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"The Jury" moved closer to dismissal Thursday when Fox scaled down the struggling legal drama's airings.
What a shame – next week's episode looks like it might be the best yet...
Matthew Morrison has come on board ABC comedy pilot, "Thank God It's Monday," an ensemble workplace comedy about guys who talk about their home life at work. Morrison, a member of the origin…
Halle Berry has scrapped plans to star in HBO's ensemble drama "Lackawanna Blues," a project on which she is also an executive producer.
Actress-singer Vanessa Williams has come on board UPN's drama "Beck and Call," which revolves around the lives of three young assistants. Williams (NBC's "Boomtown") will play the boss of on…
Rob Reiner has added acting to his duties as executive producer and director of NBC's comedy pilot "Everyday Life," with Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl tapped to play his wife.
Of interest because of this description of the ABC pilot "Gramercy Park":
"Gramercy Park" revolves around three nannies and the families they work for in a tony New York building.
Elizabeth Mitchell (NBC's "The Lyon's Den") will play an actress married to a successful Broadway director who resents the transition to motherhood.
Izabella Miko ("Coyote Ugly") will play an au pair and aspiring actress.
In pilot casting news, Sherilyn Fenn is set to star in Fox's comedy "Mister Ed," Kristen Bell has been cast in the title role of UPN's drama "Veronica Mars," and Shane Brolly has been tapped…
Meanwhile, David Alan Basche has been cast as Wilbur Post in Fox's remake of the 1960s comedy "Mister Ed"; Jonathan Cake as the lead in ABC's limited Roman Empire series "Empire"; and Nathan…
FX has ordered 13 episodes of "Rescue Me," a drama about New York firefighters, starring comedian Denis Leary.
Co-starring in the series are Jack McGee, Stephen Pasquale, Daniel Sunjata, John Scurti, Michael Lombardi, Michael Mulheren and Andrea Roth.
HBO has finalized an ambitious scheduling plan for its upcoming $60 million miniseries "Angels in America," starring Al Pacino, Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson, and directed by Mike Nichols.
When Lifetime Television's The Division returns in January for season four, Yancey Arias and Jon Tenney will join the cast in recurring roles.
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Top Broadway producer George C. Wolfe has come aboard to direct HBO's adaptation of Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Obie-winning one-man play "Lackawanna Blues," which Halle Berry is executive produ…
Colm Meaney, Mercedes Ruehl, Robert Patrick, Elliott Gould and Dagmara Dominczyk have been cast in the TNT original movie/backdoor pilot "Bad Apple," which stars "Law & Order" alumnus Chris …
Standup comedian and New York stage actor Mario Cantone, who co-stars on the hit HBO comedy "Sex and the City," is developing his own series.
For "1776," Zadan says, "we have the biggest movie-star cast we've ever put together for a TV musical." Zadan says he could not reveal any names yet but promises that "the marquee will be eye-popping."
Clifford Odets' play "The Country Girl" is coming back to the screen.
HBO is developing a new adaptation of the 1950 play with "Sex and the City" star Kim Cattrall attached to star and co-executive produce.
