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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One star Hayley Atwell will star in Duncan Jones' Sci-Fi animated movie Rogue Trooper alongside Aneurin Barnard and Jack Lowden.

Per Variety, Barnard will portray the titular Rogue Trooper in the animated film adapted by Jones from the 2000 Ad comic book of the same name created by writer Gerry Finley-Day (Dan Dare) and artist Dave Gibbons. Barnard, Atwell, and Lowden star alongside Daryl McCormack, Reece Shearsmith, and Jemaine Clement (Avatar 2: The Way of Water). The stellar cast also includes Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows), Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth), Alice Lowe (Black Mirror), Asa Butterfield, and Sean Bean.

Related New Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Trailer Takes Busting Ghosts to the Next Level Sony debuts a new trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, featuring the new and original Ghostbusters uniting to prevent a second Ice Age.

Rebellion and Liberty Films' Rogue Trooper, which Treehouse Digital...

The conclusion of Duke #5 promises a major shake-up for the new G.I. Joe continuity, potentially leading to the formation of the official G.I. Joe organization and Cobra. The debut of the Cobra B.A.T. in the new G.I. Joe continuity hints at the future creation of deadly weaponry and a possible alliance between Cobra Commander and Destro. Although Duke #5 may not end with the formation of G.I. Joe and Cobra, fans can look forward to more miniseries that will further expand the Energon Universe and introduce classic characters. Exciting times ahead for G.I. Joe fans!

Warning! Potential spoilers ahead for Duke #5The Energon Universe era of G.I. Joe has officially begun, as Skybound Entertainment charts a brand new origin for the Real American Heroes in the Duke miniseries. The April publication of Duke #5 concludes the miniseries, with the final issue promising a major shake-up for the new...

If you're not familiar with Timothée Chalamet, get to it!

The actor is taking Hollywood by storm and he's not stopping anytime soon. Ahead of Sunday's Golden Globes, Et's rounded up everything you need to know about the young New York City native.

1. He's only 22 years old.

When the nominations for the 75th Golden Globe Awards were announced at the end of last year, everyone was buzzing about Chalamet, who's the youngest star nominated for the Best Actor, Drama film accolade for his role as Elio in director Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name. He's up against Gary Oldman, 59 (Darkest Hour), Daniel-Day Lewis, 60 (Phantom Thread), Tom Hanks, 61 (The Post) and Denzel Washington, 63 (Roman J. Israel, Esq.).

2. Call Me by Your Name isn't the only Globe-nominated movie he's starred in this year.

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Chalamet also played Kyle Scheible in Greta Gerwig's directorial debut, Lady Bird, with another...

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Judge Dredd Takes On Mega-City Two New Mini-Series Debuts From Idw

San Diego, CA (December 10, 2013) – This January, duty calls Judge Dredd to the West Coast, in the destructive new miniseries Mega-City Two: City of Courts! After entering a partnership with Rebellion/2000 Ad, Idw has explored Dredd’s past in Year One, and taken him “Into the Cursed Earth” in his ongoing title, but with a truly unique creative team on Mega-City Two, Dredd will go up against the unfamiliar and depraved like never before!

Mega-City Two marks the comics-writing debut of Eisner Award-winning journalist and Dredd aficionado Douglas Wolk (Reading Comics). Art chores will be handled by powerhouse Ulises Farinas (Transformers: Heart of Darkness, Catalyst Comix), whose precise linework showcases the oddities of Judge Dredd’s world in stunning detail. Rounding out the creative team, colorist Ryan Hill brings the incredible structure in Farinas’ work to life.

Exclusive: Mira Sorvino is set to recur on the fourth season of TNT‘s popular alien invasion drama Falling Skies, set for a summer 2014 premiere. She will play Sara, a woman far removed from her former life as a graphic designer who is now dogged by death at every turn, yet she has never felt more alive, free or fearless. A chance encounter with guerrilla fighter John Pope (Colin Cunningham) leads her to join the resistance and develop a strong personal bond with the outlaw-turned-warrior. This marks Oscar winner Sorvino’s return to TNT where she recently toplined drama pilot Trooper. Falling Skies is produced by DreamWorks TV.

