‘Rust Belt News’: Rich Sommer, Jayma Mays, Angel Laketa Moore Among 6 Cast In CBS Pilot

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EXCLUSIVE: Rich Sommer (The Dropout), Lauren Lindsay Donzis (Punky Brewster), Jayma Mays (United States of Al), Bentley Green (Snowfall), Angel Laketa Moore (Atypical) and Bailey Gavulic (Fear The Walking Dead) are set as series regulars in CBS comedy pilot Rust Belt News.

Additionally, Jeff Blitz (American Auto) has been tapped to direct and executive produce the single-camera comedy pilot from The Simpsons writer and The Mindy Project exec producer Matt Warburton.Written by Warburton, the project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.Sommer will play Caleb, a jaded former journalist whose love of writing is reignited when he is recruited by Mack to help start an underground newspaper.Donzis will portray Mack, an ambitious high school journalist who dreams of leaving small town Ohio to be a big-time reporter in New York.

But when her school mysteriously burns down, Mack decides to start a new, underground newspaper, with help from her school friends and a jaded ex-newspaper reporter.Mays is Rachel, a Mennonite mom, loving farm wife, city councilwoman and aspiring mayor, with a side job as Butterchurn Bae, the successful Instagram influencer.Green will play Lucas, an artistic genius and high school Sophomore, who’s forced to move from Manhattan to semi-rural Ohio when his mom decides to move home and run for mayor.Moore will portray Wendy.

After circumstances force her to move with her rebellious teenage son from Manhattan back to Ohio, Wendy becomes the unlikely first black mayor of a rust