I know, I know. We let the 3,000th comment milestone on our Jeremy Northan, why aren’t you a bigger star? post go unheralded, but someone’s been paying attention: Northam has just been cast in the CBS pilot Miami Trauma. (That’s still the title we’re going with? Really?) According to The Hollywood Reporter, he’ll play "a likable but enigmatic new doctor on the traumaward." Don’t you hate it when a casting makes you root for a show that you were fully prepared to never watch?
In other CBS casting news, courtesy of THR:
• Chris Parnell, Missi Pyle, and Deanne Dunagan are expected to join the comedy ensemble Big D, which revolves around a couple that leaves New York for the wife’s hometown of Dallas and has to deal with her family. Parnell plays the wife’s brother-in-law, a preacher, which you’d think would excite me. Only, I’m most psyched to see Pyle as his wife, who’s said to be "prone to emotional displays."
• Saffron Burrows (criminally underused on ABC’s Boston Legal), Jesse Bradford, and Gaby Hoffmann have lined up for The Eastmans, a drama about a "complicated family of doctors." Burrows will play an M.D. trying find a cure for autism, which her child may or may not have. Great to see a show deal with that…. (And that Burrows’ role in Deep Blue Sea was good for something.) Bradford’s character will no longer be practicing because he got caught with a Vicodin addiction (there’s got to be a House joke in the pilot); Hoffman is a pathologist.
• Matt Czuchry (Gilmore Girls‘ Logan) has signed on for The Good Wife, which is said to revolve around a politician’s spouse (Julianna Margulies!) who works as a junior associate at a law firm. He will play a fellow newbie, a "handsome Harvard grad." I believe "handsome" is code for "they’ll originally but heads but be contemplating an affair by Sweeps."
Thoughts?
More on pilot season:
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Scott Wolf, Michael O’Keefe tapped for pilots
Geoff Stults, Michael Vartan returning to TV. Squeee!
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Cybill Shepherd on Lifetime? Yes!
More CBS procedurals, more slackers
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CBS orders more than procedurals after all
CBS plans arranged-marriage reality show. Discuss.
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ABC likes Lauren Graham, CBS more procedurals!
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Northram on the Tudors was kind of meh. There – that should get things going.
And the horrifying trend of casting Brits (and Aussies) as leads on American TV shows continue….ARGH. I guess we should tell all American actors if you want a role – put on an accent and pretend you are from London.
actingup, that sounds like a great premise for a sitcom. “Faking Foreign” – an out-of-work Brooklyn actor pretends to be British to try for a role as a Brooklyn actor.
The only question is whether the actor playing the actor should be British or American.
. . . “butt” heads . . .
End of 1st paragraph = my thoughts exactly. After seeing Northam save Emma from being completely obnoxious and hold his own in Gosford Park, I’ve wanted to see him in more projects…this is better than nothing.
Jeremy Northam is fantastic! I hope the show works out for him… it sounds kind of meh. Still it sounds better than that Good Wife one.
Mandi, you should have celebrated our 3,000 post here by putting a doctor’s cap on Jeremy’s head!:))
The Eastmans makes me apprehensive. (I almost called it “Wendy Darling Cures Autism!”) I’d like to think that such a sensitive subject can receive equal points of view. But I’m afraid it will end up as another parent looking to place blame screaming about OMG EVOL BIG PHARMA. We’ll see.
Three Rivers is another medical drama going to pilot for CBS and up against Miami trauma, but i don’t see the premise as that exciting or long lasting…transplants seen through the eyes of donor , doctor and recipient.
I think “The Good Wife” will be a success because every actor who played Rory Gilmore’s boyfriend on Gilmore Girls gets a successful show after!
I love Jeremy Northam, but Miami Trauma sounds like a show I would never turn on. I hate medical shows. If I watch it, it will only be for him.
Miami Trauma pilot script for download
http://www.mediafire.com/?uydj3jmtgzj