Sheila Vand (Argo) has booked the female lead opposite Katherine Heigl in NBC drama pilot State Of Affairs. It stars Heigl as Charleston Whitney Tucker, a key CIA attaché who counsels the president on high-stakes incidents around the world. Heigl also exec produces. Vand, repped by Paradigm and Untitled, will play Grace Hough, a tough CIA analyst on the President’s daily briefing team, who keeps her private life to herself. Vand starred in indie pic A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Related: 2014 NBC Pilots The Daily Show alum Jason Jones has been tapped for the male lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Love Is Relative from writer Dan Mazer, 20th TV, Tom Werner and Tom Lassally. It revolves around a wife (Leslie Bibb) and husband who begin to see their marriage in a whole new way after her newly divorced brother,...
- 3/17/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
After a lengthy search, ABC comedy pilot Far East Orlando (aka Fresh Off The Boat) has cast its young lead. Hudson Yang will play Eddie Huang, a likable, well-meaning kid and a recent transplant from Washington, D.C., now living in homogenized, all-white Orlando, where his dad (Randall Park) is opening a restaurant. He’s clearly not happy about being uprooted in the middle of the school year and is trying his best to fit in, make friends and be accepted, but so far it’s not exactly working. The series, based on Eddie Huang’s memoir, is written/exec produced by Nahnatchka Khan and exec produced by Jake Kasdan. Yang is repped by Rachel Altman and Ellen Gilbert at Paradigm. Related: 2014 ABC Pilots Barry Rothbart (The Wolf Of Wall Street) is set as a male lead in Love Is Relative, NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot from writer Dan Mazer,...
- 3/12/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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