Ted Danson has been cast in a leading role in HBO’s comedy pilot “Bored to Death,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Danson, fresh from his Emmy-nominated role in FX’s “Damages,” will play a friend and mentor to star Jason Schwartzman’s character, an alcoholic writer who that fakes being a private investigator, the Reporter says. Danson is scheduled to appear in at least three episodes in the upcoming second season of “Damages.”
—Sergio Ibarra