USA Network first announced their potential broadcasting of "Psych" on June 17, 2005. The network stated that they had requested a pilot episode of the series, to be managed by Tagline Productions. The original working name for the series was "Psyche". By August 30, James Roday and Dulé Hill had been cast to play the show's main characters. It was also announced that the production for the show's pilot episode would begin shortly, and the episode would likely air in 2006. On January 5, 2006, USA announced the "Psyche" would be competing against "In Plain Sight", written by David Maples, and "Underfunded", written by David Breckman, for air time and broadcasting slots. Later in January, the network confirmed that the pilot episode for the show would air later that year. They also announced that the show's name had changed to "Psych". On February 21, 2006, USA Network announced that it had ordered eleven one-hour episode scripts for "Psych". They confirmed that the show would take "Monk's" 10 p.m. (EST) Friday night time slot, and that the pilot episode, planned to be two hours in length, would be broadcast on July 7. The network also revealed that Corbin Bernsen had been cast as another of the show's major characters. The network released, on April 27, that filming for the pilot episode, which had been cut to 90 minutes in length, had begun in Vancouver, British Columbia. In addition, USA Network announced that Timothy Omundson and Kirsten Nelson would have starring roles in the episode.