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Alan Tudyk among latest pilot castings
By Kimberly Nordyke and Nellie Andreeva
Alan Tudyk is set to star in ABC's untitled Kohan/Mutchnick comedy
pilot, while Andrea Parker and newcomer Silvana Arias have joined
Bernie Mac's Fox series "Starting Under."
Additionally, Josh Dean, Vanessa Lengies and Hayes MacArthur have been
cast in ABC's comedy pilot "This Might Hurt," and Harry Lennix has
joined the Fox drama "Dollhouse."
The untitled Kohan/Mutchick comedy, from Warner Bros. TV, centers on
two men -- one straight, one gay (Tudyk) -- who are lifelong best
friends and business partners.
Tudyk, who recently starred in NBC's untitled Luke Reiter pilot and
the features "3:10 to Yuma" and "Knocked Up," is repped by Endeavor
and manager Geordie Frey.
"Under," from WBTV, stars Mac as a larger-than-life man who, after a
divorce, has to live with and work for his twentysomething son,
Bernard (Bert Belasco).
Parker is set to play Jada, a single, hard-working, blue-collar
employee of Bernard's who develops an interestingly complicated
relation****p with him.
Arias will play Rosa, a Guadalajara native who clashes with Mac when
he accuses her -- accurately -- of being an illegal immigrant.
APA-repped Parker is best known for her roles on NBC's "The Pretender"
and ABC's "Less Than Perfect."
Silvana ("Passions") began her career in the Latin market, starring on
several Telemundo shows before making the move to Los Angeles. She is
repped by Sovereign Talent Agency and Gilbertson Entertainment.
"Hurt," from 20th TV, is a semiscripted comedy set at a medical
practice run by a fiftysomething pediatrician and his brainy internist
son (Dean) and an OBGYN.
Lengies will play Lily, the new receptionist at the clinic who is
sweet, naive and disarmingly sincere.
MacArthur ("The Game Plan") has signed on as Reid, a handsome,
slightly dim-bulb nurse who runs a secret gambling operation out of
his nursing station.
Dean, star of Fox's comedy "Free Ride," recently wrapped the indie
film "Young People F***ing." He is repped by Gersh and manager Jerry
Silverhardt.
Lengies ("American Dreams") is repped by Gersh and the Burstein Co.
"Dollhouse," from 20th TV, revolves around a group of young men and
women, aka Dolls, who are imprinted with different personalities.
Lennix ("24") is set to play Boyd, an ex-cop who serves as Echo's
(Eliza Dushku) bodyguard.
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