Today's pilot-casting quickies, per the Reporter:• Dean Cain will play a veteran officer in Protect and Serve, a CBS drama from Las Vegas creator Gary Scott Thompson. Also added to the cast are Eric Balfour (24), Tamala Jones and Monica Potter.• Paige Turco (who never thanked me for the roses I sent her some 16 years ago... ) and Jessica Collins (Tru Calling edition) have come on board ABC's drama about four high-powered CEOs/CEO wannabes (played by Dylan McDermott, Michael Vartan, Joshua Malina and Christopher Titus).• Raquel Welch is a bombshell former TV star on CBS' The Captain.• Following a disappointing Monday table read, production has been pushed back on 24 cocreator Bob Cochran's NSA Innocent, as the lead character is being tweaked and portrayer Stephen Moyer will be recast.
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Kyra "The Closer" Sedgwick will play ruthless sports agent to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's footballer in The Game Plan, a comedy starting production Sept. 24. Morris Chestnut and Paige Turco also star.... Per Variety, reality-TV guru Mark Burnett has snatched up the feature rights to The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, a children's fantasy-book series debuting in May 2007.
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Jason O'Mara, In Justice
On ABC's mid-season hit, In Justice (Fridays at 9 pm/ET), Jason O'Mara and Kyle MacLachlan head up the National Justice Project, a group that works hard (and TV-fast!) to get wrongfully convicted people pulled out of prison. TVGuide.com spoke with O'Mara about his transition from rugby star to actor, about In Justice's upcoming controversial episode, and about — get this — the woman he and this writer have in common.
TVGuide.com: For starters, I want to say that I love the show and have it on my TiVo list. Good stuff!
Jason O'Mara: Yeah, last week's episode was good, wasn't it? We sort of felt it was a bit of a watershed for us because it
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