TV Chatting

David Lyons, Carly Pope, Adam Campbell and Thekla Reuten have joined the cast of NBC’s Day One.  The series revolves around a group of people in an apartment complex after a catstrophic event. Lyons will play a Marine and an Iraq veteran who is a natural leader. Reuten will play an odd woman who keeps notes on other tenants. Pope will play a brilliant young woman who lives with her boyfriend (Campbell) an MIT graduate and computer genius.

Christopher J. Hanke has joined the CBS drama Three Rivers, a show about organ transplants. He will play the assistant to the transplant coordinator.

Anastasia Griffith will play an EMT who lost her paramedic boyfriend in a helicopter crash in NBC’s new medical drama Trauma.

Kim Raver will play a reporter once considered to be the next Diane Sawyer on ABC’s Inside the Box.

Alyssa Milano will star in the untitled Ricky Blitt comedy about a telemarketer and struggling writer, played by Eric Christian Olsen, who is torn between his needy best friend and the newfound love of his life, played by Milano.

Ty Burrell has signed on to star in My American Family. He will play a goofy, upbeat dad who thinks he is cooler than he really is in the comedy that revolves around a traditional couple, a gay couple and a multi-ethnic couple. Julie Bowen will play his wife.

John Patrick Amedori, Robert Wisdom and Jay Paulson have all been added to the cast of Happy Town, ABC’s Twin Peaks-esque mystery.

Sharon Leal and Brooklyn Sudano have joined Limelight. Leal will play a choreographer-turned-actress who returns to the performing arts college where she went to school.  Sudano, the daughter of Donna Summer, will play a young dancer auditioning for the academy.

Leah Pipes has been added to the untitled Dave Hemingson legal drama. She will play a new associate at the LA law firm who was born and raised in Beverly Hills.

Cole Hauser has joined Washington Field, the CBS drama about an elite team of FBI agents who tackle crises around the world. Hauser will play the squad’s supervisor.  Teri Polo has also been cast as Amanda O’Donnell, an expert in medical forensics and weapons of mass destruction whose husband it also on the team. Eddie Cibrian will play the evidence response team coordinator and hazmat expert.

Scott Wolf has been tapped to star in ABC’s remake of the ’80s sci-fi drama V.  Wolf will play Chad Decker, an Anderson Cooper wannabe who is tapped by the Visitors to disseminate their propoganda to the masses.

Jonathan Silverman has been cast in ABC’s untitled Jeff Strauss comedy pilot about three couples.

Michael O’Keefe, Courtney Henggeler, Frances Turner and Beth Broderick will star in Fox’s comedy Two Dollar Beer about a group of twentysomething friends in Detroit. It centers on ex-jock Luke (Jonathan Sadowski), whose parents (O’Keefe, Broderick) live in his house.

Dania Ramirez, Brad William Henke and Patrick St. Esprit have been added to ABC’s untitled Daniel Cerone drama which centers on a detective who gets help from his brilliant 11 year old brother.

Tawny Cypress and Sean Bridgers have joined CBS’ drama House Rules.  The show will tell the story of the freshman class of Congress. Cypress will play a former servicewoman who was stationed in Iraq. Bridgers will play a congressman from Georgia who won a recount.

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