Fall 2007: Mario Lopez Goes Dancing with the CW
The latest fall-pilot casting news, from our friends at the
Hollywood Reporter and
Variety:
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Dancing with the Stars alum and
Price Is Right-host wannabe
Mario Lopez has joined the cast of the CW's
Eight Days a Week, a comedy about four twentysomethings who toil for NYC movers and shakers. (Lopez is one of said bosses.) On board as three of the ragged-run assistants are singer-actress
Christina Milian,
Johnny Lewis (
The O.C.) and
Robert Ri'chard (
One on One, as Lopez's lackey).
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Kyla Pratt (
One on One) has landed the lead in the CW's
Hell on Earth, about a spoiled rich girl who, after dying, is returned to the living but as an ordinary gal from the wrong side of the tracks. I know - it's just like the Jason Biggs pilot.
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Tembi Locke (
Windfall) is Lisa Tucker's ma, while Jon Rowland, Rod Rowland (
Veronica Mars), Scarlett Chorvat and Diego Serrano are
Born in the USA on Simon Fuller's Fox sudser fancied as
EastEnders-in-Philadelphia.
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Grounded for Life creators
Bill Martin and Mike Schiff have inked a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Television Studio, under which they will serve as show-runners for
Cavemen. Anyone else get the feeling this thing's gonna happen?
