Michelle Borth lands "Matadors" lead

Cast members Rochelle Aytes (L) and Michelle Borth (R) answer questions about the show ''The Forgotten'' during the Disney and ABC Television Group panels at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Pasadena, California August 8, 2009.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Forgotten" co-star Michelle Borth has landed the female lead in ABC's drama pilot "The Matadors," with Jonathan Scarfe also nabbing a lead role in the Romeo-and-Juliet-style drama.

"Matadors" concerns two feuding families, one of which populates the state attorney's office while the other manages an influential private law firm.

Borth will play the heroine, Juliana, a talented lawyer who joins her father in the state attorney's office and embarks on a secret affair with Alex (Zach Gilford), an heir of the rival family who works at his father's firm.

Scarfe ("Raising the Bar") will play Alex's brother, a skilled defense attorney who would rather win a case for a guilty client and collect his earnings than concern himself with serving justice.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Amy Smart has been tapped to star on an untitled medical drama executive produced by John Wells ("ER," "The West Wing") for CBS.

Smart will play a tough nurse on the show, which revolves around a mobile medical team that travels the U.S. helping those in need get through life-and-death medical crises.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Brian Dennehy is set to star opposite Dana Gould in Gould's untitled pilot for ABC.

Gould will star as a high school guidance counselor and father to two young children who is caught between the old-school parenting beliefs of his father (Dennehy), a retired high school football coach, and his wife's progressive ideals.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton has landed the lead in CBS' comedy pilot "The Odds," a buddy cop show set in Las Vegas, where the cops are as outrageous as the crimes they solve.

Stapleton will play Wade, longtime head of the homicide division who is forced to take a demotion after an Internal Affairs investigation. Stapleton has appeared on numerous series in his native Australia.