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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is teaming with his Pain & Gain co-star Mark Wahlberg on a half-hour dramedy pilot for HBO.
The untitled project, to be exec-produced by the pair, centers on the lives of retired athletes in Miami, with Johnson attached to star.
Entourage‘s Stephen Levinson is set to pen the script, while Dany Garcia and Peter Berg also will serve as EPs.

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TBS has given a series order to the Cougar Town co-creator’s new workplace comedy Ground Floor.
From Lawrence and Friends EP Greg Malins, Ground Floor is a multi-camera sitcom that centers on Brody, a 25-year-old alpha male (played by Pitch Perfect‘s Skylar Astin) who, upon meeting his company’s support staff, realizes he’s not nearly as happy as he thought he was.
Cougar alumna Briga Heelan and Scrubs vet John C. McGinley co-star as the building’s maintenance manager romancing Brody and his cranky boss, respectively.
Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect), Rory Scovel (Zach Stone is Going to be Famous), James Earl (Glee) and Rene Gube (Upright Citizens Brigade) round out Ground Floor‘s cast.
Ground Floor‘s 10-episode run is slated to begin in 2014.

Richard Dower wrote: »

Jonathon groff cast in hbo pilot; http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/02/lorimer-casting-news-jonathan-groff.html

neighbours actress cast as lead in cw pilot reign; http://www.spoilertv.com/2013/02/reign-mary-queen-of-scots-cast.html

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HBO has given the green light to an untitled San Francisco-set dramedy starring Glee‘s Jonathan Groff.
Based on a feature script penned by Michael Lannan, the untitled eight-episode series centers on the three Bay Area friends enjoying what life has to offer a new generation of gay men. Murray Bartlett (Guiding Light) and Frankie J. Alvarez (Smash) co-star, with Andrew Haigh (Gladiator), David Marshall Grant (Brothers & Sisters) and Sarah Condon (Bored to Death) exec-producing.

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FX's The Strain, has added 2 cast memebers in the last week, corry stoll from house of cards, and kevin durand from lost,

from IMDB

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing.

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/04/fxs-the-strain-adds-lost-veteran-kevin-durand-to-cast.html

sounds like it could be a good show,

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Mía Maestro has landed the female lead in The Strain, FX’s pilot about a vampire virus.
The high-concept thriller is directed by Guillermo del Toro (the Hellboy films, Pan’s Labyrinth) — who also co-wrote the script with Chuck Hogan (The Town) — and exec-produced by Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel).
The Strain stars Corey Stoll (House of Cards) as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of a Center for Disease Control team in New York City that is tasked with investigating a mysterious viral outbreak with the hallmarks of an ancient, evil strain of vampirism. Per our sister site Deadline, Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, a brilliant biochemist who must evolve into a brave warrior as the spreading epidemic threatens humanity.

http://wegotthiscovered.com/tv/melissa-leo-joins-matt-dillon-night-shyamalans-wayward-pines/

Oscar-winner Melissa Leo has signed onto M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming TV series Wayward Pines. The event series received the greenlight from Fox earlier this month, with an autumn 2014 debut scheduled.
Based on the novel Pines by Blake Crouch, the pilot has been adapted by The Playboy Club‘s Chad Hodge. Dillon stars as Secret Service agent Ethan Burke. When he arrives in the small Idaho town, he is tasked with finding out what happened to two missing federal agents. As expected, all is not as it seems as he winds up with a fistful of questions and no answers in sight.
Leo will play Pam, an “intense, unpredictable” nurse who tends to Burke after he ends up in Wayward Pines hospital. Starting off their relationship nice as (cherry) pie, Pam soon reveals her true colours and the two become enemies.
The show’s creators have acknowledged that Pines owes…well, its central premise to David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal cult classic, Twin Peaks. That show focused on Kyle McLachlan’s Agent Cooper. Sent to the small Washington town of Twin Peaks to solve the murder of Laura Palmer he too finds himself grappling with more questions than answers. Twisting, turning and offering up the finest slab of Lynchian you’re gonna get, the show captivated audiences in the 1990s.
Following on from Fox’s previous success with limited event series (a fixed number of episodes for a story arc) The Following, they’ve also added the 24: Live Another Day reboot to their TV slate. You’ve got to wonder why Shyamalan was approached for such a project. The director once synonymous with boundary bustin’ inventive thrillers has lost his clout in recent years. The Last Airbender suffered huge financial losses along with a severe critical beating. His latest feature, After Earth arrives soon in cinemas so we’ll see if he’s sharpened up.
Wayward Pines will premiere on Fox in 2014.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/06/03/dominic-west-showtime-the-affair/

Dominic West has been cast as the male lead of Showtime’s
pilot The Affair.


West’s character, Noah, is a married high school
teacher with four children whose life is rocked when he meets a woman “he thinks
is his soul mate.”


Written and executive produced by Sarah Treem, a producer
and writer for House of Cards and In Treatment, the show will explore how an
affair rattles two marriages, telling the story separately from the male and
female perspective. In Treatment’s Hagai Levi will also executive
produce.

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Justin Theroux will star in The Leftovers, an HBO drama pilot from Lost cocreator Damon Lindelof, TVLine has confirmed.
Based on Tom Perrotta’s book, the project is set after the Rapture and tells the story of those folks that didn’t quite make the cut.Per Deadline, Theroux will play police chief Kevin Garvey, a father of two who is trying to maintain some semblance of normalcy in a world that is starting to completely reject that notion.
Lindelof co-wrote the pilot with Perrotta and both will serve as exec producers. Friday Night Lights‘ Peter Berg is on board to direct.

Liv Tyler and Michael Gaston have joined now

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http://www.digitalspy.ie/ustv/news/a483975/prometheus-star-logan-marshall-green-to-lead-cinemax-drama-quarry.html

Prometheus star Logan Marshall-Green is to lead new Cinemax drama Quarry.

Marshall-Green will play a Marine sniper in the pilot, adapted from the Max Allan Collins novel series.
Shunned by his loved ones after returning from Vietnam in 1973, the vet starts a new life as a professional assassin.
Lawless director John Hillcoat will helm the pilot, written by Rectify's Graham Gordy and Michael D Fuller.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead has joined new Cinemax drama pilot Quarry.

The Death Proof star has been cast as Joni, the wife of a marine sniper

Cinemax is developing a Hunted spin-off miniseries that continues the story of the cancelled espionage thriller’s main character Sam Hunter played by Melissa George - Source TV Line