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Chase creator/executive producer Jennifer Johnson has joined ABC’s drama pilot Georgetown as executive producer/showrunner. Written by Will Fetters, Georgetown, from Warner Bros and Fake Empire, is an ensemble drama about young Capitol Hill staffers starring Jimmy Wolk. Johnson, repped by WME and attorney Matt…

Undercovers star Boris Kodjoe has joined ABC’s pilot Georgetown, an ensemble drama about young staffers on Capitol Hill. Kodjoe, repped by Gersh and Untitled, will play the Democratic president’s fiercely intelligent senior adviser. Tom Arnold has been cast in ABC’s half-hour pilot Other People’s Kids. The…

Lauren Cohan has landed the female lead  in the CW supernatural drama pilot Heavenly. Ryan Eggold also has been tapped for a lead role in the project, from CBS TV Studios and writer Richard Hatem. Heavenly centers on Lily (Cohan), a dedicated young attorney, and a former angel, Dashiel Coffee (Ben Aldridge), only…

Former Sex and the City showrunner Michael Patrick King is bringing an alum from the hit HBO series to his new project, NBC’s drama pilot A Mann’s World. Mario Cantone, who played blunt Sicilian-American gay event planner Anthony Marantino in the Sex and the City series and two movies, has been added to the cast of A M…

It’s been a big week for the Lone Star leading trio. Adrianne Palicki (on right in the photo), was just cast as the new Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley’s pilot for NBC. Now the show’s star, Jimmy Wolk and other female lead, Eloise Mumford, have also been tapped for high-profile pilot gigs. Wolk is set to headline ABC…