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The Latest TV Pilot Castings

By Garth Franklin Thursday March 10th 2005 06:48PM

The dry cleaning bills for the various casting couches around Los Angeles must be horrendous by now as more and more actors flock to the small screen to shoot pilots for the upcoming Fall TV season. Amongst those jumping aboard according to Reuters:

  • Ellen Burstyn has joined the cast of NBC's drama pilot "Book of Daniel."

  • Dennis Hopper has joined NBC's "E-Ring,"

  • Danny DeVito has come aboard to direct Fox's comedy pilot "Queen B."

  • The WB has greenlighted "Bow," a half-hour pilot from Touchstone TV to star rapper-actor Bow Wow as himself.

  • Aisha Tyler has been tapped to co-star opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in CBS' untitled John Gray drama pilot.

  • Johnathon Schaech & Christine Taylor have joined CBS' "The Commuters."

  • Eric Balfour has joined Denise Richards in "Wildlife."

  • Jennifer Esposito and Lizzy Caplan have been cast in the WB's untitled Liz Tuccillo project

  • Jason Priestley has been cast in CBS' "Love Monkey"

  • Sarah Wynter has come aboard Fox's one-hour pilot "Windfall"

  • Loni Anderson has been cast in the Tori Spelling starrer "Notorious,"

  • Scott Foley and Regina Taylor have joined CBS' drama pilot "The Unit"

  • Gail O'Grady has been tapped to lead the cast of ABC's "Hot Properties," with Stephen Dunham also cast in the project;

  • Thomas Gibson has come on board CBS' "Quantico,"

  • Brent Spiner has joined CBS' "Threshold,"

  • Rob Estes has joined ABC's "Soccer Moms,"

  • Alan Ruck is set to star in Fox's "Don't Ask"

  • Eddie McClintock has joined ABC's "Crumbs."

  • Andrew Walker has landed the lead role in ABC's "Adopted"

  • Thad Luckinbill will star opposite Kevin Sorbo in ABC's "Bobby Cannon"

  • John Francis Daley has come aboard Fox's "Kitchen Confidential"

  • Virginia Williams has nabbed a lead in the WB's "Mindy and Brenda."

  • Brooke Burns, Lindsay Price and Rider Strong have been cast in the WB's "Pepper Dennis,"

  • Dan Cortese and John DiMaggio have joined the WB's "Grown Men."

  • Nicky Katt has been cast in the ABC drama "The Evidence,"

  • Fox has found its "Pool Guys" in Jonathan Sadowski and Jake Sandvig.

  • Lindsay Sloane has joined Lara Flynn Boyle in "Crazy,"

  • Elizabeth Rohm and Charles Mesure are set to topline Fox's "Briar & Graves,"

  • Paul Blackthorne has landed the lead in ABC's "Pros & Cons,"

  • Joely Fisher and Matt Letscher have been tapped as the leads in Fox's untitled Jablonski/Katims project.

  • Henry Winkler is set to co-star in CBS' untitled Christopher Lloyd comedy

  • Emily Deschanel has been cast as the lead in Fox's drama pilot "Bones,"

  • Jessica Capshaw has landed the lead in NBC's comedy "Thick and Thin,"

  • Mark Feuerstein has joined Dylan McDermott in CBS' drama pilot "3 Lbs.,"

  • Audra McDonald has been cast in the WB's untitled college drama pilot

  • Emmy winner Patricia Wettig has come onboard ABC's drama pilot "Introducing Lennie Rose"

Thanks to 'Wilma'

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