LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alicia Witt will star in a Hallmark Channel movie tentatively titled "Backyard Wedding."
The film centers on Kim Tyler (Witt), who is set to have the wedding of her dreams in her parents' backyard, but her ex-husband and first love -- whose parents happen to live next door -- keeps popping up.
Also cast in the project are Markie Post, who will play Kim's aunt, and Frances Fisher as Kim's mother. Bradford May will direct the movie from a script by Nina Weinman.Witt has had a recurring role on the fourth season of the NBC drama "Friday Night Lights," playing Cheryl, landlord of Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch).
----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sam Hennings, Robyn Lively and Leonard Earl Howze have landed co-starring roles opposite Jason Lee on TNT's hourlong pilot "Delta Blues," executive produced by George Clooney.
"Blues," from Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smokehouse Pictures and Warner Horizon, centers on Dwight Hendricks (Lee), a Memphis police officer who lives with his mother and moonlights as an Elvis impersonator.Hennings (Hallmark Channel's "Elevator Girl") will play Dwight's partner Whitehead. Lively ("Saving Grace") will play Charlene, Dwight's ex-wife whose catering company is contracted by the MPD. Howze ("Barbershop") will play a detective who works closely with Dwight and Whitehead.
Clark Johnson is directing the pilot from a script by Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto.----- ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Ernie Grunwald ("King of the Hill"), Peter MacNeill, Tracey Dawson and Kathleen Munroe have joined the Jason Priestley-starring Canadian pay-TV sitcom "Call Me Fitz."The 13-episode comedy for the Movie Network and Movie Central stars Priestley as a used-car salesman walking a fine line of acceptable behavior on the lot alongside a new salesman, do-gooder Larry, who becomes his alter-ego.
Rounding out the cast are Donavon Stinson ("Reaper"), Brooke Nevin and Gillian Ferrier, with Rachel Blanchard and Joanna Cassidy attached in recurring roles.The show from producer-writer Sheri Elwood ("Defying Gravity") is set for a 2010 debut.
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