The latest fall-pilot casting news, from our friends at the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:• 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).• 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.• 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.• Grounded for Life creators...
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Meaning she's, what, a £3 million woman? Here's more on that and other casting bits for the new pilot season, courtesy of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• After eyeing some faces better known to the U.S. audience, NBC tapped Michelle Ryan (of the BBC's EastEnders) to play Jamie Sommers in its revisiting of The Bionic Woman.• Jimmy Smits has landed the lead in CBS' untitled drama centered on a Latin American family in the rum business.• The Practice's Steve Harris will play an imposing but physically unfit veteran cop in CBS' Protect and Serve. • Matt Lanter (aka Heroes' Brody) is an undercover narc posing as a high schooler in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun.Also, NBC has pushed production on Kath & Kim to summer, but says the show is still in the running for the fall.
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