Martin Mull, a veteran actor, who has starred in his own TV sitcom and acted in prominent films, and Anne Archer have joined in with Sony Pictures’ TV cable pilot, “Family Practice” for Lifetime and “Family Man” for TNT, respectively.

Oscar-nominated Archer will play Helena Kinglare, who has built a formidable pro bono practice after spending much of her adult life raising her children and living in the shadow of her lawyer husband William Kinglare. “Practice”, of course, centers on a woman from South Chicago who becomes entangled with members of the affluent Kinglare family at one of the city’s law firms.

“Family Man,” on the other hand, is a light drama starring William H. Macy as an unlikely criminal: a respected father of three, upright citizen and advice-dispensing pillar of his community by day and the leader of a somewhat dysfunctional, bickering gang of burglars by night.

Mull, will play his intellectual older brother and supposedly a member of Mensa who used to manage hotels but who now can’t hold down a job at Astroburger.