Written by Nicole Pedersen

 

"Castle" stars Fillion as horror novelist Nick Castle who is enlisted by the police to help them solve crimes. Earlier this year Fillion's self-written pilot "Repo Brothers" was also in development at ABC, but it looks like only "Castle" will get the pickup.

Fresh from his web-crashing success on Joss Whedon's "Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog," Nathan Fillion is one man who is long overdue for television fame. Beginning on "One Life To Live" in the 1990's Fillion has had one false start after another – his talent holding contract with Fox produced the less than stellar 2007 series "Drive" and he recently wrapped up one season's worth of work on "Desperate Housewives."

Here's hoping that "Castle" is the show that finally makes Fillion a huge star outside of the Whedon-verse.

ABC also made four other shows very happy on Monday, greenlighting an ensemble police procedural called "The Unusuals" starring Amber Tamblyn ("Joan of Arcadia"), the reboot of the 1998 series "Cupid" as well as the half hour comedies "Life On Mars" and "Better Off Ted." We'll give you more info on all of these when we hear it.