Hey All,
There is lots of good news to share with all of you for this Friday. Let’s get started, shall we?:
TELEVISION
Jennifer Esposito is joining the cast of Blue Bloods as a series regular in the role of Detective Jackie Curatola. (The Futon Critic)
The first season of Damages will be reaired on DirectTV starting on January 5 at 10 PM followed by the airing of the second season of the show on April 6 at 10 PM. The third season will then launch on May 25 at 10 PM leading up to the summer debut of the all new fourth season. (The Futon Critic)
Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights and Lone Star) will guest star in an episode of Criminal Minds that pays homage to Oliver Stone’s seminal criminal satire Natural Born Killers. Palicki will play Syd, a tough, irreverent and sexually manipulative lunatic who sets out on a cross country killing spree with her badass sociopath husband Ray (Jonathan Tucker from The Black Donnellys). The episode is slated to air in early 2011. (Michael Ausiello)
Syfy has scheduled the start of the third season of UK import Merlin for January 7 at 10 PM and the five remaining episode of the recently canceled Caprica will air in a 5-hour marathon on the network on January 4 starting at 6 PM. (The Futon Critic)
Claudia Black (Farscape and Stargate SG-1) will appear in the CW series 90210, starting in late January. She will appear in a three episode arc as Sona, a yoga guru who the West Beverly girls meet on a yoga retreat. (William Keck at TV Guide)
James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek and Mercy) will guest star on the new TNT series Franklin & Bash, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer, as two young, fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants street lawyers who cause a seismic culture clash when they join a legendary, button-down law firm. Meyer plays Jared Franklin, who loves sticking it to authority every chance he gets, while Gosselaar plays Peter Bash, who has a knack for connecting with jury and judge. Van Der Beek will play Nathan Connor, Peter’s ex-girlfriend’s fiancé. Nathan hires Peter after his bachelor party gets too wild in a hotel. (Mandi Bierly at Entertainment Weekly)
Fox has picked up the comedy pilot Breaking In for mid-season with a 7-episode order. The work place comedy stars Christian Slater. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
TV RELATED MUSIC TOUR
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DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Katelyn Tarver (Nick’s Big Time Rush), Valerie Tian (Juno), Ana Lucasey (Lie to Me), and Christian Serratos (Twilight) have joined the ABC Family Channel’s new pilot from The Secret Life of the American Teenager creator Brenda Hampton that centers on a diverse group of private high schoolers. (Deadline)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) returns to the Hallmark Channel in the made for TV movie Perfectly Prudence, which will premiere on January 8 at 9 PM. This movie is the sequel to the 2008 Hallmark Channel movie Dear Prudence. In the sequel Prudence MacIntyre (Seymour), infamously clever deviser of unique remedies for common, household problems, is being asked to make changes to her successful television show and she is resistant. But much to her surprise, one of the new producers who is eager to revamp her image (Joe Lando, Seymour’s former co-star in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman) is an old flame. Unfortunately, the other is a seedy womanizer (Adam Kaufman) who enchants Prudence’s daughter. Once again, Prudence will have the assistance of her faithful sidekick Nigel (Matt Jones) as she attempts to rekindle a love she thought she lost, protect her daughter from the wrong guy, and find a way to keep her show on the right path. Hopefully, the head of the network (James Keach, Seymour’s off-screen husband) will have her back when the battle draws down! (The Futon Critic)
The Syfy movie Ice Quake will debut on December 11 at 9 PM and stars Brendan Fehr (Roswell and Bones) and Victor Garber (Alias and Eli Stone). The movie focuses on the melting Alaskan permafrost creates underground rivers of volatile liquid methane, causing a succession of violent and destructive earthquakes. One family, separated by the disastrous events, must find each other during Christmas and together stop the deadly rivers before a catastrophic explosion threatens the entire planet. (The Futon Critic)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Daniel Day-Lewis will star as the 16th President of the United States in the movie Lincoln to be directed by Steven Spielberg. The film will be based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The film is expected to be released in the latter part of 2012. (Deadline)
Leonardo DiCaprio will star in and produce the movie Legacy of Secrecy, an adaptation of Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann’s non-fiction book of the same name. DiCaprio would play FBI informant Jack Van Laningham who apparently witnessed the confession of Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Apparently the confession came about after a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, wherein the FBI positioned Van Laningham to become a confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades. (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
Watch: First Look Featurette for D.J. Caruso’s ‘I Am Number Four’
NOTE: Timothy Olyphant is in this movie too so I am TOTALLY there!
That’s it. Enjoy!
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