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As was announced in February, funnyman Larry Wilmore (known most as The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent") has a few new TV projects on the horizon. First... Wilmore signed on to co-star opposite Mike Vogel in a new Fox comedy pilot titled Living Loaded. Said to be based on a book of the same name by Dan Dunn, Living Loaded centers on Dan (Vogel), "the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host." Wilmore was to play a character named Leonard, "a thoughtful and reserved Black intellectual whose dream of hosting his own NPR show is crushed...

As was announced in February, funnyman Larry Wilmore (known most as The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent") has a few new TV projects on the horizon. First... Wilmore signed on to co-star opposite Mike Vogel in a new Fox comedy pilot titled Living Loaded. Said to be based on a book of the same name by Dan Dunn, Living Loaded centers on Dan (Vogel), "the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host." Wilmore was to play a character named Leonard, "a thoughtful and reserved Black intellectual whose dream of hosting his own NPR show is crushed...

There are so many pilots potentially coming your way for the 2012-13 season that Zap2it is trying to help you weed through them all. Here are the Fox pilots that might make it to your TV screen later this year.

Dramas

"The Asset": Ali Larter is photographer who is also a highly specialized CIA operative. Hamish Linklater plays her handler. Bradley Whitford and Jamie Chung have also been cast.

"Guilty": A false-accused defense attorney (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is found guilty and stripped of his license to practice. So he goes about solving cases his own way, while looking to exact revenge on the man who set him up. Jay Harrington, Eva Amurri and Julian Morris also star.

Untitled Josh Berman/Robert Wright drama: Jordana Spiro plays a thoracic surgeon who works at a hospital and moonlights for the mob in Chicago. Zach Gilford, William Forsythe and Jaime Lee Kirchner...

This season, we had Eddie Cibrian (The Playboy Club), Jason O’Mara (Terra Nova), Hank Azaria (Free Agents), Kevin Dillon (How to Be a Gentleman), Mather Zickel (Man Up!), and Amaury Nolasco (Work It).

It didn’t work out too well for those guys, did it?

Fortunately, the failures of yesterday don’t seem to be quashing hopes for the (potential) successes of tomorrow. An excellent crop of new (and familiar) male stars are hoping to follow in the footsteps of Jim Caviezel (who’s truly nailed it on Person of Interest this season) and Henry Czerny (the very underappreciated...

For most of his career, actor-writer-comedian Larry Wilmore has been known more for every other part of his multi-hyphenate than the “acting.” But he’s been getting a lot more camera time since his role as The Daily Show’s “Senior Black Correspondent” made him a familiar face, and now he’s set to co-star in a comedy pilot that Rob McElhenney (It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia), Rob Rosell (an It’s Always Sunny producer/writer and co-creator of the new animated series Unsupervised), and Dan Dunn are developing for Fox. The show, Living Loaded, takes its title from ...

Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis have finalized deals to headline a Western for CBS, Lily Tomlin is set to play Reba McEntire’s mother on ABC, and Mad Men‘s Matt Long is going even further back in time as one of the stars of Shonda Rhimes’ ambitious new period piece (also for ABC).

Pilot Season Lingo Guide (Including the ‘Scary’ Second Position), Plus a List of Picked-Up Pilots

First up, CBS’ ’60s-set untitled drama is based on the true story of rodeo cowboy-turned-longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas Ralph Lamb (Quaid, in his first major TV gig), and Johnny Savino...

Comedian Larry Wilmore has boarded Fox's comedy pilot, Living loaded. Mike Vogel and Anna Maria Horsford have both also been added to the show.

Based on a book by Dan Dunn, the show centers on Dan (Mike Vogel), the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host.

The comedian will play Leonard, a thoughtful and reserved Black intellectual whose dream of hosting his own NPR show is crushed when Dan is brought in as his co-host. Anna Maria Horsford portrays a painfully shy NPR executive alongside Kaitlyn Black who is playing Esther.

The project is from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia creators Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell.

This project is still in development.

