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[06/17/14 - 11:36 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, June 17
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC) |
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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
HYSTERIA (Amazon; W: Shaun Cassidy; D: Otto Bathurst) - Adan Canto ("Mixology") has scored the male lead on the drama pilot, about Dr. Logan Harlow (Mena Suvari), an exceptionally bright, driven, complicated, charming but socially awkward neurologist/psychiatrist at the University of Texas Medical School who travels to her hometown of Austin, TX to investigate a mysterious epidemic among high school girls that may be spreading through technology. He'll play Matt Sanchez, "a self-deprecating survivor whose sister, Daisy, was best friends with Logan when they were kids and who begins to enter a complicated relationship with Logan." In addition, Otto Bathurst is on board to direct. James McDaniel, Josh Stewart, T.R. Knight, Jenessa Grant and Joseph David Jones also star. (THR.com)
IMPASTOR (TV Land/CTS; W: Christopher Vane; D: Rob Greenberg) - Michael Rosenbaum ("Smallville") has booked the lead role on the single-camera comedy pilot, about "a lowlife on the run from his debts (Rosenbaum) who hides away in a small town by conning its residents into thinking he's their newly hired gay pastor." His casting lifts said contingency on the project, which has also added Rob Greenberg as director and executive producer. (Deadline.com)
AND IN OTHER NEWS... - Craig Frank has been upped to series regular on The CW's "The Messengers" as Alan, "a likable techie who works with Vera (Shantel VanSanten) at the NDSA - National Deep Space Agency" (Deadline.com); Max Jenkins likewise has received full-time honors on NBC's "The Mysteries of Laura" as Max Carnegie, "the precinct office assistant in Laura's (Debra Messing) police station" (Deadline.com); Ride Along director Tim Story has signed a two-year first-look deal with HBO (Deadline.com); MyNetworkTV will add repeats of "The Walking Dead" and "The Mentalist" to its lineup this fall (Deadline.com); Liz Heldens has inked a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television (Deadline.com); and Joe E. Tata will visit ABC Family's "Mystery Girls" (@Tori_Spelling).
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