Fall 2007: John Michael Higgins Runs for Congress

The latest pilot castings, from the Hollywood Reporter:• John Michael Higgins has landed the lead — and as such will be reunited with Arrested Development's Mitchell Hurwitz — in ABC's The Thick of It.• Bill Smitrovich (Without a Trace) is Jamie Kennedy's pop and Jason Antoon (The Lost Room) is Lee Majors' lab technician in Fox's Lee & Me.• Amanda Detmer (What About Brian) and Paul F. Tompkins are wife and husband in 1321 Clover, a CBS comedy about a suburban family.• Rosa Blasi (Strong Medicine) is a big-name publicist in the CW's Eight Days a Week.• Kim Coles is an angel in the CW's Hell on Earth.