· Susan Sarandon has joined the cast of HBO's pilot A Miraculous Year, which centers on a crazy Broadway composer (Norbert Leo Butz) who tries to put on a challenging new show. The Oscar-winner will guest star as the director/choreographer of the main character's new production. Frank Langella, Hope Davis, Eddie Redmayne and Lee Pace have already been cast in the project. [EW]
· Julia Roberts, Forest Whitaker, Goldie Hawn, Gabriel Byrne and Mariel Hemingway will help produce films for Oprah's's OWN Network. The actors will use the projects to explore everything from extraordinary moms (Roberts) to suicide legacies (Hemingway). [The Wrap]
· CSI star Marg Helgenberger has announced that her 11th season on the CBS procedural will be her last. [TV Guide]
· USA Network has cast Gabriel Macht as the lead in its new pilot A Legal Mind. The project centers on "a brilliant but unmotivated college student (Patrick J. Adams) who gets recruited by Harvey Specter (Macht), a lawyer at a top Manhattan corporate law firm despite not having a law degree." [Deadline]