Exclusive: Writer-actor-comedian Larry Wilmore is set to co-star opposite Mike Vogel in Living Loaded, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from the It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia duo of Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell and FX Prods. Additionally, Wilmore is prepping a comedy special for Showtime. Based on the book of the same name by Dan Dunn, Living Loaded centers on Dan (Vogel), the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host. Wilmore will play Leonard, a thoughtful and reserved Black intellectual whose dream of hosting his own NPR show is crushed when Dan is brought in as his co-host. Also cast in Living Loaded are Anna Maria Horsford as a painfully shy NPR executive and Kaitlyn Black as Esther. They join Vogel, Wilmore and recently cast Donald Sutherland. The pilot gig will not...

Former "Felicity" star Scott Speedman is set for his first TV role since The WB series ended in 2002. He'll star opposite Andre Braugher in ABC's drama pilot "The Last Resort."

The show, created by Karl Gajdusek ("Dead Like Me") and Shawn Ryan ("The Shield," "The Chicago Code"), follows the crew of a nuclear sub that goes rogue after disregarding a suspicious-sounding order. The crew docks on a small island, takes over a Nato outpost and declares itself an independent nation (with nuclear capabilities).

Speedman will play the sub's executive officer, Deadline reports. The show has also cast Camille de Pazzis as a scientist at the Nato station (Braugher is playing the captain of the sub). Speedman has concentrated on movies since "Felicity" ended, appearing in the first two "Underworld" movies and "The Strangers"; he currently co-stars in "The Vow."

Other pilot casting news, as reported by Deadline:

- "Eureka" star...

Emmy winner Donald Sutherland has been cast opposite Pan Am‘s Mike Vogel in Living Loaded, Fox’s comedy pilot from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell.

The series centers on Dan, a hard-partying blogger (Vogel) who is forced to change his life when he becomes an NPR radio host, with Dirty Sexy Money alum Sutherland playing the refined manager of a local radio station and Dan’s dad.

Our sister site Deadline first reported the scoop.

In other pilot news…

• Life Unexpected fan fave Austin Basis is headed back to The CW with...

The great snowy plains of Donald Sutherland will be confined to the small screen and littered with metaphorical beer bottles, reports Deadline, as the actor has just signed on to co-star in Fox’s pilot Living Loaded, from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell. The single-camera comedy stars Mike Vogel—suggesting word on Pan Am’s official cancellation is due any day now—as a “loose, partying blogger” who writes for a website called Living Loaded, and who is forced to reform his hard-partying blogger ways when he becomes an NPR host at a ...

He's not typically known for his comedic timing, but Donald Sutherland is hoping to change that this fall.

The veteran actor has been cast in Living Loaded, a single camera Fox sitcom written by It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosel.

Based on a book by the same name, the series will feature Sutherland and Mike Vogel, who will play the former's son, a hard-partying blogger-turned NPR host. Sutherland will portray Grant, the intense General Manager of a local public radio station.

Sutherland will also be gaining a new, young fan base this spring when he stars in The Hunger Games as President Snow.

Donald Sutherland has been cast in Fox's comedy pilot Living Loaded. The new pilot is about a partying blogger named Dan Dunn (Mike Vogel), who is forced to change his career plans when he joins National Public Radio (NPR) as a host, reports Deadline. Living Loaded is inspired by a namesake book penned by Dunn, who is also responsible for co-creating the pilot along with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's (more)...

Exclusive: Donald Sutherland is set to co-star opposite Mike Vogel in Living Loaded, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot written by It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell. Inspired by the book of the same name by Dan Dunn, the project — co-created by Dunn, McElhenney and Rosell — centers on Dan (Vogel), the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host. Sutherland will play Grant, the refined and serious general manager of a local public radio station who also happens to be Dan’s father. The casting brings CAA-repped Sutherland under the same network roof as his son Kiefer, who stars on Fox’s upcoming drama series Touch. Living Loaded is produced by FX Prods. and executive produced by McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day’s Rcg Prods. and 3 Arts.

