Jurnee Smollett & Erik Jensen Among Latest Pilot Signings

Jurnee Smollett has arrived an online insurance lead on NBC’s drama pilot Bad Women. Modified in the lengthy-running U.K. series, the project, from John Wells Prods. and Warner Bros. TV, follows the the inner workings of several unlikely women inside a federal prison: a scandalous female warden, her new protg and a number of inmates — some moms, some buddies — who have a problem with loyalties to individuals inside and outdoors. Smollett will have Gwen, a famous rap star who lives our prime existence around the local club scene until she will get busted through the DEA and finds herself thrown right into a women’s prison without bail. Smollett, repped by ICM and Store, next stars in Tyler Perrys The Wedding Counselor. Erik Jensen (Black Dark night) has became a member of NBC’s drama pilot The Frontier, which involves an organization that heads West from Missouri over the uncharted country within the 1840s. Around the The new sony TV-created show, Jensen will have among the vacationers, a deeply religious physician. Australian actress Clare Bowen continues to be cast as with Basic steps musically-driven drama pilot Nashville compiled by Callie Khouri and directed by RJ Cutler. The ABC Galleries-created pilot is focused on the Nashville music scene and it is rising and diminishing stars, including Scarlett (Bowen), a brand new-faced new arrival around. Bowen is by using Gersh, ROAR and Sue Barnett around australia. Madison Davenport continues to be cast within the NBC comedy pilot Save Me starring Anne Heche. Around the The new sony-created project, Davenport, repped byCESD and KLWGN, will have Heche’s precocious teenage daughter.