Fresh off The Knights of Prosperity's repeated mistreatment (and an unexpected turn on Damages), Donal Logue has been tapped to play a bad-boy literary type in the Fox comedy pilot Hackett. Rachel Boston (American Dreams) and Morgan Murphy (Jimmy Kimmel Live) also star, and Barry Sonnenfeld will direct.... Also per the Reporter, writer-producer David Hemingson (Just Shoot Me, Kitchen Confidential) has landed a pilot commitment at ABC for a dramedy about associates at a law firm.... Fox has greenlit the medical sitcom This Might Hurt, set at a medical practice.
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Pilots. Casting. Variety. Reporter. Go.• Gregory Itzin, whose disgraced President Logan's life currently hangs in the balance on 24, will play an alpha-male, adrenaline-junkie boss in ABC's Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office.• Another 24 politico, Logan VP Ray Wise, is a real devil in the CW's Reaper. Oh, Leland...!• Emmy winner, meet Oscar winner: Cynthia Watros is Marisa Tomei's dancer/best friend in CBS' The Rich Inner Life of Penelope Cloud.• Rachel Boston (American Dreams) has landed the lead, playing a rising-star exec, in an ABC comedy set in a Phoenix TV newsroom. Amy Yasbeck is on board as a coanchor.• The Wire's Domenick Lombardozzi is a cop alongside CBS' The Man.• Rade Serbedzija (24's Gredenko) is a vampire in CBS' Twilight.• Brandon Quinn (The O.C.'s Spencer) is Lacey Chabert's love interest in Fox's untitled, life-after-college comedy.
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After seeing the coming attractions last week, in which the announcer emphasized the "last five minutes," I had — just like the title of tonight's episode — "Great Expectations," and I was not disappointed. Two of our favorite gals were proposed to simultaneously, thanks to effective editing, and neither of them gave their answers... at least, not until next week. Will Cristina say yes to Burke? Will Callie say yes to George? Can't see why either of them would say no. But the last five minutes also included Izzie offering to give Bailey some of her eight million dollars to pay for the free clinic Bailey is striving for, if it's called the Denny Duquette Memorial Clinic, of course. I was already loving Bailey for being so kind to Izzie when she saw Izzie crying after hugging George: "He gonna be OK?" I've said it before, and I'll say it again: When "the Nazi" shows her soft side, I lose it. After last week, we knew Bailey respected Izzie so this new business relationship wi...
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In other pilot casting news — and these days, there always is some — Gina Gershon (you say Showgirls; I say Bound) is set to star in NBC's Lipstick Jungle; Rachel Boston (American Dreams) has been cast in a CBS series about a young couple that moves to the woman's hometown; Kristin Lehman (Judging Amy) will star opposite Cole Hauser in the Fox legal drama Damages; and Moon Bloodgood (Eight Below) has joined ABC's Our Thirties.
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