Shaun Cassidy is prepping a trip to the Old West in a new project he's developing with director Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing) at NBC.
Set in 1840, The Frontier follows a group of disparate travelers in Missouri as they...
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Christina Ricci is in talks to star in ABC's drama pilot Pan Am, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Set in the 1960s, the project revolves around pilots and flight attendants of the iconic airline that ceased operations in 1991 after declaring bankruptcy. Ricci would join ...
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With The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin made it cool to care about politics. Sorkin's band of quippy White House staffers and a president who was hard not to love helped him walk the line between politics and entertainment and score repeated Emmy wins. We chatted with Sorkin, one of the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, about his beloved political drama, why it struck a chord with viewers, and how a similar approach to melding Hollywood and Washington hurt his follow-up, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
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Dane Cook is looking likely to land the lead in Bachelor No. 2, about a creep who gets paid to take girls out on dates that are so bad, they go running back to their exes.... David E. Kelley has scored frequent collaborator Thomas Schlamme (The West Wing) to direct the pilot for his ABC drama, Life on Mars.... Deadwood's John Hawkes has been cast as the brother of a baseball great turned substitute PE teacher in the Will Ferrell-produced HBO pilot East Bound and Down.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Amanda Peet will reunite with her The Whole Nine Yards costar Matthew Perry, having joined the cast of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme's new NBC comedy about a Saturday Night Live-style sketch-comedy show. Hey, anything that busies them up enough to prevent The Whole Eleven Yards.
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