ABC's The Adversaries, The Brainy Bunch, Broad Squad, Boom, Dr. Ken, Flesh and Blood, The King of 7B & L.A. Crime; CBS' Angel From Hell, Doubt, LFE, Limitless & Untitled O'Shannon/Warren; FOX's Frankenstein, Grandpa & Studio City; NBC's Heart Matters, Problem Child, Superstore & Take It From Us; and USA's Falling Water.
FOX's FRANKENSTEIN
- Dilshad Vadaria (Revenge, Greek) has been cast on the drama pilot written by Rand Ravich. She will play Mary Goodwin, a beautiful, brilliant young woman, who with her brother Otto (Adhir Kalyan), have built a cyber empire.
ABC's THE ADVERSARIES
- Kristen Hager (Being Human) has booked the female lead on the drama pilot written by David Zabel. Also cast today are Enuka Okuma (Rookie Blue) and Christine Evangelista (Chicago Fire). Hager will play Jess, Charles' (Terry O'Quinn) daughter who works as a federal prosecutor. Okuma will play an attorney at Charles' firm. Evangelista will play Emma, Jess' younger sister who works at their dad's firm as a paralegal.
ABC's L.A. CRIME
- Gabriel Luna (Matador), Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl) and Anne Winters (Tyrant) have joined the drama pilot starring Adam Rothenberg. Luna will play Paco Contreras, Jack's (Rothenberg) newly transferred partner who struggles to fit in with the unit, since he was responsible for the demise of Jack's old partner. Westwick will play Kent, a creepy murderer and one half of a serial killing team who Jack and Paco are hunting. Winters will play Vicki Roth, Jack and Trish's (Holley Fain) daughter.
CBS' LFE
- Oscar and Emmy winner Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Treme) has joined the cast of the drama pilot written by Paul Downs Colaizzo. She will play Julie, an attending physician in the surgical wing and a den mother to the second-year residents. While her attempts to be a part of her own family clan never are fully successful, the young residents, at least, need her guidance in their lives and give her the relationship she wishes she had with her own children.
CBS' ANGEL FROM HELL
- Kyle Bornheimer (Agent Carter) and Kevin Pollak (Mom) will co-star on the comedy pilot starring Jane Lynch. Bornheimer will play Brad, Allison's younger brother who lives rent-free over her garage and has a life-long crush on her best friend, Jill. Pollak will play Marv, Allison's father and a veteran dermatologist who has made Allison his junior partner.
ABC's BROAD SQUAD
- Allegiance star Morgan Spector has landed a regular role on the drama pilot written by Bess Wohl. He will play Tommy Anthony, a scruffy, side-burned, loose cannon of a cop who sidles up to Lisa (Cody Horn) at a bar, unprepared for her outpouring of vitriol. He's later assigned as Lisa's training officer, and they navigate a complex relationship, both of them strong-willed and unable to accept the other.
FOX's STUDIO CITY
- Riley Smith (True Blood) has been cast on the dramedy pilot starring Eric McCormack and Florence Pugh. He will play Jax, a hip, sexy, charismatic rocker-dude musician and Rob's (McCormack) songwriting partner.
FOX's GRANDPA
- Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds, Community) has joined the cast of the comedy pilot starring John Stamos and Josh Peck. She will play Sara, Jimmy's (Stamos) old girlfriend, a former rocker chick who became pregnant with his child 26 years ago, but has raised their child, Gerald (Peck), single-handedly. She never made Jimmy aware of his son's existence - but now, Gerald wants a strong father figure to teach him how to navigate the rocky shoals of romance, so Sara is forced to disrupt Jimmy's long bachelorhood at long last. She's seemingly contemptuous of his persona - but underneath, their old attraction may still be simmering.
ABC's BOOM
- Amber Valletta (Legends), Caitlin Carver (The Fosters) and Yani Gellman (Pretty Little Liars) have booked regular roles on the drama pilot written by Josh Pate and Rodes Fishburne. Valletta will play Hap's (Don Johnson) glamorous, brilliant and young new wife, an ex-Goldman Sachs oil-desk type who is also his sharp business partner. Carver will play Lacey Boyd, Hap's daughter. Gellman will play A.J. Menendez, Hap's personal driver, Lacey's clandestine lover and a spy for the reigning family of Saudi Arabia.
