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Lucy Hale still remembers her first on-screen kiss.

In a preview of Tuesday’s episode of Celebrity Binge Watch, a Snapchat-only series produced by Vertical Networks in which celebrities “binge” on their on-screen careers, the 28-year-old actress revealed her first on-camera kiss occurred during the pilot episode of 2006’s Secrets of a Small Town.

“My first on-screen kiss was with a girl,” Hale told her Truth or Dare costar Tyler Posey, who joined her for the episode.

After watching a clip of the smooch, Posey, 26, remarked, “That’s like the longest kiss ever.”

“I know,” Hale replied.

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More than a month after the broadcast networks made their series picks for next season, several pilots are still in play. The options for the actors on such projects as the ABC/Touchstone TV dramas Secrets of a Small Town, October Road and A House Divided and the Fox/20th Century Fox TV drama Beyond have been extended. Additionally, 20th TV has extended the options on Cole Hauser and Sarah Shahi, who star in Damages, the legal drama pilot for Fox. One of the project's leads, Kristin Lehman, recently was cast in another Fox/20th TV drama pilot, Drive (HR 6/14).

Dylan McDermott has joined ABC's drama pilot A House Divided, Kim Cattrall has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Him and Us, and Wendie Malick has come on board another ABC comedy pilot, A Day in the Life. Additionally, Denise Richards has joined ABC's drama pilot Secrets of a Small Town, Julie Warner has come on board ABC's one-hour pilot Women in Law, Lizzy Caplan has landed a role in CBS' comedy series The Class, John Heard has come on board ABC's drama pilot Twenty Questions, Vanessa Ferlito has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Drift, Annie Potts has joined Fox's comedy pilot Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter, and Todd Stashwick has been added to NBC's comedy pilot Community Service. A House Divided, from Touchstone TV, explores the conflict between a Midwest farming community and the U.S. government.

Dylan McDermott has joined ABC's drama pilot A House Divided, Kim Cattrall has been tapped to star in ABC's comedy pilot Him and Us, and Wendie Malick has come on board another ABC comedy pilot, A Day in the Life. Additionally, Denise Richards has joined ABC's drama pilot Secrets of a Small Town, Julie Warner has come on board ABC's one-hour pilot Women in Law, Lizzy Caplan has landed a role in CBS' comedy series The Class, John Heard has come on board ABC's drama pilot Twenty Questions, Vanessa Ferlito has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Drift, Annie Potts has joined Fox's comedy pilot Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter, and Todd Stashwick has been added to NBC's comedy pilot Community Service. A House Divided, from Touchstone TV, explores the conflict between a Midwest farming community and the U.S. government.

Bonnie Hunt and Don Lake have assembled a top-notch cast for their untitled comedy pilot for ABC with Dennis Miller, Joe Mantegna and Lauren Tom tapped to co-star with them in the project. CBS has picked up a comedy pilot toplined by Chris Elliott, while the CW has ordered its first comedy pilot with Nick Lachey in negotiations to star. In other pilot castings, John Terry has joined ABC's drama Secrets of a Small Town, Erin Daniels has landed the title role in Fox's comedy Julie Reno, Bounty Hunter, Tony Curran and William Allen Young have joined ABC's drama Enemies, Jenica Bergere will co-star in Fox's comedy pilot Union Jackass, Ashley Scott has come on board CBS' drama Jericho, Richard Coyle has been added to CBS' drama Ultra, Julius Carry has joined Fox's comedy The 12th Man and Pascale Hutton has been added to another Fox comedy, The Singles Table.

David Arquette has joined the cast of the ABC comedy series In Case of Emergency. Meanwhile, ABC has added names to four of its drama pilots: Peter Facinelli has signed on as the second lead in Enemies, Sarah Clarke has joined A House Divided, Charlotte Ross has come aboard Ugly Betty, and Sean Patrick Flanery has joined Secrets of a Small Town. In other pilot castings, Fox has confirmed that Lenny Clarke will co-star with Rob Corddry in the comedy pilot Becoming Glen. Cameron Richardson has signed on to the Fox comedy pilot If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home by Now, while Natalie Garza has joined another Fox comedy pilot, The 12th Man. Also, CBS has booked Michael Gaston in the drama pilot Jericho, and USA Network has tapped Lesley Ann Warren for its drama pilot In Plain Sight. ABC's Emergency, which has a six-episode commitment, revolves around four high school friends who unexpectedly reunite during a crossroads in their lives.

Hostel star Jay Hernandez has been cast in ABC's drama pilot Six Degrees. In other pilot castings, Ali Larter and Hayden Panettiere have joined the cast of the NBC drama Heroes, John Billingsley and Owain Yeoman have come on board ABC's untitled Steinbergs drama, Matt Bomer, Logan Marshall-Green and Aaron Stanford have landed the three leads in the ABC drama Traveler, while John L. Adams has joined Angie Harmon in ABC's drama Secrets of a Small Town. Meanwhile, Tim Blake Nelson has been tapped to direct NBC's untitled Willie Reale drama pilot. Six Degrees, from Touchstone TV and J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot, is an ensemble soap about the intertwined stories of a group of strangers in New York from different walks of life.

The Daily Show correspondent Rob Corddry has landed the title role in Fox's comedy pilot Becoming Glen, while Angie Harmon has been tapped to star in ABC's drama pilot Secrets of a Small Town. On the pilot pickup front, ABC and NBC have ordered two comedies each. Becoming Glen, from 20th Century Fox TV, Ricky Blitt and Seth MacFarlane, centers on a successful fortysomething man who looks back at 1994, when he was a 32-year-old slacker (Corddry) living with his parents and spending all his time lying on the couch watching TV. It's been a very successful pilot season for brothers Rob and Nathan Corddry, both members of the fake news team of Comedy Central's Daily Show. Last week, Nathan Corddry was cast in another high-profile pilot, Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme's drama for NBC, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.