Exclusive: In its first sale this broadcast pitch season, Jerry Bruckheimer Television has set up a drama at Fox with a put pilot commitment. Written by Aron Eli Coleite, Home is a family thriller/soap that delves into the secrets lingering behind the facade of a suburban family. Coleite, Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman executive produce and KristieAnne Reed co-executive produce for Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros. TV. This marks the third consecutive pairing and third straight put pilot commitment for CAA-repped Coleite and Jerry Bruckheimer TV. During the 2011-12 development season, they sold drama Trooper to CBS, which went to pilot and was later piloted by TNT. Last season, they teamed up for an FBI drama, which also landed at CBS. Bruckheimer TV has high-profile new drama series Hostages on CBS this fall where it will join the company’s veterans CSI and The Amazing Race. Heroes alum Coleite...

Although her drama pilot Trooper failed to take off, Mira Sorvino continues to make a concerted effort to launch the television career we’re still going to take credit for because she openly campaigned for it here, this time returning to comedy by landing the female lead in CBS’ Jim Gaffigan pilot. In keeping with the show’s semi-autobiographical spin on Gaffigan’s life, Sorvino will take her name and the surprising attractiveness ratio of their relationship from Gaffigan’s actual wife Jeannie, playing “a super-wife and super-mom. The mother of five kids, she has a sixth child in the ...

Exclusive: Mira Sorvino is returning to her comedy roots (she won an Oscar for Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite) with a starring role opposite Jim Gaffigan in his CBS comedy pilot. Written by Gaffigan and Peter Tolan (the two co-wrote the story, and Tolan wrote the script), the project centers on Jim (Gaffigan) a guy who lives with his wife Jeannie (Sorvino) and five kids in a 2-bedroom New York apartment. Sorvino’s Jeannie is a super-wife and super-mom. The mother of five kids, she has a sixth child in the house: her husband Jim. Sony Pictures TV and Fedora are producing, with Gaffigan, Tolan, Michael Wimer and Alex Murray executive producing. The pilot reunites Sorvino with CBS where she toplined drama pilot Trooper last season. (She also reprised her role in the TNT version of the pilot.) In addition to Mighty Aphrodite, Sorvino’s comedic roles include the cult...

That was quick. Just 2 days after TNT passed on the Jerry Bruckheimer drama pilot Trooper, the network is back in business with the top producer, greenlighting Marshal Law: Texas, a six-episode new unscripted drama, for a 2013 debut. The series, from Warner Horizon TV, Jerry Bruckheimer TV and Megalomedia, is set in Houston, Texas. Produced with the cooperation of The U.S. Marshal Service, it centers on the elite Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force, which includes U.S. Marshals working with personnel from the Houston Police Department, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office and other law-enforcement agencies. Marshal Law: Texas follows the officers as they track down extremely violent offenders, serve warrants and go on the hunt for some of America’s most wanted criminals. Jbtv’s Jerry Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman executive produce with Megalomedia’s Jonathan Nowzaradan. KristieAnne Reed is co-executive producer. Marshal Law: Texas is part...

Fresh off of her Golden Globes win, Jennifer Lawrence is set to take the Saturday Night Live stage — and we have a sneak peek at what the Silver Linings Playbook starlet will bring to this weekend’s show.

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Press Play below to watch Lawrence channel her inner Hunger Games gal Katniss Everdeen, poke fun at SNL vet Jason Sudeikis and tackle the most annoying thing an award-winner can encounter: being played off the stage.

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• Michael J. Fox’s buzzy new NBC comedy is rounding out its cast.

