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Pilot Castings: ‘Lost’ Alum Henry Ian Cusick, ‘My Boys’ Co-Star Kyle Howard Get Leads

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 7:31pm PSTTags: Kyle Howard, Shonda Rhimes Fixer Pilot, Shonda Rhimes Pilot, Shonda Rhimes Pilot Casting, Smothered Casting, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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Lost veteran Henry Ian Cusick is returning to ABC with a lead role on the network’s untitled Shonda Rhimes pilot. Katie Lowes (CW’s Easy Money) has also joined the project, which revolves around the life and work of professional fixer Olivia Price (Kerry Washington) and her dysfunctional staff. Innovative-repped Cusick will play what is considered by some the male lead on the show, a handsome, intense and brilliant litigator who works for Olivia. Cusick started off as a recurring on Lost, landing a guest starring Emmy nomination for his role as former Scottish solder Desmond Hume, before getting promoted to regular in Season 3 of the island drama. Lowes, repped by Innovative and Sweeney Management, will play an ambitious and naive young lawyer recruited by Olivia to work for her. Lowes guest starred in this season’s opener of Rhimes’ Private Practice.

My Boys co-star Kyle Howard has been tapped as the male lead in the ABC multi-camera comedy pilot Smothered, from Andrew Reich and Ted Cohen. The project centers on young couple Zack (Howard) and Gillian who find themselves smothered by their two very different sets of parents. Howard, who recently signed with UTA, played one of the leads in the pilot for NBC’s Perfect Couples but had to pull out after the pilot was picked up to series because of his commitment to TBS’ My Boys.

Scottie Thompson (Trauma, NCIS) has landed one of the two leads in Ed Bernero’s pilot for ABC Partners, a cop drama centered on two female police detectives, Mattie (Thompson) and Jess, who are fiercely loyal to one another since they’re also secretly half-sisters.

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Kerry Washington Set As The Lead In Shonda Rhimes’ ABC Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday February 8, 2011 @ 7:47pm PSTTags: Shonda Rhimes, Shonda Rhimes Fixer Pilot, Shonda Rhimes Pilot, Shonda Rhimes Pilot Casting, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In her first regular TV series gig, Kerry Washington has signed on to topline Shonda Rhimes’ untitled drama pilot for ABC aka In Crisis. Actor-dancer-choreographer Columbus Short (Stomp the Yard) is set to co-star in the pilot based on … Read More »

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Several Broadcast Pilots Book Directors

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 28, 2011 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Alan Taylor Playboy, Jake Kasdan, Shonda Rhimes Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilot Directors
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Alan Taylor, who won an Emmy for The Sopranos, has come on board to direct NBC’s drama pilot Playboy. The project, from 20th TV, Imagine TV and writer Chad Hodge, is set at a Chicago Playboy club in the 1960s. … Read More »

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ABC Greenlights Shonda Rhimes Pilot About Crisis Management

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday December 18, 2010 @ 10:06am PSTTags: ABC Development, ABC Shonda Rhimes, Shonda Rhimes, Shonda Rhimes Pilot, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has ordered its first pilot this development season, and fittingly, it is from the network’s most prolific writer-producer Shonda Rhimes. The untitled project, about the life and work of a professional fixer and her dysfunctional staff, is … Read More »

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