Actress/writer Annie Mumolo, who co-wrote the 2011 blockbuster comedy Bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig, has joined NBC‘s midseason comedy series About A Boy in a major recurring role. The single-camera comedy, written by Jason Katims based on the Nick Hornby book, follows the relationship between Will (David Walton), a bachelor man-child, and the young boy who moves in next door with his kooky single mother, Fiona (Minnie Driver). Mumolo will play Laurie, the wife of Will’s best friend Andy (Al Madrigal). The role was played in the pilot by Anjelah Johnson. Mumolo toplined ABC’s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage last season. Law & Order: Svu alumna Diane Neal has been tapped for a recurring role on the new Starz drama series Power, about wealthy New York City nightclub owner James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), who is living a double life. When he is not in the club, he...
- 12/17/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kellee Stewart has joined the cast of Alicia Silverstone's Lifetime drama pilot titled Hr. Written by Glenn Porter, Hr centers on Ellen, the uptight Director of the Human Resources department for a company, who rethinks her approach to her job, after a head injury. Kelle Stewart will play Judith, one of Ellen's Hr department coworkers. Earlier this year, Stewart also joined the cast of ABC’s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage, which ABC gave the greenlight to last month. Rage centers on a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Stewart will co-star...
- 9/19/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Exclusive: ABC has put in development Every Other Saturday, a single-camera comedy from British writer Neil Forsyth, Jon Pollack (Go On, 30 Rock), Amblin Television and Universal TV. It revolves around a good-hearted yet multiply flawed father trying to win over his son after a divorce, despite only having custody every other Saturday. The show was created by Forsyth, whom Amblin found in the UK and brought to the States. The company developed Every Other Saturday internally before introducing Forsyth to Pollack, with whom Amblin TV toppers Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey previously worked on another ABC/DreamWorks TV comedy series, Spin City. Pollock came on board and will supervise and showrun through his overall deal at Universal TV. At ABC, Amblin TV has new drama series Lucky 7 as well as comedy pilot Middle Age Rage, which was kept in contention. The Wme-repped company is behind the biggest sale so far this season,...
- 8/22/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: ABC is keeping single-camera comedy pilot Middle Age Rage in contention by extending the options on the cast until September so it has more time to contemplate the project’s future. Created by Cheryl Holliday, Middle Age Rage stars Annie Mumolo as a middle-aged wife and mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. The Amblin TV/ABC Studios pilot flew largely under the radar until it started getting positive feedback after it was delivered to the network. Middle Age Rage was among the large pool of half-hour pilots that were in the running at ABC this year. The network and ABC Studios also tried to get another well-received comedy pilot that didn’t make the cut in May, Bad Management, picked up to series through an alternative production model but the idea didn’t pan out.
- 6/27/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kellee Stewart has joined the cast of ABC’s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage. The logline reads: About a middle aged mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Stewart will co-star opposite Bridesmaids' Annie Mumolo (who'll star in the series) from Malibu Country's Cheryl Holliday. Stewart (who was a series regular on the TBS comedy series My Boys from 2006 to 2010) will play Beth Ann Cooper, the leader of the book club Mumolo's lead character belongs to. Middle Age Rage is executive produced by Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank (Smash).
- 3/12/2013
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Kellee Stewart (Hot Tub Time Machine) has been added to ABC‘s comedy pilot Middle Age Rage, about Carol (Annie Mumolo), a middle-aged wife and mother who is fed up with feeling invisible and begins to speak up and demand the respect she feels she’s earned. Stewart, repped by Domain and Robyn Bluestone Management, plays Beth Ann Cooper, the leader of the book club Carol belongs to. In his first pilot season, newcomer Christopher Larkin has landed a series regular role on the CW‘s The 100. Set 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization, it revolves around 100 juvenile delinquents sent back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. Larkin, repped by Bold Management and Buchwald Fortitude, plays the sweet and likable Monty, the furthest thing from a delinquent, but he uses his smarts and sense of humor to help delinquent Clarke (Eliza Taylor) in her quest to survive.
- 3/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Emma Booth has been cast in ABC‘s drama pilot Gothica. Set in the present day, the ABC Studios/Mark Gordon Co. project weaves together a mythology that incorporates the legends of Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein and Dorian Gray. It centers on journalist Grace Van Helsing (Janet Montgomery) who takes over her family’s hometown newspaper. Booth plays Victor Frankenstein’s (Tom Ellis) wife Madeline Usher. Several child actors have landed lead roles in pilots. Benjamin Stockham of NBC‘s 1600 Penn has been cast in the network’s single-camera comedy pilot About A Boy, which follows the relationship between Will (David Walton), a bachelor man-child who is going through a revolving door of women, and the young boy (Stockham) who moves in next door with his kooky single mother, Fiona (Minnie Driver). I hear the casting, which is in second position to low-rated 1600 Penn, ruffled some feathers at 20th TV,...
- 3/5/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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