TNT has picked up new crime drama King and Maxwell to series. However, the network will not be ordering additional episodes of Trooper - starring Mira Sorvino - beyond the pilot, Deadline reports. King and Maxwell - based on the novels by author David Baldacci - has been picked up for a ten-episode first season, to launch in summer 2013. The series stars X-Men's Rebecca Romijn as Michelle Maxwell and The Closer's Jon Tenney as Sean King - a pair of former Secret Service agents who now operate as private investigators. Sons of Anarchy actor Ryan Hurst also appears in the pilot episode as an autistic savant - and suspected serial killer - who helps King to crack a (more)...

As if we need another investigator based series, TNT is set to deliver one this summer anyway.

Rebecca Romijn will star along with Jon Tenney (The Closer) in the previously titled series King And Maxwell, about a private investigator duo. The network has ordered ten episodes of the show from NCIS: La executive producer Shane Brennan.

For those unfamiliar with the project, it revolves about two former Secret Service agents who have moved into the private sector. The characters are based on bestselling author David Baldacci’s creations and they have been described as not “the typical pair of private investigators.”

Although none of the details released so far particularly stand out, the one bit of shining news is that Ryan Hurst will co-star. Hurst is probably best known by fans as Opie Winston from the hit FX drama, Sons of Anarchy. In King and Maxwell, Hurst will play Edgar Roy,...

Exclusive: As it picked up pilot King & Maxwell to series today, TNT has passed on another drama pilot, Trooper. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Trooper starred Mira Sorvino as a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. The project was originally developed at CBS last season where it also went to pilot starring Sorvino. The TNT pilot, which co-starred Eion Bailey, was written by Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) who executive produced with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and Ensler for Warner Horizon. TNT today rendered a decision on its two procedural pilots. The network is yet to weigh in on its two action-adventure pilots, the Michael Bay-produced The Last Ship and the Howard Gordon-produced Legends.

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Covert Affairs hunk Eion Bailey has joined the TNT pilot Trooper. He'll play the patrol partner of Mira Sorvino's state trooper character, who we hope also has an allergy to wearing shirts.

Get ready for more Dewey in the next season of Southland, C. Thomas Howell is now a series regular. I hope that means they have some solid plans for the character who, so far, has worked best in limited quantities.

The Big Bang Theory cast Bernadette's mother with Meagen Fay, who has a long resume including Malcolm in the Middle, The Bernie Mac Show and one of my obsessions, the nuclear apocalypse comedy Whoops!.

ABC has found a pal for Rebel Wilson in the comedy pilot Super Fun Night, which follows a group of nerdy friends who promise to make every Friday a "Super Fun Night.

Once Upon a Time star Eion Bailey has joined TNT's new drama pilot Trooper. The actor - who also appears on Covert Affairs - joins Mira Sorvino in the crime series from producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Bailey will play the partner of Sorvino's state trooper - a widowed father and "by-the-book" officer, according to Deadline. The 36-year-old's past credits include HBO's Band of Brothers and the films Fight (more)...

No lie — Once Upon a Time‘s Pinocchio has found a new gig.

Eion Bailey, who plays the fairytale character/August on the ABC series, has landed the male lead in TNT’s drama pilot Trooper, our sister site Deadline reports.

Related | Brendan Fraser Exits TNT Drama Pilot Legends

The project, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI), stars Mira Sorvino as a recently divorced state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Bailey will play her partner on the job, a widowed dad with a much more by-the-book approach to policing. (The...

Exclusive: Eion Bailey (ER) has been cast as the male lead opposite Mira Sorvino in TNT‘s drama pilot Trooper produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. Trooper centers on Kj Flaxton (Sorvino) a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is James Burk (Bailey), a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing. Bailey, repped by Gersh and the Susan Smith Co., recurs as August Booth/Pinocchio on ABC’s Once Upon A Time. He also recently recurred on USA’s Covert Affairs. Liza Lapira (Don’t Trust The B—-) has been cast as a lead opposite Rebel Wilson on Wilson’s ABC comedy pilot Super Fun Night. The project, executive produced by Conan O’Brien, was originally developed as a multi-camera sitcom for CBS last season. After it didn’t make the cut,...

