Comedic Casting Scoops: Who Will Pilot New Sitcoms?
A trio of popular actors are ready to tickle your funny bone as the leads of three upcoming network pilots. They are...
Justin Bartha (The Hangover) will play one half of a gay couple on The New Normal, a single-camera NBC comedy from Ryan Murphy that co-stars Book of Mormon's Andrew Rannells and centers on this twosome and its surrogate mother, played by Georgia King.
Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) will also play one half of a gay couple (to Ugly Betty's Michael Urie) on CBS' Partners, a sitcom that centers on one straight (uncast) architect, Charlie, and his gay co-worker, Louis (Urie).
Sophia Bush will portray Charlie's fiancee.
Greg Grunberg (Heroes) has signed on for an untitled project on CBS that focuses on a womanizer who receives a major health care that results in him now seeing his best friend - Wendy, played by JoAnne Garcia - as the love of his life.
Grunberg will play Charlie, Wendy's downtrodden bartender of a brother.
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Rank: Leading Character
February 23rd, 2012 10:27 PM
The New Normal and Partners sounds great.
I absolutely love Sophia Bush, so I'm happy to tune in for her. I also enjoy Justin Bartha, so his show is at least pilot worthy.
Rank: Regular Character
February 23rd, 2012 5:07 PM
there are two cbs shows and one from nbc.. why is there a abc photo?
aanyways, will watch the first 2
February 23rd, 2012 8:27 AM
ohhh great..i was soo excited that i didn´t read the last line....would have loved to see him in another kind of role, but the idea of the show is not bad...may give it a try..
February 23rd, 2012 8:24 AM
greg as a womanizer?....nicccceeeee:D also looking forward to Partners....the concept of the new normal though, is quite overused...