Development News - March 15, 2014
ABC's Untitled Richard LaGravenese; Amazon's Hand of God; CBS' How I Met Your Dad, More Time With Family, The Odd Couple & Scorpion; The CW's Supernatural: Bloodlines; and NBC's Ellen More or Less.
AMAZON's HAND OF GOD
- Julian Morris (Pretty Little Liars, Once Upon a Time) has been cast on the drama pilot starring Ron Perlman. He will play Paul Dobson, an actor turned preacher whose affinity for quick money and shortcuts have gotten him in trouble in the past.
NBC's ELLEN MORE OR LESS
- Jama Williamson (Parks and Recreation) has joined the cast of the single camera comedy pilot starring Stacey McGunnigle. She will play Melissa, Ellen's (McGunnigle) insecure co-worker who is desperately in love with Jerry (Chris Diamantopoulos).
ABC's UNTITLED RICHARD LAGRAVENESE PROJECT
- Melissa George (The Good Wife, Hunted) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Rufus Sewell and Katie Holmes on the drama pilot. She will play Margot Worth Cole, a beautiful woman whose power, style and intellect command attention the instant she enters a room. Margot has been a member of high society for years - and her social status is threatened by her imminent divorce from billionaire Anderson Cole (Oded Fehr).She has a romantic history with Philip (Rufus Sewell) and considers him her only equal in a world of inferiors.
- Elliot Knight has also been cast on the pilot today. He will play Leo Games, Philip's strikingly handsome, loyal, right arm.
THE CW's SUPERNATURAL: BLOODLINES
- Bryce Johnson (Pretty Little Liars) has landed a role on the planted spinoff of Supernatural. He will play Saul, the stylish brother of shapeshifter David Hayden (Nathaniel Buzolic).
CBS' SCORPION
- Eddie Kaye Thomas (American Pie) and Jadyn Wong (Being Erica) will co-star on the drama pilot starring Elyes Gabel. Thomas will play Toby, a genius behaviorist and a member of the super-geniuses team. Wong will play Happy, the mechanical genius who can fabricate anything and has hands with a surgeon's precision and a magician's inhuman speed.
CBS' HOW I MET YOUR DAD
- Nicholas D'Agosto (Masters of Sex) and Andrew Santino (Mixology) have booked lead roles on the proposed How I Met Your Mother spinoff. D'Agosto will play Frank, the head of IT for Juliet's (Krysta Rodriguez) fashion blog who falls for Sally (Greta Gerwig). Santino will play Danny, Sally's older brother, a perfect but uptight overachieving lawyer. Santino's casting is in second position to ABC's Mixology. D'Agosto was a regular on the first season of Showtime's Masters of Sex and will continue to appear in a recurring capacity.
- Anders Holm (Workaholics, The Mindy Project) is also joining the pilot in a recurring role. He will play Gavin, the (soon-to-be-ex) husband of Sally.
CBS' THE ODD COUPLE
- Wendell Pierce (The Wire, The Michael J. Fox Show) has signed on to star on the multi-camera comedy pilot starring Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon. He will play Teddy, a neurotic cop and a good buddy of Oscar's (Perry) who goes to his apartment every week for Game Night.
CBS' MORE TIME WITH FAMILY
- Nancy Lenehan (Veep) has been cast on the multi-camera comedy pilot starring Tom Papa. She will play Barb, Tom's (Papa) mother, who is the sweet, flighty worrier of the family.
