Development News - February 27, 2014
ABC's Agatha, Cristela, Damaged Goods, How to Get Away With Murder & Selfie; CBS' Save the Date; The CW's Identity, Jane the Virgin & Supernatural: Tribes; and NBC's Mission Control.
NBC's MISSION CONTROL
- Michael Rosenbaum (Back in the Day) will co-star opposite Krysten Ritter on the single camera comedy pilot. He will play Bus, a handsome, jockish, stubborn and loudly likable NASA astronaut.
ABC's CRISTELA
- Pilot Presentation Ordered - Comedy (Multi-Camera)
- Co-created by and starring stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo, Cristela tells the story of Cristela, an American Latina straddling two cultures while not fully belonging to either. Cristela, in her sixth year of law school and living rent-free with her sister and brother-in-law, hopes to land a prestigious law firm internship as her mother hectors her about getting a real job, her brother-in-law encourages her to move out and her sister runs low on patience. Kevin Hench co-wrote the pilot. Executive producers include Alonzo, Hench, Marty Adelstein, Shawn Levy and Becky Clements. 20th Century Fox Television and 21 Laps/Adelstein will produce.
CBS' SAVE THE DATE
- Michelle Trachtenberg (Killing Kennedy), Julie White (Go On) and Tom Bennett (Family Tree) have cast on the hybrid comedy pilot. Trachtenberg will play Hilary, Katie's (Maggie Lawson) buttoned-down, no-nonsense sister who is sharing an apartment with her. White will play Connie, Katie and Hilary's mother. Bennett will play Roger, Hilary's boyfriend of four years.
ABC's SELFIE
- Allyn Rachel has boarded the comedy pilot starring Karen Gillan. She will play Eliza's (Gillan) adorable neighbor, who is her opposite; a hipster's girl's girl and member of a devoted book club.
ABC's DAMAGED GOODS
- Justin Hartley (Revenge) and Ben Lawson (The Deep End) have landed roles on the comedy pilot from writer Lauren Iungerich. Hartley will play Tim, a smart and egoistic man who is hit hard when his girlfriend and law firm colleague gets the promotion he expected to get. Childish and unable to applaud her accomplishments or be with a woman who outranks him, the relationship seems all but over - unless she resigns. Lawson will play Michael, a smart, funny, good-natured dermatologist.
ABC's AGATHA
- Christian Keyes (Let's Stay Together) has been added to the cast of the drama pilot. He will play Zane, a tattooed bad boy. Agatha knows he's trouble - she did time to protect him - but just can't seem to stay away. And the feeling is definitely mutual.
THE CW's JANE THE VIRGIN
- Gina Rodriguez (Filly Brown) is set as the lead on the drama pilot from writer Jennie Snyder Urman. She will play Jane, a hard-working religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated.
- Additionally, Brad Silberling (Reign) has been tapped to direct.
ABC's HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER
- Scandal vet Liza Weil is re-teaming with Shonda Rhimes on the drama pilot which she executive produces and stars Viola Davis. She will play one of the professor's (Davis) two associates.
THE CW's IDENTITY
- Stephen Hagan (Injustice) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Ahna O'Reilly. He will play Jasper, Davis' (Matt Barr) handsome, mysterious and magnetic best friend who has chemistry with Mia (O'Reilly) from the moment they meet.
THE CW's SUPERNATURAL: TRIBES
- Danielle Savre (Heroes) and Stephen Martines (The Vampire Diaries) will co-star on the planted spinoff of Supernatural. Savre will play Margo, the acting head of the leading shapeshifter family, an ex-punk rocker-turned-corporate professional who feels threatened by the return of her prodigal brother David (Nathaniel Buzolic). Martines will play Detective Freddie Costa, a world-weary Chicago cop who serves as mentor to Ennis (Lucien Laviscount) but is also secretly on the payroll of one of the powerful monster families.
