Confirming that which TVGuide.com reported Wednesday morning, CBS has officially has picked up the comedy pilot The Captain as a mid-season series, for six episodes. The ensemble includes Jeffrey Tambor (you say Arrested Development, I say The Ropers) as a retired screenwriting legend, as well as Chris Klein, Raquel Welch, JoAnna Garcia and Al Madrigal.
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Geez, who had Stiffler pegged as the career feature-film star? But I get ahead of myself. The latest pilot-casting news from Variety and the Reporter:• CBS could soon be home to three American Pie stars. Jason Biggs is a Wall Street whiz who dies in a Blackberry-related car accident and, since Hades is full, is forced to endure "Hell on earth" (aka a life devoid of his fancy career, apartment and such) in I'm in Hell. Chris Klein, meanwhile, is the series lead's best buddy in The Captain, which has also added comic Al Madrigal as a janitor.• Ricki Lake is the mom in The Middle, ABC's comedy about a lower-middle-class family in the Midwest.• Michael McKean is a low-level congressman's chief of staff in ABC's The Thick of It.• Penn Badgley (John Tucker Must Die) has joined the CW's Gossip Girls.
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He's in the No. 1 holiday movie (Night at the Museum), his brilliant The Office has made a successful transition to American TV, he has written and performed in an episode of The Simpsons, and yet Ricky Gervais continues to play the born loser. Bless his (and our) lucky stars.
In Extras, an HBO-BBC collaboration now in its second season of wickedly biting showbiz satire (Sundays at 10 pm/ET), Gervais plays the hapless Andy Millman, a would-be actor of questionable talent and limitless desperation, who for years has been an envious bystander on movie sets. This setup allows movie stars and other celebrities (from Kate Winsle
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Vanished's Penelope Ann Miller will play Jessica Simpson's conniving boss in Blonde Ambition, a loose remake of 1988's Working Girl.... Chris Klein, Jake Busey and Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst will star in Play Dead, a dark comedy about a former TV action hero (Klein) forced to swing into real-life action when he uncovers a small-town meth biz.... Emily Mortimer has replaced an injured Samantha Morton in Transsiberian, a thriller starring Woody Harrelson and Ben Kingsley.
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Jon Bernthal in The Class
In town to promote Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and the new CBS sitcom The Class, Jon Bernthal gave TVGuide.com an inside look at doing a movie about the city's darkest day, living at home with "mom" and planning his ultimate dream.
TVGuide.com: What was it like to be part of World Trade Center?
Bernthal: It was really an honor, and different from any other acting job. Normally when you get a script and you meet with the director, you work together to create somebody, but this was really going the other way. It was a
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