Kristen Bell
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas has worked his Rolodex hard, tapping several former residents of Neptune — Kristen Bell included — to Party Down on his new Starz comedy series about Los Angeles caterers.
Get the details on who Kristen is playing, and what other Mars alumni you can expect to spy, after the jump.
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Kristen Bell
Itchy journalists watching Rob Thomas present his Cupid remake had to ask: Is there going to be a Veronica Mars movie? Get the answer after the jump...
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Rob Thomas
While Veronica Mars reunion rumors continue to surface every now again, Rob Thomas has been quietly putting together his latest production, Party Down — and he just assembled his guest list.
The Mars creator's new show will focus on six aspiring stars who work together at an L.A. catering company, where the weekly events and antics chart the course of the wannabes' fading dreams.
To serve up the food (and the laughs), Thomas has drawn from the Mars pool and beyond, creating a roster that includes
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Rob Thomas
Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas is will soon be whetting our TV appetites weekly with his new comedy, Party Down.
The program, to be produced for Starz Media, will focus on six Hollywood wannabeens who work together at a catering company. With dreams of living the dream starting to fade, the group will serve up the laughs at their catering events — to include everything from Sweet 16s to video porn awards afterparties — in each half-hour episode.
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Alyssa Milano by John Medina/WireImage.com
In an unusual move for the time of year, ABC on Monday ordered to series five pilots, including two police procedurals, a pair of comedies and a remake, Variety reports.Among the greenlit fare, Nathan Fillion will be starring in Castle, which focuses on a novelist who helps solve murder cases. Lost alum Harold Perrineau and Joan of Arcadia's Amber Tamblyn, meanwhile, are among the cast of The Unusuals, a police drama set in an atypical precinct. On the lighter side you have Single with Parents, a sitcom starring Charmed beauty Alyssa Milano, and Better Off Ted, starring Jay Harrington as an office worker trying to make his way up the ranks.ABC has also picked up Cupid, a Rob Thomas-helmed remake of the late-1990s show about a man (played by Bobby Cannavale) who believes he's Cupid and the psychologist (Sarah Paulson) who works with him.Do these series seem like a good direction for the net? With five fresh shows to pick from, the odds are in ABC's favor. — Anna DimondRelated:&...
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Lauren Graham by Mike Guastella/ WireImage.com, Rob Thomas by M. Caulfield/WireImage.com
Talk about a match made in heaven. The brilliant words of Rob Thomas. The genius delivery of Lauren Graham. Together for the first time on TV. It could be one for the ages. Just, apparently, not these ages.Sources confirm to me exclusively that Mr. Veronica Mars recently approached Graham to play the female lead opposite Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale in ABC's forthcoming reboot of Thomas' beloved '90s dramedy Cupid. Says RT: "I love Lauren Graham. Bobby loves Lauren Graham. We explored the possibility, but we were told it wasn't what she wanted to do right now."Bum. Mer.On the bright side, Graham is still very much interested in returning to TV, despite the recent dissolution of her NBC development deal. "I do want to work on television again," she tells Comcast.net from the Philadelphia set of The Dream of the Romans, a romantic comedy she's filming opposite Jeff Daniels. "It’s the steadiest job and the best writing for women. "I would look forward to doing something where I can...
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Now that ABC has picked up the two pilot scripts — Cupid and Good Behavior — he had cooking over there, Rob Thomas is ceding the reins of the CW's Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off, says the Reporter. On short notice, Thomas turned around a pilot script for the contemporary reboot of the teen-angst franchise, and will stay on board as an executive producer. Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah (What About Brian) are now in talks to tackle a rewrite on Thomas' 90210 pilot, yet they themselves are not available to assume show runner duties. — MWM
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Dustin Milligan by Michael Caulfield/WireImage.com
The new Rob Thomas-penned Beverly Hills, 90210 redux is warming up, with casting news starting to trickle out.Former Runaway Dustin Milligan is the first actor to have been cast in the updated version of the show, says the Reporter. He's set to play Ethan, the big-man-on-campus star athlete at West Beverly High. Along with his TV work, Milligan also appeared in recent movies including creep-fest The Messengers and love-fest In the Land of Women. Without more cast announcements, it's tough to visualize his dynamic with the other as-yet-unnamed kids at West Beverly, but the floppy-haired Canadian's a good start for the spin-off. Are you ready for your new high-school heartthrob? — Anna DimondRelated:• Who Will Cross Over to 90210 Remake?• The CW's 90210 Spin-off: New Details
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Someone is going to be very, very busy this spring. ABC has picked a dramedy pilot from Rob Thomas — the same Veronica Mars creator who just last week sold the Alphabet on a pilot for a reboot of Cupid, and the same guy tapped by the CW to write and producer a Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off.Thomas' latest, yet-to-be-titled offering centers on the mother of a brood of criminals who when her hubby is sentenced to a nickel in the clink decides it is time for the fam to go straight.ABC on Tuesday also picked up Five Year Plan, a comedy about a group of Friends twentysomethings pondering their futures.
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Criminy, run and buy a lottery ticket, Rob! On Thursday, just hours after news broke about the Veronica Mars creator possibly bringing Beverly Hills, 90210 back to life for the CW, ABC gave a green light to the pilot for Thomas' new version of Cupid, the romantic comedy he gave the tube back in the '90s. Back then, Cupid starred Jeremy Piven as a man who believed it was his mission to help Zeus boost romantically challenged mortals. The update is being pegged as a "reinvention."BecauseCupid has been in development since the fall, the Reporter says, it is in "first position" — that is, Thomas' priority — should both the comedy and the CW's new-0210 (if penned by him) get picked up.Related:• Veronica Mars Boss in Talks to Pen 90210 Spin-off
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