Free Agents, John Enbom, Kyle Killen, LoveLives, NBC, NBC Pilots, NBC REM, REM Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: NBC has picked up to pilot REM, the spec by Lone Star creator Kyle Killen which was taken out by 20th TV a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, the network has given the green light to 3 more … Read More »

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