NBC and DC Entertainment Workplace Comedy POWERLESS Adds Actors Christina Kirk, Danny Pudi and Alan Tudyk

Things are moving fast for NBC and DC Entertainment's workplace comedy television series POWERLESS. Variety has confirmed that, in addition to the casting of Vanessa Hudgens (Sucker Punch) yesterday, actors Christina Kirk (A to Z), Danny Pudi (Community) and Alan Tudyk (Dodgeball, Firefly) have been added to the show's cast.

"Pudi will play Teddy, best friend to Emily (Hudgens) at work and her trusted confidante. He spends his days creating time-wasting pranks as a way to make their office, the 'least super place on earth,' just a little less 'unsuper.' 

"Tudyk will play Del, Emily’s new boss in the claims department. Del has just been promoted, not through any merit of his own, but because he’s the owner’s son. A self-proclaimed 'rich, over-educated globetrotting wastrel,' Del is a power-mad disastrous dictator of a boss. 

"Kirk will play Jackie. A fan of superheroes, she has plastered her office cubicle with beefcake shots of super guys. The new claims department boss Del (Tudyk) makes her his personal assistant, and she begins buckling under his unreasonable and impossible demands. 

"Hudgens, whose casting was announced yesterday, will play Emily Locke, an insurance claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people. She likes to get her work done so she finds herself increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various superheroes that proliferate in her city."

POWERLESS has only been green lit for a pilot episode but there's a good chance it could be signed on for a full season order. The cast that's been assembled could certainly help it go beyond just its pilot.

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[Image is of Pudi in Community]