Penny (Casey Wilson) will not be heartbroken over Dave (Zach Knighton) for very long when Happy Ending returns this October. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the ABC comedy just booked actor Nick Zano to play the serial-dating single's new love interest for at least six episodes. Zano comes to Happy Endings after a string of recurring appearances on 2 Broke Girls, 90210 and Cougar Town. He also starred in the ABC pilot Prairie Dogs and has been in episodes of Drop Dead Diva and Secret Life of the American Teenager. Photos: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows for 2012-
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- 8/31/2012
- by Michael O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
House alum Kal Penn is set to co-star opposite Chris Smith in Rob Greenberg’s single-camera comedy pilot for CBS Ex-Men. The project, from CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum Co., centers on a young guy (Smith) who finds camaraderie living among the more experienced guys he meets in a short-term rental complex. Penn, repped by Gersh and Industry, will play the co-lead Gil, who was caught having the world’s worst affair and now lives in the complex until he can convince his wife to take him back. This extends Penn’s relationship with CBS. This past season, the Harold And Kumar star recurred on the network’s comedy series How I Met Your Mother. He also recently toplined ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
- 7/25/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kal Penn is one of CBS’ Ex-Men.
The How I Met Your Mother and House actor has landed the co-lead in the Eye network’s comedy pilot from How I Met Your Mother exec producer Rob Greenberg.
The half-hour project centers on a charming twentysomething (Paranormal Activity 3‘s Chris Smith) who, after getting ditched at the altar by his bride-to-be, moves into a short-term housing complex and is befriended by a group of divorced men.
Penn — whose recent ABC comedy pilot, Prairie Dogs, was not picked up to series — plays Gil, a fellow resident of the complex who was...
The How I Met Your Mother and House actor has landed the co-lead in the Eye network’s comedy pilot from How I Met Your Mother exec producer Rob Greenberg.
The half-hour project centers on a charming twentysomething (Paranormal Activity 3‘s Chris Smith) who, after getting ditched at the altar by his bride-to-be, moves into a short-term housing complex and is befriended by a group of divorced men.
Penn — whose recent ABC comedy pilot, Prairie Dogs, was not picked up to series — plays Gil, a fellow resident of the complex who was...
- 7/25/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Hollywood newcomer Dayo Okeniyi has been thrust into the spotlight as Thresh, one of the Tributes in "The Hunger Games" who is, as he puts it in his Twitter bio, "the reason Katniss makes it to Catching Fire No biggie." Uh, yeah, it's a biggie! And so is Dayo, who moved to Los Angeles just a few years ago to become an actor. Hey, he's always got a bachelor's degree in Visual Communications Design if this whole "being awesome" thing doesn't work out. We suspect it will, though.
Age: 23
Hometown: Dayo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.
What He's Done: This is his first feature-length film!
What He's Doing Now: He plays Thresh, the other Tribute from District 11 along with Rue (Amandla Stenberg). We can't give much away about his character, but suffice it to say he's pretty darn tough, and Katniss thinks highly of him.
Reminds Us of: A younger Blair Underwood,...
Age: 23
Hometown: Dayo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria.
What He's Done: This is his first feature-length film!
What He's Doing Now: He plays Thresh, the other Tribute from District 11 along with Rue (Amandla Stenberg). We can't give much away about his character, but suffice it to say he's pretty darn tough, and Katniss thinks highly of him.
Reminds Us of: A younger Blair Underwood,...
- 3/23/2012
- by Jenni Miller
- NextMovie
Kal Penn is reportedly in talks to return to House for the series finale. Fox confirmed last month that the Hugh Laurie medical drama will conclude after eight seasons. Penn quit the show in 2009 in order to begin working with the White House on President Obama's administration and arts groups. His character Dr Lawrence Kutner committed suicide off-screen, but could reappear in the show's final episode, according to Entertainment Weekly. Penn recently appeared in several episodes of How I Met Your Mother and has also signed up to star in ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. It was (more)...