Alimi Ballard has joined Mira Sorvino in TNT’s new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced drama pilot Trooper, which centers on a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing. Ballard will play her partner, Lt. Hollis Figgins. Ballard's resume is chock-full of TV work, once a regular on Numb3rs, would also feature in other series like NCIS, Rizzoli & Isles, and others. He aso co-stars in a few upcoming feature films.

English actress Hannah New is set to co-star opposite Toby Stephens in Starz’s upcoming pirate drama series Black Sails, executive produced by Michael Bay. The eight-episode series, created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint (Stephens) and his men. New, repped by Ifa, UK’s Cam and attorney Lev Ginsburg, will play Eleanor, the beautiful, courageous and determined owner of a rowdy Open Nassau saloon who wields considerable influence in her dual roles as fence/supplier and party host. New starred in the CW pilot Shelter last year. Alimi Ballard (Numbers) and Alex Shaffer (Win Win) have joined the cast of TNT’s drama pilot Trooper. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced project centers on Kj (Mira Sorvino), a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work...

Lionsgate is adapting When First We Were Gods, a sci-fi film based on a Rick Yancey short story. The studio has already lined up music video and commercial director Daniel Askill to helm the project, and Aron Eli Coleite to adapt the story.

When First We Were Gods tells an interesting story about a time when humanity has achieved immortality. But eternal life is only available to the elite. The story then revolves around a man who conspires to murder his immortal wife so that his mortal (most likely poor) mistress can take her place and immortality.

Coleite’s credits include The End, which actress and director Drew Barrymore is set to helm for Warner Bros, and the TNT pilot Trooper, which stars Mira Sorvino. Askill previously directed a short film titled We Have To Decide Not To Die, which played at various festivals including SXSW. The film was well...

Lionsgate has hired Aron Eli Coleite ("The End," "Trooper") to pen the adaptation of Rick Yancey's sci-fi short story "When First We Were Gods".

The story is set in a near future where immortality is available only to the extraordinarily wealthy. In this setting, a man conspires to murder his immortal wife so that his mortal mistress can take her place (and her immortality).

Music video and commercials director Daniel Askill will make his feature directorial debut on the project.

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Exclusive: Saturday Night Live alumna Michaela Watkins has been cast opposite Malin Ackerman and Brad Whitford in the ABC single-camera comedy pilot Trophy Wife. It centers on reformed party girl Kate (Akerman), who finds herself with an insta-family when she falls in love with Brad (Whitford), a successful charmer with a quirky sense of humor who has three manipulative kids and two judgmental ex-wives. Watkins, repped by CAA and Evolution, will play Brad’s second ex-wife and mother of his youngest child, Jackie, a good-natured yet self-centered woman, who embraces youth and fun and is always surprised when her freewheeling style rubs people the wrong way. Marcia Gay Harden is set to play the other ex-wife. Jason Moore is directing from a script by Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins. Breakout Kings alumna Brooke Nevin has booked a series regular role in the TNT drama pilot Trooper. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced...

Leftovers

Nia Vardalos ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") and Paramount are teaming for the ensemble anti-romantic comedy "Leftovers".

Vardalos will star in, write and produce along with Mike Karz and Josie Rosen. Details on the story are being kept under wraps. [Source: Variety]

Trooper

TNT has cast Mira Sorvino in its new Jerry Bruckheimer-produced procedural drama "Trooper". Sorvino will play a recently divorced state trooper with three kids.

The project previously received a pilot order from CBS, but didn't move forward. [Source: TV Week]

Those Who Kill

Chloë Sevigny will play the female lead of newly appointed Boston P.D. homicide detective Catherine Jensen in A&E's drama pilot "Those Who Kill". Joe Carnahan is helming the pilot from a script by Glen Morgan.

Based on the books by Elsebeth Egholm, the series revolves around her character and a forensic profiler who both have a deep understanding of the serial killers they hunt. [Source: Deadline]...

Bite-sized news from the world of television, including a new British cop drama starring "Captain America's" leading lady and another "Office" employee getting a shot at his own show.

