Sean Maher

HALLEY’S COMET (The WB) - Relative newcomer Audrey Marie Anderson ("Drop Dead Sexy") has scored the title role of Halley Newell in the David E. Kelley-produced drama pilot, about a 23-year-old med school student just discovering adulthood after surviving a devastating childhood disease. Also cast in the San Francisco-based pilot are Adam Campbell ("Commando Nanny"), Adam LaVorgna ("7th Heaven"), Marika Dominczyk ("North Shore") and Sean Maher ("Firefly"). Campbell will play Halley’s next-door neighbor Mike while LaVorgna is set as his best friend Tim Gable, who starts a romance with Halley. Dominczyk then will play Halley’s sexy stockbroker friend Mathea with Maher as the chief resident at the hospital where Halley now attends med school who also happens to be one of the doctors who helped treat her, not to mention has a secret crush on her. Jonathan Pontell is directing the 20th Century Fox Television/David E. Kelley Productions-based project from a script by creator Andrew Kreisberg.