The odds of Kelly Taylor swinging by the 90210 spin-off just dipped a bit. Jennie Garth has scored the title role in My Best Friend's Girl, a CBS comedy pilot about two best buds whose friendship is tested when one (Carpoolers' Tim Peper) begins dating the other's (Big Day's Josh Cooke) ex-wife.More pilot casting news from the Reporter: Shailene Woodley (Felicity: An American Girl Adventure) has landed the lead in an untitled ABC Family series from 7th Heaven's Brenda Hampton, and Bruno Campos (Nip/Tuck) has joined The Office's David Denman in the Fox comedy Night Life.Use our Online Video Guide to watch Jennie discuss her Dancing with the Stars experience.
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Speaking of Nip/Tuck, TVGuide.com has learned that Bruno Campos (aka Quentin/"the Carver") will guest-star on this season's ninth episode of CBS' Cold Case, playing a dead man who serves a key role (via flashbacks) in solving a mystery.... Joe Mantegna is the studio-executive boss of Debra Messing's ex-husband in USA Network's spring 2007 limited series, The Starter Wife.... Clea Lewis (Ellen) will play Andy Richter's wife on the NBC mid-season comedy, Andy Barker, P.I. Lewis replaces Amy Farrington, who filled the role in the pilot.
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Question: I'm curious. From what you have seen so far of the shows being introduced in the upcoming fall season, which ones are worth watching?
Answer: From the stuff I've seen so far, Fox's 24-esque kidnapping thriller Vanished and NBC's Tina Fey SNL-esque comedy are two early standouts. I also got a kick out of Fox's The Wedding Album, but that was mostly because of the chemistry between recently fired lead Bruno Campos and costar Tara Summers. On the flip side, all of Fox's comedies — with the exception of Brad Garrett's 'Til Death, which has potential — are major stinkers. I also wasn't crazy about CW's Runaway, and I'm not saying that because it took Everwood's place on the fall schedule. Oh, who am I kidding — sure I am.
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The CW network has gotten serious about its Flirt, picking up the sitcom that casts Wayne Brady as a women's magazine's only male employee — or, for short, rare beef.... L.A. Law alum Susan Ruttan is returning to series TV — or at least trying to. She's going to work on NBC's untitled comedy about a couple of brothers boarding together. She will not be playing either man.... A role is being developed for America's Next Top Model diva Eva Pigford on Fox's proposed The Wedding Album drama, which stars Nip/Tuck's Bruno Campos. Sixties babe Connie Stevens has also come aboard.... Strong Medicine's Rosa Blasi has affixed herself to NBC's Inseparable pilot starring Christine Baranski and Ed O'Neill.
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In Justice's Jason O'Mara has landed the lead in the ABC drama pilot Drift, about a New York detective battling insomnia.... Kevin Alejandro has joined Fox's Faceless as a meth-addict gang member.... Rachel Perry will play a scientist in Fox's Beyond.... Bruno Campos has left ABC's Southern Comfort to fill the lead in Fox's The Wedding Album.... Charlotte Ross has dumped ABC's Ugly Betty and is now in talks to join Alicia Silverstone in ABC's Pink Collar.... Vanessa L. Williams, whom I have always considered a twin for Ross, will replace the NYPD Blue alum on Betty.
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