March 13th, 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.
24 (Fox)
Tim Guinee is set for a recurring role on Fox’s 24. Guinee will play Ken Dellao, a news reporter with ties to First Daughter Olivia Taylor.
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March 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lifetime has renewed comedy Rita Rocks for a second season with a 20-episode order. Developed as a companion piece for Lifetime’s well performing repeats of Reba, the MRC-produced Rita Rocks stars Nicole Sullivan as an overworked mom who forms a garage band. Co-starring on the series are Richard Ruccolo as Rita’s husband, Jay, and Tisha Campbell-Martin as her friend and bandmate, Patty. Series creators Stan Zimmerman and Jim Berg will serve as showrunners and will continue to executive produce alongside Mindy Schulthesis and Michael Hanel. Production on the second season of Rita Rocks is slated to begin immediately.
February 24th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lifetime has renewed its signature drama Army Wives for a fourth season. The 18-episode fourth season is slated for a 2010 launch. The pickup comes four months ahead of the third season premiere of Army Wives in June, when it will return to its regular Sunday 10 pm time slot. Army Wives is Lifetime’s highest rated series ever and cable’s top drama series among women 18-49.
Army Wives follows the struggles, dreams and friendships of a diverse group of women – and one man – living with their spouses and families on an active army post. The series, which is filming its third season in Charleston, South Carolina, stars Kim Delaney, Sally Pressman, Brigid Brannagh, Brian McNamara, Sterling K. Brown, Wendy Davis, Drew Fuller, Terry Serpico and Catherine Bell. Katelyn Pippy, has also been upped to series regular.
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February 4th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lifetime has renewed DietTribe for a second season. The cable network has ordered eight additional episodes of the reality series, which tracks a circle of overweight female friends who have jointly committed to change their lifestyles and eating habits. The series garnered 602,000 viewers for its season-one finale Monday, leading out of Wife Swap.
Lifetime officials said they’re intrigued by the online community that has coalesced around the show; it largely accounts for a 30% increase in traffic to MyLifetime.com in January. Lifetime is targeting a summer launch for season two of the series.
January 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments
Lifetime has picked up comedic drama Drop Dead Diva to series. The network has ordered 12 episodes of the show starring Brooke Elliott for a summer premiere. Drop Dead Diva centers on a beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe who, after dying in a car accident, is reincarnated in the body of Jane Bingum (Elliott), a brilliant, thoughtful and overweight attorney. Creator Josh Berman is executive producing with Craig Zadan and Neil Meron of Storyline Entertainment. Drop Dead Diva is one of several pilots in contention at Lifetime, including Mrs. Novak and Mistresses.
October 15th, 2008 | 0 Comments
Amy Pietz has been tapped for the title role in Lifetime’s drama pilot The Amazing Mrs. Novak. The project, based on the six-part U.K. series The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard, centers on Trish Novak (Pietz), a supermarket manager who unexpectedly becomes the governor of New Jersey.
Also cast in the pilot are Tom Verica as Novak’s husband, Frank, and Kristen Dattilo as Goldie, her sister-in-law. The show, which was picked up in early August, has garnered a lot of heat recently with the ascent of Alaska Govenor Sarah Palin to the Republican presidential ticket. Vanessa Taylor is the project’s writer-showrunner. She executive produces with Carolyn Bernstein, Jane Featherstone and Stephen Garrett.
