Mandy Moore (Red Band Society), Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes), Justin Hartley (Smallville), Sterling Brown, and Ron Cephas Jones (Mr. Robot) are the first to be cast in Dan Fogelman’s pilot set at NBC. Written on spec by Fogelman, the untitled dramedy is made up of a unique ensemble of characters all born on the same day.
Moore, repped by Gersh and Untitled Entertainment, is Rebecca, the lovely wife 
and best friend to Jack (Ventimiglia). She’s on the verge of giving birth to their triplets, after having just moved into their new home in Pittsburg. Hartley, repped by Innovative Artists, is Kevin, a handsome and successful television actor with an underlining boredom in his ultimate bachelor life. Brown plays Randall, a sharply dressed corporate businessman and family man, based in New York. It’s a team effort to raise two young daughters with his wife Beth. Jones plays William, Randall’s biological father who abandoned him at a fire station soon after Randall was born.
Moore will next be seen in a starring role in Dimension Films’ 47 Meters Down, and was recently seen in Dermot Mulroney’s Love, Wedding, Marriage opposite Kellan Lutz and James Brolin. Her credits also include Disney’s Tangled, Christmas In Conway and a stint last year on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
John Requa & Glenn Ficarra are directing the pilot. Fogelman, Requa & Ficarra executive produce with Jess Rosenthal and Charlie Gogolak. 20th Century Fox TV is the studio.
Requa and Ficarra are awesome, but when will the television business finally stop trying to make Mandy Moore happen?
She’s had pilots at ABC, CBS and now NBC. The networks like her because while she’s not a massive star she is a known name and she’s very likable. That won’t bring in the veiwers but that’s why she keeps getting work. Hopefully this one finally gets to air and is a hit, not because of Moore, but because it sounds good. We need a good lighthearted drama on tv now that Parenthood is over. But hen again this won’t be a bit because NBC.
Hopefully Requa and Ficarra will hire Adrian Martinez who was HYSTERICAL in their Will Smith starrer, “Focus”.