- 3/23/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
If House producers get their way, the highly anticipated series finale will be quite the Princeton-Plainsboro reunion.
We’re hearing several former cast members (including the previously reported Olivia Wilde) are in talks to make appearances in the final episode of the long-running Fox medical drama. The most exciting name on the producers’ wish list: Kal Penn, whose popular character committed suicide during the show’s fifth season.
How would Dr. Lawrence Kutner return to House, exactly? Flashback? Dream sequence? Alternate reality? Dr. House goes to heaven?
We don’t know (and if we did, we’re not telling). Keep...
We’re hearing several former cast members (including the previously reported Olivia Wilde) are in talks to make appearances in the final episode of the long-running Fox medical drama. The most exciting name on the producers’ wish list: Kal Penn, whose popular character committed suicide during the show’s fifth season.
How would Dr. Lawrence Kutner return to House, exactly? Flashback? Dream sequence? Alternate reality? Dr. House goes to heaven?
We don’t know (and if we did, we’re not telling). Keep...
- 3/22/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
The final trends covered in this brief overview of this year’s pilot season are the new bout of network sitcoms and also the new cable shows that are fighting their way onto your screens.
Sitcoms appear to be following the trend of success stories like Modern Family and New Girl and becoming more single-camera based than traditional multi-camera. Multi-camera sitcoms being the shows recorded in front of audiences on sets a la Friends and Seinfeld, whilst single camera sitcoms are the ones that are shot more like films with plenty of different locations a la Parks and Recreation and Community. This trend doesn’t seem to apply, however, if you’re CBS, the network appears to be enjoying a renaissance of multi-camera sitcoms with the successes of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory which were both picked up for multiple seasons earlier this year.
The...
Sitcoms appear to be following the trend of success stories like Modern Family and New Girl and becoming more single-camera based than traditional multi-camera. Multi-camera sitcoms being the shows recorded in front of audiences on sets a la Friends and Seinfeld, whilst single camera sitcoms are the ones that are shot more like films with plenty of different locations a la Parks and Recreation and Community. This trend doesn’t seem to apply, however, if you’re CBS, the network appears to be enjoying a renaissance of multi-camera sitcoms with the successes of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory which were both picked up for multiple seasons earlier this year.
The...
- 3/21/2012
- by Fred Salmon
- Obsessed with Film
This season, we had Eddie Cibrian (The Playboy Club), Jason O’Mara (Terra Nova), Hank Azaria (Free Agents), Kevin Dillon (How to Be a Gentleman), Mather Zickel (Man Up!), and Amaury Nolasco (Work It).
It didn’t work out too well for those guys, did it?
Fortunately, the failures of yesterday don’t seem to be quashing hopes for the (potential) successes of tomorrow. An excellent crop of new (and familiar) male stars are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jim Caviezel (who’s truly nailed it on Person of Interest this season) and Henry Czerny (the very underappreciated...
It didn’t work out too well for those guys, did it?
Fortunately, the failures of yesterday don’t seem to be quashing hopes for the (potential) successes of tomorrow. An excellent crop of new (and familiar) male stars are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jim Caviezel (who’s truly nailed it on Person of Interest this season) and Henry Czerny (the very underappreciated...
- 3/13/2012
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
• Friday Night Lights vet Zach Gilford has joined the cast of the untitled Fox medical drama pilot from Drop Dead Diva’s Josh Berman. The former Off the Map star will play a doctor alongside a thoracic surgeon (Jordan Spiro) who moonlights as a “mob doctor” in Chicago. [The Hollywood Reporter]
• More pilot news: 2 Broke Girl’s Nick Zano has landed a plum role in ABC’s Prairie Dogs as the thief who steals the identity of a cubicle worker (Kal Penn), who then hires Zano’s character to help him create a real life as fulfilling as his imposter’s fake one.
• More pilot news: 2 Broke Girl’s Nick Zano has landed a plum role in ABC’s Prairie Dogs as the thief who steals the identity of a cubicle worker (Kal Penn), who then hires Zano’s character to help him create a real life as fulfilling as his imposter’s fake one.
