Steve Harris is set to star in the CBS drama pilot, Protect and Serve. The show follows the lives of street cops in suburban Los Angeles; The Hollywood Reporter says Harris will play one of them, a seasoned cop who is physically imposing but not that fit.

Elias Koteas has joined NBC's drama pilot, Ft. Pit from Denis Leary's Apostle. The show, set at one of the worst police precincts in Brooklyn, N.Y., Koteas will play a famous veteran cop who operates as if the precinct were his own private fiefdom.

Matt Lanter has joined the ABC drama pilot, Judy's Got a Gun; it centers on Judy (Louise Lombard), a suburban woman who balances being a single mother with being a detective investigating suburban crimes.