Dale, Cohen, Roberts get casting calls

January 23, 2007 James Badge Dale has been tapped as a lead in NBC's one-hour "Fort Pit," while Scott Cohen has come on board Fox's comedy "The Return of Jezebel James." "Pit," from Sony Pictures TV and Denis Leary's Apostle and writer Michael Chernuchin, is a drama with comedic elements set at one of the worst, most crime-ridden NYPD precincts in Brooklyn, where bad cops are sent to live out their careers and rookie cops with no connections are stationed. Dale will play Bobby Bonelli, who is new to the police precinct and fresh out of the academy, where he was tops in his class.

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