While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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While Cybill survivor Alicia Witt has checked herself out of Fox's shrink-rap comedy pilot More, Patience, Jenny McCarthy has gotten her foot in the door of Patricia Heaton's untitled ABC sitcom; Law & Order: Trial by Jury's Amy Carlson has washed up among the cast of ABC's insomniac-cop drama, Drift; and American Dreams hottie Sam Page has been thrown to Shark, the CBS drama with intimidating James Woods as an attorney-turned-prosecutor. So, are you impressed or appalled that I managed to handle all that in one densely packed sentence? Yeah, me, too.
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Per the Hollywood Reporter, Marcia Gay Harden (Mystic River) will play therapist to Jason O'Mara's insomniac detective in the ABC drama pilot Drift.... Jane Alexander (Warm Springs) has been cast as a witchcraft-wielding clan's matriarch in CBS' The Way.... Romy Rosemont (Shopgirl) has decided to swim with CBS' Shark, which stars James Woods as a celebrity-attorney-turned-prosecutor.
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In Justice's Jason O'Mara has landed the lead in the ABC drama pilot Drift, about a New York detective battling insomnia.... Kevin Alejandro has joined Fox's Faceless as a meth-addict gang member.... Rachel Perry will play a scientist in Fox's Beyond.... Bruno Campos has left ABC's Southern Comfort to fill the lead in Fox's The Wedding Album.... Charlotte Ross has dumped ABC's Ugly Betty and is now in talks to join Alicia Silverstone in ABC's Pink Collar.... Vanessa L. Williams, whom I have always considered a twin for Ross, will replace the NYPD Blue alum on Betty.
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Kim Cattrall has been cast as the manager to Buffy alum Anthony Stewart Head's aging rock star in ABC's Elton John-produced comedy pilot, Him and Us.... Dylan McDermott has joined the ABC drama A House Divided.... Denise Richards is today's addition to ABC's Secrets of a Small Town.... Vanessa Ferlito (CSI: NY) has been cast on ABC's Drift, about a detective with insomnia.... Wendie Malick is mother of the bride in ABC's A Day in the Life, which chronicles a young couple's wedding day.... Annie Potts will play mom to Fox's Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter.... Lizzy Caplan (Related) has enrolled in CBS' The Class.
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Film toughie Chazz Palminteri has been cast in the ABC drama pilot Drift, in which he will play the boss of an insomniac NYPD detective.... Lena Headey (Imagine Me & You) will play a single-girl superhero in Joan of Arcadia creator Barbara Hall's Ultra, for CBS.... Balthazar Getty is the latest actor to be added to ABC's family sudser Brothers & Sisters.... Aldis Hodge, Coby Bell, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and Hosea Sanchez have been cast in CW's Girlfriends spin-off. (Not a one of those names rings a bell for me, either. I just get giddy reporting on the UPN-WB mutation.)
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