Lifetime Nabs Eric Stoltz for Modern Love

Eric Stoltz has been cast as the lead in Lifetime's dramedy pilot Modern Love, Deadline.com reports.

The series, from Sex and the City's Jenny Bicks, is based on a series of columns published in The New York Times. Stoltz will star as science editor Simon McElvane, who's facing a deteriorating marriage. He unexpectedly has to take over the paper's Modern Love column.

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Bicks will executive-produce alongside Gail Berman, Lloyd Braun, Gene Stein  and  Alan Poul  (Six Feet Under, Swingtown).

The 49-year-old actor is best known for his roles in Mask, Kicking and Screaming and, more recently, Syfy's Caprica.