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Southland star Shawn Hatosy has booked a lead role opposite Anika Noni Rose in CBS' civil rights crime drama pilot For Justice. Based on James Patterson's debut crime novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, For Justice centers on Special Agent Natalia "Nat" Chappel (Rose), a cool, laser-focused, tough as nails FBI agent…

Mike Epps has been tapped for the title role in Uncle Buck, ABC‘s single-camera comedy pilot based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. Also cast in the project, from Universal TV and Will Packer Prods., is Nia Long. Like the movie, the series adaptation, written by Steven Cragg and Brian Bradley…

ABC has added two more comedy pilots to its slate today — Family Fortune starring actor-comedian Fortune Feimster, from Matt Hubbard, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and a remake of Uncle Buck produced by Will Packer (the Ride Along and Think Like A Man franchises). Both projects hail from Universal TV, Uncle Buck…

Neither the writer-director of  the 1989 comedy feature Uncle Buck, John Hughes, nor its star, John Candy, are still with us. But, speaking for their loved ones, the families of Hughes and Candy have voiced their disapproval over a planned Uncle Buck TV series in a statement to Deadline. The multi-camera project from…

The nostalgia theme among broadcast comedy executives this season continues with another half-hour project based on a 1980s movie. ABC has put in development Uncle Buck, a multi-camera comedy based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy. The project hails from Universal TV, whose feature sibling produced…