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5/12/2007

Actors added to "Family," "Lipstick" pilots

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Dina Waters is set to co-star in ABC's comedy pilot "Family of the Year," which revolves around a 10-time family of the year winner.
Waters will play the big, bland Mormon wife in the a rival family. Her credits include HBO's "Six Feet Under" and Fox's "Greg the Bunny."

In other pilot casting news:
= Chris Wiehl has joined NBC's "Lipstick Jungle," about a trio of power-hungry, rich professional women in New York. Wiehl will play the husband of one of the women, played by Brooke Shields. His series credits include CBS' "Love M= Brooke Nevin has been added to the CW's "Gravity," a drama that follows a sexy ensemble of rookie cops and their training officers. Nevin (USA Network's "The 4400") will play one of the rookies.

= Jessica Collins has come aboard CBS' "The Man," a drama about an undercover Los Angeles cop (LL Cool J) who juggles his job and takes care of a boy orphaned after one of his drug busts. Collins (NBC's "American Dreams," Fox's "Tru Calling") will play a member of the cop's team who works in counterintelligence.

= Rachel Nichols has been cast in Fox's "Them," a drama about an extraterrestrial sleeper cell. Nichols (ABC's "Alias," Fox's "The Inside") will play an all-American beauty who works for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Reuters/Hollywood Reporter



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