Hey All,
The end of the week is here and for those of us in the States, we will be celebrating with a long weekend because of Labor Day (the unofficial end of summer) being on Monday. I hope everyone has a terrific extra-long weekend. Drive safe and be well.
For now, though, here are the news items from today:
TELEVISION
Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica and Dark Blue) will guest star on a Season 3 episode of Lie to Me this fall, playing Naomi, who’s attracted to Lightman (Tim Roth) despite being frustrated by the inability to hide anything from him. But when she calls on Lightman for protection from a violent ex-boyfriend, it’s Lightman who begins to wonder if her beauty has impaired his lie-detecting skills. Lie to Me wraps its second season on September 13 at 8 PM and it returns for Season 3 on November 10 at 9 PM. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)
Thomas Calabro (Melrose Place) will guest star on an upcoming episode of CSI: NY, playing a man who is searching with his wife (Helen Slater) for their missing son. Together, they follow clues left for them from a mysterious caller. CSI: NY returns on September 24 at 9 PM. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)
Nicholas Brendon (Buffy) will guest star in an episode of Private Practice this fall. (Per Shonda Rhimes at Twitter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Paul Scheuring (Prison Break) and McG are working on a pilot for ABC. The project is a private investigator drama called I, PI, which revolves around an investigator who learned everything he ever needed to know about being a P.I. from watching shows like Magnum, P.I. and Simon and Simon while growing up. As a result, he tends to subconsciously emulate those TV shamuses while out on the streets. (Variety and Televisionary)
Marc Guggenheim (Eli Stone) and Jennifer Robinson have sold a pilot script for an untitled event drama to ABC. The project follows the White House Office of Crisis Management as they tackle one huge global crisis per season with the first season chronicling a crisis with a ticking clock on board the international space station. (Deadline and Televisionary)
Sam Raimi (the director behind the Spider-Man movies) has sold a script for the drama pilot Lancaster about a Scotland Yard copper who joins the LAPD. (Deadline and Televisionary)
BEST AND WORST OF SUMMER
Secret agents, sexy vampires, and savvy ad men—the summer TV season has drawn to a close
SUMMER RATINGS AND VOTING
Curious about how the summer shows – those that aired on the major networks, that is – performed in the ratings? Well, Entertainment Weekly compiled a list of all the new shows (including reality) and I’ve condensed it down to just the dramas. I don’t know if the publication will do the same for all the cable shows, but I know I will be working on my own summer ratings article and posting that as soon as I can. In the meantime, here is the breakdown:
Lie to Me (Fox): 7.33 million
Rookie Blue (ABC): 7.24 million
Flashpoint (CBS): 6.99 million
Miami Medical (CBS): 6.52 million
Lie to Me (Mondays, Fox): 5.03 million
The Good Guys (Fox): 4.61 million
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): 4.53 million
Friday Night Lights (NBC): 4.13 million
Scoundrels (ABC): 3.82 million
The Gates (ABC): 3.78 million
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC): 3.63 million
Persons Unknown (NBC): 2.79 million
Law & Order: CI (Saturdays, NBC): 2.57 million
And, if you’d like to make your “vote” count for the summer shows you enjoyed the most, head over to E! Online made courtesy of Kristin at E! Entertainment Online.
FAN MOVEMENT LEAD BY FAN FAVORITE ACTRESS
Kristen Bell revives ‘Veronica Mars’ movie campaign: Is there hope?
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Tom Hardy (Inception) has stepped in for Michael Fassbender in the new film adaptation of John le Carre’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The movie is to be set in the mid-70’s during the height of the Cold War. Gary Oldman plays a judicious, reserved, middle-aged intelligence expert who is recalled out of forced retirement to hunt down a Soviet mole in the “Circus”, the highest echelons of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Hardy’s character will help Oldman’s character put the pieces of his investigation together. Fassbender is busy with the box office movie X-Men: First Class and cannot participate in this adaptation. Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, David Thewlis and Benedict Cumberatch (who will be seen in the BBC series Sherlock Holmes series) also star in this film. (The Daily Mail and Dark Horizons)
Olivia Thirlby (Juno) has landed a lead role in the upcoming alien invasion film The Darkest Hour AND has just been cast as Cassandra Anderson in the new adaptation of Judge Dredd, which will star Karl Urban in the lead role. (First Showing)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a safe and fun Labor Day Weekend!
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