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[07/21/15 - 11:32 PM]
Development Update: Tuesday, July 21
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

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

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STAY (ABC Family; W: Spenser Cohen; D: Jon Turteltaub) - Alicia Coppola, Brianna Brown and Leonard Earl Howze are the first to be cast in the drama pilot, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a recently widowed police detective and his two daughters who are stranded at a foreboding hotel and must unravel the hotel's mysteries to escape. Coppola plays Alison, "Jake's mother and the wife of the conservative, emotionally withdrawn Frank, whom she fears"; with Brown as Eva, "another guest at the Grayfield Hotel, who's seeking shelter from the storm"; and Howze as Wagner, "a helpful bus driver who brings several people to the Grayfield Hotel when his bus breaks down in the storm." (Deadline.com)


AND IN OTHER NEWS... - Tim Robbins took to Twitter with the news that HBO has renewed "The Brink" for a second season (@TimRobbins1); Robbie Amell and Lauren Ambrose will both guest on "The X-Files" as FBI agents (Deadline.com); Joey Pollari is the latest bound for "American Crime" as Eric Lupton, "a basketball player from a working class family who attends school on a basketball scholarship" (Deadline.com); Megan Hilty, Maury Sterling and Aaron Staton are among the new faces set to drop by "Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce" (THR.com); Laura Bell Bundy has snagged a role on ABC Family's "Recovery Road" as "a reality TV producer who enters the Springtime Meadows rehab facility with her cameras in tow and disrupts the residents' lives" (USMagazine.com); Michael Chiklis has joined the cast of "Gotham" as the GCPD's new captain, Nathaniel Barnes (TVLine.com); and "The Alienist" author Caleb Carr will serve as a consulting producer on TNT's upcoming series adaptation (Variety.com).






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· ALIENIST, THE (TNT)
· AMERICAN CRIME (ABC)
· BRINK, THE (HBO)
· DEVELOPMENT UPDATE (TFC)
· GIRLFRIENDS' GUIDE TO DIVORCE (BRAVO)
· GOTHAM (FOX)
· RECOVERY ROAD (FREEFORM)
· STAY (ABC FAMILY)
· X-FILES, THE (FOX)





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