Poor Alex Breckenridge – let down by pilot season again. The CW, which is largely ruled by reality shows, only has about thruppence ha’penny to rub together, so isn’t going to be picking up her pilot, Cooper and Stone. Shame.
Still, what have they picked up instead?
Hart of Dixie, in which Rachel Bilson gets used to being a doctor in a small town after she leaves the big city. Hang on, isn’t that Doc Hollywood?
Ringer, in which Sarah Michelle Gellar goes on the run by assuming the identity of her twin sister. Genius plan that one. Still, it does feature Ioan Gruffudd, Nestor Carbonell and Kristoffer Polaha, so might be worth a look
The Secret Circle, which comes from the author of The Vampire Diaries and sees Britt Robertson from Life Unexpected discover she’s a witch. Another good supporting cast – Thomas Dekker, Gale Harold, Ashley Crow and Natasha Henstridge – but if it’s anything like The Vampire Diaries, I might be out before this has even started.
Not sure they picked the right shows there. Details and trailers after the jump.
So our Ali is up to more charity fun, helping Pampers celebrate its 50th anniversary and giving out care packages to parents as part of the Little Miracles Mission program:
Randomly, though she’s also been off launching a new line of Reebok trainers and giving out beauty tips while she does so.
Clearly, she’s back in the random business again. But that won’t stop her fellow randomeers, who’ve clearly got a taste for it.
Scarlett Johansson has been jogging with Sean Penn, but making Owen Wilson follow them.
Her Drive Angry co-star, Nicolas Cage – possibly the most random man in the world – has been in jail for alleged domestic abuse and has now been rescued, randomly enough, by Dog The Bounty Hunter.
But it’s Alex Breckenridge who’s gone truly, truly random, by deciding to go a little bit pink and not being sure she likes it.
Chicago’s rapidly becoming a town where TV shows want to shoot. It’s been a while since The Loop and Prison Break‘s first season shot there, but The Chicago Code‘s there right now and a couple of pilots are shooting there as well. Cooper and Stone, starring Alex Breckenridge and Vanessa Ferlito (one of the original stars of CSI: NY), is randomly annoying the Chicago neighbourhood of Ravenswood Manor:
“Go back to L.A.,” one resident complained
Meanwhile, The Playboy Club – NBC’s female-oriented answer to Mad Men that’s set in a 1960s Playboy club just as women’s lib and the Pill are about to hit the world – is currently giving the city a make-over. Eddie Cibrian (who, continuing the CSI theme, was in CSI: Miami for all of a season) is running around Chicago in a whole load of Jon Hamm’s cast-offs:
Since the show’s aimed at women much more than men, I imagine this will be happening a lot:
However, given the setting of the show and since Amber Heard’s in it, I imagine men* will want to watch it, too:
You may ask where randomness comes into this. Well, guess where Amber gets her style advice from:
Yes, well known Mad Menenvier and Lucky magazine’s “old reliable“, Ali Larter.
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 movieDEBS, 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.
So she went proactive.
The result:
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…
