Coppola, Berkley lead cast of "Black Widow"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Alicia Coppola and Elizabeth Berkley lead the cast of "Black Widow," a TV movie for Lifetime. The thriller revolves around a journalist (Coppola) who suspects that her close friend has fallen for a woman (Berkley) who murdered her previous husbands. Coppola plays Mimi Clark on CBS' drama "Jericho."

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Traveler" star Logan Marshall-Green has landed the lead on NBC's cop drama pilot "Blue Blood," an ensemble show about NYPD rookies assigned to street patrol. Marshall-Green plays a Harvard graduate.

This year on the ABC drama "Traveler," Marshall-Green played one of the two leads, Tyler Fog. His resume also includes recurring roles on Fox's "24" and "The O.C." He is in theaters with "Across the Universe."

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Megan Dodds and Christina Vidal will co-star in NBC's untitled legal thriller.

The story revolves around lawyers at a prestigious New York firm who will do whatever it takes to win their high-profile cases and outmaneuver one another.

Dodds plays a lawyer with her own plans to climb to the top of the corporate ladder. Vidal will play a feisty third-year law student.

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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Brendan Fehr and Kenneth Choi have been added to the ABC Family drama pilot "Samurai Girl." The project centers on Heaven (Jamie Chung), a teenage girl who straddles the worlds of her life as the adoptive daughter of a wealthy family and the ancient Samurai traditions of her blood ancestors.

Fehr, who most recently recurred on CBS' "CSI: Miami," will play Jake, a martial-arts expert who teaches Heaven how to protect herself when she sets out to avenge her brother's death. Choi, who most recently appeared in the Jet Li film "War," will play Sato, the right-hand man to a powerful Japanese mogul.

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