Shawn Ashmore, co-star of the X-Men movie franchise, and Valorie Curry, who has a part in the upcoming Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, have joined the cast of Fox’s untitled Kevin Williamson drama pilot led by Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy. The project, from Warner Bros TV, is described as an edge-of-the-seat thriller about Joe Carroll (Purefoy) a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and retired FBI profiler Ryan Hardy (Bacon) who finds himself in the middle of it. Ashmore, repped by Gersh and Paul Nicholls, will play a junior FBI agent who is part of the task force assisting Hardy in the search for Carroll. Curry, repped by Thruline, will play a young nanny who cares for Carroll’s son. Marcos Siega is directing the pilot. Michael Marc Friedman has been cast opposite Mike Vogel in Living Loaded, Fox’s single-camera...

It’s official: This Tuesday’s episode of Glee — which, coincidentally, finds Mercedes tackling Whitney Houston‘s beloved ballad, “I Will Always Love You” — will pay tribute to the late musical icon.

A series spokesperson tells TVLine that while the installment was shot long before Houston’s tragic death last Saturday, Glee producers have dedicated “Heart” to the fallen singer by placing a card in the end credits.

Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…

• Bradley Whitford will guest star in an upcoming episode of Parks and Recreation, Huffington Post reports, playing Pawnee’s departing city councilman whose seat Leslie is vying for.

A slew of actors landed roles in pilots at the end of the week. The rundown:

- Ryan Phillippe has taken his first starring role in a TV series in a CBS drama (formerly called "Golden Boy") about a young officer who's rising quickly through the ranks of the NYPD. He joins Chi McBride and Kevin Alejandro in the show from Nicholas Wootton ("NYPD Blue," "Chuck") and Greg Berlanti. [EW]

- "Pan Am" is a pretty long shot to get a second season on ABC, and one of its stars, Mike Vogel, has taken another gig. He'll star in "Living Loaded," a comedy about a hard-partying blogger who has to clean up his act when he gets a new job. Rob McElhenney and Rob Rosell ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia") are the creators. [Deadline]

- Also at Fox, John Stamos has signed on to star in a comedy called "Little Brother," about...

Presumably sensing the tone of the room, Mike Vogel has become the first star this development season to force us to whip out our definition of the industry term "second position."   According to Deadline.com, Mike Vogel has landed the lead in Fox's single-camera comedy pilot "Living Loaded," based on the book by Dan Dunn and executive produced and co-written by Rob McElhenney of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."   Scripted by Dunn, McElhenney and Rob Rosell, the pilot focuses on a hard-partying blogger (Vogel, naturally) who becomes an NPR host and has to change his lifestyle.   Vogel, who managed...

Exclusive: Mike Vogel (Cloverfield, The Help) has been cast as the lead in Living Loaded, Fox’s single-camera comedy pilot from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia creator/star Rob McElhenney and the show’s executive producer Rob Rosell. Based on the book of the same name by Dan Dunn, it centers on Dan (Vogel), the loose partying blogger of the popular Living Loaded blog who is forced to change his career plans when he becomes an NPR radio host. For Vogel, who stars on Pan Am, the casting is formally in second position to the freshman ABC drama which is unlikely to return. Co-written by Rosell, McElhenney and Dunn, Living Loaded hails from FX Prods where McElhenney, Charlie Day and Glenn Howerton’s company Rcg has a production deal. McElhenney serves as showrunner and executive produces with Rosell, Day, Howerton, Nick Frenkel and Michael Rotenberg. Vogel, repped by Wme,...

Fox has given the green light to Like Father, a single-camera family comedy written, directed and executive produced by Scrubs creator and Cougar Town co-creator Bill Lawrence. Inspired by Lawrence’s real-life experiences, it centers on a father-son relationship. This marks the first pilot script Lawrence has written solo since Scrubs and the first pilot pickup for his Doozer banner since the company moved from ABC Studios to Warner Bros. TV in June. Lawrence is executive producing Like Father with his development executive Jeff Ingold. Like Father reunites Lawrence with Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly, who was in the same position at NBC for some of Scrubs‘ run on the network. Fox bought Like Father in September with a pilot production commitment. Lawrence has another project with the same commitment at CBS, a multi-camera workplace comedy at CBS he co-wrote with Greg Malins. This is the fourth comedy pilot order...