- 3/12/2012
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW - Inside TV
Seth MacFarlane talked at SXSW about his Flintstones reboot. He's wrapping up the rewrite on the pilot, and says that it'd be a "little more current." It's been years since I watchedThe Flintstones, but I don't remember a ton of references to current events. " There's really not a lot about that show — other than the references to 1960s America, which really come through in the writing more than the visual — that needs to be changed visually and stylistically."
I hadn't reported on the killings of the emo and the gay youth in Iraq because information was muddled, but now the New York Times is reporting that not only is it happening, and to both groups, it's loosely sanctioned. While the Interior Ministry condemns the killings, on February 13 it called emo "satanic" and sent the Social Police to investigate them. Now it's claiming that directive has been "misinterpreted."
I find it...
I hadn't reported on the killings of the emo and the gay youth in Iraq because information was muddled, but now the New York Times is reporting that not only is it happening, and to both groups, it's loosely sanctioned. While the Interior Ministry condemns the killings, on February 13 it called emo "satanic" and sent the Social Police to investigate them. Now it's claiming that directive has been "misinterpreted."
I find it...
- 3/12/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
Nick Zano has been cast as co-lead in new ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. The 2 Broke Girls star will appear opposite Kal Penn in the new sitcom from That '70s Show writers Jackie and Jeff Filgo, according to TV Line. He will portray a criminal who commits identity fraud and is approached by his victim (Penn) to help him create a more fulfilling life. Zano can currently been seen in 90210 (more)...
- 3/12/2012
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Angela Bassett and Julian McMahon are in final negotiations to star in Fox's untitled Karyn Usher drama. The program focuses on Jane Forsythe, a 14-year-old orphan of a CIA operative who finds a surrogate father in McMahon's rogue agent. Bassett will play the shrewd political director of the CIA who also takes Jane under her wing. [Deadline]
Wendy Crewson, last seen on ABC's "Georgetown" pilot in 2011, is joining the cast of "Beauty and the Beast" as Mara, a member of the Emperor's (F. Murray Abraham) cabinet and a friend of the titular beauty. [ABC]
ABC has also added two actors to pilots - Luis Guzman has been cast as a worker at the Texas diner run by Margo Martindale and her as-of-yet uncast siblings in "Counter Culture," while Rade Serbedzjia has joined "Penoza," the drama focusing on a woman who must take over her dead husband's role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
Wendy Crewson, last seen on ABC's "Georgetown" pilot in 2011, is joining the cast of "Beauty and the Beast" as Mara, a member of the Emperor's (F. Murray Abraham) cabinet and a friend of the titular beauty. [ABC]
ABC has also added two actors to pilots - Luis Guzman has been cast as a worker at the Texas diner run by Margo Martindale and her as-of-yet uncast siblings in "Counter Culture," while Rade Serbedzjia has joined "Penoza," the drama focusing on a woman who must take over her dead husband's role in a crime syndicate in order to protect her family.
- 3/12/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Nick Zano (2 Broke Girls, Cougar Town) has landed the co-lead opposite Kal Penn in the ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
Penned by That ’70s Show‘s Jackie and Jeff Filgo, the show follows an uncool cubicle worker — aka “prairie dog” — named Neil (Penn) who is the victim of identity theft. Said corporate drone ultimately discovers the thief (Zano) created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever did — and thus he engages the con man to help him improve his prospects.
Zano is currently recurring on 90210.
SNL alumna Michaela Watkins rounds out the cast.
Penned by That ’70s Show‘s Jackie and Jeff Filgo, the show follows an uncool cubicle worker — aka “prairie dog” — named Neil (Penn) who is the victim of identity theft. Said corporate drone ultimately discovers the thief (Zano) created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever did — and thus he engages the con man to help him improve his prospects.
Zano is currently recurring on 90210.
SNL alumna Michaela Watkins rounds out the cast.
