March 25th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.
Big D (CBS)
Nat Faxon and Kelen Coleman have joined CBS’ comedy Big D. In WBTV’s Big D, a New York couple moves to the husband’s hometown of Dallas, where his Southern belle mother (Deanne Dunagan) makes life complicated for his East Coast wife. Coleman will play the husband’s younger sister. Faxton will play a cousin.
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March 12th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Minka Kelly has been cast as the lead of the CW’s drama pilot Body Politic. She is joined by Jason Dohring, who also been cast in the pilot. Body Politic, from CBS Paramount, is a look at Washington politics through the eyes of optimistic up-and-coming staffers. Kelly will play Hope, an all-American girl who leaves her life in Michigan after the death of her mother and heads to D.C., where her long-lost dad, Senator Webster, has just been appointed Attorney General, and takes a job on his staff. Dohring will play a reporter with the Washington Post.
For the Friday Night Lights fans whose hearts started racing, Kelly’s new role is not an sign that the show is not coming back. Negotiations between NBC and DirecTV are still going on, and insiders are optimistic that the show will return for a fourth season. But given the fact that Kelly’s character on the show, Lyla, graduated from high school this season and is off to college (or the rodeo), she is not going to be a regular next season but will return for a multiepisode arc if Friday Night Lights clinches a fourth-season pickup.
March 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The Casting Call brings together the latest casting news to keep you informed on who is showing up on which show. Find out who is joining your favorite show as a series regular, a recurring character, a guest star or special cameo. The Casting Call could reveal upcoming story-lines, so be aware, there may be spoilers ahead.
Body Politic (The CW)
Tim Matheson has been tapped for the DC-set Body Politic. Matheson will play a charming, JFK-type senator. The show revolves around young staffers in Washington.
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February 6th, 2009 | 0 Comments
The CW has picked up a pilot order for Body Politic. The show gives a look at D.C. politics through the eyes of optimistic young staffers, focusing on a young woman who moves to D.C. to work for a Senator and the other eager up-and-comers with whom she becomes friends.
Jason Rothenberg and Bill Robinson wrote the script and will executive produce with Peter Horton. Body Politic is the second Capitol Hill-set pilot this season, along with the CBS drama House Rules, about freshmen congressmen/congresswomen.
