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Fall 2007: Kiefer's Dad Punches In
The latest pilot developments, per Variety and the Hollywood Reporter:
• Could Donald Sutherland and Jill Clayburgh be the new Larry Hagman and Linda Gray? ABC is hoping so — they've given the veteran actors the lead roles of the heads of a super-rich family in their drama pilot Dirty Sexy Money. (Personally, I would have gone with Stockard Channing.)
• NYPD Blue alum Bonnie Somerville has replaced Miranda Otto as a cosmetics mogul in Darren Star's new Execs and the City pilot Cashmere Mafia. Otto will now play a hotelier.
• Wendie Malick is a Democratic senator in an untitled ABC comedic soap about legislative aides on Capitol Hill.
• Arielle Kebbel (The Grudge 2) is Kiele Sanchez's kid sister in ABC's Football Wives.
• Saw psycho Shawnee Smith has been cast in ABC's Traveling in Packs, a comedy about thirtysomething women who tell themselves being roomies is cool rather than pathetic.
• Harold Ramis has been tapped to direct Atlanta, the CBS comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr., while Brett Ratner, due to a Rush Hour 3 holdup, has dropped out of helming ABC's Women's Murder Club.
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Mar 1, 2007 9:22 AM
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If Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing were the heads of that family, it would have been quite the reunion. They were amazing as the married couple in Six Degrees of Separation.
Good call Matt!
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Mar 1, 2007 11:11 AM
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Is Wendie Malick ABC's go-to girl or what? Isn't this the 3rd show in the last couple of years for them? Just wondering...
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Mar 1, 2007 12:58 PM
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Personally, I would have gone with Stockard Channing.
Not me. Jill Clayburgh was brilliant in "Running With Scissors." She should have had an Oscar nod. They are lucky to have her.
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Mar 1, 2007 4:39 PM
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ABC's Traveling in Packs, a comedy about thirtysomething women who tell themselves being roomies is cool rather than pathetic.
hey, female 30something roomies are cool.
aren't they? 
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Mar 3, 2007 1:59 AM
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