By Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TV CBS’ drama pilot Out the Door has been pushed due to difficulties casting the lead in the short time frame allotted by the broadcast pilot season.
The project, from 24 veteran Evan Katz and Jerry Bruckheimer Television, is expected to fall outside of the traditional development cycle, with casting ongoing.
Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders I hear most — if not all — CBS pilot orders this year were unofficially cast-contingent, with a lot of weight put on finding a strong lead in order to get the pilot made.
Out the Door in particular, which evokes elements of Lethal Weapon, has a larger than life character at the center that requires spot-on casting.
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