CBS signed Academy Award-winning actress Marcia Gay Harden to play a wealthy newspaper owner in the pilot “The Tower,” Daily Variety reports. Ms. Harden has received a guest-actress Emmy nomination for her work on “Law & Order,” the newspaper says. Additionally, Donal Logue, whose television credits include “Grounded for Life,” has been signed by HBO for “1%,” its pilot about bikers, Variety reports.
— Danny King