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Rhys Wakefield has signed with ICM Partners. The Australian actor is onscreen in Endless Love, and his other credits include The Purge, Nobody Walks and The Black Balloon, for which he earned Best Actor noms from the Australian Film Institute and the Film Critics Circle of Australia. He is managed by Anonymous Content. Gina Wendkos has signed with Apa. Her feature writing credits include The Perfect Man, Coyote Ugly, Jersey Girl and the Princess Diaries films along with the telepic Do No Harm. Wendkos is scripting Carnival for CBS Films and Kabul Beauty School, which is in development at Columbia. She is additionally repped by The Gotham Group.

NBC has solidified the premiere date for midseason drama Do No Harm and set the end date for departing comedy 30 Rock. Do No Harm will receive the 10 p.m. Thursday slot, kicking off its season Jan. 31 following an hourlong series finale for the Tina Fey comedy. Because Do No Harm will take the Thursday time period, news program Rock Center With Brian Williams will move to Fridays following Dateline beginning Feb. 8. More to come ...

NBC has released a bunch of trailers and clips for a new collection of TV series that they have been developing. We've got stuff from 1600 Penn, Infamous, Save Me, Next Caller, Do No Harm, The New Normal, Guys With Kids, and Go On. It will be interesting to what shows make it and what shows end up on the chopping block. Check out the trailers and clips and let us know which ones look good to you!

1600 Penn:

“1600 Penn” — The Gilchrists are just the average American family dealing with all the everyday issues – like a grown kid who’s forced to move back home, children who are smarter than their teachers and a stepmom (Jenna Elfman, “Dharma and Greg”) desperately trying to win over the kids. They’re loving, fun and a little crazy. In other words, just like everybody else. With one exception: they live in a very special house.

With pilot season done, NBC has announced its fall lineup. Returning genre show "Grimm" remains on Friday at 9:00 Pm with new series "Do No Harm" landing on Sunday at 10:00 Pm and "Revolution" on Monday at 10:00 Pm. Look for "Hannibal" mid-season.

Along with the schedule announcement, the network released full synopses of all the upcoming shows, which you'll find below. For more info, such as clips, photos, and more, just click each title to visit NBC.com.

In case you're wondering, nothing was said about "Mockingbird Lane". We're hoping no news is good news.

"Do No Harm" - Dr. Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale, "Rescue Me") is a highly respected neurosurgeon who has it all – a lucrative career, confident charm, the gift of compassion. But he also has a deep, dark secret. One morning when he wakes up disoriented in a wrecked hotel room amidst several near-naked women he's never seen before,...

In advance of their official Upfronts presentation on Monday, NBC jumped the gun to be the first network to unveil their complete 2012-2013 schedule on Sunday.

The biggest story? "Community" is moving to Fridays, along with sophomore sitcom "Whitney," which will kick off that rather random new night of programming.

"Smash" is also being bumped -- all the way to midseason -- to make way for the premiere of "Revolution," a new thriller from J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, which will air after "The Voice" on Mondays. And yes, that means "The Voice" will be back in the fall, giving it two cycles a year, as predicted.

NBC will also try their hand at airing comedies on Tuesday nights, with Matthew Perry's "Go On" and Ryan Murphy's "Th New Normal" getting paired together.

Also being saved for midseason are new sitcoms "Save Me," "1600 Penn" and "Next Caller," and new dramas "Do No Harm,...

In advance of their official Upfronts presentation on Monday, NBC jumped the gun to be the first network to unveil their complete 2012-2013 schedule on Sunday.

The biggest story? "Community" is moving to Fridays, along with sophomore sitcom "Whitney," which will kick off that rather random new night of programming.

"Smash" is also being bumped -- all the way to midseason -- to make way for the premiere of "Revolution," a new thriller from J.J. Abrams and Eric Kripke, which will air after "The Voice" on Mondays. And yes, that means "The Voice" will be back in the fall, giving it two cycles a year, as predicted.

NBC will also try their hand at airing comedies on Tuesday nights, with Matthew Perry's "Go On" and Ryan Murphy's "Th New Normal" getting paired together.

Also being saved for midseason are new sitcoms "Save Me," "1600 Penn" and "Next Caller," and new dramas "Do No Harm,...

The NBC pickup parade continues.

With seven new shows already announced by the network over the last week or so, the Peacock has given the green light to two more:

Do No Harm: A drama based on Steven DePasquale's neurosurgeon, a doctor with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-type issue that causes major problems (as you might expect) at work and at home. Cast also includes: Alana de la Garza, Phylicia Rashad and Mousa Kraish. Infamous: Pretty much a rip-off of Revenge. Features Meagan Good as a detective who goes undercover inside a wealthy family in order to identity her friend's killer. Also stars: Victor Garber, Neil Jackson, Katherine Lanasa and Laz Alonso.

