Ron McLarty

Fall 2007: Kathy Baker Enters Killer Fields

• Mar 19, 2007 01:46 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Who's doing what this pilot season, says the Reporter and Variety:• Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) is Amber Tamblyn's mother in CBS' Babylon Fields, where the two of them must again contend with the resurrected abusive husband/father whom they killed with an ax. Awk.Ward.• Get-ready-to-feel-old alert: Kelly Rutherford plays mom to the lead girl (Blake Lively) in the CW's Gossip Girl. Also on board for the pilot is Florencia Lozano (One Life to Live).• Jaime Ray Newman (Veronica Mars) has landed the lead in the CW's I Am Paige Armstrong, playing a disenfranchised congressional aide who decides to run against her boss.• Michael Arden and Ron McLarty have joined Amy Sherman-Palladino's The Return of Jezebel James.• Victoria Pratt (Day Break) has joined ABC's Dirty Sexy Money.• Kevin Dunn (The Path to 9/11) is amnesiac Christina Applegate's dad in ABC's Sam I Am. read more