Fall 2007: Battlestar's Lawless Joins the Wives

Up-to-the-minute casting news for the upcoming pilot season, courtesy of Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:• Why didn't we see this coming a mile away? Lucy Lawless has scored the role of "ruthless, bitchy" Tanya in ABC's Football Wives. UPDATE: Speaking of BSG.... Some fresh Ausiello scoopage!• CSI's Louise Lombard has landed the title role in Judy's Got a Gun, ABC's drama about a woman juggling single motherhood with her job as a detective. I like to think of it as "Close to Homicide."• 24 alumna Sarah Clarke is Famke Janssen's younger sister and best bud in NBC's drama about a female cop.• Bridgette Wilson-Sampras is (kinda of course) a promiscuous neighbor in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.• Ana Claudia Talancón (The Crime of Father Amaro) has the title role in Whitney, HBO's comedy about a beautiful, self-confident woman who manipulates men.• Big Day's Miriam Shor has joined CBS' 1970s-set Swingtown.• John Francis Daley (Kitchen Confidential...