Per the Hollywood Reporter, Jonny Lee Miller, a regular on CBS' short-lived Smith, has scored the title role in Eli Stone, an ABC drama pilot about a lawyer who discovers he might be a prophet (this probably bumps his hourly up 25 percent). Everwood's Greg Berlanti penned the series with former attorney Marc Guggenheim (The Practice).... Variety reports that rapper-actor Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has inked a deal to exec-produce for The N a weekly drama titled Halls of Fame, with the emphasis on Fame — the half-hour series revolves around students at a performing-arts high school.... TBS has ordered a pilot for a family comedy fronted by Blue Collar Comedy Tour vet Bill Engvall.
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