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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The ensemble for CBS' planned NCIS spinoff continues to flesh out. Not long after it was reported that Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J are circling two lead roles, three other characters have been cast. Get the actors' names and details on their roles, after the jump.
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Up-to-the-minute casting news for the upcoming pilot season, courtesy of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• Why didn't we see this coming a mile away? Lucy Lawless has scored the role of "ruthless, bitchy" Tanya in ABC's Football Wives. UPDATE: Speaking of BSG.... Some fresh Ausiello scoopage!• CSI's Louise Lombard has landed the title role in Judy's Got a Gun, ABC's drama about a woman juggling single motherhood with her job as a detective. I like to think of it as "Close to Homicide."• 24 alumna Sarah Clarke is Famke Janssen's younger sister and best bud in NBC's drama about a female cop.• Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is (kinda of course) a promiscuous neighbor in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.• Ana Claudia Talancón (The Crime of Father Amaro) has the title role in Whitney, HBO's comedy about a beautiful, self-confident woman who manipulates men.• Big Day's Miriam Shor has joined CBS' 1970s-set Swingtown.• John Francis Daley (Kitchen Confidential...
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Perhaps inspired by the Las Vegas setting, the creators of CBS' CSI must never sleep. Rather than resting on their laurels, the makers of the original forensic phenomenon continue to surprise with fresh approaches to the show's storytelling. One of the ways the CSI formula has resisted becoming, well, formulaic is the addition of new faces to the mix. The brash and uncompromising Sophia Curtis, played by Louise Lombard, is one of these emerging characters.
In tonight's episode of CSI (Thursday at 9 pm/ET) — the first of two parts entitled "A Bullet Runs Through It" — Curtis finds herself in a very precarious situation. Normally an investigator, she suddenly becomes the one being investigated after a shootout leaves a cop killed by what is suspected to be friendly fire. It's the first time Curtis, who has grown into a featured character, will take ce
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Perhaps inspired by the Las Vegas setting, the creators of CBS' CSI must never sleep. Rather than resting on their laurels, the makers of the original forensic phenomenon continue to surprise with fresh approaches to the show's storytelling. One of the ways the CSI formula has resisted becoming, well, formulaic is the addition of new faces to the mix. The brash and uncompromising Sophia Curtis, played by Louise Lombard, is one of these emerging characters.
In this week's episode of CSI (Thursday at 9 pm/ET) — the first of two parts entitled "A Bullet Runs Through It" — Curtis finds herself in a very precarious situation. Normally an investigator, she suddenly becomes the one being investigated after a shootout leaves a cop killed by what is suspected to be friendly fire. It's the first time Curtis, who has grown into a featured character, will take
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