- 3/11/2012
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Gary Anthony Williams has been added to the cast of Greg Daniels’ comedy pilot Friday Night Dinner. The single-camera project, based on the British format, centers on a quirky family that has dinner together every Friday night and stars Allison Janney and Tony Shalhoub as matriarch Jackie and patriarch Martin. Williams, repped by Don Buchwald/Fortitude, Roar and attorney Lev Ginsburg, will play Mr. Marley, the neighbor who frequently shows up at the family’s front step and appears infatuated with Jackie. The character was originally named Koechner and written for actor-comedian David Koechner. In January, NBC signed Koechner in a talent holding deal with NBC. Under it, he was to do Friday Night Dinner or do more episodes of The Office, where he has appeared occasionally since the second season. When Fnd was officially picked up to pilot a week later, the neighbor character was not put out for casting.
- 3/11/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Interested in some season five casting scoop, Leverage fans? As you wish...
Cary Elwes - who just signed on to co-star in a new comedy, Prairie Dogs, alongside Kal Penn, but who will forever be remembered for his role in Princes Bride - will guest star on the TNT hit as Scott Roemer, the owner of Global Transit Airlines.
According to EW, the premiere will find Nate and company conning Roemer into thinking he has an opportunity to steal Howard Hughes’ iconic Spruce Goose mega-plane, only for him to take the bat and the con to be on.
Leverage returns this summer with 15 new episodes.
Cary Elwes - who just signed on to co-star in a new comedy, Prairie Dogs, alongside Kal Penn, but who will forever be remembered for his role in Princes Bride - will guest star on the TNT hit as Scott Roemer, the owner of Global Transit Airlines.
According to EW, the premiere will find Nate and company conning Roemer into thinking he has an opportunity to steal Howard Hughes’ iconic Spruce Goose mega-plane, only for him to take the bat and the con to be on.
Leverage returns this summer with 15 new episodes.
- 3/10/2012
- by matt@tvfanatic.com (TV Fanatic Staff)
- TVfanatic
Amy Smart ("Shameless") and Karolina Wydra ("House") have been cast in NBC's pilot "Bad GIrls," which is being adapted from a long-running series in Britain. It chronicles the goings-on of a group of female inmates in federal prison and the female warden. Smart and Wydra will both be playing inmates [Deadline]
"Friday Night Lights" alum Matt Lauria has joined in "Gilded Lilys," ABC's period drama set in 1895 in New York's first luxury hotel, complete with love stories, rivalries and scandals. Blythe Danner and Madeline Zima have also been cast on the show. [TV Line]
Jason Katims' ("Parenthood") NBC drama pilot "County" has cast Norbert Leo Butz as a new intern at County, the underfunded titular hospital in Los Angeles County. Also cast in "County" is Jason Ritter.
Cary Elwes has joined "Prairie Dogs," in addition to Kal Penn and Charlotte Newhouse. "Prairie Dogs" is ABC's comedy pilot where the title refers to...
"Friday Night Lights" alum Matt Lauria has joined in "Gilded Lilys," ABC's period drama set in 1895 in New York's first luxury hotel, complete with love stories, rivalries and scandals. Blythe Danner and Madeline Zima have also been cast on the show. [TV Line]
Jason Katims' ("Parenthood") NBC drama pilot "County" has cast Norbert Leo Butz as a new intern at County, the underfunded titular hospital in Los Angeles County. Also cast in "County" is Jason Ritter.
Cary Elwes has joined "Prairie Dogs," in addition to Kal Penn and Charlotte Newhouse. "Prairie Dogs" is ABC's comedy pilot where the title refers to...
- 3/2/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Exclusive: Minnie Driver is set to star opposite Andrea Anders in Kari Lizer’s NBC comedy pilot Lady Friends. The Warner Bros. TV-produced project is about two life-long female friends who are living very different lives but couldn’t live without each other. Nicole (Anders) has everything going for her. Her best friend, Jen (Driver), has parents who have no faith in her, terrible instincts that led her to a 17-day marriage to a guy who dumped her, and she gained 15 pounds on the cabbage soup diet. And yet, somehow, she is Nicole’s rock. Lady Friends landed Driver in a nail-biter, after a month-long pursuit. The producers cast the other lead, Anders, at the beginning of February when they also identified Driver as the choice for Jen. The problem was that Driver was under a talent deal at ABC, which would not release her. Executives and agents tried persuasion,...
