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When we found out NBC was prepping a sitcom about a lesbian couple last year, we were pretty excited. Then when Anna Camp was cast to play one half of the couple, we couldn't be more thrilled. I Hate That I Love You was penned by Will and Grace scribe Jhoni Marchinko, so it was in the best of hands.

Unfortunately, NBC passed on the show and Anna had to move on. But she has had no trouble in finding parts on shows we love. From playing Fellowship of the Sun matriarch Sarah Newlin on True Blood to rising lawyer-turned-housewife Caitlin on The Good Wife, Anna has been a mainstay on our TV screens. Her new role on Fox's The Mindy Project will be no different, as women of all orientations will likely tune in to see how Mindy Kaling does with her show about finding love and how Anna,...

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When we found out NBC was prepping a sitcom about a lesbian couple last year, we were pretty excited. Then when Anna Camp was cast to play one half of the couple, we couldn't be more thrilled. I Hate That I Love You was penned by Will and Grace scribe Jhoni Marchinko, so it was in the best of hands.

Unfortunately, NBC passed on the show and Anna had to move on. But she has had no trouble in finding parts on shows we love. From playing Fellowship of the Sun matriarch Sarah Newlin on True Blood to rising lawyer-turned-housewife Caitlin on The Good Wife, Anna has been a mainstay on our TV screens. Her new role on Fox's The Mindy Project will be no different, as women of all orientations will likely...

Exclusive: Former Daily Show executive producer Josh Lieb has sold two multi-camera comedy projects — one at NBC with actor-comedian Nick Thune and one at Fox that Jack Black’s company is producing. Both hail from Warner Bros Television. The Lieb/Thune comedy received multiple offers before landing at NBC with penalty. Lieb and Thune will write the script for the project, which centers on a heartbroken hipster who quits his job and city life and moves to a small Oregon town. Thune is attached to star, while Lieb would showrun behind the Fox project, which is in first position. Lieb will executive produce, Thune will co-executive produce. Thune, repped by Wme and 3 Arts, has starred in NBC comedy pilots for the past two seasons, Beach Lane in 2010 and I Hate That I Love You last year. Lieb’s Fox comedy, which has a script commitment, is co-produced by Wbtv, Jack Black...

When only four percent of scripted TV shows feature Lgbt characters, what's a gay girl to do? Why, strap on your gay goggles and watch TV along with us, of course! Our handy appraisal scale is better than any old letter grade. Other sites A+. We say, "What about our lezzy-lady feelings?"

Welcome fellow broke girls or not-broke-but-slumming-it-to-gain-street-cred girls. The new CBS sitcom 2 Broke Girls featuring Kat Dennings as sarcastic, smartass Max and Beth Behrs as the recently turned poor little rich girl Caroline is an odd-couple comedy in the age of hipsters and Facebook. Long story slightly shorter, Beth’s dad pulled a Bernie Madoff, she went to work at the diner where Max is a waitress and now they room together. They’re trying to save up money to start a cupcake business based on Max’s love of baking.

And while there have heretofore been no gay ladies on the show,...

Some TV casting news…

First, Jamie Lee Kirchner has landed a lead role in NBC’s comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You – described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad (played by Nick Thune) and Missy (played by Jame Lee Kirchner), introduce their lesbian roommates to each other. Of course, hijinx and hilarity ensue.

Jamie Lee Kirchner’s resume is made up of mostly television roles (Mercy, Dollhouse, Just Legal), and Broadway (she was part of the 2006 Rent cast).

And second, Billy Brown has landed a role also in an upcoming NBC pilot, for a post-Civil War drama titled Reconstruction. Yes, another Civil War-era program is coming to television. We already told you about those being prepped for ABC, which is being handled by Randall Wallace, and AMC’s drama, which Common will co-star in as a freed bi-racial slave.

This one for NBC is set in Missouri,...

Danneel Ackles (formerly Harris) and Jamie Lee Kirchner have landed the last 2 leads in NBC's comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You. The single-camera project, from writer/exec producer Jhoni Marchinko and 20th TV, is described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad (Nick Thune) and Missy (Kirchner), introduce their lesbian roommates, Brad's Allie (Ackles) and Missy's Sarah (Anna Camp), to each other. Ackles, repped by Gersh and Untitled, co-stars in 20th TV's comedy series for NBC Friends with Benefits, which is yet to be scheduled. A day after his FX series was canceled, Lights Out co-star Billy Brown has booked a pilot, NBC's drama Reconstruction. Written by Josh Brand, the project is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era and centers on Jason (Martin Henderson), a soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior.

Comedian Nick Thune has been cast as the male lead in NBC's comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You. The single-camera project, from writer/exec producer Jhoni Marchinko and 20th TV, is described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad (Thune) and Missy, introduce their lesbian roommates, Brad's Allie and Missy's Sarah (Anna Camp), to each other. Earlier this season, Thune was attached to another NBC comedy project, an ensemble show penned by Spike Feresten. Thune, repped by Wme and 3 Arts, has a Web series, Nick's Big Show. Colin O'Donoghue (The Rite) has landed the male lead in ABC's drama pilot Identity. The project, from ABC Studios, Mark Gordon Co. and writer John Glenn, is an action procedural based on a British format that centers on an elite police unit formed to combat the explosion of identity-related crime. Irish-born O'Donoghue will play John Bloom, an intensely private,...

Actress Anna Camp ("True Blood") has landed the role of 'Sarah', in the upcoming NBC TV pilot "I Hate That I Love You". The character is described as "sexy, sporty, tom-boyish", who lives with her best friend 'Missy', who owns the store "Floral and Hardy". Things begin to change very rapidly, when Sarah falls in love with 'Allie', Missy's boyfriend's roommate.

Camp previously appeared in 3 episodes of AMC's "Mad Men" as the character 'Bethany Van Nuys' and as 'Sarah Newlin' in HBO's "True Blood".

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True Blood alumna Anna Camp has become the first actress cast in the NBC comedy pilot I Hate That I Love You, landing one of the four leads in the single-camera project from writer-exec producer Jhoni Marchinko and 20th TV. It is described as a twisty romantic comedy in which a straight couple, Brad and Missy, introduce their lesbian roommates, Brad's Allie and Missy's Sarah (Camp), to each other. Allie and Sarah hit it off but things get complicated when Allie becomes pregnant with Brad's baby. Michael "Mookie" Blaikock (Secret Girlfriend) has joined the ABC/20th TV comedy pilot Don't Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23. Written by Nahnatchka Khan, the project centers on June (Dreama Walker), an  earnest, honest, optimistic girl from the heartland who is forced to move in with Chloe (Krysten Ritter), a sexy, unstable New York City party girl who has the morals of a pirate. Blaikock,...