Danny Comden, whom a handful of you may remember from the short-lived 2003 ABC sitcom I'm with Her, has been recruited for a three-episode arc on FX's Dirt, playing a new love interest for Courteney Cox's tabloid queen Lucy Spiller. Specifically (because Dirt is all about the nuances), Comden has been cast as an almost-divorced TV bigwig who wants to rekindle an old romance with Lucy.Dirt premieres Season 2 on March 2.
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Anne Heche likes Men. More specifically, the ABC pilot Men in Trees, in which she has landed the lead as a woman who moves to Alaska after her husband cheats on her.... Also, per the Hollywood Reporter, Jeff Goldblum is in talks to front NBC's Seeing Red (eccentric cop has the ability to talk to dead crime victims), Queer as Folk's Gale Harold has the lead in Fox's Vanished (a 24-style thriller about the disappearance of a senator's wife), Jodi Lyn O'Keefe has joined Fox's The 12th Man (inspired by NBA bench-rider Paul Shirley), and Bonnie Somerville (NYPD Blue) will star opposite Danny Comden in the comedian's ABC series.
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The latest pilot-casting news finds ER's John Leguizamo top-lining CBS' Edison, as an undercover cop; Ally McBeal's Jane Krakowski in Sex, Power, Love & Politics, CBS' comedy about Capitol Hill staffers; 2 Fast 2 Furious' Cole Hauser landing a lead in Fox's legal drama, Damages; Fred Willard as a toy-company owner in the CBS laffer Play Nice; Matthew Lillard in Fox's treasure-hunting thriller 13 Graves; and Ocean's Eleven's Scott Caan playing best bud to Danny Comden in an untitled ABC comedy.
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