Comedic Casting Scoops: Who Will Pilot New Sitcoms?
TV Fanatic Staff at .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.