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FOX HAS BEGUN CASTING INSEPERABLE!
2/28/08 Inseperable Update:
From Reuters.com:
Networks hire actors for fantasy projects
By Nellie Andreeva
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - With the pilot season truncated to three months because of the writers strike, some broadcast networks are hiring actors for projects that may not even get shot.
British TV actor Toby Stephens ("Jane Eyre") was cast Wednesday as the lead in Fox's drama "Inseparable," a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale. However, the project has not yet been picked up to pilot.
"Inseparable" was pitched before the strike by creator Shaun Cassidy. The network asked for a revised draft, which Cassidy couldn't complete before the three-month stoppage began on November 5. To get a head start when the strike concluded, Fox in January gave its blessing for casting to begin, but delayed the official pilot order until it read Cassidy's new draft.
Another article from 2/28/08 from The Hollywood Reporter: (thanks to ValentineVal for the heads-up on this article!):
New trend: stars before pickups
With the pilot season truncated to three months because of the writers strike, some broadcast networks are switching the order of pilot casting and pickups to save time and give themselves a better shot at sought-after talent.
On Wednesday, British actor Toby Stephens ("Die Another Day") was cast as the lead in Fox's drama "Inseparable." However, the project has not yet been picked up to pilot.
A modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale about a partially paralyzed forensic psychiatrist (Stephens) with a split personality whose alter ego is a charismatic criminal, "Inseparable" was pitched before the strike by creator Shaun Cassidy, who originally developed it several years ago. The network asked for a revised draft, which Cassidy couldn't complete before the work stoppage began.
January, 2008
According to the Hollywood Reporter and ComingSoon.net, Fox will begin casting a show that we first heard about from Shaun Cassidy in the 2003/2004 development season. The show, Inseparable, is a "modern day Jekyll and Hyde tale about a partially paralyzed forensic psychiatrist with a split personality whose alter ego is a charismatic criminal."
Apparently Fox bought this show after Mr. Cassidy pitched it (through his overall deal with ABC Studios) in the fall. Shaun apparently was working on getting a revised draft of the show to Fox when the writer's strike began. Fox, however, is getting a head start by greenlighting casting for the series in anticipation of receiving the revised draft for the show once the strike is settled. The following is the article from the Hollywood Reporter (the article from ComingSoon.net is a repeated synopsis of this same article so I'm just putting in the link above):
A pilot, only without the crew
Fox begins casting 'Inseparable' sans script, order
Jan 11, 2008
This is pilot season, WGA strike-style.
Fox has given the green light for casting to begin on the one-hour project "Inseparable" from "Invasion" creator Shaun Cassidy and ABC Studios.
However, the project has not been picked up to pilot, a process that has been stalled by the writers strike.
Cassidy first developed "Inseparable" -- a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde tale about a partially paralyzed forensic psychiatrist with a split personality whose alter ego is a charismatic criminal -- during the 2003-04 development season, when it was set up at CBS through Universal.
It was resurrected in the fall when Cassidy, through his overall deal at ABC Studios, pitched it to Fox before the strike.
The network bought it and asked for a revised draft. Before Cassidy was able to complete it, the writers walkout began.
At a showrunner rally at the gates of Walt Disney Studios in Burbank on Nov. 7, the third day of the strike, Cassidy told The Hollywood Reporter that he has several projects at ABC Studios that are now in "development freeze" (HR 11/8).
Two months later, the prolonged strike has wiped out this year's pilot season, and the duration of the stoppage is anybody's guess.
To get a head start when it's over, Fox is proceeding with casting on "Inseparable." But there will be no official pilot order to the project until the network sees Cassidy's new draft, which he will finish after the end of the strike.
CAA-repped Cassidy is in the first year of a two-year overall deal at ABC Studios, which has now been suspended because of the strike.
Cassidy previously created or co-created the series "American Gothic," "Players," "Roar" and "Cover Me" and executive produced CBS' "Cold Case" and "The Agency."
FEBRUARY, 2007
SHAUN ONSTAGE!!
Is Shaun Cassidy getting "the itch" to perform again?
Since the end of "Invasion" we haven't heard about any writing/productions coming from Shaun Cassidy Productions, but he seems to be popping up on the stage with more frequency!
On February 9 & 10, 2007 Shaun Cassidy played "Vince Fontaine" in a Hidden Hills Playhouse production of "Grease" called Gray Grease.
(for more information visit http://www.kennymorse.com/graygrease.htm)