As for returning shows, NBC just announced renewals for 30 Rock and Parenthood.

NBC has added to its new drama roster for the 2012-13 TV season by ordering Do No Harm and Infamous (fka Notorious) to series.

Do No Harm is a high-concept medical drama revolving around a brilliant neurosurgeon (Rescue Me‘s Steven Pasquale) who wrestles with a dangerous Jekyll & Hyde-like alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. The cast also includes Alana de la Garza (Law & Order), Phylicia Rashad (The Cosby Show) and Mousa Kraish.

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Infamous, meanwhile, is described as an opulent soap in which a female detective (Californication...

Exclusive: David Schulner has signed a new rich two-year, seven-figure overall deal with Universal Television. Schulner is the creator/executive producer/showrunner of the Universal TV-produced Jekyll & Hyde-esque medical drama pilot Do No Harm. The NBC pilot, starring Steven Pasquale as a brilliant neurosurgeon wrestling with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life, has been garnering strong early buzz. This marks the second pilot order for Schulner who burst into the scene in 2007 when his high-concept spec The Oaks, which sparked a bidding frenzy, ultimately landing at Fox with a series commitment and a seven-figure penalty. But the project, about the intertwined stories of three families living in the same house during different periods, became a victim of the writers strike, with neither Schulner nor Shawn Ryan, who came on board as showrunner, able to attend the pilot shoot which started on...

Universal Television has closed about a half-dozen overall deals over the past few weeks, with several more in the works. The completed pacts include renewals for Peter Berg & Sarah Aubrey’s production company Film 44 and writers Alexandra Cunningham and Michael Pennie and first-time agreements with Victor Fresco new Sarah Watson. The brisk deal-making comes months after NBC announced its plans to reestablish its production arm into a full-fledged studio, renamed it Universal Television and tapped Bela Bajaria to run it. Bajaria said the replenishing of the studio’s talent roster is part of “the long-term goal to rebuild Universal Television into a major supplier of quality, ground-breaking, successful dramas and comedies.” Last summer, the studio stepped up to re-up The Office and Parks & Recreation executive producer Greg Daniels and sign a pod deal with Peter Traugott. Both pacts resulted in pilots this season — Daniels wrote and executive produces comedy...

NBC's slate of pilots run the gamut from hospitals and fire department to trailer parks and prison and even the White House. Here are the NBC pilots of the 2012-13 television season.

Dramas

"Bad Girls": Amy Smart ("Shameless") and Jurnee Smollett ("Friday Night Lights") star in this drama about women in federal prison and their scandalous female warden. John Wells ("Shameless," "The West Wing") is the executive producer. It's based on a British series.

"Beautiful People": This drama set in the near future features a society where humans co-exist with mechanical androids, who are treated as second-class citizens. Until the androids begin to awaken. Frances Conroy, David Conrad and Ernie Hudson have been cast.

"Chicago Fire": A new action drama that focuses on the men and women of the Chicago Fire Department, starring "House" alum Jesse Spencer, "Vampire Diaries" Taylor Kinney and executive-produced by "Law & Order's" Dick Wolf.

After the high profile and, what Hollywood execs like to call “high concept” shows of last week’s article, this week I will be going through new pilots which follow two trends I like to call “remaking is breaking” and “Desperate Housewives is over and Grey’s Anatomy has got to end sometime”.

Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives have been big ratings pulls in the coveted demographic (18-49 if you don’t know) for ABC and have meant big advertising bucks. And, even though Grey’s prolific creator Shonda Rhimes, who will be show running three to five shows next season depending on pickups, has claimed that Grey’s will move past eight seasons, there is a general sense that the show is on the decline and, coupled with the loss of Desperate Housewives at the end of the current season, there is a definite hole in the market.

Hellcats star Aly Michalka has been cast in Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot Rebounding. The 20th TV project, written by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman and directed by Jason Winer, is an uplifting comedy about Danny, a man recovering from the death of his fiancé with the help of the idiots on his pickup basketball team. Michalka, repped by CAA and Prospect Park, will play the girlfriend of one of Danny’s friends. Veteran Phylicia Rashad has joined NBC/Uni TV’s Jekyll & Hyde-style medical drama Do No Harm. The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (Steven Pasquale), a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego Ian Price who threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. Rashad, repped by Innovative and Parseghian Planco, will play Dr. Vanessa Harris, the powerful, cutting and intimidating Chief of Surgery. David Arquette has been added to ABC...

