Pilot Season: Anne Heche Lands Leading Role in NBC's Save Me

Anne Heche has been tapped to star in NBC's new comedy Save Me, Deadline reports.

The Men in Treesand Hungstar will play a woman who starts to believe that she is channeling God after she has an accident. Heche will also serve as a producer on the project, which is executive-produced by John Scott Shepherd, Neal Moritz, Vivian Cannon and Scott Winant.

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Save Me was green-lit in September based on the condition of who would eventually be cast and was originally developed for Showtime before moving to NBC.