Armstrong, McBride join ABC drama pilots
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Former "O.C." star  Samaire Armstrong and "JAG" regular Zoe McLellan have joined  ABC's drama pilot "Dirty Sexy Money."
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LOS ANGELES  - Former "Dawson's Creek" star James Van Der Beek has joined ABC's drama pilot "Football Wives," which revolves around women whose lives are transformed when they marry NFL superstars.
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UK drama Footballers' Wives will be adapted for the US for a pilot episode commissioned by the ABC network.
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The ABC television network, adrift  in the ratings doldrums, found a hit in new castaway thriller  "Lost" while CBS turned up evidence its "CSI" crime drama  franchise could dominate three nights of the week as the fall  season took off.
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William Baldwin has  joined ABC's drama pilot "Dirty Sexy Money."
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ABC's upstart hospital hit "Grey's   Anatomy" performed a ratings transplant on the CBS powerhouse   crime show "CSI" on Thursday as two of television's hottest   dramas went head to head for the first time.
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The Oscar-winning film Crash is coming to TV as a drama series this year.
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Medical melodrama "Grey's Anatomy" and quirky comedy "Weeds," about a pot-dealing soccer mom, led the Golden Globe contenders for TV awards on Thursday with four nominations each, including best series.
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LOS ANGELES  - Taye Diggs will star opposite Kate Walsh in ABC's potential spinoff from hit medical drama "Grey's Anatomy."
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In one of the first  major TV deals since the Hollywood writers strike ended last  Tuesday, ABC has ordered a comedy pilot from the creators of  "Will & Grace."
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By SCOTT COLLINS and TINA DAUNT, SPECIAL FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES  LOS ANGELES  ABC is forging ahead with plans to air a miniseries starting today despite controversy over its efforts to dramatize  and some say unfairly politicize  the events leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Jordana Brewster has  signed on for ABC's drama pilot "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," playing a  role originated by Angelina Jolie on the big screen.
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The WB Network has added Emmy winner Tom Fontana to the roster of A-list producers set to deliver pilots to the network this development season.
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The Jodie Foster  character in Spike Lee&#39;s thriller &quot;Inside Man&quot; has inspired an  ABC drama pilot about a high-powered female PR executive.
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KaDee Strickland has  come on board the upcoming &quot;Grey&#39;s Anatomy&quot; spinoff, &quot;Private  Practice.&quot;
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LOS ANGELES  - William Baldwin will  play an FBI agent in ABC's drama pilot "Pros and Cons," a  stylish caper about group of con artists working for the feds.
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Donald Sutherland and  Jill Clayburgh have joined ABC's drama pilot "Dirty Sexy  Money."