How pilot casting sometimes works: Alex Breckenridge demonstrates

Alex Breckenridge

I really like Alex Breckenridge. She’s a very good comedy actress who always manages to make the shows she’s in better. Plus she’s a pretty good photographer.

She does, however, have the worst luck when it comes to casting. She was the star of the short movie DEBS, but got replaced by Jordana Brewster in the feature version. She was in Dirt, but that got cancelled after two seasons. She was the best thing about The Ex-List – which was cancelled after four episodes. After a promising first season in Life Unexpected, she was in only one episode of the second season. She was in the pilot for Traffic Light and was recast. She was in the pilot for Mad Love… and was recast.

That’s got to suck.

Anyway, if you’d been following her on Twitter, you’d have known that her luck was down in this year’s pilot season.

Alex Breckenridge's first tweet

So she went proactive.

Alex Breckenridge's second tweet

The result:

Alex Breckenridge's third tweet

And the news breaks today that she’s been cast as Cooper in Cooper and Stone. That was easy. Now all she has to do is avoid being recast…

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  • Rob Buckley

    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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