- 3/2/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
After a long search, newcomer Saxon Sharbino has landed the lead in Fox’s untitled Karyn Usher drama pilot. Written by Usher and directed by Brett Ratner, the project centers on Jane Forsythe (Sharbino), the orphaned 14-year-old daughter of a CIA operative who encounters a mysterious rogue agent who serves as her surrogate father and professional mentor in the spy world. 20th Century Fox TV and 21 Laps/Adelstein produce. In other pilot castings, Norbert Leo Butz has been cast in Jason Katims’ NBC drama pilot County starring Jason Ritter. The Universal TV-produced project chronicles the lives of young doctors, nurses, and administrators in a frenetic, underfunded and morally compromising La County Hospital. Butz will play a gregarious new intern at County, a former Cpa who is more focused on finding the next party than work most of the time. Also cast in pilots are Cary Elwes, who joined ABC comedy Prairie Dogs,...
- 3/1/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Interested in a new round of pilot casting scoops, TV Fanatics? As you wish...
Natalie Zea has landed a role on one of the most anticipated fall pilots: Kevin Williamson's Fox drama about a series killer (James Purefoy) who creates his own cult of fellow murderers and is tracked by a FBI profiler (Kevin Bacon). Zea will play the killer's ex-wife, raising questions about her future on Justified.
More Justified news, sort of: Emmy winner Margo Martindale has been cast as one of three sisters running a family diner in West Texas on ABC's Counter Culture. Doris Roberts is also on board for the project, which sits in "second position" to A Gifted Man for Martindale in case that CBS drama gets picked up.
The ABC sitcom How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life has cast former Weeds scene-stealer Elizabeth Perkins in the role of Sarah Chalke's mother.
Natalie Zea has landed a role on one of the most anticipated fall pilots: Kevin Williamson's Fox drama about a series killer (James Purefoy) who creates his own cult of fellow murderers and is tracked by a FBI profiler (Kevin Bacon). Zea will play the killer's ex-wife, raising questions about her future on Justified.
More Justified news, sort of: Emmy winner Margo Martindale has been cast as one of three sisters running a family diner in West Texas on ABC's Counter Culture. Doris Roberts is also on board for the project, which sits in "second position" to A Gifted Man for Martindale in case that CBS drama gets picked up.
The ABC sitcom How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life has cast former Weeds scene-stealer Elizabeth Perkins in the role of Sarah Chalke's mother.
- 3/1/2012
- by matt@tvfanatic.com (TV Fanatic Staff)
- TVfanatic
Cary Elwes has been cast in a new ABC comedy pilot. The Princess Bride actor will portray Rams - an eccentric designer with a distinctive sense of fashion - in Prairie Dogs, according to Entertainment Weekly. Elwes appeared in ABC's pilot of Wonder Woman last year and currently has a large number of TV and movie projects in either pre-production or post-production. > 'Princess Bride': Stars Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Billy Crystal, more reunite Prairie Dogs stars Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar) as Neil, (more)...
- 3/1/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Cary Elwes has been cast in a new ABC comedy pilot. The Princess Bride actor will portray Rams - an eccentric designer with a distinctive sense of fashion - in Prairie Dogs, according to Entertainment Weekly. Elwes appeared in ABC's pilot of Wonder Woman last year and currently has a large number of TV and movie projects in either pre-production or post-production. > 'Princess Bride': Stars Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Billy Crystal, more reunite Prairie Dogs stars Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar) as Neil, (more)...
- 3/1/2012
- by By Kate Goodacre
- Digital Spy
Funnyman Dane Cook has been tapped to star in the NBC comedy pilot Next Caller Please.