- Rebecca Romijn has landed the lead in TNT's pilot "King and Maxwell," based on the characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from best-selling novels by David Baldacci. The ex-secret service agents tackle criminal cases in Washington D.C. [THR]

- "Trooper," a pilot starring Mira Sorvino as a recently divorced mother of three/New York state trooper, didn't make CBS' fall schedule. But now TNT is giving the project a second shot and keeping Sorvino in the lead role. A new pilot will be shot. [TVLine]

- Gary Cole ("The Good Wife," "Office Space") has joined the cast of HBO's Emmy-nominated comedy "Veep" and will appear in as many as eight of the 10 episodes in Season 2. A premiere date has not been...

"Mimic" star Mira Sorvino and "X2" actress Rebecca Romijn have both landed leads in upcoming TNT pilots, the network told TheWrap on Friday.   Sorvino (pictured) will star in "Trooper," a procedural drama executive-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The project, which had earlier received a pilot order from CBS but did not go forward, follows a recently divorced female state trooper. The mother of three takes an unconventional approach to her work, but is paired with a by-the-books partner. Also read: Brendan Fraser to Star in TNT Pilot "Legends" Aron Eli Coleite ("Heroes," "The River")...

Mira Sorvino is set to star in TNT‘s drama pilot Trooper, which Jason Ensler has come on board to direct. This is Sorvino’s second turn in the role, which she first played when the project was a pilot at CBS last season. The Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Trooper centers on a recently divorced female state trooper (Sorvino) who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing. The news of Sorvino’s (re-)casting was first reported by TVLine. Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) wrote Trooper and executive produces with Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and Ensler for Warner Horizon. KristieAnne Reed co-executive produces. CAA-repped Ensler is on a streak, with the last three pilots directed by him all going to series: Cult and Hart Of Dixie at the...

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Mira Sorvino has signed on to star in Trooper, an hour-long procedural for TNT about a common-sense mother-turned-New York state trooper.

Sounds familiar, right? That’s because Sorvino was attached to the same project last spring when it was in development at CBS. The Eye network ultimately passed on the Warner Bros.-produced drama, but TNT saw enough potential to greenlight a new pilot last month. Execs at the cable net clearly liked some of the original casting decisions, seeing as how their search for a new leading lady led them right back to Sorvino.

Exclusive: In its first drama sale this season, Bruckheimer TV has landed a put pilot commitment from CBS for an FBI drama written by Aron Eli Coleite. Titled The Bureau, the project is described as a character drama set at the NY field office of the FBI. It reunites the auspices behind last season’s drama pilot Trooper: writer Coleite, Bruckheimer TV, CBS and Warner Bros TV. While it didn’t make the cut at CBS in May, Trooper was just ordered to pilot by TNT. The Bureau is being executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Coleite and Jonathan Littman, with KristieAnne Reed co-executive producing. Bruckheimer TV got a head start this development season with an early pilot order by NBC for drama The Secret Lives Of Husbands And Wives, which is casting. The company also has sold two comedies, a docu-style military comedy At Ease, which got a put pilot commitment at NBC,...

TNT picked up a trio of pilots Friday, including the Jerry Bruckheimer procedural drama "Trooper," an individual with knowledge of the pick-ups told TheWrap. "Trooper," which received a pilot pickup from CBS early this year but did not go forward, is described as a procedural drama about a recently divorced female state trooper. The mother of three, who takes an unconventional approach to work and home life, is paired with a by-the-books partner. Also read: Dwayne Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Get in the Ring With NBC Bruckheimer is executive producing, with a script...

