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Kris Polaha Among Latest Pilot Additions

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday March 10, 2011 @ 11:41am PSTTags: CBS, Hart of Dixie, Hart of Dixie Casting, James Adomian, Kristoffer Polaha, NBC, Rachel Bilson, Ringer, Ringer Casting, The River, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Life Unexpected star Kristoffer Polaha has been tapped for a co-starring role on the CBS/CBS Studios drama pilot Ringer. The project centers on troubled young woman Bridget (Sarah Michelle Gellar) who, while on the run from the mob, hides out by inhabiting the life of her rich twin sister, Siobhan, until she learns that her twin’s life has a bounty on it as well. Polaha will play the husband of Siobnah’s best friend Gemma (Tara Summers), an out-of-work novelist and father of 3-year-old twins who is secretly having an affair with Siobhan and, unaware that Bridget has taken over Siobhan’s identity, is hurt and confused by her lukewarm behavior. The casting stems from the rich talent-holding deal Polaha, repped by WME and Mosaic, signed with CBS and CBS Studios in November. MORE

James Adomian has landed a co-lead opposite Sarah Paulson in NBC’s untitled Kari Lizer multicamera comedy. From Warner Bros. TV, it is a workplace comedy about Mary (Paulson), a relationship-challenged woman  who, with the help of her co-workers, guides people through unexpected career transitions and downsizings. Adomian will play Mary’s assistant. Adomian, repped by ICM and Principato/Young, was a finalist on NBC’s Last Coming Standing last year.

Also cast in pilots are Cress Williams, who joined CW’s Rachel Bilson-starring medical drama Hart of Dixie playing a potential rival to Bilson’s character, and Shaun Parkes, who was added to ABC’s thriller The River playing the camerman for a documentary crew lost in the Amazon.

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Laura Benanti To Star In NBC’s ‘Playboy’ And Other Pilot Castings

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 7:12pm PSTTags: How To Be a Gentleman, How To Be a Gentleman Pilot, Playboy Pilot, Poe Drama Pilot, Ringer Casting, Ringer Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Tony-winning actress Laura Benanti is set to star in NBC’s drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV/Imagine TV, is set at the Playboy Club in Chicago in 1963. Benanti will play Carol-Lynne, a 30-year-old bombshell … Read More »

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Ioan Gruffudd To Star In CBS Pilot ‘Ringer’, Duo Closing In On Starz Series ‘Magic City’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 15, 2011 @ 5:18pm PSTTags: Ioan Gruffudd, Magic City, Ringer, Ringer Casting, Ringer Pilot, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Starz Magic City, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

Fantastic Four alum Ioan Gruffudd is set to star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in the CBS drama pilot Ringer. The project centers on troubled young woman Bridget (Gellar) who, while on the run from the mob, … Read More »

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Four Actors Join Broadcast/Cable Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 8:52am PSTTags: CBS Ringer, Playing with Guns, Playing with Guns Pilot, Ringer Casting, Smash Casting, Smash Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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Megan Hilty has joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot Smash, which was based on an idea by Steven Spielberg. The pilot, from DreamWorks TV and UMS, follows a cross section of characters who come together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on … Read More »

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CBS Picks Up Drama Pilot Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 14, 2011 @ 7:05pm PSTTags: CBS Pilots, CBS Ringer, CBS TV Studios, Ringer, Ringer Casting, Susannah Grant, TV, TV Deals
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Sarah Michelle Gellar is returning to broadcast series TV with a pilot at CBS. In its first drama pilot pickup this season, CBS has greenlighted Ringer, which is toplined by the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star. The project hails … Read More »

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