The project centers on a Colorado radio host (played by Cougar Town‘s Collette Wolfe) who scores a dream gig with a New York-based satellite radio station. Alas, her excitement is dashed when she meets Cook’s character, her abrasive, hard-drinking and sexist new co-host.
Weeds producer Stephen Falk penned the pilot.
In other pilot news from our sister site Deadline:
• Back to the Future vet Christopher Lloyd will star opposite John Leguizamo in ABC’s Only Fools and Horses, which chronicles the misadventures...
The project centers on a Colorado radio host (played by Cougar Town‘s Collette Wolfe) who scores a dream gig with a New York-based satellite radio station. Alas, her excitement is dashed when she meets Cook’s character, her abrasive, hard-drinking and sexist new co-host.
Weeds producer Stephen Falk penned the pilot.
In other pilot news from our sister site Deadline:
• Back to the Future vet Christopher Lloyd will star opposite John Leguizamo in ABC’s Only Fools and Horses, which chronicles the misadventures...
- 3/1/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Cary Elwes teaming with Kal Penn?
As you wish!
The Princess Bride and Adventures of Tintin actor has just signed onto ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
The show is about an office drone (Penn) who seizes an opportunity when he becomes the victim of identity theft. Elwes plays Rams, the mysterious head of the design department in the company where Penn’s character works. He’s described as a German eccentric who wears turtleneck sweaters and kilts.
Elwes has been busy lately, he has about nine projects in the pipeline for this year and next, according to IMDb.
As you wish!
The Princess Bride and Adventures of Tintin actor has just signed onto ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
The show is about an office drone (Penn) who seizes an opportunity when he becomes the victim of identity theft. Elwes plays Rams, the mysterious head of the design department in the company where Penn’s character works. He’s described as a German eccentric who wears turtleneck sweaters and kilts.
Elwes has been busy lately, he has about nine projects in the pipeline for this year and next, according to IMDb.
- 3/1/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Charlotte Newhouse has joined ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. Harold & Kumar actor Kal Penn will play Neil, an office worker who has his identity stolen. When Neil discovers that the thief has improved on his life, he recruits the criminal to help him better himself. Newhouse has been cast as Neil's fun-loving co-worker, according to Deadline. The actress, a former member of La comedy troupe The Groundlings, has appeared in episodes of Community, The Big Bang Theory and Men of a Certain Age. The Hunger Games (more)...
- 2/28/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Sibling filmmakers Kevin and Michael Goetz continued prep work on their Scenic Route and Deadline reported today on comic actor Dan Fogler and Transformers leading man Josh Duhamel joining the film as two college buddies who set out on a road trip and become stuck in the desert with a dwindling chance at being rescued. Kyle Killen, writer and executive producer on the upcoming NBC drama Awake starring Jason Isaacs as a police detective living parallel lives, wrote Scenic Route with Luke Rivett of Anonymous Content and Paul Jensen and Brion Hambel of Best Medicine Productions producing. Fogler, last seen in the Relativity comedy Take Me Home Tonight, recently joined the ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs with Kal Penn. The 35-year-old actor also recently co-directed and starred in the film Don Peyote alongside Abel Ferrara.
- 2/21/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Kal Penn (House, How I Met Your Mother) has joined the cast of Prairie Dogs, a comedy pilot being developed for ABC.
Penned by That ’70s Show‘s Jackie and Jeff Filgo, the show follows an uncool cubicle worker — aka “prairie dog” — named Neil who is the victim of identity theft. Said corporate drone ultimately discovers the thief created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever did — and thus he engages the con man to help him improve his prospects.
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Penned by That ’70s Show‘s Jackie and Jeff Filgo, the show follows an uncool cubicle worker — aka “prairie dog” — named Neil who is the victim of identity theft. Said corporate drone ultimately discovers the thief created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever did — and thus he engages the con man to help him improve his prospects.
