Hey All,
It’s over the hump day and we’re that much closer to the weekend AND that much closer to Thanksgiving. There was quite a bit of news to share so let’s get right into today’s update:
TELEVISION
TNT has canceled Dark Blue after two seasons. (The Futon Critic)
Actor Tim Guinee (Lie To Me) has been cast in the potentially recurring role of Wiley, an investigator working for the State’s Attorney’s office for the CBS series The Good Wife. Wiley (who will debut in early 2011) agrees to do a little reconnaissance for now-prosecutor Cary (Matt Czuchry) and hits pay dirt. (Michael Ausiello)
More guest stars have been added to the second half of the fourth season of Eureka. Wallace Shawn (Gossip Girl), Dave Foley (News Radio) and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) will be seen in 2011 episodes of the popular Syfy series. Shawn will portray Warren Hughes, a relationship auditor sent to Eureka to shadow and report on Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) and Allison Blake (Salli Richardson- Whitfield). Douglas appears as Ray, the exuberant leader of Galaxy Camp while Foley will appear in the finale as Drew Plotkin, a former weapons specialist turned eco-scientist whose research may be wreaking havoc in Eureka. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Clare Danes is in talks to return to TV for the Showtime pilot Homeland, which is based off the Israeli format Hatufim (aka Prisoners of War). The pilot would center on U.S. Marine Sergeant Scott Brody, who is found 10 years after going missing during the invasion of Baghdad. Danes would play Carrie Anderson, a smart, driven CIA case officer who handles threats to homeland security from the Middle East. She gets a tip that Brody has turned up and is leading a strike against the United States. Homeland would follow her efforts to get to the truth. This would be her first regular TV series role since her days on My So-Called Life in 1994. (Deadline and Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)
Mark your calendars, Doctor Who fans!! BBC America announced today that the latest Doctor Who Christmas Special called A Christmas Carol will air on December 25th at 9 PM. The Dickens-inspired installment, written by head writer and executive producer Steven Moffat, is described as: Newlyweds Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) are joined by Harry Potter’s Michael Gambon and Opera diva Katherine Jenkins, for what may be the Doctor’s most Christmassy adventure yet. The next season of Who will make its way to the airwaves in Spring 2011 as Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston (reprising her role as River Song) and Mark Sheppard shoot the two-part premiere in Utah. Meanwhile, the channel will air a Doctor Who marathon beginning December 24th at midnight, featuring a slew of favorite episodes, Christmas specials, and the US premiere of Doctor Who at the Proms, all leading up to the launch of Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol. (Televisionary)
Actress Megan Ward (General Hospital) will guest-star in a February episode of CSI: NY. She will play a lawyer who helps out a woman haunted by her past. (Matt Mitovich at Fancast)
Shelly Long will encore on the ABC comedy Modern Family, reprising her role of rather unpredictable Jay’s ex-wife, DeDe, in a January episode celebrating Lily’s birthday. (Matt Mitovich at Fancast)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck) will star in a procedural about an agent at a Washington D.C.-based government agency for CBS. (Deadline)
Molly Parker (Deadwood) has landed the lead in Meet Jane a Lifetime pilot about an unhappily wed mother of two who is recruited by the FBI to snoop on her computer tech hubby. (Deadline and Matt Mitovich at Fancast)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Director Steven Soderbergh has become associated with the film adaptation of the 1960 classic NBC TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The original series starred Robert Vaughn and David McCallum as two agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.), who fought the forces of Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity (T.H.R.U.S.H.). (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILERS
Little Red Riding Hood Gets the Twilight Treatment
Green Lantern Trailer
First ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ teaser hits the Web
Q&A SECTION (with Adam and Mickey at TV Guide)
Question: When is Brennan finally going to wake up and see what she’s missing with Booth on Bones? — Sara
ADAM: Sooner than you think. In the midseason finale, Brennan investigates the murder of a workaholic, and Bones quickly draws parallels to her own life. “She’s forced to face feelings that she’s never had to deal with before,” executive producer Stephen Nathan says. “She confronts the fact that this woman was running her whole life from feeling anything and she has to confront whether she’s going to run her whole life from feeling anything. It butts right up against her relationship with Booth and the past five years of history.”
Question: Is Castle going to revisit the story of Beckett’s mother’s murder this season? — Houston
ADAM: That’s the plan for one of the show’s January episodes, and executive producer Andrew W. Marlowe expects it to be a blockbuster. “There will be some closure; we’ll have some understanding as to exactly why Joanna Beckett was killed,” Marlowe teases. “The audience will find out how high the conspiracy goes and the elements that we’re dealing with. I think it can provide us with an interesting insight into [future] storytelling.”
Question: Who was in that picture Marcus threatened Hobbes (Charles Mesure) with in the V finale? — Kristin
MICKEY: That’s Sarah, Hobbes’ ex-lover. That means while Hobbes has been fighting for the humans, he’s also been sabotaging them in order to protect Sarah. “[Hobbes is] trying to support the resistance, but he’s trying to keep Sarah alive,” Mesure says. “So there will be some shady dealings going on.”
Question: What’s ahead on Smallville? — Brian
MICKEY: A new villain is coming to town. The producers are looking for a chiseled young man to play a recurring character who begins to realize his special abilities after a freak accident. (Don’t they all?) Though he idolizes Clark, a darkness within will eventually put him at odds with the future Man of Steel.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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