Julia Roberts' niece, Emma Roberts, has been cast in the pilot of a Nickelodeon TV comedy show.
12-year-old Emma is the daughter of Eric Roberts and Kelly Cunningham.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, she will play a musically inclined junior high school student in 'Unfabulous'.
This will be Roberts' first TV role - she has already appeared in films including 'Grand Champion' and 'Blow'.
