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The broadcast pilot season started late and is ending late, with series pickups coming behind the usual timetable. And while we are anxiously waiting for the first orders at Fox and more pickups from NBC — the first two networks to present next Monday — some pilots have started to receive the dreaded news that they…

Ernie Hudson is set for a recurring role in ABC's multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine. Written by comedian Jermaine Fowler based on his life, it stars Fowler as a millennial with big ideas, but very little drive, who moves in with his estranged grandmother (Whoopi Goldberg), a strict, football-loving, former…

Rita Moreno has booked a series regular role in CBS' multi-cam comedy pilot Joe Time. It centers on Joe (Steven Weber), a family man who struggles with the fact that everyone around him is pursuing their dreams and enjoying their lives more than he is. Moreno will play Judy, Joe’s (Weber) mom. She’s in love with her…

The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has signed on as the co-lead opposite Jermaine Fowler in ABC’s multi-camera comedy pilot Delores & Jermaine.  With her on board, the pilot and the potential series will film in New York City, where Goldberg lives and works on another ABC program, daily talk show The View. Goldberg has…

ABC made the bulk of its comedy pilot orders tonight, giving the green light to seven half-hour projects. Two, the untitled NBA project and The King Of 7B, come from one of ABC Studios’ top writer-producers, Galavant creator Dan Fogelman. The pilots also include an autobiographical coming-of-age comedy from Johnny…