Added 4 captures from the Hellcats pilot, thanks to my friend Holly.

Okay, I’ve heard from a friend that Ben is also in the 2nd & 3rd episodes of the show even though news sources made it seem he was only in the pilot.   I will have captures & eventually videos of his scenes up soon.

Looks like the role will be recast, Ben looks like he was only in the pilot.

Most recently, the football coach role on the CW’s new cheerleading drama Hellcats also is being recast, and the character may be retooled as well. Ben Browder played the role in the pilot.

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The CW has renewed both its bubble shows — “Life Unexpected” and “One Tree Hill” — while picking up two new series for next season, “Hellcats” and “Nikita.”"Nikita” will give the network its first non-supernatural action-drama. The Warner Bros/Wonderland series stars martial arts expert Maggie Q as an assassin who goes rogue. “Hellcats” is about a college cheerleading squad at a Southern university, and is from Bonanza/Warner Bros./CBS TV.

Though rumors had started last week that both veteran soap “OTH” and critically well-liked freshman drama “Unexpected” might get another round, the move is still a bit surprising, particularly in the case of “Unexpected,” which has garnered modest ratings. This will mark the eighth season for “OTH.”

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I apologize for posting this so late but Ben has a new pilot!

HELLCATS (The CW) – Ben Browder (“Stargate SG-1″) has joined the cast of the presentation, a drama set in the world of competitive college cheerleading. He’ll reportedly play Red Irvine, Lancer University’s football coach, “a handsome rogue who never lost the boyishness of youth.” He and the Hellcats coach Vanessa Hodge (Sharon Leal) share a history – they had an affair while he, then married at the time, was an assistant coach and she was cheer captain – and now he wants payback (she dumped him after he left his wife without telling her) in the form of getting her fired after one of the Hellcats (Heather Hemmens) gets hurt. Aly Michalka, Ashley Tisdale, Elena Esovolova, Gail O’Grady, Matt Barr and Robbie Jones also star. Allan Arkush is directing the CBS Television Studios/Warner Bros. Television-based project from a script by Kevin Murphy.

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