"Will & Grace" star Eric McCormack is returning to multicamera comedy with a starring role on the untitled Tad Quill half-hour pilot.
Reno Wilson, Jolie Jenkins and Constance Zimmer also have been cast in the ABC pilot.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Sloane, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Charlie Finn have landed leads on ABC's comedy pilot "Pulling" and Holly Robinson Peete and Josh Braaten will co-star opposite Lauren Graham on ABC's comedy pilot "The Bridget Show."
ABC Studios' Quill comedy centers on two friends who embark on very different lives: Dean (McCormack), a heart surgeon with a new baby, and Seth (Wilson), a contractor with a new empty nest. Jenkins will play Dean's wife, and Zimmer will play Seth's wife.
For Emmy-winner McCormack, repped by Endeavor and manager Leanne Coronel, the pilot is formally in second position to his TNT series "Truth in Advertising," which is not expected to return.
Wilson ("Blind Justice") is repped by Domain.
Reno Wilson, Jolie Jenkins and Constance Zimmer also have been cast in the ABC pilot.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Sloane, Mary Elizabeth Ellis and Charlie Finn have landed leads on ABC's comedy pilot "Pulling" and Holly Robinson Peete and Josh Braaten will co-star opposite Lauren Graham on ABC's comedy pilot "The Bridget Show."
ABC Studios' Quill comedy centers on two friends who embark on very different lives: Dean (McCormack), a heart surgeon with a new baby, and Seth (Wilson), a contractor with a new empty nest. Jenkins will play Dean's wife, and Zimmer will play Seth's wife.
For Emmy-winner McCormack, repped by Endeavor and manager Leanne Coronel, the pilot is formally in second position to his TNT series "Truth in Advertising," which is not expected to return.
Wilson ("Blind Justice") is repped by Domain.
- 3/18/2009
- by By Nellie Andreeva
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It looks like "The Doctor is Out" at ABC. The network is readjusting its Tuesday night schedule and its little surprise that the new Ted Danson comedy has been sent packing.
Help Me Help You was an offbeat sitcom about best-selling author and therapist Dr. Bill Hoffman (Cheers' Ted Danson) and his therapy group of misfits. The patients were ably played by Dear John's Jere Burns , Charlie Finn, Jim Rash, Darlene Hunt, and Suzy Nakamura. Ironically, Dr. Bill was probably more eccentric and self-obsessed than his collection of quirky patients. It didn't help that he had to cope with his 22-year old daughter (Lindsay Sloane), his ex-wife Anne (Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek) and her ever-sympathetic boyfriend Kenny (Thomas F. Wilson).
The quirky sitcom debuted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 on ABC. It followed the hugely successful Dancing with the Stars. Help Me drew an estimated 8.5 million households that night...
Help Me Help You was an offbeat sitcom about best-selling author and therapist Dr. Bill Hoffman (Cheers' Ted Danson) and his therapy group of misfits. The patients were ably played by Dear John's Jere Burns , Charlie Finn, Jim Rash, Darlene Hunt, and Suzy Nakamura. Ironically, Dr. Bill was probably more eccentric and self-obsessed than his collection of quirky patients. It didn't help that he had to cope with his 22-year old daughter (Lindsay Sloane), his ex-wife Anne (Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek) and her ever-sympathetic boyfriend Kenny (Thomas F. Wilson).
The quirky sitcom debuted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 on ABC. It followed the hugely successful Dancing with the Stars. Help Me drew an estimated 8.5 million households that night...
- 12/14/2006
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Alec Baldwin is in final negotiations to star opposite Tina Fey in Fey's untitled comedy pilot for NBC. In other pilot casting news, Bruce McGill has been cast in ABC's drama Enemies, Sean Bean has been tapped as the lead in Fox's drama Faceless, Eric Mabius is set to star opposite America Ferrera in ABC's drama Ugly Betty, Jaime King will play the female lead in Fox's comedy The Worst Week of My Life -- with Charles Malik Whitfield also cast in the project -- and Julie Hagerty has come on board Fox's comedy Becoming Glen. Additionally, Milo Ventimiglia (Gilmore Girls) has been tapped to co-star in the NBC/NBC Uni TV drama Heroes, Jennifer Westfeldt (Kissing Jessica Stein) has joined the ABC/Warner Bros. TV comedy Notes From the Underbelly, Michael Trucco has been added to the ABC/Touchstone comedy pilot Him and Us, Charlie Finn (The Dukes of Hazzard) and Darlene Hunt (The Darwin Awards) have been cast in the ABC/Regency TV comedy pilot Help Me Help You, and Dorian Missick (Freedomland) has come on board the ABC/Touchstone drama pilot Six Degrees.
- 2/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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