BEN RAPPAPORT, MATTHEW DAVIS, ANNA SOPHIA ROBB TO LEAD NBC DRAMA PILOT GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY

   NBC UNVEILS CAST FOR  

GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY TV DRAMA

It is the pilot season and NBC has unveiled lead cast for their new drama pilot GROSSE POINTE GARDEN SOCIETY which follows four members of a suburban garden club all from different walks of life, who get caught up in murder and mischief as they struggle to make their conventional lives bloom. Ben Rappaport is Brett, cool in a threadbare kind of way, he put his owndreams of starting a car restoration business on hold so his wife (now ex-

Ben Rappaport and Matthew Davis will take the male leads

wife) could finish law school. He continues his job as a manager of a garden store so he can take care of the kids. Melissa Fumero is Birdie. Entitled, rich, swathed in Chanel, a smoker, a drinker, self-destructive at times, toxic at others, but not without real pain beneath her facade, she is a successful author whose memoir, “Digging for Gold: Dancing Through Divorce,” is a bestseller. Matthew Davis is Joel, a police officer and a father of adopted son Tom,

Anna Sophia Robb and Alexander Hodge will play a couple

whom Birdie takes an interest in. Burned out by his job and life in this suburban town, he just needs the slightest push to embrace a dark side of his own. Anna Sophia Robb is Alice, your favorite high school English teacher, a dreamer whose best dreams are crashing down on her. Alexander Hodge plays Doug, Alice’s husband. He once had dreams of being a wildly successful artist, but like Alice, his dreams have dwindled over the years, and now fills his time by painting signs for local restaurants.