Friday, January 27, 2006

COULD I BE ANY HAPPIER TO GIVE YOU THIS NEWS? The Hollywood Reporter gives us major casting news today on "Studio 7" (which it suggests may be undergoing a name change, possibly because of this):
  • Matthew Perry (after much vacillation) has signed to play the part of Matt Albie, which THR claims was written with Perry in mind. (Notably, this is not the "recovering drug addict" part, but the other one.) I think Perry will be great, though, interestingly, he doesn't appear until 30 pages into the script, which may throw some people for a loop.
  • Steven Weber, whose casting had been previously confirmed in a number of media, will play UBS head Jack Rudolph.
  • D.L. Hughley will play Simon Stiles, the first of the "show within a show" cast members to be cast, described in the script as "a good looking black man, and no occasional dosage of hip-hop attitude is gonna disguise the fact that he went to the Yale School of Drama."

TWOP is also atwitter with multi-sourced rumors that Timothy Busfield is prepared to sign on as Cal, the director of Studio 7. Several major regular roles have yet to be cast (Tom Jeter, Harriet Hayes, Jamie McDeere, and Danny Moore), plus a couple of major recurring roles. Further updates as events warrant.

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