Fall 2007: ABC Casts Mr. Smith, and More Updates

The latest pilot updates, from our friends at the Hollywood Reporter and Variety:

" Kirstie Alley has collared the title role in The Minister of Divine, Fox's take on the Britcom The Vicar of Dibley.

" Martin Henderson ( The Ring) will play Brad to Jordana Brewster's Angelina in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. (If you are dating either of the leads, please think very carefully before splurging on the Valentine's gift.)

" Brian White ( Stomp the Yard) is Kyle in ABC's Football Wives.

" Lee Pace ( The Good Shepherd) has landed the lead, as a man who can bring the dead back to life with but a touch, in ABC's Pushing Daisies.

" Mark-Paul Gosselaar will star opposite Janeane Garofalo in CBS' public-defenders comedy.

" Cole Hauser will star in K-Ville, Fox's New Orleans-cops drama.

" Colm Feore is the police-department captain in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun.

" That '70s Show's Kurtwood Smith is a justice in Supreme Courtships, Fox's look at a half dozen clerks and judges.

" The Queen helmer Stephen Frears will direct and exec-produce Skip Tracer, CBS' drama starring Stephen Dorff as a guy who finds people who try to disappear.