Justin Chatwin

CBS feels like it’s still in transition. Considering the overall grim landscape of year-on-year ratings decline, Les Moonves seems relatively happy with his picks last season, leaving room for maybe 3 more fall dramas this time around.Get the complete breakdown in our CBS Drama pilots preview.

When a murdered movie producer finds out that his earthly body still has life left in it, he struggles through the bureaucratic mess of the afterlife in search of a loophole to return his soul.

Logline: The story will weave three plot lines together, including the journey of a sorceress traveling into the Lost Lands, a warrior girl battling a dragon in order to reunite with her lost lover, and a futuristic tale of a barbarian girl who becomes spellbound by a lonely witch in a spacecraft.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

The “Shameless” star joins Pierce Brosnan in the indie thriller.

Logline: A group of friends vacation to an island destination where they take part in a new designer drug that forces them to give in to their wildest urges.

Logline: A 1960s teenager who wants to be a famous singer believes her dreams are coming true when her rock star idol gets stranded in her small town–but a leak at a nearby chemical plant turns the situation bizarre.

Logline: A high school art teacher is about to begin a relationship with the school’s married football coach when he gets sucked into a wormhole that takes him to a different dimension.

A new trio join this redneck thriller that was voted one of the best scripts of 2009.

Logline: Three redneck brothers get in over their heads when they agree to help a woman kidnap her son back from his seemingly evil father.

Logline: Kept under wraps.