Two join USA pilot "Facing Kate"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Battlestar Galactica" veteran Michael Trucco and Virginia Williams have been cast in USA Network's pilot "Facing Kate."

Sarah Shahi ("The L Word") stars in the title role as a divorced San Francisco lawyer who becomes a mediator following the death of her dad, who headed a law firm.

Williams ("How I Met Your Mother") will play Kate's obsessive and controlling younger stepmother who is determined to keep her husband's firm. Trucco will play Kate's ex-husband, also an attorney, a charmer who has feelings for her.