Flockhart, Pantoliano, Livingston among big names in TV casting
Posted Feb 26th 2006 2:14PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Other Comedy Shows, ABC, FOX, CBS, Talent
Now that pilot season is wrapping up,
it's casting season in L.A., where mega-stars or yet-to-be-discovered actors sign on to all sorts of new shows in hopes
that the networks will pick them up for the fall line-up. There are a lot of big names this time around. Check it
out:
- Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under)
will star in the ABC drama pilot Brothers & Sisters, a soap-style drama about adult siblings.
- Heather Locklear is in negotiations for a leading role in the ABC comedy pilot, Women of a Certain Age.
Locklear would play a recently widowed woman who starts a new life with her two best friends.
- Ron
Livingston (Sex and the City, Office Space) is one of two leads in a FOX drama called
Primary, which is about a male and a female hostage negotiator who balance their love lives with their
jobs.
- Joe Pantoliano (The Sopranos) has agreed to star in CBS' Waterfront, as the
charismatic and "ethically-challenged" mayor of Providence, R.I.
- Steven Culp, previously known
as Rex Van De Kamp on Desperate Housewives, will appear in the ABC drama, Traveler, about three Yale
graduate students who become a national security risk when one of them frames the other two for an art museum
bombing.
- Swoosie Kurtz will take on a supporting role in the CBS comedy, Play Nice, which stars
Timm Sharp and Sara Rue (Less Than Perfect) as a brother and sister who run a toy company.
- Jonah
Lotan, who has been playing Spenser Wolff this season on 24, will take on a role on the FOX thriller,
Beyond, which is about the space race.
[Via
The
Hollywood Reporter]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-26-2006 @ 2:55PM
Jason said...
Heather Locklear...Put her in any tv show and I will watch every single episode.
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