Pilot News

Too much to sum up, so here's the Reuters article:

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Sarah Clarke, who played the devious Nina Myers on Fox's "24," has been cast opposite Benjamin Bratt in the NBC pilot "E-Ring," which Oscar nominee Taylor Hackford ("Ray") will direct.

"E-Ring" focuses on the fight for America's safety revealed through the inner workings of the Pentagon. Clarke will play the wife of the show's lead (Bratt).

Clarke next will be seen in the indie "Happy Endings," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

In other pilot casting news:

- Carla Gugino ("Spy Kids") will star in CBS' "Threshold," which revolves around a team of scientists and military personnel who get in contact with a mysterious alien life-form.

- Dylan Baker ("Hide and Seek") has joined Aidan Quinn in NBC's "Book of Daniel," which centers on an Episcopalian minister (Quinn) with a prescription drug problem who converses with a hip, modern Jesus. Baker will play the senior warden at the minister's parish.

- Natasha Henstridge has landed a role in ABC's "Pros and Cons," a caper focusing on a group of con artists who work for the FBI. Henstridge, most recently seen in the Lifetime movie "Widow on the Hill," will play a member of the con team.

- Judy Greer has come aboard CBS' "Love Monkey," which chronicles the lives of four male friends in various stages of dating and marriage. Greer, recently seen in "The Village" and "13 Going on 30," next will co-star in "Elizabethtown.

- and "American Dreams" star Will Estes has joined Fox's "Reunion," which follows six close friends, one of them played by Estes, from their high school graduation in 1986 to their 20th reunion in 2006. For Estes, who plays JJ Pryor on "American Dreams," "Reunion" is in second position to the NBC drama, whose future is uncertain.