The O.C. alumna Rachel Bilson will reunite with the show's creator-executive producer Josh Schwartz this pilot season after all. Bilson is close to a deal to star in the CW hourlong pilotHart of Dixie, from WBTV and Schwartz and Stephanie Savage's Fake Empire. The project is a comedic drama centered on a young New York City doctor (Bilson) who inherits a medical practice in a small Southern town inhabited by an eclectic and eccentric group of characters. Leila Gerstein penned the script and is exec producing with Schwartz, Savage and Len Goldstein. Earlier this development season, Bilson was attached to star in Ghost Angeles, a supernatural romantic comedy co-written by Schwartz. The project landed at NBC in September with a pilot production commitment, but new NBC chief Bob Greenblatt recently opted not to go forward with it. Bilson has done arcs on Schwartz's NBC dramedy Chuck and on CBS'How I Met Your Mother, on which she played a love interest for Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor). Hart of Dixie expands Schwartz and Savage's relationship with the CW where the two created and executive produce Gossip Girl.
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Rachel Bilson: Back To TV W/ The O.C. Creator
Television, as the Rules of Entertainment dictate, needs a network show about a pretty brunette who speaks to spirits. So with CBS' "The Ghost Whisperer" having been shuffled off this mortal coil, NBC is stepping into the afterlife market with "Ghost Angeles," an hour-long spooktacular rom-com that will reunite "The O.C." star Rachel Bilson with series creator Josh Schwartz (also of "Gossip Girl" and "Chuck").
Per Deadline, the as-yet-unwritten project scored a pilot production deal with NBC after "heated bidding." No word yet on when it'll arrive, but we're looking forward to seeing Schwartz take aim at Southern California once again with one of our favorite small-screen leads. Just imagine: Haunted In-N-Outs? Pratfalls at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery? The possibilities seem endless. Fingers crossed for an Adam Brody cameo or five -- after all, Summer, he did name the boat after you.
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