Pilot casting update - Wednesday, 3/17/10

From yesterday's trades.  Thanks as always to our lovely and talented source.

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- After lengthy negotiations, Tom Selleck is nearing a deal to play the lead in CBS' untitled Burgess/Green drama pilot. The project (formerly "Reagan's Law") is a multigenerational drama revolving around a family of New York cops. Selleck will play Michael, the handsome, confident and highly commended chief of police for the NYPD who lives in Brooklyn with his father, Patrick (Len Cariou), the ex-chief who struggles to find a balance between the political demands of the mayor's office and doing right by his fellow cops. Michael's son Brian (Donnie Wahlberg) is also a detective. For "Magnum P.I." star Selleck, who has remained a fixture on CBS in the past five years as the star of the "Jesse Stone" original movie franchise, this would mark the first regular series role since he took over as the lead on NBC's "Las Vegas" on the show's final season.

- "ER" alum Goran Visnjic is in negotiations to star opposite Katee Sackhoff in the ABC drama pilot "Boston's Finest," which also has cast Nia Long. "Finest" centers on a detective (Katee Sackhoff) who teams with a disgraced ex-cop (Visnjic) to solve crimes and untangle the conspiracy that sent him underground. Long, repped by Gersh and Hyphenate's Glenn Rigberg, will play her friend, mentor and partner. Following his nine-year stint on "ER" playing Dr. Luka Kovac, Visnjic co-starred in the 2009 CBS movie "The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler."

- Dougray Scott and Molly Parker are set to star in CBS drama presentation "Quinn-Tuplets." "Quinn-Tuplets" follows the personal and professional lives of the Quinn quintuplets. Scott will play Michael, the documentary filmmaker who has chronicled the quints' lives. Parker will play their mother, who was single when she had them in-vitro but subsequently married Michael and had another daughter.

- Josh Henderson is leading the cast of the CW's drama "Betwixt." On "Betwixt," about three teenagers who discover they are changelings, Henderson ("Desperate Housewives"), repped by Innovative and Impression, will play the leader of the group who sees a halo of light around people who are about to die.

- Randall Park has joined the Fox comedy "Tax Man." On "Tax Man," set at an IRS office in Fresno, Calif., Park ("Dinner for Schmucks") will play a fiercely loyal IRS auditor. He is repped by TalentWorks and manager Judy Orbach.

- Omid Abtahi has boarded Fox drama "Pleading Guilty." "Guilty" is a legal thriller about embezzlement and the politics of a high-powered firm where Abtahi ("Sleeper Cell"), repped by Greene and Associates, plays the youngest associate.

Comments

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I would watch Goran Visnjic in any film or television show.