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Blair Underwood, Penelope Ann Miller coming to Dallas for Reese Witherspoon-produced pilot

The pilot for that Dallas-set Reese Witherspoon-produced ABC series about a "ruthless divorce attorney" is set to begin filming here with some time this month -- mid-March, more than likely. And when it does, we finally have some idea who'll actually be in the thing.

As in: Blair Underwood, for starters, the Krush Groove star ... pardon, long-ago L.A. Law regular who's been in approximately 11/17ths of all television programs aired between 1987 and 2016. The Posse and Full Frontal star's actually been in Dallas before to film a pilot -- LAX, because, sure, that made complete sense in 2004. Underwood was just announced today.

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Also joining the cast: Penelope Ann Miller, last espied on ABC in the brilliant American Crime and about to be seen in Sundance hit The Birth of a Nation. But let's be honest: To a certain generation of moviegoer, she will forever be Tina Sabatini or Pee-Wee Herman's girlfriend. Reports Deadline, "Miller will play Elizabeth Hamilton, the wife of a Texas oil billionaire who is seeking revenge after having been left for a woman 20 years younger than she."

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Grey's Anatomy's T.R. Knight has also been cast. But ABC has yet to announce who's actually playing the divorce attorney -- apparently named Gemma? -- at the center of the series, which is still being billed as The Untitled Meaghan Oppenheimer Project in honor of the actor-turned-screenwriter responsible for this show.

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And in case you forgot what it's about, Variety sums up thusly:

"The soapy drama follows a ruthless Dallas divorce attorney, Gemma, as her life begins to unravel when her emotionally damaged, love-addicted sister resurfaces, triggering self-destructive tendencies and exposing long-hidden family secrets."

Otherwise known as The Real Housewives of Dallas.

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