Later that month, it was confirmed that the production was being shopped to other potential outlets. On May 11, 2018, Safran announced on Twitter that Fox had passed on the pilot and declined to order the production to series. On February 8, 2018, it was reported that Jesse Peretz would direct the pilot. Production companies involved with the pilot were expected to include Annapurna Television. Ali Krug was set as a co-executive producer. The pilot episode was written by Joshua Safran who was also set to executive produce alongside Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle. On January 19, 2018, it was announced that Fox had given the production a pilot order. James McDaniel as Moses, Barry's soccer coach and Annette's love interest.Robbie Fairchild as Troy, as Nellie and Gigi's friend.James as Leah Sands, Annette's youngest daughter who is a high school student Christina Milian as De'Andra, Dante's ex-girlfriend who is in medical school and married to a doctor.Campbell Scott as Frank O’Brien, Nellie's father.Madeleine Stowe as Margot Weston, Nellie's mother and Sam's mother-in-law.Isaiah Givens as Barry Hughes, Sam and Nellie's six-year-old son who is having a hard time coping with his mother's death.Megan Ferguson as Jean Dubrowski (assumed name is Gigi Dumont), Nellie's best friend.Jahmil French as Dante Sands, Sam's cousin and Annette's eldest son who recently got out of prison and is a struggling to get a job as a convicted felon.Jenna Dewan as Joanna Kassem, a former struggling dancer who is now a social worker.Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Annette Sands, Sam's aunt who is a manager at a restaurant.Callie Hernandez as Eleanor "Nellie" O’Brien, an aspiring artist.Paul James as Samson "Sam" Hughes, a widower who works several jobs and has a son.Soundtrack takes a look at "the love stories connecting a diverse, disparate group of people in contemporary Los Angeles through the music that lives inside their hearts and minds." Cast and characters Main