Cat Deeley to play a psychic in supernatural US comedy

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Cat Deeley has landed a role in a new supernatural comedy series Deadbeat.

The So You Think You Can Dance US presenter has been signed up to co-star on the new Hulu comedy about a medium helping New York's ghosts settle unfinished business, according to The Wrap.

Playing the medium is Taylor Labine, while Cat will star as rival medium Camomile White, a beautiful psychic who has channelled her talents into a business empire.

Deadbeat is being made for Brad Pitt's production company Plan B, is being written by Wilfred executive producers Brett Konner and Cody Heller, and will be directed by Arrested Development's executive producer Troy Miller.

Since moving to the US, Cat has appeared on The Exes, the Disney Channel's Shake It Up, and also had a role in Life's Too Short.

Deadbeat has had a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes and is currently in production in New York.

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.