In the Works: Smith Hunk Gets Stone'd
Per the
Hollywood Reporter, Jonny Lee Miller, a regular on CBS' short-lived
Smith, has scored the title role in
Eli Stone, an ABC drama pilot about a lawyer who discovers he might be a prophet (this probably bumps his hourly up 25 percent).
Everwood's Greg Berlanti penned the series with former attorney Marc Guggenheim (
The Practice)....
Variety reports that rapper-actor Chris "Ludacris" Bridges has inked a deal to exec-produce for The N a weekly drama titled
Halls of Fame, with the emphasis on
Fame - the half-hour series revolves around students at a performing-arts high school.... TBS has ordered a pilot for a family comedy fronted by Blue Collar Comedy Tour vet Bill Engvall.