TNT is banking on industry veterans to expand its original programming slate. The cable network has gone ahead and ordered three drama projects to pilot: Jerry Bruckheimer's Trooper, Shane Brennan's King and Maxwell and Howard Gordon's Legends, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. The Warner Bros. TV-produced Trooper, which starred Mira Sorvino when it was ordered to pilot at CBS during the last cycle and is produced by Bruckheimer, centers on a mother who becomes a New York state trooper. King and Maxwell, a one-hour drama from NCIS: Los Angeles boss Brennan, revolves around crime novelist David Baldacci's characters Sean

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2Nd Update 11:40 Am: TNT went for a trio of heavy TV hitters with its pilot pickups today, greenlighting Howard Gordon‘s Legends, Jerry Bruckheimer‘s Trooper and Shane Brennan‘s King & Maxwell. All three were originally developed for broadcast networks last season and fall into the procedural category TNT had been looking to mine with its second round of pilot pickups. They join the Michael Bay-produced The Last Ship, which is now casting. Legends, developed by Gordon, Jeffrey Nachmanoff and feature writer Mark Bomback from the novel by Robert Littell, was originally set up at NBC. It follows a deep-cover operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. Gordon, Nachmanoff, Alex Cary and Jonathan Levin executive produce through Fox 21. It is a big day for Gordon and Cary, who also just landed a rich premium deal at NBC for legal drama Ritter.

When last we reported on the adaptation of Susan Trott's novel, Flamingo Thief, it was to announce that Will Ferrell (Old School) was set to star. Now, we have word that Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) is in negotiations to direct the bittersweet comedy. The Michael LeSieur (You, Me and Dupree) script made its way onto the 2011 Black List. Faced with the impending loss of his wife and his business, Ferrell would play a lawyer who steals novelty flamingos as a coping mechanism. There's no timeline being reported for Ferrell's involvement yet as he's set to star in Anchorman 2 later this year and will topline Three Mississippi, a football comedy for Warner Bros. Gillespie most recently directed the remake of Fright Night starring Colin Farrell and the TV movie, Trooper. Hit the jump for the synopsis of the Trott novel, Flamingo Thief. Variety reports that Gillespie...

CBS took much of the suspense out of its upfront by renewing the great majority of its lineup back in March. "Two and a Half Men" wasn't on that list, but it's a lock to return.

The only questions now are, where does the network put all those shows? And of the remaining shows not yet renewed, will both "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: NY" make it to next season?

"The Good Wife" is already picked up for 2012-13, but there's been a lot of speculation that CBS will find a new timeslot for it. We don't mind it staying at 9 on Sundays -- but in our schedule, it waits until midseason so it A) doesn't get pushed back by NFL overruns in the fall and B) can have a mostly uninterrupted run starting in January. The network is also reportedly considering expanding its Thursday comedy block, which would move one...

Too big to fail? That attitude died with Enron and was buried under the ashes of AOL-Time Warner. Now CSI needs to watch its neck.

The franchise dominates viewership around the globe. It just swallowed up three nomination spots for the International TV Audience Awards at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival. It rakes in ratings that would make the NFL green with envy.

It also stands to lose one of its shows to satisfy CBS’s bottom line.

What, you thought this racket was about ratings? Audience following? Artistic merit?

It’s the same the world over: All about the shekels. And CBS has come to a point where it wants to shift cash into fresh projects, rather than keep shelling out for a series that can already make millions on syndicated re-runs.

The warning signs are all there. The syndication for the CSI spin-offs is locked into a robust alphabet soup of cable networks – TNT,...

Fresh off the heels of Mayor Bloomberg's grand announcement that the city would be opening five new soundstages, comes news that a record number of television drama pilots are currently being filmed right here in New York.

According to Deadline, 11 pilots are shooting this season, up from nine last year and Zero in 2010. Which all translates into why New York is yet again superior to Los Angeles! The major uptick in drama pilot production signals the first time New York has eclipsed our west coast rival, all part of a lovely trend that follows last summer's record-breaking 23 television series being filmed in New York.

Our introduction to the 11 pilots contributing to our new source of pride:

666 Park Avenue ABC

This "supernatural-tinged" show will reportedly star Vanessa Williams and "Grey's Anatomy"'s Rachel Taylor. It will focus, like so many other shows, on the drama of living in luxury apartments in the Upper East Side.

