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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
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Tom Verica has landed the lead in the TBS hourlong comedy pilot Hound Dogs, with Lolita Davidovich and Laura Bell Bundy also cast in the project from feature writer/director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham). Meanwhile, Seinfeld alum Wayne Knight is set as the last lead in the TV Land untitled Mark Reisman comedy pilot.

The Sony Pictures TV-produced Hound Dogs, which Sheldon wrote and will direct, draws from his experience as a baseball player and is set in the world of minor league baseball. It 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. Fortitude-repped Davidovich will play the team owner. Bundy will play a sexy bartender/aspiring singer.

TV Land’s Mark Reisman project revolves around 3 divorced guys (David Alan Basche, Donald Faison, Knight) who live in an apartment building where their landlord is their sexy female divorce attorney (Kristen Johnston). The project marks a reunion for APA-repped Wayne and Johnston, who worked together on 3rd Rock from the Sun.

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PILOT CASTINGS: Christine Taylor, Kristen Johnston & Donald Faison Board TV Land Comedies, Amy Acker Joins USA Dramedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 3:45pm PSTTags: TV, TV Land Pilots, TV Pilot Casting, TV Pilots, USA Network Pilot
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Christine Taylor has been tapped as the lead of TV Land’s untitled Terri Minsky comedy pilot (form. Rip City), while 3rd Rock from the Sun co-star Kristen Johnston is set as the lead of another TV Land comedy pilot, the untitled Mark Reisman project. Scrubs alum Donald Faison will … Read More »

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TV Land Picks Up Two More Comedy Pilots

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 4:25pm PSTTags: Cable TV, Fran Drescher, Happily Divorced, TV, TV Deals, TV Land, TV Land Pilot Pickup, TV Land Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

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TV Land Greenlights Comedy Pilot

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 10, 2010 @ 5:35pm PSTTags: Cable TV, Hot in Cleveland, Mark Reisman, TV, TV Land, TV Land Original Scripted Series, TV Land Pilot Pickup, TV Land Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: TV Land is opening its second pilot pickup season with a cast-contingent order to Ex Men, a multi-camera sitcom from former Frasier executive producer Mark Reisman. The project revolves around 3 divorced guys who live in an apartment building … Read More »

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