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TV CASTINGS: Teri Polo, Darrell Hammond Book Pilots, ‘Boardwalk’ Adds A Recurring

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday January 31, 2011 @ 6:30pm PSTTags: ABC, ABC Pilots, Boardwalk Empire, Boardwalk Empire Casting, Charlie Cox, Chris Moynihan, HBO, HBO Boardwalk Empire, Hound Dogs, Hound Dogs Casting, Hound Dogs TBS, Man Up, Man UP! Casting, Mather Zickel, TBS, TBS Pilots, Teri Polo, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

Teri Polo and Mather Zickel have landed co-starring roles on the ABC comedy pilot Man Up!. The project, from 100 Questions creator Chris Moynihan, ABC Studios and Tagline, is a look at what it takes to survive as a modern man, as told through the eyes of three best friends and the women in their lives. Moynihan and Zickel (I Love You, Man) will play two of the friends, while Polo will play the wife of the third friend, a playful super-mom who is addicted to Facebook. Additionally, Polo also booked the lead in the Hallmark comedic movie A Taste of Romance. The Little Fockers co-star recurs on Law & Order: Los Angeles, just wrapped the feature Beyond and is in pre-production on Material Lies.

Saturday Night Live alum Darrell Hammond is in negotiations to join the TBS pilot Hound Dogs, written and directed by Ron Shelton. Set in the world of minor league baseball, the project, which has moved from Sony TV to Warner Horizon, centers on minor league team the Nashville Hound Dogs and its endlessly upbeat general manager (Tom Verica), a gambling addict trying to outrun his past, as they try to handle life’s ups and downs, both in and out of the locker room. Hammond, who spent 14 years on SNL, more than any other cast member, will play the team mascot who wears a dog costume and is a shameless flirt.

Charlie Cox (Stardust) is joining the cast of HBO’s period drama Boardwalk Empire, which just won top Golden Globes and SAG awards, in a recurring role. The network is mum on his character but an earlier breakdown lists him as a charming and dangerous immigrant from Northern Ireland with possible ties to the IRA.

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Pilot Castings: Actors Board TBS’ ‘Hound Dogs’, TV Land’s Mark Reisman Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday January 26, 2011 @ 6:00am PSTTags: Hound Dogs, Hound Dogs Casting, Ron Shelton, TBS, TBS Pilots, TV, TV Deals, TV Land Pilots
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TV CASTINGS: Actors Join ‘Alcatraz,’ ‘Wedding Band’ Pilots, ‘Hawaii Five-0′ Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 10:59pm PSTTags: Alcatraz, Alcatraz Pilot, Hawaii Five-0, Melora Hardin, TBS Pilots, TBS The Wedding Band, TV, TV Casting
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Former Heroes co-star Santiago Cabrera has landed the final regular role on Fox’s drama pilot Alcatraz. The project, executive produced by J.J. Abrams, chronicles the efforts of tenacious cop Rebecca (Sarah Jones) and team of FBI agents tracking down … Read More »

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PILOT CASTINGS: Eliza Dushku Exits ‘Bird Dog’, Ricky Schroder Joins ‘Meet Jane’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday December 6, 2010 @ 6:25pm PSTTags: Bird Dog, Bird Dog Casting, Eliza Dushku, Hound Dogs, Lifetime Pilot, Meet Jane, Meet Jane Casting, Molly Parker, Ricky Schroder, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV
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That was quick: Eliza Dushku has pulled out of TNT’s drama pilot Bird Dog. I hear she exited the project over the weekend, several days after she closed a deal to star in the drama, a mystery fashioned around an unlikely partnership of a father-daughter cop duo.

Meanwhile, NYPD Blue and 24 alum Ricky Schroder has signed on to star opposite Molly Parker in the Lifetime pilot Meet Jane. The project, from Warner Horizon, centers on Jane Bilinski (Parker) whose stale life as an unhappily married mother of two daughters in the Washington, DC area is suddenly re-energized and empowered when the FBI enlists her to spy on her husband (Schroder), a computer technician the government suspects is selling top-secret information to Russia. Read More »

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‘Ugly Betty’ Alum, Others In TNT/TBS Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday December 1, 2010 @ 6:30am PSTTags: Bird Dog, Bird Dog Casting, Bird Dog Pilot, Cable TV, TBS Brain Trust, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV
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EXCLUSIVE: In his first TV gig since the end of ABC’s Ugly Betty, the series’ standout Michael Urie has joined another hourlong comedy, the TBS pilot Brain Trust. He is one of three actors who have landed lead roles opposite … Read More »

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Eliza Dushku To Star In TNT Pilot ‘Bird Dog,’ D.B. Sweeney To Lead TBS Pilot ‘Brain Trust’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 2:12pm PSTTags: Bird Dog Pilot, Brain Trust, Eliza Dushku, Mike Robe Bird Dog, TBS Brain Trust, TBS Pilots, TNT Pilots, TV, TV Deals
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EXCLUSIVE: Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku is returning to series television as the female lead in Mike Robe’s TNT drama pilot Bird Dog, while  D.B. Sweeney has landed the lead in … Read More »

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TBS Picks Up Two More Hourlong Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday October 20, 2010 @ 7:10pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Hound Dogs Pilot, Hound Dogs TBS, Ron Shelton, Sony Pictures TV, TBS Comedy, TBS Pickup, TBS Pilots, The Wedding Band Pilot, TV
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TBS continues its shift to hourlong comedies with the pickup of 2 more one-hour pilots: Hound Dogs and The Wedding Band. Hound Dogs, from feature writer/ director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) and Sony Pictures TV, draws from his experience as a baseball player and is set in the world of minor league baseball. It centers on a minor league team and its general manager as they try to handle life’s ups and downs, both in and out of the locker room. Read More »

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