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Here is the news for today with some interesting casting items and more. Please read on:
TELEVISION
Actress Alicia Coppola, who has a recurring role on The Nine Lives of Chloe King (and is probably best known for her work on the short-lived but fan-favorite series Jericho) will guest star on an upcoming episode of the USA Network new series Suits as Alexandra Leeds, a woman from Harvey’s (Gabriel Macht) past who suddenly appears to stir up some big trouble for the legal eagle. Additionally, she has been promoted to recurring status on the cable network’s recently ordered-to-series buddy cop show, Common Law. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
BBC America has picked up a new drama for the summer of 2012 called Cooper, which centers on a young Irish cop operating in the immigrant communities of 19th century New York. The series received a 10 episode order. (DanielleTBD at Twitter)
Actor-Comedian Eddie Izzard (The Riches) will have a guest starring role on The Good Wife, playing Abbott Thrush, an upper-class English barrister brought in to fight Lockhart/Gardner in a libel case that finds its way into British court. The Good Wife will return on September 25 at 9 PM on CBS. (TV Guide)
Actress Paula Marshall (Cupid and Californication) will play Malificent, the nemesis of Sleeping Beauty on the new ABC series Once Upon a Time, the fairy tale drama that will debut this fall on October 23. Also, actor David Anders (Alias and The Vampire Diaries) will play a doctor in the series which stars Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Carlyle, Josh Dallas and Lana Parrilla. (Maureen Ryan at AOL TV and Megan Masters at TV Line)
Actress Julie Benz (No Ordinary Family) has changed her status on the new fall medical drama A Gifted Man, which is set to debut this fall on CBS. Her character, the sister of Michael (Patrick Wilson), an ultra-competitive surgeon whose life is changed when his dead ex-wife (Jennifer Ehle) starts visiting him, will now be a recurring character rather than a series regular. (Deadline)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actors John Corbett and Gary Cole and actresses Julie Benz and Kelly Overton have been cast in the two-hour movie Ricochet, based on the best-selling book by Sandra Brown, which will air on TNT. Det. Sgt. Duncan Hatcher (Corbett), a sexy Savannah homicide cop, falls hard for Elise Laird (Benz), a dishy damsel-in-distress. She’s married to corrupt Judge Cato Laird (Cole), who consistently subverts Hatcher’s efforts to bring a local drug lord to justice. Things get complicated when Hatcher and his feisty partner, Det. DeeDee Bowen (Overton), are called to the Laird home after Elise supposedly shoots an intruder in self-defense. This made for TV movie is part of the new Tuesday Night Mystery movie franchise slated to launch in November on TNT. The franchise will feature six contemporary crime dramas, from true-crime stories to fictional mysteries. (Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Cable network A&E has decided to not pick up the proposed pilot of Big Mike – that was to star Greg Grunberg (Alias and Heroes) as a plus-size detective with the San Diego Police Department. Meanwhile, the fate of the new pilot Longmire, which is based on the Walt Longmire Mystery series of novels by Craig Johnson, is still up in the air, but the “buzz” is strong and the network “is leaning heavily toward picking it up to series”. Longmire is about Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor from Matrix), the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Widowed only a year, he is a man in psychic repair but buries his pain behind his brave face, unassuming grin and dry wit. The cast includes Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), Lou Diamond Phillips (Stargate Universe), Bailey Chase (Saving Grace) and Cassidy Freeman (Smallville). (Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies and soon to be seen in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and The Hobbit) has joined the cast of the upcoming film Lincoln, playing opportunistic New York City mayor Fernando Wood, a prominent early supporter of the Confederate cause. The mayor traded frequent correspondence with President Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis). (Deadline)
Actress Rosario Dawson and actor Vincent Cassel have joined the cast of the upcoming thriller called Trance, which stars James McAvoy and Cassel as partners who concoct an elaborate art heist that goes awry. Dawson will play a woman who has an unusual relationship with both men. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)
Actress Cody Horn (Rescue Me) has joined the cast of the indie cop drama called End of Watch that follows the friendship of two long-time LAPD partners (Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña). Horn will play a policewoman opposite America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Anna Kendrick (The Twilight Saga franchise). (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)
Actress and Oscar nominee Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom) has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller called Stoker. The film is about a teen, mourning the death of her father and has to deal with an eccentric uncle who shows up unexpectedly. The cast includes Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Matthew Goode (Leap Year and Watchmen) in a movie written by actor Wentworth Miller (Prison Break). (Deadline and Dark Horizons)
Actresses Jamie-Lynn Sigler (The Sopranos) and Nadia Bjorlin (Days of Our Lives) and actor Jonathan Bennett (Mean Girls) will star in the first romantic comedy from the Indian company RR Movie Makers called Divorce Invitation. The story is about Mike (Bennett), a happily married man, who runs into his high school sweetheart, realizing she is his true soul mate. The huge problem: he signed an iron-clad pre-nuptial agreement and his wife (Sigler), who will not let him out of the marriage. (The Wrap)
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