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Jennie Garth Is CBS' 'Girl'!

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Source: Zap2It


The CBS comedy pilot "My Best Friend's Girl" has found the "girl" of its title.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jennie Garth has been tapped to lead the pilot, which comes from Sony Picture TV.

The comedy focuses on two best friends who own a bike shop together. Hilarity ensues, though, when one of the friends (Tim Peper) begins dating his buddy's (Josh Cooke) ex-wife (Garth).

In addition, Eric Ladin has been cast as the worst salesman at the bike shop.

Garth showed off her comedy chops on The WB's long-running "What I Like About You" and her hoofing abilities in a long run on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars." In our hearts, though, she'll still always be Kelly Taylor from "Beverly Hills, 90210."

Ladin's credits include episodes of "The Unit," "Shark" and "Veronica Mars," plus the upcoming HBO miniseries "Generation Kill."



Take care,

Sal

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CBS Finds 'Best Friend's Girl,' 'Worst Week' Leads!

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Source: Zap2It


CBS had tapped a pair of familiar faces for lead roles in the comedy pilots "My Best Friend's Girl" and "Worst Week."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Josh Cooke will take a main "Girl" role, while Erinn Hayes has booked the female lead in "Worst Week."

A multi-camera comedy, "My Best Friend's Girl" focuses on two best friends who own a bike shop together. Things get a bit tense when one man (Tim Peper) starts dating the other's (Cooke) ex-wife. Hilarity ensues.

In recent years, Cooke has starred on NBC's short-lived "Committed" and "Four Kings," as well as ABC's short-lived "Big Day."

An Americanized version of the BBC's "The Worst Week of My Life," "Worst Week" stars Kyle Bornheimer as Sam, a man having a pretty bad week that includes a vacation with his fiance's (Hayes) parents.

Hayes co-starred in FOX's short-lived comedy "The Winner" last spring. Her other credits include guest appearances on "Shark," "Notes from the Underbelly" and "Kitchen Confidential." Hayes also did an uncanny Pam Dawber impression for NBC's telefilm "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy.'"

In other CBS pilot news, the network has ordered pilot presentations for the dramas "Tower" and "Harper's Island."

"Tower" comes from "Cold Case" creator Meredith Stiehm and focuses on a group of Chicago journalists who also solve crimes.

"Island" will be directed by Jon Turtletaub ("Jericho") and is described as a horror story about a group of friends who meet for a destination wedding at an island off the Seattle coast. Ari Schlossberg wrote the script.


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Sal

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Studios Cast Their Upcoming Shows!

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Source: The Hollywood Reporter

With the end of the writers strike, casting has picked up on some of the pilots ordered before and during the work stoppage.

Tim Pepper has been tapped as one of the two leads in the CBS comedy pilot "My Best Friend's Girl," and Bernardo De Paula has joined another NBC pilot, the comedy "Zip."

On the cable side, Dorian Brown is set as a lead in the ABC Family series "Roommates," while Michael Mosley has been added to A&E's drama pilot "Danny Fricke."

"Girl," from Sony Pictures TV and writer Mike Sikowitz, is a multicamera comedy about two male best friends who own a bike shop and whose relationship becomes complicated when one (Pepper) starts dating the other's ex-wife.

"Zip," also from UMS, centers on Trip Stringer (Steven Weber), a guy with no money living in Beverly Hills who, with the help of his Latino partner, Hugo (De Paula), and a colorful cast of accomplices concoct one scheme after another in the hopes of making it big and securing the glamorous Beverly Hills lifestyle for his three children.

De Paula ("Rescue Me") is repped by TalentWorks, Joan Sittenfield Management and attorney Karl Austen.

"Roommates," which revolves around a group of friends, recently was picked up to series by ABC Family, subject to recasting one of the leads in the pilot. Brown has been tapped to play that character, Katie Mackey, replacing Megan Stevenson.

"Fricke," from SPT, centers on Detective Danny Fricke (Connie Nielsen), who is sleeping with her boss. She gets a big promotion and on her first case investigates a high-profile murder while dealing with the old-school detectives who work for her. Mosley ("Kidnapped") will play a well-educated cop who is a Mormon. He is repped by Gersh and Titan Talent.



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Sal