A second drama pilot this season is making a major casting change with an actress getting promoted to a lead role after the table read in a recasting. Cynthia McWilliams, originally tapped for the series regular role of Tandi in the NBC pilot Love Is a Four Letter Word, will now play the female lead Julie. She…

Meta Golding (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Monet Mazur (Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery) and Colin Donnell (Arrow) have booked lead roles on NBC drama pilot Love Is A Four Letter Word. The project, from playwright-TV writer Diana Son, 20th TV and Fabrik, chronicles the collision of race, sexuality and…

On the day of The Mentalist series finale, the show’s co-star Rockmond Dunbar has booked his next series regular gig, signing on as the male lead in the NBC drama pilot Love Is A Four Letter Word. The project, from playwright-TV writer Diana Son, 20th TV and Fabrik, chronicles the collision of race, sexuality and…

Crisis star Lance Gross is reuniting with NBC and Crisis pilot director Phillip Noyce. Noyce has cast Gross in the pilot he is directing for NBC this year, martial arts drama Warrior. Also cast in the project, written/executive produced by David DiGilio and exec produced by Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, is Andy A…

Matt Letscher (Boardwalk Empire, Scandal) will co-star opposite Jenna Elfman in Fox's untitled Dana Klein comedy pilot, from 20th TV and Kapital Entertainment. Written by Klein and directed by Pam Fryman, it is told from the point of view of Ellen (Elfman), a working mom who is in constant competition with her…

Television development has always been a reactive business, with the networks jumping on the latest trend, trying to replicate the formula of the most recent thing that worked despite the age-old adage that lightning rarely strikes twice. This season, that would be ethnic shows in light of the success of How To Get Awa…

UPDATED: NBC continues to be ahead of the pack on pilot orders with a green light to dramas The Curse Of The Fuentes Women, from Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta, and Love Is a Four Letter Word, from playwright-TV writer Diana Son (Blue Bloods). After its first four pilot pickups went to sister studio Universal TV…