Geena Davis Exits CBS Drama Pilot, Marcia Gay Harden To Replace Her – CB

EXCLUSIVE: There’s a main casting change on CBS’ untitled Mom & Son Authorized Drama Pilot. Oscar winner Marcia Homosexual Harden is in negotiations to play the feminine lead reverse Skylar Astin. She’s going to change fellow Oscar winner Geena Davis, who was initially forged within the pilot however is now not a part of the mission.

I hear the pilot had a desk learn on the high of final week and had filmed for a few days when Davis departed earlier this week. Manufacturing has been paused for a couple of days till a brand new feminine lead is locked in.

This could mark Harden’s return to CBS the place she headlined medical drama Code Black and in addition had her first main sequence function in The Schooling of Max Bickford. As for recastings, they’re unlucky however frequent and a part of the pilot course of.

The untitled mother-son drama follows Todd (Astin), a gifted however directionless P.I. who’s the black sheep of his household. Regardless of their opposing personalities, he agrees to work because the in-house investigator for his overbearing mom, Joan — the function that’s being recast — a profitable legal professional reeling from the latest dissolution of her marriage.

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Prendergast exec produces alongside Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw and Julia Eisenman by way of the Stage 29 Productions banner. CBS Studios is the studio.

Harden has been recurring on Apple TV+’s The Morning Present and in addition has a recurring function on Netflix’s upcoming comedy sequence Uncoupled, from Darren Star and Jeffrey Richman. She is repped by ICM Companions, Framework Leisure and Schreck Rose Dapello.