Hey All,
So it’s a very big Jewish holiday and nearly everyone in my office is off. It makes for a quiet work day that’s for sure.
In the meantime, there is a lot of cool news to share with all of you:
NEWS
NOTE: Show runners are the people behind the show that either created, executive produce and/or write the series. They are the top dog on the food chain for their respective series.
TELEVISION
Annabella Sciorra (The Sopranos) will guest star in the new ABC legal drama The Whole Truth, as a high-fashion designer who is accused of murdering her young lover. The Whole Truth debuts on September 22 at 10 PM. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
Marisol Nichols (The Gates) has signed on to guest star in an upcoming episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, playing Callen’s (Chris O’Donnell) ex-partner, Tracy Keller. She will debut in the sixth new episode. (William Keck at TV Guide)
Caprica is moving! Second half of season one will premiere on Tuesday, October 5 at 10 PM. (Twitter Post from Syfy)
The third season premiere of Sanctuary will now launch in its former timeslot on Friday, October 15 at 10 PM. (Twitter Post from Syfy)
The new season of In Treatment will kick off on October 25 (Twitter Post by Michael Ausiello from Entertainment Weekly)
CMT will be bringing fans of the classic TV series The Dukes of Hazzard a real treat. Starting tomorrow night at 8 PM and lasting for 33 hours, the country music network will air a marathon of episodes. The show will then move to its regular timeslot on CMT at 7 PM on September 13. (The Futon Critic)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
J.J. Abrams (the man behind Felicity, Alias and Lost) is currently shopping a crime-thriller series created by Jonah Nolan, brother and frequent collaborator of The Dark Knight/Inception auteur Christopher Nolan. This would mark the first small-screen foray for Nolan, who not only co-wrote The Dark Knight and The Prestige but also penned the short story on which Memento was based. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
Diane Farr (Numb3rs and Rescue Me) and Peter Tolan have separately received script orders for two one-hour dramas at FOX. Farr’s project, based on her upcoming semi-autobiographical novel “You Can’t Love One of Them,” is said to focus on “several interracial couples living in the South in a post-Obama world.” Meanwhile, Tolan has sold a script for an untitled Glen Mazzara drama that will revolve around a burnt-out doctor who joins a neighborhood medical clinic. (Deadline and Televisionary)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Jeremy Renner (The Hurt Locker) and Swedish actress Noomi Rapace (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) are apparently set for the title roles in the comedy/horror/fantasy Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters. The film is to be set 15 years after the original Grimm’s fairy tale. Having killed the witch who tried to cook them as kids, the siblings are now grown-up, shotgun wielding witch slayers. (Twitchfilm and Dark Horizons)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) has joined the cast of the thriller Drive in which Ryan Gosling plays a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a freelance getaway driver during robberies and ends up on the run with a contract on his head and an ex-con’s girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) in his car. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Malin Akerman (Watchmen) has signed on to the CIA thriller The Numbers Station with Ethan Hawke playing a disgraced black ops agent tasked with a dead-end job of protecting a young woman (Akerman) in the middle of the Nevada desert. When the two come under attack, they have to fight to stay alive. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
CABLE RATINGS FOR SUMMER 2010
According to Entertainment Weekly, the following list shows how the summer programming (SCRIPTED shows that is) performed from May 31 to August 22 (NOTE: with the exception of “kiddie shows” – the words of EW not mine):
Rizzoli and Isles (TNT): 8.44 million
The Closer (TNT): 8.20 million
Royal Pains (USA): 7.154 million
Burn Notice (USA): 7.151 million
Covert Affairs (USA): 6.74 million
White Collar (USA): 5.28 million
In Plain Sight (USA): 4.93 million
Psych (USA): 4.87 million
Memphis Beat (TNT): 4.59 million
Leverage (TNT): 4.328 million
Army Wives (Lifetime): 4.327 million
The Glades (A&E): 3.88 million
Pretty Little Liars (ABC Family): 3.25 million
Haven (SyFy): 2.51 million
MUSIC INTERVIEW
Singer Sara Bareilles finds her focus — finally
Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)
NOTE: Tread lightly as there are spoilers – SPOILER ALERT!!
