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[08/10/15 - 11:46 PM]
Development Update: Monday, August 10
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:

Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!


OUTCAST (Cinemax; W: Robert Kirkman; D: Adam Wingard) - David Denman, Melinda McGraw, Grace Zabriskie, Catherine Dent, Lee Tergesen and Brent Spiner have all signed onto the upcoming drama, about Kyle Barnes (Patrick Fugit), a young man who has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Denman will play Mark Holter, taking over the role played by Kip Pardue in the pilot; with McGraw as Patricia MacCready, "a single mother and devout member of Rome's Light of God Baptist Church and a regular at Reverend Anderson's church teas"; Zabriskie as Mildred, "one of the old guard of parishioners at Anderson's church"; Dent as Janet Anderson, "the ex-wife of Reverend Anderson"; Tergesen as Blake Morrow, "a former police officer on death row for murdering his partner's wife"; and Spiner in an unspecified role. (Deadline.com)


RANCH, THE (Netflix; W: Don Reo & Jim Patterson; D: TBA) - Sam Elliott will star opposite Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson in the multi-camera comedy, in which Kutcher's character returns home after a brief semi-pro football career to run the family business with his brother, played by Masterson. He'll play "the boys' father, a rancher who has a complicated relationship with Kutcher's character who left the family business to play ball." Tapings of its 20-episode order begin on September 25. (Deadline.com)


UNTITLED MATT NIX PROJECT (FOX, New!) - Matt Nix ("Complications") has set up a new drama at the network "set in the world of truck driving, which centers around a military vet-turned-truck driver." The project, which has a put pilot commitment, is set up at 20th Century Fox Television with Film 44's Peter Berg and Flying Glass of Milk Productions' Nix executive producing. (Variety.com)


AND IN OTHER NEWS... - TV Land has pulled the plug on "The Exes" after four seasons (@kjothesmartass); Gretchen Mol is set for eight episodes of Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle" as veteran labor lawyer Nina Robertson (Deadline.com); Daya Vaidya has signed onto "Bosch" as Jen Kowski, the Chief of Staff to Mayor Ramos (Deadline.com); Morgan Smith has been cast in NBC's "Coach" revival as "Coach Fox's (Craig T. Nelson) daughter-in-law, who is married to Tim (Andrew Ridings)" (Deadline.com); Fortune Feimster will recur on "The Mindy Project" as "a nurse and the sister of Garret Dillahunt's Jody" (THR.com); Dilshad Vadsaria will return to "Bones" as Jared Booth's wife Padme (TVLine.com);

Rutina Wesley, Parker Young and Elysia Rotaru are among the new faces bound for "Arrow" this season (ETOnline.com, EW.com, The Wrap.com); Sofia Vergara will lend her voice to "The Simpsons" as "Bart's new - and yes, highly attractive - teacher" (EW.com); Pamela Reed has been cast as the mother of Eric Christian Olsen's Marty on "NCIS: Los Angeles" (EW.com); Adrian Pasdar and Kathryn Morris will both recur on USA's newcomer "Colony" (Variety.com); Sarah Shahi's Shaw will return for "eight or nine" episodes in the upcoming 13-episode season of "Person of Interest" (TVLine.com); and Cress Williams and Gail O'Grady will both visit "Code Black" on CBS (Variety.com).






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· ARROW (CW)
· BONES (FOX)
· BOSCH (AMAZON)
· COACH (NBC)
· CODE BLACK (CBS)
· COLONY (USA)
· COMPLICATIONS (USA)
· DEVELOPMENT UPDATE (TFC)
· EXES, THE (TV LAND)
· MINDY PROJECT, THE (HULU)
· MOZART IN THE JUNGLE (AMAZON)
· NCIS: LOS ANGELES (CBS)
· OUTCAST (CINEMAX)
· PERSON OF INTEREST (CBS)
· RANCH, THE (NETFLIX)
· SIMPSONS, THE (FOX)
· UNTITLED MATT NIX PROJECT (FOX)





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