Chris Johnson has landed a lead role on ABC's comedy pilot The More Things Change ... for director Todd Phillips.
Meanwhile, Beth Riesgraf and Gina Bellman have joined the TNT drama pilot Leverage, to be directed by Dean Devlin.
Change, from Regency TV and writer Allan Loeb, is a single-camera comedy about a quartet of male friends who explore how male friendships endure through change. Johnson will play one of the four men. His character, Rick, is a young man who suddenly has an astounding revelation in his life that turns his friendships upside down.
Johnson's credits include the feature XXX: State of the Union and the UPN series South Beach. He is repped by APA and Luber/Roklin Management.
Leverage, written by John Rogers and Chris Downey, centers on Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton), a former insurance investigator-turned-thief who is the brains behind a team of accomplished hooligans and high-tech outlaws.
Riesgraf (Showtime's pilot Insatiable) will play Parker, an accomplished burglar who exudes dorkiness, eccentricity and sexuality.
Meanwhile, Beth Riesgraf and Gina Bellman have joined the TNT drama pilot Leverage, to be directed by Dean Devlin.
Change, from Regency TV and writer Allan Loeb, is a single-camera comedy about a quartet of male friends who explore how male friendships endure through change. Johnson will play one of the four men. His character, Rick, is a young man who suddenly has an astounding revelation in his life that turns his friendships upside down.
Johnson's credits include the feature XXX: State of the Union and the UPN series South Beach. He is repped by APA and Luber/Roklin Management.
Leverage, written by John Rogers and Chris Downey, centers on Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton), a former insurance investigator-turned-thief who is the brains behind a team of accomplished hooligans and high-tech outlaws.
Riesgraf (Showtime's pilot Insatiable) will play Parker, an accomplished burglar who exudes dorkiness, eccentricity and sexuality.
- 11/26/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
American Idol mowed down everything in its path Wednesday, but ABC made it a horse race at 9 p.m. with Lost squaring off against the premiere of Fox's Skating With Celebrities. Idol opened up the second night of its fifth-season premiere with no less than 31.7 million viewers and an eye-popping 13.0 rating/33 share in the adults 18-49 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research. The rest of the 8 p.m. competition combined couldn't match Idol's oomph; UPN's new drama South Beach (1.7 million, 0.7/2) and NBC's E-Ring (7.9 million, 1.9/5) in particular took a drubbing. At 9 p.m., however, Skating (18.7 million, 7.2/17) slipped to No. 2 against Lost (19.1 million, 8.0/18), which was a feat for Lost given Skating's lead-in advantage. CBS' Criminal Minds (14.1 million, 4.0/9), which has performed well against Lost in recent weeks, felt the pinch but still managed to spike from its 8:30 p.m. Yes, Dear (7.1 million, 2.2/5) lead-in.
- 1/19/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CBS is launching two new series in January, the comedy The Jenna Elfman Show, which will take over the Monday 9:30 p.m. slot, and dramedy Love Monkey, which will bridge the two installments of The Amazing Race Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Meanwhile, UPN has cut back the order for midseason drama South Beach to eight episodes for scheduling reasons. Beginning in January, the Nuyorican Prods./Flame TV/Paramount Network TV series will run in the Wednesday 8 p.m. hour, linking the two seasons of America's Next Top Model. The Jenna Elfman Show is slated to premiere Jan. 23. The show, from Touchstone TV and Paramount TV, stars Elfman as a successful lawyer looking for true love.
- 11/22/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jennifer Lopez's upcoming drama South Beach has been hounded with problems, thanks to this year's extremely active hurricane season. The Miami, Florida-based series, which stars Vanessa L. Williams, has shut down production three times since launching in August, because of threats posed by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. Lopez serves as executive producer on the upcoming project, which revolves around a group of young Florida professionals.
- 11/1/2005
- WENN
Lauren Holly has been tapped to join the cast of the CBS drama NCIS in a recurring role. Separately, model-actress Odette Yustman has been cast in one of the lead roles in the UPN midseason drama South Beach. On NCIS, from Paramount Network TV, Holly will play the love interest of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character played by series star Mark Harmon. Holly will debut in the first episode of the season as Jenny Shepard, the new boss of the Naval criminal investigative unit where Gibbs works.
Lauren Holly has been tapped to join the cast of the CBS drama NCIS in a recurring role. Separately, model-actress Odette Yustman has been cast in one of the lead roles in the UPN midseason drama South Beach. On NCIS, from Paramount Network TV, Holly will play the love interest of Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the character played by series star Mark Harmon. Holly will debut in the first episode of the season as Jenny Shepard, the new boss of the Naval criminal investigative unit where Gibbs works.
LONDON -- Five channel's new head of acquisitions, Jay Kandola, has acquired four new U.S. series from CBS Paramount, including hotly anticipated coming-of-age drama Everybody Hates Chris, it was announced Thursday. Kandola, continuing an L.A. Screenings spending spree, has also picked up the Jennifer Lopez executive-produced South Beach, a drama about three young adults living in the sexy and dangerous world of Miami's beachfront. Her shopping list also includes Sex, Lies & Secrets, a drama exploring the relationship of a tight-knit group of twenty-something friends living in a small bohemian neighborhood near Hollywood, starring Denise Richards; and comedy Out of Practice, which stars Henry Winkler and Stockard Channing as the heads of a dysfunctional family of physicians.
- 6/16/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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