Question: Any news on what will happen to Castiel on Supernatural this season? —Minha
Ausiello: This season’s first two episodes will be Cas-free, but the full-powered angel returns in spectacular fashion in week 3. “Let’s just say some angels show up that are not so happy,” teases exec producer Sera Gamble. “Cas and an angel go through a window at one point, and the result is not pretty. It’s a pretty spectacular stunt.”
Question: You’ve given us great scoop about the final (shed a tear) season of Friday Night Lights, but one thing remains unanswered: Are we going to be lucky enough to have Minka Kelly return for a few episodes? Riggins putting her on the bus with a soulful “Goodbye, Lyla Garrity” is not enough closure for me. —Becky
Ausiello: Well, it was enough closure for exec producer Jason Katims—and he’s the boss! “I thought her final episode was so powerful,” says Katims. “We talked about bringing her back, but I didn’t really feel like anything we came up with beat the [Tim-Lyla] story in that episode, which I thought was really poignant. It wasn’t a happy ending, but it was a really satisfying ending for me. It was a satisfying resolution to that story line.”
Question: Please tell me Mozzie is not dead on White Collar! —Vin
Ausiello: Mozzie is probably most likely not dead.
Question: Glee returns in two weeks! Got anything new? —Timothy
Ausiello: The show wastes no time showing off Chord Overstreet’s, um, impressive body of work. When we first meet his possibly gay football-jock character, Sam, in the premiere, he’s in the shower singing “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” For his part, Chris Colfer believes that scene is proof positive that Sam will not turn out to be Kurt’s BF. “After seeing the episode, I feel like it’s not going to happen because all the girls are going to fall in love with him and they’re not going to want to see [him with Kurt],” he says. “And I don’t want to be the guy girls hate. I’m the gay guy the girls love. I don’t want to become the target. I don’t want the letters that say, ‘Kurt needs to get off our man. Stop kissing our boyfriend.’ Young girls can be vicious. I don’t want to know how Kristen Stewart feels. I don’t want to be the Bella of the Glee world. I like being the guy everyone likes.” Colfer adds that there’s no sign of romantic tension between Sam and Kurt in the first four episodes. “Maybe it is too obvious,” he theorizes. “Our writers have a way of avoiding the obvious and throwing curveballs.” BONUS GLEE SCOOP: Someone’s going to the slammer!
Question: I heard a rumor that Terri will date Principal Figgins on Glee this season. Please say it’s not true. Team Twill FTW! —Rion
Ausiello: According to Terri’s portrayer, Jessalyn Gilsig, it’s “definitely not” true. Gilsig does confirm that the former Mrs. Schuester will “get into a relationship of some kind that brings her around the glee club and the school, but I’m not at liberty to say who.” Guesses? Hit the comments! More fun games!
Question: How’s about serving up a steamy hot dish of Burn Notice scoop? That finale really burned me up. I’ll stop with the puns now. —Hope
Ausiello: The following scoop is rated S and RH for Sizzling and Red-Hot: A major character will be killed off during the show’s fall run.
Question: I have not seen anything on season 2 of Justified. Got any scoop on that? —Carolyn
Ausiello: Production resumes in mid-October, and newly minted series regular Walton Goggins tells me “the pendulum will swing in a completely different direction for Boyd, and religion may receive his ire. He may become an agnostic vigilante, [but] I won’t say against who.”
Question: It’s less than a week until Life Unexpected returns. Surely you have scoop! —Laura
Ausiello: The three new characters I told you about previously are introduced in the Sept. 14 premiere, and one of them has a not-so-surprising connection to a main character. Bonus scoop: Bug and Lux consider taking a big step forward in their relationship, but something happens to trip them up.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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