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David Walton To Star In NBC’s ‘Bent’, Ken Marino Joins CBS’ ‘Home Game’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 4, 2011 @ 6:21pm PSTTags: David Walton, Home Game, Home Game Pilot, Smash Pilot, TV, TV Casting, TV Deals
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David Walton has been tapped as the male lead opposite Amanda Peet in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Bent. The project, from writer-exec producer Tad Quill, is a romantic comedy about a recently divorced Type A single mother (Peet) who tries hard not to fall for the sexy surfer dude contractor (Walton) she’s hired to re-do her kitchen. For Walton, the casting is in second position to softly-rated midseason comedy Perfect Couples which shares the same network, NBC, and studio, UMS, as Bent. He is the second Perfect Couples star to book a pilot in second position, following Kyle Bornheimer’s casting in Fox’s comedy The Council of Dads. This is the third consecutive comedy pilot at NBC for Walton, repped by Gersh and Crestview, after 2009′s 100 Questions and 2010′s Perfect Couples.

Party Down alum Ken Marino is set to co-star opposite Rob Riggle in CBS’ comedy pilot Home Game. Loosely based on the experiences of former NFL star Mark Schlereth, it tells the story of Mark (Rob Riggle) as he retires and returns home to his wife Lisa (Constance Zimmer) and daughters to embark on the next chapter of his life. Marino will play Mark’s brother. Marino co-stars on the Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital. He is currently in post-production on the Universals feature Wanderlust, which he co-wrote and executive produces with director David Wain. Marino, repped by IFA for acting and APA for writing and managed by Principato-Young for both, also co-stars in the film opposite Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux.

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NBC’s ‘Grimm’ And ‘Smash’ Add To Casts

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 5:01pm PSTTags: Grimm, Grimm Casting, Grimm Pilot, Smash, Smash Casting, Smash Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
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Russell Hornsby (Meet the Parents) and Bitsie Tulloch (Lonelygirl15) have landed lead roles on NBC’s pilot Grimm,  a dark but fantastical cop drama about a … Read More »

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Katharine McPhee Joins NBC Pilot ‘Smash’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday February 13, 2011 @ 4:30pm PSTTags: Katherine McPhee, NBC Smash, Smash Casting, Smash Pilot, TV, TV Deals, TV Pilots
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American Idol alumna-turned-actress Katharine McPhee has landed a co-starring role in the NBC hourlong pilot Smash, which will feature the Idol Season 5 runner-up sing. The pilot, from DreamWorks TV and UMS, is based on an idea by Steven Spielberg and follows a cross section of characters who come together to put on a Marilyn Monroe musical on Broadway led by the musical’s composer Tom and lyricist Julia (Debra Messing). McPhee will play a beautiful struggling actress who goes to all lengths to book the role of Marilyn Monroe in the musical. 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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It’s January Spec Script Bonanza At The Broadcast Networks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 11:33pm PSTTags: ABC Paul Lee, CBS Ringer, Mann's World, NBC Bob Greenblatt, Smash Pilot, Touch Pilot Order, TV, TV Pilots, TV Spec Scripts, Wonder Woman Remake
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NBC Orders Steven Spielberg Musical Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 21, 2011 @ 3:43pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox TV, DreamWorks TV, I Hate That I Love You, Jhoni Marchinko, NBC Pilots, NBC Smash, Pilot Pickup, Robert Greenblatt NBC Entertainment, Smash Pilot, Steven Spielberg, TV, TV Deals, Universal Media Studios
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New NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt is putting his stamp on the network’s development with a pilot order for a project he originally developed while at Showtime. NBC just greenlighted Smash, an ambitious one-hour musical about the mounting of a … Read More »

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