Pilot season casting overload… This is the 5th or 6th announcement we've posted today. How many of these will actually go to series, is another story.

Lance Gross has joined Halston Sage in NBC’s yet-to-be-titled drama pilot from writer/executive producer Rand Ravich, which is described as an emotionally-charged political action thriller set in Washington DC, and will follow Marcus Finley (played by Gross), who's an idealistic Secret Service agent who finds himself at the center of an international crisis on his first day on the job as the President’s son’s protection, when the son, along with several of his schoolmates, are kidnapped.

Up next for Gross is Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor at the end of next month.