Pilot season: Michael Chiklis joins ABC’s ‘Family’
Posted on February 8, 2010
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“The Shield” star Michael Chiklis is moving back to broadcast television with a lead role in ABC’s drama pilot “No Ordinary Family.”
Chiklis, who starred in “The Commish” and “Daddio” for ABC in the 1990s, will play the father of a family that’s discovering it has special powers. He’ll also be a co-executive producer of the pilot, the showbiz trade papers report.
“No Ordinary Family” comes from Greg Berlanti (“Brothers & Sisters”) and Jon Harmon Feldman (“Big Shots”), who worked together on “Dirty Sexy Money.”
Chiklis has previously played a superhero in the “Fantastic Four” movies. We’re going ahead and assuming he won’t be turned into a rock-man like The Thing in “No Ordinary Family.”
In other pilot casting news:
- “Friday Night Lights” star Zach Gilford has signed on to ABC’s legal drama “Matadors,” which centers on a feud between two families of lawyers. He will play a third-generation defense attorney at a prestigious firm, according to The Hollywood Reporter. (Gilford has been playing much younger than his actual age, 28, on “FNL.”)
He’s the first person to join the cast, which will also feature a family that works in the state’s attorney’s office. Jack Orman (“ER”) created the show.
- Jason Ritter (“The Class”) will wit
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- ‘Better Off Ted’s’ Andrea Anders joins Matthew Perry pilot
- Pilots: Jim Belushi does drama, Jane Kaczmarek back to comedy
- Pilot season: Tony Hale put in ‘Awkward Situations’
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