Jeffrey Nordling has joined the cast of Fox’s 24 as a regular. Additionally, John Billingsley has been added to the cast of the real-time thriller as a recurring next season, when the show will be based in Washington. On 24, from Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox TV, Nordling will play an FBI agent named Larry. Details on Billingsley’s character, Latham, have been kept under wraps.
TNT has given the go-ahead to production of Leverage, a pilot directed and produced by Dean Devlin about a team of five high-tech thieves who circle the globe to rob from wealthy criminals, corrupt businessmen and venal politicians. On Leverage, Devlin and lead writer of the script John Rogers told Variety that their goal is to deliver the kind of action-adventure spirit found in Devlin’s two high-rated Librarian movies on TNT: Quest for the Spear and Return to King Solomon’s Mines. Leverage is one of four scripted hourlong pilots that TNT will look at toward the end of the year, choosing at least one to go into production in March for scheduling in the summer along with the network’s scripted-series hits The Closer and Saving Grace.
ABC has ordered a script for The Fixer, about the most powerful woman in New York. Imagine TV and 20th Century Fox TV are behind the project, which centers on a woman who discreetly solves the problems of New York’s rich and powerful. Russell Gewirtz, who wrote Inside Man for Imagine Entertainment, is attached to write and executive produce. Also aboard to executive produce The Fixer are Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Imagine TV president David Nevins, as well as InVenture Entertainment principal Daniel Rosenberg.
Michael Ausiello is reporting that Reiko Aylesworth — who played CTU boss Michelle Dessler on Fox’s 24 — is joining the cast of ER as County General’s hot and hip new chaplain who starts a very intimate relationship with John Stamos’ Gates. Aylesworth’s preacher woman is allowed to lead a normal life, and that includes wearing regular clothes and having sex with dating whomever she wants.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus will reunite with her former Seinfeld co-star Jason Alexander when he guest stars in an episode of the CBS midseason comedy, The New Adventures of Old Christine. Alexander will play a lizard handler for children’s birthday parties with whom Christine goes out on a date. The New Adventures of Old Christine stars Louis-Dreyfus in a comedy about a divorced working mom who’s attempting to juggle the daily stresses of motherhood and work, while maintaining a positive relationship with her ex-husband, Richard - which is easier when his pretty, new girlfriend isn’t around to complicate the picture.
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Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Jeff Fahey is joining ABC’s Lost for it’s fourth season. Fahey, best known for his roles in The Lawnmower Man and Grindhouse, is set to joined new cast members Lance Reddick, Ken Leung, Jeremy Davies, and Rebecca Mader. Details on the character Fahey will play are under wraps. Executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse revealed that the actor was their first and only choice for the role. Damon Lindelof told Entertainment Weekly: “Fahey is one of those actors who feels like he fits into the Lost model: He’s enormously talented and will be vaguely recognizable to some people, but he’ll be able to land on our island without most people going, ‘Oh, I know who that guy is.’ And especially for the part we cast him for, he has exactly the right sensibilities.”
Former Angel producer Tim Minear and Emmy winner Todd Holland have teamed for Miracle Man, a supernatural drama project that sparked a bidding war between ABC and Fox and landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Miracle, from 20th Century Fox TV, where Minear and Holland are based with overall deals, centers on a disgraced former televangelist, a man of no faith, who finds that God is using him to perform real miracles and change lives, starting with his own.
Miracle was developed by Minear and Holland, who worked together on Fox’s critically praised drama Wonderfalls. Minear is writing the script, with Holland set to direct. Both are executive-producing. Miracle brings Minear back to ABC, where he landed his first full-time series gig on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. Minear most recently created and executive-produced Fox’s drama Drive and also worked on such series as Fox’s The Inside and Firefly. Holland won three directing Emmys, two for Fox’s Malcolm in the Middle and one for HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show.
Donal Logue, who recently starred in ABC’s short-lived comedy The Knights of Prosperity, will play a bad-boy literary luminary in Fox’s comedy pilot Hackett. Rachel Boston and Morgan Murphy also are cast in the single-camera project, which will be directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Logue’s character escapes a disgraced teaching career at Yale only to find himself among the ultra-PC ranks of teachers at an Ohio public high school. Boston will play the school’s principal. Murphy will play a teacher.
Clerks director Kevin Smith recently made a huge splash at Comic Con announcing that he’d be helming the first episode of the forthcoming Heroes: Origin’, a spin-off of the hugely successful series that will introduce new characters with powers. He’s also stepped behind the camera to shoot the pilot for one of the coolest new shows of the fall, the funny and supernatural series, Reaper. To complete the sci-fi trifecta, Smith revealed to AOL TV that he was also directing an episode of the final season of Battlestar Galactica.