Pilot Season Lingo Guide (Including the ‘Scary’ Second Position), Plus a List of Picked-Up Pilots
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- 2/15/2012
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Kal Penn has been tapped as the lead in ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. The single-camera project, from writers/executive producers Jackie and Jeff Filgo and ABC Studios, centers on Neil (Penn), an uncool cubicle worker aka “prairie dog” at one of the coolest companies in the world who becomes the victim of identity theft. When he discovers the thief has created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever has, he engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life. I hear that Penn’s casting in the pilot has a development deal behind it, meaning that ABC would develop another project for him should Prairie Dogs not make it to series. Harold & Kumar‘s Penn, who co-starred on Fox’s medical drama House before he left acting for a 2-year stint at the White House, had a development deal at NBC earlier this season.
- 2/15/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kal Penn could be returning to a regular TV series role.
The Harold & Kumar and House actor has landed a role in ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
The show is a single camera sitcom from Jackie and Jeff Filgo (That ’70s Show, The New Adventures of Old Christine) about a lowly cubicle worker named Neil (Penn) who has his identity stolen, only to like the fake life he’s been given more than the boring one he was living. He enlists a con man to help him change his life.
Penn left his role on House to work for...
The Harold & Kumar and House actor has landed a role in ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
The show is a single camera sitcom from Jackie and Jeff Filgo (That ’70s Show, The New Adventures of Old Christine) about a lowly cubicle worker named Neil (Penn) who has his identity stolen, only to like the fake life he’s been given more than the boring one he was living. He enlists a con man to help him change his life.
Penn left his role on House to work for...
- 2/15/2012
- by James Hibberd
- EW - Inside TV
Kal Penn was last seen in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the latest installment in the New Line Cinema slapstick franchise about stoner buddies Kumar (Penn), Harold (John Cho) and their odd friendship with Neil Patrick Harris. Penn also made a reputation on TV with a recurring role on the Fox espionage drama 24, a nine-episode arc on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and two seasons on the acclaimed Fox drama House M.D. Penn, who recently worked as associate director in President Obama’s Office of Public Liaison, returned to network TV as the star of the ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
- 2/15/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Kal Penn was last seen in A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, the latest installment in the New Line Cinema slapstick franchise about stoner buddies Kumar (Penn), Harold (John Cho) and their odd friendship with Neil Patrick Harris. Penn also made a reputation on TV with a recurring role on the Fox espionage drama 24, a nine-episode arc on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother and two seasons on the acclaimed Fox drama House M.D. Penn, who recently worked as associate director in President Obama’s Office of Public Liaison, returned to network TV as the star of the ABC comedy pilot Prairie Dogs.
- 2/15/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Exclusive: Saturday Night Live alumna Michaela Watkins has been cast in ABC’s comedy pilot Prairie Dogs. The project, written and executive produced by Jackie and Jeff Filgo, centers on Neil, an uncool cubicle worker aka “prairie dog” who, after becoming the victim of identity theft, discovers that the thief has created a much more fulfilling life with his identity than he ever has and engages the charismatic conman to help him change his life. Watkins, repped by CAA, Flutie Entertainment and attorney Patti Felker, will play Imogene, supervisor of the programming department who tries to make up for her loneliness and deficiencies in her own life by ruling the programming department with an iron fist. Watkins is recurring on New Girl and Enlightened and will next be seen opposite Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd in Wanderlust. Her next feature is In A World, starring, written and directed by Lake Bell.
- 2/15/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kyle Bornheimer — last seen in Romantically Challenged, Perfect Couples and Worst Week — will join the cast of the ABC comedy pilot White Man Van.
The single-camera project from Bobby Bowman is based on the British format White Van Man, and centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his father.
White Man Van is one of eight new comedies in development for ABC’s fall 2012 lineup. If you don’t like the sound of that one, check out these others:
How to Live With Your...
The single-camera project from Bobby Bowman is based on the British format White Van Man, and centers on a man who is forced to put his dreams on hold in order to take over the family handyman business from his father.
White Man Van is one of eight new comedies in development for ABC’s fall 2012 lineup. If you don’t like the sound of that one, check out these others:
How to Live With Your...
- 2/8/2012
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
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