Every year, the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC) order pilots to be considered for the fall season. A pilot, as you may know, is the first episode of a TV series and the final step in a long development process from idea to screen.

From the 87 drama and comedy pilots ordered this year, a new crop of television shows will be selected -- and I read the scripts for each and every one of them. Over the course of this week, I'm walking you through the network's pilot slates, offering a bit of analysis on their present schedules and providing you with a rundown of the drama contenders. (Plus, a little bit of info about the comedies, too.) Of course, not all of these shows will find their way to your TV set -- in fact, most of them you may never hear of again.

It's that time of year again, TV fans -- the networks are almost done picking up and casting the various pilots that will be in contention to become series in the Fall 2012 schedule. With so many announcements made on a daily basis, keeping track of it all can be overwhelming, so Zap2it is assembling round-ups of all the information to help you out. (You can check out ABC's here.)

The CBS pickups are listed below. Remember, don't fall in love with a logline -- some of these will never see the light of day! We'll find out which made the cut in mid-May at the network upfronts. Get ready for a whole lotta cop shows.

Dramas

"Applebaum": Starring "Twilight's" Rachelle Lefevre, "Applebaum" follows a former lawyer who gave up her career to take care of her kids. Now, she's going back on the job as a private detective.

Pilot season has snagged a few more movie stars. Oscar winner Mira Sorvino has been cast in the leading role in the CBS drama "Trooper" while Ashley Greene is moving to "Americana."

TV Guide is reporting that Sorvino, who won an Academy Award in 1996, will star in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced show about a mother who becomes a New York state trooper. Jay Hernanez will also star.

Greene of "Twilight" fame has signed on with the ABC pilot according to Deadline. The show is about and iconic fashion designer and his family.  Greene was recently featured in a multi-story arc on "Pan Am."

In additional casting news, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Sean Patrick Thomas has joined The CW pilot "The Selection." Thomas was recently seen in "Ringer" and "Lie to Me." The show is described as a romance set in the future where women are chosen by lottery...

Twilight actress Ashley Greene has nabbed the female lead in ABC’s drama pilot Americana.

Also among the latest wave of pilot castings: Alias‘ Victor Garber finds a Notorious role, Ali Larter’s Asset spies a foe, Kevin Bacon’s FBI agent gets a partner and others.

Per Deadline, Americana revolves around a family owned fashion empire whose label is turned inside-out by the arrival of a young designer (to be played by Greene). Anthony Lapaglia (Without a Trace) has been cast as the iconic fashion designer at the head of the clan.

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Mira Sorvino is set to star in her first television series titled Trooper. Last week, it was reported that the Romy and Michele's High School Reunion actress was in talks to star in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced CBS drama pilot. Sorvino, who has been offered television roles numerous times in the past, has now closed the deal to join the pilot, reports Deadline. The (more)...

CBS orders pilot for Trooper from Jerry Bruckheimer, scripted by Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) Jerry Bruckheimer TV pilot's focusing on a mother-turned-n.Y. state trooper has been given the greenlight, reports Variety. The Law enforcement show follows a woman with a common-sense approach to police work, and is executive produced by Coleite as well as Jonathan Littman and Bruckheimer. This is Bruckheimer's first formal greenlight of the season. Film-wise, Bruckheimer's latest The Lone Ranger is currently in pre-production with Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter, James Frain Barry Pepper...

CBS orders pilot for Trooper from Jerry Bruckheimer, scripted by Aron Eli Coleite (Heroes) Jerry Bruckheimer TV pilot's focusing on a mother-turned-n.Y. state trooper has been given the greenlight, reports Variety. The Law enforcement show follows a woman with a common-sense approach to police work, and is executive produced by Coleite as well as Jonathan Littman and Bruckheimer. This is Bruckheimer's first formal greenlight of the season. Film-wise, Bruckheimer's latest The Lone Ranger is currently in pre-production with Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Helena Bonham Carter, James Frain Barry Pepper...