Ivan Sergei has been tapped to star in NBC's drama pilot Pearl City. Meanwhile, Fox has picked up Quints, a comedy pilot from writer-producer Mark Reisman. Pearl City, from NBC Studios, is an ensemble drama set in Pearl City, Hawaii, that follows a diverse team of local police detectives as they solve crimes. Sergei will play an arrogant, unorthodox detective. He joins Sharif Atkins, who was previously cast in the show (HR 1/20). Sergei co-stars on NBC's drama Crossing Jordan and will appear in the network's miniseries 10.5 in May. He is repped by CAA and manager Joanna Burstein. Quints, from 20th Century Fox TV and Imagine TV, centers on 15-year-old quintuplets living in a three-bedroom suburban house. Reisman penned the script and is executive producing with Imagine TV's Brian Grazer and David Nevins. This is Fox's second stab at developing a series about multiple-birth siblings. In 2002, the network did Septuplets, a drama pilot that made it to the network's schedule as a midseason series before being scrapped.
- 1/23/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Septuplets has hit a snag at Fox. The network is going back to the drawing board on the dramedy series that had been slated for a winter start in the Thursday 9 p.m. slot. The 20th Century Fox TV project was picked up in May on the strength of a 25-minute presentation reel, but now many of the key roles are being recast and the network is waiting to see the results of a full-length pilot before it commits to additional episodes. Septuplets revolves around a family with 16-year-old septuplets who run a posh hotel in Southern California. The series was designed to be a low-budget production, so the seven leading roles went to relative unknowns.
- 10/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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