The Cosby Show star Phylicia Rashad has joined a new NBC pilot. The actress will appear in Jekyll and Hyde update Do No Harm, according to TV Guide. Written by The Event's David Schulner, the drama will focus on Jeffrey Kohl (Steven Pasquale), a talented neurosurgeon who struggles against his violent alter ego Ian Price. Rashad will play Kohl's boss, chief of surgery Dr Vanessa Young. Though she is fond of Kohl, Young can also be intimidating and confrontational. Following her eight-year, Emmy-nominated stint on The Cosby Show from 1984 to 1992, Rashad (more)...

Phylicia Rashad has joined the cast of NBC's Jekyll-and-Hyde-in-a-hospital pilot Do No Harm as everyone's sophisticated and loving, but stern mother. Clair Huxtable forever! We kid, we kid. TV Guide reports that Rashad will play the chief of surgery, who's very supportive of her staff but isn't afraid to "[call] things like she sees them." Harm stars Rescue Me's Steven Pasquale as a neurosurgeon with an evil alter ego whom he'd been able to keep in check thanks to medication — medication that has now stopped working. Duhn-duhn-duuuuhn.

Phylicia Rashad is returning to TV. The "Cosby Show" star has signed on to appear in NBC's "Do No Harm," according to TV Guide. In the show -- a modern day take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Rashad will play Dr. Vanessa Young, the chief of surgery and boss to the show's main character Dr. Jeffrey Kohl.

Steven Pasquale plays Dr. Kohl, a neurosurgeon who has a dangerous alter ego he previously could keep in check with medicine. TV Guide describes Rashad's character as Dr. Kohl's greatest champion who "calls things like she sees them." Alana De La Garza of "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: La" fame is also scheduled to star in the medical drama.

Meanwhile on ABC, David Arquette will star in "The Smart One," Portia de Rossi's new sitcom. According to TVLine, Arquette will play Buddy, the husband to Malin Akerman's character, Candy.

Phylicia Rashad is returning to TV. The "Cosby Show" star has signed on to appear in NBC's "Do No Harm," according to TV Guide. In the show -- a modern day take on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- Rashad will play Dr. Vanessa Young, the chief of surgery and boss to the show's main character Dr. Jeffrey Kohl.

Steven Pasquale plays Dr. Kohl, a neurosurgeon who has a dangerous alter ego he previously could keep in check with medicine. TV Guide describes Rashad's character as Dr. Kohl's greatest champion who "calls things like she sees them." Alana De La Garza of "Law & Order" and "Law & Order: La" fame is also scheduled to star in the medical drama.

Meanwhile on ABC, David Arquette will star in "The Smart One," Portia de Rossi's new sitcom. According to TVLine, Arquette will play Buddy, the husband to Malin Akerman's character, Candy.

Phylicia Rashad, aka Clair Huxtable on NBC's long-running The Cosby Show, is plotting her return to the small screen. The Emmy-nominated and Tony-winning actress has joined NBC's drama pilot Do No Harm, a network spokesman confirms to The Hollywood Reporter. Do No Harm is a updated take on the Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde drama that revolves around Jeffrey Kohl (Rescue Me's Steven Pasquale), a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and processional life. As first reported by TV Guide, Rashad will play Dr. Vanessa Young,

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Several well-known actors, including former stars of "Heroes" and "Lost" and a "Party Down" regular, have signed up for pilots in the latest round of casting. The rundown:

- Ali Larter ("Heroes") will play the title role in Fox's drama pilot "The Asset," from "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" executive producer Josh Friedman. She'll play a New York-based CIA agent who gathers intel all over the world in her cover as a photojournalist. [EW]

- "Lost" star Terry O'Quinn, who's coming off a recurring gig on "Hawaii Five-0," will take up residence in "666 Park Avenue" at ABC. The show, based on novels by Gabriella Pierce, will follow a young couple who experience otherworldly happenings when they move into a historic Manhattan apartment building. O'Quinn will play the building's owner, and we're just guessing he might know something about the weird goings-on. [Deadline]

- Willa Holland ("The O.C.") has joined Stephen Amell and...

Party Down and Veronica Mars alum Ryan Hansen has landed the lead in the Fox comedy pilot El Jefe. The project, from writers David Guarascio & Moses Port and Sony TV, centers on an affable but lost 30-year-old (Hansen) who, tossed out of his Brentwood home, moves in with his longtime Latin American nanny and goes head to head with her strong-willed son and finds himself in a family and work life very different than the ones he grew up in. Gersh-repped Hansen recently co-starred on NBC’s Friends With Benefits. Heather Burns (HBO’s Bored To Dead) has joined the NBC/Sony TV comedy pilot Save Me, starring Anne Heche as a woman who, after an accident, starts to believe she is channeling God. ICM-repped Burns will play her friend. Also cast in the pilot is Lamon Rucker as Dr. John Wilkins. Mousa Kraish has been added to the NBC...

