Hey All,
Happy Tuesday! How is everyone’s week going so far? Hope it is good and that you enjoyed all the great programming that was on last night especially the conclusion of the two-part Castle episode.
Meanwhile, here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
The season finale of the ABC drama Detroit 1-8-7 has been moved to Sunday, March 20 at 10 PM. Tonight’s episode of the series will be pre-empted for a 20/20 special with the episode that was to air tonight airing now on March 8 at 10 PM followed by a new episode on March 15 and then the finale on March 20. Mark your calendars! (The Futon Critic)
Actor Enrique Murciano (Without a Trace) will appear in a multi-episode arc on NCIS as Ziva’s (Cote de Pablo) never-seen-before boyfriend CIA agent Ray Cruz. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Diane Neal will return to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Casey Novak, who was disbarred for violating due process in a rape case. She will be back for one episode this spring. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actress Lana Parrilla (“Miami Medical”) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot called Once Upon a Time that will be about a small town in Maine where the magic and mystery of Fairy Tales just may be real. She will play Regina the town’s mayor who also happens to be the Evil Queen of Fairy Tale Land. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace) has landed the lead role in the CBS drama pilot called The Rememberer that is about Carrie Wells, an FBI agent who remembers everything, helping her career but making for turmoil in her personal life. (The Futon Critic)
Oscar-nominee Janet McTeer (Tumbleweeds) is first to join the cast of the FOX drama pilot called Weekends at Bellevue that follows the weekend physician in charge of Bellevue’s psychiatric emergency room. She will play Diane Wallace, the hospital’s head of psychiatry. (The Futon Critic)
Actress Rachelle Lefevre (Off the Map and the first two Twilight movies) will play the female lead in the NBC drama pilot called The Crossing that is set in a Missouri town during the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. The pilot centers on Jason, a Civil War soldier who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior. She will play Anna, a war widow who watched helplessly as Union soldiers burned her husband and two little boys alive in their barn. Now living with her five-year-old daughter, Anna is smitten with Jason at first sight and embarks on a torrid affair with the troubled outsider. (Nellie Andreeva at TV Line)
NOTE: Depending on the fate of the new series Off the Map, Lefevre would have to return to the ABC medical drama if it is picked up for another season. If not, then she will be free to pursue this new NBC drama SHOULD it be picked up as a series by the Peacock network.
CONDOLENCES
Legendary actress Jane Russell, who starred in the Howard Hughes film The Outlaw and the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes with Marilyn Munroe passed away yesterday at the age of 89. (LA Times)
ME: Rest in Peace, Ms. Russell. Condolences to her family, friends and fans.
MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…
BOX OFFICE NEWS
It looks like film maker/director Tim Burton and actor Josh Brolin just might be teaming to do a new film adaptation the classic 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The story follows Quasimodo, a deformed and hunchbacked bell-ringer of the Norte Dame cathedral who tragically falls in love with a beautiful gypsy named Esmerelda. (Reuters and Dark Horizons)
Actress Malin Akerman (Watchmen) is negotiating to join the kidnapping thriller called Medallion that stars Nicolas Cage as a former master thief who has only a few hours to find his daughter when she is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a New York taxi cab. Akerman will play Cage’s former girlfriend and a former bank robber who agrees to help him save his daughter. (Reuters and Dark Horizons)
Singer-Actress Mandy Moore (Tangled) and actor Rodrigo Santoro (I Love You, Phillip Morris) are set to co-star in the film Falling Slowly that follows a couple whose apartment is haunted by a dark presence. (Variety and First Showing)
BOX OFFICE FIRST LOOK
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That’s it. Enjoy!
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