Amy Smart and Karolina Wydra have been cast in NBC’s drama pilot Bad Girls. Adapted from the long-running UK series, the project, from John Wells Prods and Warner Bros TV, follows the ins and outs of a group of unlikely women in a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protégé and a host of inmates — some mothers, some friends — who struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and outside. Smart will play “the perfect blond Barbie doll from Orange County” serving time for stealing her friend’s credit card and running it up to the max. Wydra will play a scheming, sultry inmate. Smart, repped by Gersh and Untitled, is recurring on Showtime’s Shameless. Wydra, repped by Ifa and Artist Management, recurs on Fox’s House as Dr. House’s green card wife. Friday Night Lights alum Matt Lauria has joined Kj Steinberg and Shonda Rhimes...
- 3/1/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Matt Long, who played the lead in ABC’s short-lived legal drama The Deep End, is back at the network as the young male lead of period drama pilot Gilded Lilys. Also cast in the project, written/exec produced by Kj Steinberg and executive produced by Shonda Rhimes, are Army Wives co-star Brigid Brannagh and Maury Sterling (Homeland). Set in 1895, Gilded Lilys centers on the Lilys who are looking to revive their family’s fortunes by opening the most lavish hotel in New York history while their beautiful daughter Violet (Sarah Bolger), engaged to be married to a wealthy family friend, falls madly in love with charismatic lowly ship’s servant John Kidd (Long). Brannagh will play Violet’s mother Elizabeth who is married to Edwin Lily (Brían F. O’Byrne). Sterling will play the sharp-tongued valet of Edwin’s playboy brother. Long’s series credits also include an arc on Mad Men.
- 2/24/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
In the whirlwind of tabloid headlines following John Sergeant's exit from Strictly Come Dancing, everyone seems to have overlooked the fact that Jodie Kidd has departed BBC One's much-loved Saturday night show. Jodie has plenty of strings to her bow, having been a catwalk regular, presented TV programmes and shown a knack for equestrianism. Read on to find out ten fascinating facts about the dancing supermodel. 1. Failure doesn't seem to run in the Kidd family bloodline. Jodie's father is businessman and former showjumper John Kidd, her mother Wendy and sister Jemma Kidd were both models, and her brother-in-law is the Earl of Mornington. 2. Jodie's big modelling break came when she was discovered on a beach in Barbados by photographer Terry O'Neill when she was 15. 3. Jodie's dyslexia meant that she struggled academically, leaving school (more)...
- 11/26/2008
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
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