It’s pilot season in Los Angles. What that means in its simplest terms is everyone with an idea and money grabs together a cast from the myriad of actors that descend on the town knowing it’s that time of year and a pilot gets made. This pilot, which is probably pretty short, not full TV show length, is taped and then pitched to every network in town hoping someone will pick it up. It’s a flurry of networking and PR where creative people are essentially “selling the suits” on their baby. There are some great Seinfeld episodes where Jerry does a whole routine about selling his idea to the networks, and though it’s comedy, it’s not that far from real life. Anyway, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

“Twilight” alumna Rachelle Lefevre has been tapped as a lead in John Wells’ untitled ensemble medical drama for CBS.

The medical drama, from Warner Bros. TV and John Wells Prods., centers on a mobile medical team that travels the U.S. helping those in need get through life-or-death medical crises.

Lefevre will play a confident young doctor more comfortable in the field than in the office.”

Here’s to hoping the show gets picked up and survives!

Via Hit Fix

A very Happy Birthday to Rachelle Lefevre!

Looking forward to The Caller, Casino Jack, and Barney’s Version: all slated to be released this year!

We’ve all known what a great animal lover Rachelle is. She and her dog, Honey(seen left), were in several publications promoting responsible pet ownership and keeping you pet healthy. Sadly, Rachelle’s Honey passed away just before Christmas. Rachelle, according to People magazine, isn’t forgetting about Honey, but is moving on:

“Rachelle Lefevre is not one to break New Year’s resolutions. Just three days after a Dec. 30 Tweet announcing that she planned to adopt a dog, the Twilight star and actor-boyfriend Jamie Thomas King went to Baldwin Park, a Los Angeles-area high-kill shelter, and rescued not one but two pups! “They were both on the ‘at risk’ list,” Lefevre tells PEOPLEPets.com. “If no one rescued them within the week they were going to be put down.” In an instant, cocker spaniel Momma Bear and miniature poodle Jack Sprat were given a second chance at life”

Check it out on People.

Rachelle Lefevre has an appearance in the upcoming ABC series The Deep End. You can see Rachelle briefly in these two clips.

Twilight Examiner

Rachelle Lefevre’s dog, Honey, who Rachelle has spoken about numerous times died yesterday.

Honey had been sick for the past month, and was notably hospitalized on the day of the New Moon premiere. Honey was a adopted by Rachelle and her boyfriend from a rescue organization, a cause that Rachelle has long supported. In fact there is a current auction on Ebay to win a coffee date with Rachelle that supports this very cause. Our hearts go out to Rachelle, as anyone knows who is an animal lover, it is like losing a member of your family.

Rachelle Lefevre is the cover girl for the January issue of the Canadian fashion magazine called Flare. It hits new stands December 7th!

Gotham Magazine has beautiful photo spread and an interview with Rachelle online,

“With long, curly red hair, porcelain skin and a loud, infectious laugh, actress Rachelle Lefevre is hard to overlook. But until she appeared as the bitchy bloodsucker Victoria in the 2008 smash hit Twilight, she’d been a relative unknown. Now with the hotly anticipated second film in the series, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, hitting theaters November 20 and two more films in the works, Lefevre is about to find herself in the glare of the spotlight.

“When I first got to LA, everybody said I was too ‘girl-next-door’ for edgier roles,” she says. “I ended up playing a stripper, an escort, a vampire and an off-her-rocker troubled poet. I keep playing roles that are not even close to the girl next door.”

While Lefevre’s upcoming projects will certainly keep her from being typecast, they also give the actress a chance to walk a mile in some very different shoes. In Barney’s Version, she plays the manic-depressive, hippie-poet first wife of costar Paul Giamatti. In Casino Jack, she’s a Washington, DC, power player (opposite Kevin Spacey and Jon Lovitz), a character that’s based on real life press secretary Emily Miller.”

Check it all out on Gotham and get the issue on news stands.

The LA Times reports that Rachelle has a done a PSA to bring awareness the causes supported by The Best Friends Animal Society.

Rachelle’s own dog, Honey, is a shelter rescue dog.