Damon Wayans Jr. Joins Cast of TBS Comedy Pilot ‘Kill the Orange-Faced Bear’

EXCLUSIVE: Workaholics and I’m Dying Up Here alum Erik Griffin is set as a lead opposite Shannon Woodward, Jane Lynch and Nicole Richie in ABC comedy pilot Bucktown, from The Conners‘ Emily Wilson, Tom Werner and Sara Gilbert and ABC Signature.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe Screen Actors Guild Awards shrunk to one hour this year, and despite solid critical reviews of the telecast, so did the viewership. The 27th Annual SAG Awards, which aired on Sunday, April 4, averaged 957,000 viewers on the TNT/TBS simulcast.The Easter night telecast also averaged a 0.22 rating among adults 18-49 via both networks.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeAfter six seasons and 112 episodes, “Superstore” wrapped things up with a well-received finale on March 25. The episode ended with Cloud 9 Superstore #1217 shutting its doors and turning into a warehouse fulfillment center for parent company Zephra, and the team from the Ozark Highlands store splitting up.But even as the show — and the store — closed up, the series wrapped up storylines and left nearly everyone in a hopeful place.

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated actor and Home and Family co-host Cameron Mathison is returning to the world of daytime soaps, joining the cast of ABC’s long-running daytime drama series General Hospital.

Steven Yeun has landed an exciting role!

The cast of CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot The Three of Us, led by Oliver Hudson, Malin Akerman and Brent Morin, has been released. The options on the actors in two 2020 CBS comedy pilots, The Three Of Us and the single-camera Ghosts, were up today. They were not exercised on the CBS/CBS Studios’ The Three Of Us while Ghosts was picked up to series this afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Four-time Emmy winner Michael Learned is joining Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the limited series about the serial killer co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan that was greenlighted by Netflix last fall. She joins a cast that is further ramping up, with Murphy regular Evan Peters now aboard as Dahmer and Richard Jenkins and Penelope Ann Miller set as his parents.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWhen “Wipeout” creator Matt Kunitz began planning the show’s revival for TBS, he knew one element had to return: Those iconic, large red balls. Everything else could be updated — and has been, from new hosts John Cena and Nicole Byer to a revised game play that now features teams of two.

Nate Mann is set to join the ensemble cast for Apple Studios’ Masters of the Air, from Playtone and Amblin Television. Austin Butler, Anthony Boyle and Callum Turner are already on board to star.

Variety reported. The legendarily transgressive filmmaker, best known for writing and directing 1972’s “Pink Flamingos,” 1988’s “Hairspray” and 1990’s “Cry-Baby,” will have a “guest starring role” in the award-winning series’ upcoming episodes.

ABC is rounding out cast for multi-camera comedy pilot Black Don’t Crack (fka Untitled Regina Hicks). Essence Atkins (Marlon) and Tisha Campbell (My Wife and Kids) are set as the two remaining leads opposite Sherri Shepard, and Tahj Mowry (Baby Daddy), Beth Grant (Words on Bathroom Walls) and Isaiah Mustafa (It: Chapter Two) join as series regulars in the pilot from writer/executive producer Regina Hicks and exec producers Viola Davis & Julius Tennon and Larry Wilmore.

HBO Max has added Diana-Maria Riva, Juan Javier Cardenas and more to the cast of its upcoming family comedy pilot The Gordita Chronicles, from  Josh Berman’s Osprey Productions, Zoe Saldana’s Cinestar Pictures and Sony Pictures TV. Also joining the cast are Savannah Nicole Ruiz, Noah Rico and Cosette Hauer.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVRebecca Rittenhouse has been cast as the titular lead in the ABC pilot “Maggie.”Hailing from 20th Television for the alphabet network, “Maggie” is a single-camera comedy based on Tim Curcio’s short film of the same name.

Outlander star Graham McTavish is set to join yet another popular fantasy television show. The Scottish actor, who has just finished on the first season of travel show Men in Kilts with fellow star Sam Heughan, has just been announced as one of the new cast members for the second series of Netflix hit The Witcher.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJane Lynch has been cast in a lead role in the ABC multi-cam comedy pilot “Bucktown,” Variety has learned.Lynch joins previously announced cast members Shannon Woodward and Nicole Richie.In the multi-cam sitcom, after being dumped by her boyfriend and kicked out of her apartment on the eve of a big promotion, Amy (Woodward) finds refuge at her mom’s (Lynch) house in the blue-collar neighborhood where she grew up.

Jane Lynch, star of Glee and current host of NBC’s Weakest Link, has found her latest comedy role – joining ABC pilot Bucktown.

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Nicole Richie and Shannon Woodward are teaming up for a new show!

Shannon Woodward (Westworld) has been tapped as the lead of ABC family comedy pilot Bucktown. Nicole Richie also has been cast in the project from a trio behind ABC’s The Conners, Emily Wilson, Sara Gilbert and Tom Werner.