CBS' DOUBT
- Masters of Sex star Teddy Sears is set as the male lead opposite KaDee Strickland on the drama pilot. He will play Billy, a decent, altruistic, pediatric surgeon recently accused of murdering a 15-year-old girl many years ago and is having a secret love affair with Sadie (Strickland).
CBS' UNTITLED DAN O'SHANNON & PETER WARREN PROJECT
- Deadbeat star Tyler Labine has landed a lead role on the comedy pilot written by Dan O'Shannon and Peter Warren. He will play Chris, who always has a plan and goes with his gut. He was an awkward kid but a fit and confident man when he was 25. Now 40, he's pudgier, balding and a father, with a baby strapped to his chest all the time.
CBS' LIMITLESS
- Jake McDorman (Shameless) and Jennifer Carpenter (Dexter) are set as the leads on the drama pilot written by Craig Sweeny. McDorman will play Brian Sinclair as he discovers the power of the mysterious drug NZT and is coerced into using his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI. Carpenter will play Rebecca, a dynamic investigator who has risen quickly within the FBI, but hasn't come to terms yet with her background that initially drove her into a career in law enforcement.
USA's FALLING WATER
- The cable network has given a pilot order to drama Falling Water written by Blake Masters and the late Henry Bromell. Gale Anne Hurd is also on board as an executive producer, with Juan Carlos Fresnadillo set to direct. Universal Cable Productions and Valhalla Entertainment will produce. The project tells the story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious - a missing girlfriend, a son, a way to communicate with a catatonic mother. However, the more they begin to use the dream world as a tool to advance their hidden agendas, they realize that their visions are trying to tell them something and that their very real lives are at stake.
NBC's PROBLEM CHILD
- Nurse Jackie star Anna Deavere Smith has booked a regular role on the comedy pilot written by Scot Armstrong. She will play the school principal who becomes a victim of the mischievous Bishop (Jack Gore).
NBC's HEART MATTERS
- Maya Erskine (Man Seeking Woman) has joined the cast of the drama pilot starring Melissa George. She will play Gi Sung, a nurse with a dry wit who works closely with Dr. Panttiere (George) and is probably the only female staff member who gets along with her.
NBC's TAKE IT FROM US
- Andy Ridings (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) has been cast on the comedy pilot written by Greg Malins and Barry Schwartz. He will play Spencer, a cocky, self-proclaimed genius who is really not that bright.
NBC's SUPERSTORE
- Nichole Bloom (Shameless) will co-star on the comedy pilot written by Justin Spitzer. She will play Cheyenne, a very pregnant teenage employee who's sweet, unsophisticated and naive - as evidenced by the fact that she allows customers to purchase computers for the mismarked price of 25 cents.
ABC's DR. KEN
- Jonathan Slavin (Better Off Ted) and Krista Marie Yu (The Thundermans) have landed regular roles on the comedy pilot starring Ken Jeong. Slavin will play Hector, a dim-witted but big-hearted nurse who is loyal to his boss and friend, Ken (Jeong). Yu will play Molly, Ken's daughter who is trying to rebel.
ABC's THE BRAINY BUNCH
- Psych star James Roday is set as the male lead on the comedy pilot written by Wendy & Lizzie Molyneux. He will play Kip Harding, a former Special Forces Operations Sergeant and now a stay-at-home father to his extraordinarily intelligent seven children.
ABC's THE KING OF 7B
- Amir Talai (Turbo Fast) has booked a regular role on the comedy pilot starring Craig Ferguson. He will play Darren, the deluded millennial owner of the bodega in the building where Porter (Ferguson) lives.
ABC's FLESH AND BLOOD
- Rarmian Newton (Dance Academy) has been cast on the drama pilot written by Jenna Bans. He will play a young Danny Warren, the wise-ass, abrasive athlete Zach Gilford's character was 12 years ago.
