Reiko Aylesworth, Louise Lombard and Julia Ormond
New shows that looked good enough for a fall pick-up are fine-tuning their casts before going into production.
For starters, CSI alum Louise Lombard will not be making the trek to NCIS: Los Angeles, despite having appeared in the two NCIS episodes that served as a backdoor pilot. The spin-off instead will recast its female lead.
Similarly, says the Hollywood Reporter, CBS' Three Rivers is on the hunt for ...
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Grant Show, Julia Ormond
Jake who? In what I like to imagine is a calculated move to take himself off the "Melrose Place reboot" market, Grant Show has signed on to play the boss of Jenna Elfman's unexpectedly pregnant film critic in the CBS comedy pilot Accidentally on Purpose.
Since CBS' Swingtown got its groove off, Show has ...
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Scott Wolf by Kevin Parry/ WireImage.com
So that's where Bailey is. A CBS rep confirms that Party of Five alum Scott Wolf, as well as Julia Ormond (Sabrina), will take part in CSI: NY's landmark 100th episode, airing Nov. 19.Just as with recently announced fellow guest star Rumer Willis, Wolf will play someone named "Mac Taylor," making him a target of a serial killer who is picking off such namesakes of Gary Sinise's character. (Wolf's casting was first reporetd by EW's Ausiello.)Ormond, meanwhile, will play an investigator.CSI: NY returns this Wednesday, Sept. 24. — Matt MitovichRelated:• CSI: NY Serial Killer Looks to Squelch Rumer
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Chris O'Donnell and Julia Ormond have been cast in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mystery as the title doll's parents, and Joan Cusack has signed on to play a nurse who lives at the boardinghouse Ormond runs.... Variety reports that HBO is in talks to film the Broadway hit The Year of Magical Thinking, with Vanessa Redgrave as grieving playwright Joan Didion, for future broadcast.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, the U.K. Film Council is developing a feature adaptation of Peter Pan in Scarlet, the officially sanctioned sequel to the J.M. Barrie classic.... Willem Dafoe is a Nazi officer whose life is saved by Jewish circus clown Jeff Goldblum in the World War II Holocaust drama Adam Resurrected.... Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub are developing a new revisiting of the Tarzan tale. Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct.... Miramax is bringing the Pulitzer-winning Broadway drama Doubt to the big screen.... Per Variety, Julia Ormond is Lindsay Lohan's mother in I Know Who Killed Me.... Dimension Films is turning the comic book Madman into a live-action feature, to be penned by creator Michael Allred and director George Huang (Swimming with Sharks).
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