Not so elementary, after all. Lucy Liu will play Watson in the CBS pilot episode of Elementary, which has a contemporary setting and stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes, "a former consultant to Scotland Yard whose addiction problems led him to a rehab center in New York City. Just out of rehab, Holmes now lives in Brooklyn with 'sober companion' Joan Watson (Liu), a former surgeon who lost her license after a patient died, while consulting for the NYPD," Deadline.com reported. Michael Cuesta is directing the pilot.
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Ethan Peck, the grandson of legendary actor Gregory Peck, will play the prince in the CW's pilot episode of The Selection, based on the upcoming trilogy by Kiera Cass (the first volume will be published by HarperTeen in April).
Deadline.com reported that Peck will co-star with Aimee Teegarden in the project, which "is described as an epic romance set 300 years in the future. Written by Elizabeth Craft & Sarah Fain and directed by Mark Piznarski, it centers on America Singer (Teegarden), a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to marry Prince Maxon (Peck) and become the next queen of a war-torn nation at a crossroads. Maxon has an unusual run-in with potential bride America and is impressed and intrigued with her honesty and moxie."
