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NBC close to ordering "Heroes," "Lights" to series



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Tue, 09 May 2006 21:30:59 -0400 rec.arts.tv
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from the futon critic

NBC Staffing 'Heroes,' 'Lights'; Other Pilot News
By Brian Ford Sullivan (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- NBC is on track to give series
orders to its drama pilots "Heroes" and "Friday Night Lights," as
staffing reportedly has begun on both projects.

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Jesse Alexander ("Alias") has been named a co-executive producer on
the former entry, about a group of ordinary people who wake up with

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incredible powers. Tim Kring created the NBC Universal
Television-based project, which is also executive produced by Dennis
Hammer and David Semel, the two-hour pilot's director.

The show's ensemble cast includes Greg Grunberg ("Alias"), Hayden
Panettiere ("The Book of Daniel"), Leonard Roberts ("Buffy the Vampire
Slayer"), Masi Oka ("Scrubs"), Milo Ventimiglia ("The Bedford
Diaries"), Noah Gray-Cabey ("My Wife and Kids"), Santiago Cabrera
("Empire"), Sendhil Ramamurthy ("Numb3rs"), Tawny Cypress ("Jonny
Zero"), Adrian Pasdar ("Desperate Housewives") and Ali Larter ("Final
Destination 2").

As for "Lights," Jason Katims ("Pepper Dennis") has been tapped as the

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project's showrunner/executive producer. He'll serve alongside fellow
executive producers Brian Grazer, David Nevins, John Cameron, Sarah
Aubrey and creator Peter Berg.

Adrianne Palicki ("South Beach"), Aimee Teegarden ("Cold Case"),
Connie Britton ("24"), Gaius Charles, Jesse Plemons ("Grey's
Anatomy"), Kyle Chandler ("Grey's Anatomy"), Minka Kelly ("What I Like
About You"), Scott Porter, Taylor Kitsch and Zach Gilford ("Law &
Order: Special Victims Unit") all star in the NBC Universal
Television/Imagine Television/Film 44-produced hour, which is based on
the feature film/book of the same name.

Meanwhile in other pilot news, Glen Mazzara ("The Shield") has signed
on as an executive producer of FOX's newcomer "Primary." The network
ordered 12 additional episodes of the series, about hostage
negotiators (Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt) who try to balance
their budding relationship and their job, on Monday. Craig Silverstein
created the 20th Century Fox Television-based hour while director Tim
Story also serves as an executive producer.

Lastly, working titles have emerged for several previously unmonikered
projects: "Rules of Engagement" (Tom Hertz's sitcom for CBS), "The
Nine" (Hank Steinberg and K.J. Steinberg's ensemble drama for ABC),
"Separated at Worth" (Shana Goldberg-Meehan's sitcom for ABC), "Let
Go" (Bonnie Hunt's single-camera comedy for ABC), "The Sunshine State"
(Brad Copeland's comedy, also for ABC) and "The Great Malones" (Chris
Sheridan's half-hour for NBC).

In addition, ABC's "Sisters in Law" has been rebranded "High Bar";
"The Guys," also at ABC, is now "American Men"; Danny Comden's "Jump"
is now running under the title "Learning to Fly"; and Carol
Mendelsohn's "In the Shadow of the Law" at CBS is now "Capital Law."
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