Casting Directors Named for 10 Pilots

Kari Lizer has had two pilots picked up, one from ABC and one from NBC. It's not pilot season without at least one "Untitled Kari Lizer Project"!She'll be casting the comedy "Lady Friends" for NBC about a friendship between two women that endures despite their respective lots in life. The project shoots in mid March. This season's "Untitled Kari Lizer Project" is an ABC comedy about a no-nonsense career woman who meets her greatest challenge when she's laid off and forced to be a full-time mom to her two teenagers. The project shoots in early April.Dramas with supernatural elements are only slightly less hot this year, but we still have a few weeks to go. However, it is looking like the vampire trend is mercifully drawing to a close.Patrick J. Rush will cast "666 Park Avenue," a drama for ABC about the managers of a historic apartment building in NY who begin to experience supernatural phenomena. The project shoots in mid March in NY. Junie Lowry-Johnson and Libby Goldstein will cast the NBC drama "Midnight Sun" about FBI agents who are sent to investigate the disappearance of the inhabitants of a remote Alaskan village. A shoot date hasn't been set.Vampires may not be in but lady spies certainly are. Fox's drama "The Asset" will be cast by Lisa Beach and Sarah Katzman. The project shoots in March and is about a female CIA agent working out of the NY office who engages in covert operations. Rick Milikan is casting the "Untitled Karyn Usher Project," a drama for Fox about the teenage daughter of a murdered CIA operative who is recruited to the agency. Here's another period drama that sounds intriguing. Anything involving NY in the late 19th century should be hard to mess up. Linda Lowy is casting "Gilded Lillys" for ABC about the grand opening of a luxury hotel in NY in the late 1800s, written by K.J. Steinberg. The project shoots in mid March. Julie Tucker and Ross Meyerson are casting the CBS drama "Baby Big Shot" about a lawyer with a blue-collar background who uses her street smarts to flourish at her white-shoe law firm. A shoot date hasn't been set.And then there are some more comedies, such as the "Untitled Nick Stoller Project " for CBS about a guy who winds up having to work in the cubicle next to the girl who recently dumped him. Jeanne McCarthy will cast the project, which hasn't set a shoot date.Dava Waite Peaslee is casting "Friday Night Dinner" for NBC, a comedy about a Jewish family that gets together to kvetch over Shabbat. No shoot date has been set.