Pilot Season Casting News

Jamie King will star opposite Rachel Bilson in the CW's drama "Hart of Dixie." The "My Generation" star will be one of the eccentric characters encountered by a New York City doctor when she relocates to a quirky Southern town. King will play a beautiful, overly effusive young woman, one of the elite "Blue Belles", a group of southern debutante-types who keep the town history alive by performing in period dress.

 

 

Former "Melrose Place" star, Katie Cassidy, who has recently appeared on "Gossip Girl" as the evil Juliet Sharp, will star in ABC's "Georgetown". The drama wil center around group of political staffers in Washington, D.C. and Cassidy will be taking the role of Nikki, a junior staffer in the White House Communications Office. Will Fetter is writing the pilot; Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage ("Gossip Girl") are executive producing.

  

Alex Breckenridge ("Life Unexpected") has been cast as Jenna Cooper in The CW's "Cooper & Stone". The pilot is about Cooper and Stone, two smart young female detectives on Chicago's North Side who are best friends, equally adept at discussing fashion, music, pop culture as they are solving crimes.