Steven Pasquale has landed the lead role in NBC pilot Do No Harm. The Jekyll and Hyde update - written by The Event's David Schulner - will focus on Jeffrey Kohn, a talented neurosurgeon who struggles against his violent alter ego Ian Price. Rescue Me star Pasquale will play both roles, according to Entertainment Weekly. The actor's past credits include parts on Six Feet Under, The Playboy Club and USA pilot Over/Under. He will also appear opposite Maya Rudolph in a forthcoming episode of NBC comedy Up All Night. Alana (more)...

Steven Pasquale has joined NBC's Jekyll & Hyde-style medical drama pilot, Do No Harm.

The Rescue Me star will portray Jeffrey Kohn, a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego Ian Price that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and processional life. The project is written by David Schulner.

The actor is best known for his role in Rescue Me were he plays young firefighter Sean Garrity.

This project is still in development.

Rescue Me alum Steven Pasquale has landed the dual lead role in NBC’s Jekyll & Hyde-style medical drama Do No Harm. The project, written by David Schulner, centers on Jeffrey Kohn (Pasquale), a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego Ian Price that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and processional life. Pasquale, repped by ICM and Emily Gerson-Saines, is best known for his role as young firefighter Sean Garrity on the FX drama Rescue Me. He recently starred in the USA Network pilot Over/Under. While USA has not officially pulled the plug on the project, I’ve learned that Do No Harm has Pasquale in first position. Mimi Kennedy is set to co-star opposite Judy Greer in ABC’s single-camera comedy pilot American Judy, which centers on a cosmopolitan woman (Greer) who gets married and becomes a fish out of water in the suburbs having to juggle stepkids,...

A familiar face from Rescue Me has signed up to save lives in a new NBC project.

Steve Pasquale, who was a series regular in the FX hit, has landed the starring role in NBC’s upcoming pilot Do No Harm. He will play neurosurgeon Jeffrey Kohl and his Hyde-like alter ego Ian Price.

The show, from writer David Schulner (The Event) focuses on Kohl as he wrestles with his dangerous alter ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. Shulner and Pasquale briefly worked together on NBC’s The Playboy Club, where the actor played a young Hugh Hefner.

Law & Order and Law & Order: La co-star Alana De La Garza is returning to NBC in a lead role in their new medical drama pilot Do No Harm. The new series comes from Universal Studios and centers on Jeffrey Kohn, a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life.

De La Garza will be playing Dr. Lena Steck, also a neurosurgeon, who happens to have some chemistry with Kohl. De la Garza will be joined in the cast by British actress Ruta Gedmintas who can be seen most recently in season 1 of the Showtime series The Borgias. Gedmintas will play Olivia Case, Kohn’s former fiance.

Tony Award winner Michael Mayer, who directed the pilot of the NBC musical drama Smash has been brought on to direct Do No Harm according to Deadline. The pilot will be written by...

Alana De La Garza has landed a lead role in NBC’s medical drama pilot Do No Harm.

The Law & Order/CSI: Miami alumna will play a confident neurosurgeon who has loads of chemistry with the series’ yet-to-be-cast top doc, Deadline reports. The Borgias’ Ruta Gedmintas is also set to co-star in the project, which was written by The Event co-exec producer David Schulner.

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Alana De La Garza has joined NBC's medical drama pilot Do No Harm. The Jekyll and Hyde update - written by The Event's David Schulner - will focus on Jeffrey Kohn, a talented neurosurgeon who struggles against a violent alter ego. De La Garza will play Kohn's colleague and friend Dr Lena Steck, according to Deadline. The actress is best known for playing Connie Rubirosa on Law & Order, a role she later reprised in short-lived spinoff Law & Order: La. The Borgias star (more)...

Exclusive: Law & Order and Law & Order: La co-star Alana De La Garza is back at NBC with a lead role on the network’s medical drama pilot Do No Harm. Also cast in the pilot, written by David Schulner and directed by Michael Mayer, is British actress Ruta Gedmintas (The Borgias, Spooks). The Universal Studios-produced Do No Harm centers on Jeffrey Kohn, a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc on his personal and professional life. De La Garza, repped by Sdb Partners, will play Dr. Lena Steck, a confident neurosurgeon who has chemistry with Kohl. Gedmintas will play Olivia Case, Kohn’s former fiance.