Vanessa Hudgens is staging a return to series television and has signed on to star in an NBC comedy pilot titled Powerless. The show is set at one of the worst insurance companies in America ” with the twist being that it also takes place in the universe of DC Comics. Hudgens will star as the non-powered Emily Locke, an insurance claims adjuster who loves her job because she gets to help people. She finds herself increasingly exasperated by the disruptive antics of the various superheroes that proliferate in her city. Hudgens was most recently seen as Rizzo in Fox’s Grease: Live.
