Cook cast in NBC pilot 'Next Caller Please'

CookDane Cook has been cast for the lead of the NBC pilot "Next Caller Please." Singlecam comedy, from Universal Television and Lionsgate, also stars Collette Wolfe as a Colorado radio personality who moves to NY to co-host a satellite radio show. Cook will play Wolfe's sexist and abrasive co-host. Joy Osmanski also stars. Pilot was written by Stephen Falk, who also exec produces. Marc Buckland directs. Cook has been a major attraction on the stand-up circuit, playing such venues as Madison Square Garden and the Boston Garden, but has focused on his film career as of late. He has starred in several indie films over the last few years. Contact Stuart Levine at stuart.levine@variety.com

Lucy Lawless Arrested After Oil-Drilling Ship Protest

Mad Males Season 5 of Mad Males remains monthly away, but we've got another factor to around-evaluate ultimately count lower the occasions.AMC has launched a completely new ad campaign featuring Don Draper (Jon Hamm) searching inside a reflection of themselves and a pair of mannequins in the store window. "[The appearance is] a nonverbal representation of where my thoughts reaches and where the show will probably be,In . creator Matthew Weiner told The NY Occasions. "With the finish of the year, I guarantee guess what happens it comes down to.InchUnique Mad Males sneak look: Will Don cheat again?We haven't heard of you, but we're not able to wait that extended (especially since we've already anxiously anxiously waited 17 several days for Season 5), so let's positioned on our thinking caps and also have a stab at just what the photo might mean.1. Don sees his reflection inside the window, as well as the biggest assumption is always that he's taking stock of his existence and recent existence options (e.g. recommending to Megan [Jessica Pare] inside the Season 4 finale).2. You'll find males together with a lady mannequin displayed - can they represent Don and Megan? Is it still together? Will she function as one rare situation where her days aren't designated after hooking up tabs on Don?3. Once the female mannequin is not Megan, Don could regress to his philandering ways. Ultimately, a clip teases that "infidelity has came back.Inch Then there's the fact the lady mannequin is naked, bare, faceless and apparently within the male mannequin's beck and call - similar to how Don likes his women.4. Or could this mall essentially be described as a new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce client?Season 5 of Mad Males premieres Sunday, March 25 getting a 2-hour episode at 9/8c on AMC. Whatrrrs your opinion the poster means?

Pilot Season: Breaking Bad's Giancarlo Esposito Cast in J.J. Abrams' Revolution

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Berger named Senior VP of Publicity at Liddel

Mickey Liddel's newly minted LD Entertainment has named PR exec Liz Berger as Senior VP - Publicity.Berger recently relocated to Los Angeles to cover a maternity leave overseeing publicity for Screen Gems' "Underworld Awakening" and "The Vow." She previously served as a senior VP at Miramax Films and The Weinstein Co., overseeing national release campaigns on "Finding Neverland," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," "Chocolat," "The Cider House Rules," "Dirty Pretty Things," "Clerks II" and "The Nanny Diaries."Berger was also a senior exec for 42West Public Relations and worked on "I'm Still Here," "The Messenger," "The Young Victoria," "Gasland" and "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work."She also worked FilmDistrict and oversaw the national publicity campaigns for "Insidious" and "Soul Surfer." Berger will be based in Los Angeles and report to president David Dinerstein.The company's also hired Deanna Brigidi-Stewart as VP of casting.LD Entertainment's initial slate includes "Killer Joe," which will have its US premiere at South by Southwest; the horror film "The Collection"; "Disconnect," starring Jason Bateman and Alexander Skarsgard; and the thriller "Black Rock," which was acquired at Sundance.LD Entertainment plans to distribute four to six titles a year and producing four to six movies a year with budgets of up to $25 million. Recent produced titles include "The Grey" and "Albert Nobbs." Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

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Kristin Kreuk The CW finds its Beauty in Smallville's Kristin Kreuk. Kreuk will have charge role within the network's pilot Beauty and also the Animal, TVGuide.com has confirmed. The variation, loosely in line with the eighties CBS series of the identical title, will have a love story having a procedural twist. This role will mark Kreuk's first starring role since she left Smallville in the finish of Season 7.