Jack Davenport, Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance (Law & Order: Criminal Intent ) and Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, Swingtown) have joined the cast of Flash Forward, an ABC pilot based on Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel and fancied as a possible "companion show" to Lost.
Exec-produced by David S. Goyer (Blade) and Brannon Braga (Threshold), Flash Forward depicts the events that follow when everyone in the world ...
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Esai Morales and Eric Stoltz, Caprica
Twitchy Battlestar Galactica fans can rest a little easier.
The Sci Fi channel has given the green light to Caprica, the buzzed-about prequel to Battlestar, according to Variety. The cable channel has already produced a two-hour TV movie/backdoor pilot, which was set to debut in December, but will now launch the series in early 2010.
The series, starring Eric Stoltz, Esai Morales, Paula Malcomson and Polly Walker, is set 50 years before the Cylon attack ...
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Gabrielle Union and Frank Spotnitz
Gabrielle Union and X-Files writer/producer Frank Spotnitz are reteaming to develop a new series for NBC.
The duo, which worked together on ABC's short-lived Night Stalker during the 2005-2006 TV season, is developing a procedural for the Peacock, according to Variety. Spontitz will write the show and Union, best known for her role in Bring It On, will star as a detective who must ...
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Barry Sonnenfeld
Executive producer/director Barry Sonnenfeld has some Man-ly pursuits in mind for CBS, or more like Man-ly rules.
The Emmy winner, in conjunction with Tannenbaum Co. and Sony Pictures TV, is developing a comedy series for the Eye called Things a Man Should Never Do Past 30, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Shot single-camera style, the show will ...
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Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen really loves porno.
The Knocked Up and Zack and Miri Make a Porno star is teaming with production partner Evan Goldberg to develop a new comedy for Showtime about three twentysomethings who learn life's lessons while running a pornography shop, Variety reports.
Rogen and Goldberg will ...
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Dylan McDermott
Dylan McDermott has landed the lead in The Line, TNT's new drama pilot from Jerry Bruckheimer.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the series focuses on a squad of undercover LAPD officers who do their job while battling the allure of easy, dirty money. McDermott, who won an Emmy for his work as Bobby Donnell on The Practice, will play ...
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Emily Rose
She who "played doctor" with not one but two brothers on ABC's Brothers & Sisters now will get to play an actual doctor.
TVGuide.com has learned exclusively that Emily Rose has landed the lead role in the new USA Network series Operating Instructions.
Details on Rose's role and USA's new "character"-driven series after the jump.
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Bridget Moynahan
TNT has a way with female movie stars.
The network's latest big-screen recruit is Bridget Moynahan (I, Robot, The Sum of All Fears), who will be joining Donnie Wahlberg in Jerry Bruckheimer's drama pilot Bunker Hill, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Tom Brady's ex and baby momma will play the widow of a police officer and sister-in-law to Wahlberg's Mike Moriarty, a Boston cop who is working to protect the streets he grew up on from crime and corruption ...
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Will Arnett
Fox is brining Arrested Development star Will Arnett back to its network.
Arnett has inked a lucrative development deal, which will give the funnyman and frequent 30 Rock guest star a few extra perks. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the deal, promises Arnett complete creative control over choosing the writers, producers and directors he wants to work with, as well as the content of the show that will be developed for him.
See who Arnett would like to work with on his new show after the jump.
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