Hey All,
Here are the news items for today, including some great trailers for TV and the box office:
TV NEWS
The USA Network has picked up their hit series In Plain Sight for two more seasons. (Deadline Hollywood Daily and TV By the Numbers)
Want some more Supernatural secrets? When the new season opens, Dean has been living with former girlfriend Lisa and her son Ben for a year, believing that Sam is dead. And, Lisa will be recurring for the first half of the season. (Zap2It)
Kevin Rankin (Friday Night Lights and Trauma) will have a recurring role in the new season of The Mentalist, starring as Patrick Jane’s brother-in-law, Danny Ruskin, who is a hustler, a con artist and a ladies’ man. Rankin will debut in this second episode, slated to air on September 30. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Rachel Bilson will reprise her role as Cindy on How I Met Your Mother, appearing in the show’s sixth-season premiere this fall when Cindy shows up at MacLaren’s bar, the favored hangout of show’s central quintet. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Medium will kick off its seventh season on September with a Freaky Friday episode in which Allison becomes her 13-year-old daughter Bridgette, and Bridgette becomes her thirtysomething mother Allison. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Melina Kanakaredes will be given a dignified send-off from CSI: NY. Her character will not be killed off or go missing. Instead Stella has relocated to New Orleans to run a lab there. The season premiere will pick up several months after the events that took place in the season 6 finale. As previously reported, Emmy winner Sela Ward has been tapped to fill the void left by Kanakaredes. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
ABC confirms the news that was first broken at Comic Con: Charles Mesure has been upgraded to a series regular for the 2nd season of the series V. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Jennifer Grey (Dirty Dancing) will guest star in the FOX drama House in an episode scheduled to air in October. She will play Abbey, the mother of an infant daughter who is displaying signs of a life-threatening illness. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Glee Casting Scoop: Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Javier Bardem…Who’s In and Who’s Out?!
Caprica trailer teases with 1st look at new characters and worlds
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Malika Yoba (Defying Gravity) and Laura Mennell (Watchmen) have signed on to star in the 90-minute drama pilot Alphas for Syfy. Yoba and Mennell will star opposite David Strathairn and will play members of the Alpha team, a group of people who have extraordinary mental and physical abilities who investigate difficult-to-solve cases that the CIA and FBI have either passed over or were unable to solve. (Variety and Televisionary)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIES
Paul Giamatti (John Adams) will star in the HBO made-for-TV movie that will depict the two-week tour that Nikita Khruschchev took of the United States in 1959. The movie is based on Peter Carlson’s nonfiction book K Blows Top. Once in the States, Khrushchev famously blew up when he was informed that a planned trip to Disneyland had to be tabled because of security concerns. (Variety and Televisionary)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Sony Pictures has picked up an in-the-works comedy starring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey as mother and daughter. Stanley Tucci has signed on to direct and he will also co-star. (The Hollywood Reporter and E! Entertainment Online)
Justin Timberlake is in talks to star in the upcoming box office movie I’m.mortal, which is one of the most sought-after sci-fi projects in the marketplace today. A final deal has yet to be made, though. I’m.mortal depicts a future where the aging gene is turned off at age 25, but to avoid overpopulation, time has become the new currency. The lead character is a poor man from the ghetto who is falsely accused of murdering a wealthy man for his time. Amanda Seyfried has already signed on to play the beautiful rich girl he kidnaps while on the run. (Deadline Hollywood Daily and Nicole Sperling at Entertainment Weekly)
Jordana Spiro (My Boys) has joined the upcoming box office thriller Trespass. The story follows a married couple taken hostage by a group of thieves. Nicole Kidman will play the wife and Nicolas Cage the head thief. Spiro will play Petal, the head thief’s girlfriend who becomes a willing accomplice in the crime. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILERS
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DVD ANNOUNCEMENTS
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WEB SERIES
John Crichton on Farscape. Col. Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1. That makes two iconic roles for Ben Browder. Now we hear we’re soon going to see him as a noir detective in the year 2030 in the series Naught for Hire. Can the sci-fi lightning strike three times? The web series, adapted from the stories of John Stith, also stars Juliet Landau (Buffy), Chase Masterson (Deep Space Nice) and Jennifer Sky (Cleopatra 2525). No one’s giving away too many secrets about what the series will be about. We imagine Stith’s stories could give a clue, but the way adaptations go, you never know. Here’s what SFX was able to find out about the adventures of Nick Naught: A lighthearted sci-fi romp in the style of ’30s noir movies, with each episode ending on a cliffhanger, Naught For Hire is about a detective who has issues with modern technology, including a car that is in love with him, an elevator that won’t cooperate and an answering machine that wants to do nothing but pull pranks on him. The 13-part series is being filmed this summer, but there’s no word yet on when it will run. (Taken verbatim from Blastr)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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