Casting About: Firefly's Fillion Fronts New Series
Nathan Fillion has claimed the lead role in
Drive, the mid-season Fox drama chronicling an underground race across America and exec-produced by former
Firefly boss
Tim Minear. Fillion, who initially passed on the gig last spring (due to a scheduling conflict), takes over for Ivan Sergei, who played Alex Tully, a charming, rogue landscaper searching for his abducted wife, in the original pilot.
In other casting news, courtesy of the
Ausiello Report:
Happy Days'
Marion Ross will swing by
Brothers & Sisters in February, playing Sally Field's mother, and
Dancing with the Stars alumna
Stacy Kiebler has booked a multi-episode arc on
What About Brian, playing a super-leggy roadblock for Bri and Bridget.
