Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Sarah Paulson (the remake of Cupid) will be back on Wisteria Lane reprising her role as Lynette’s loser sister, Lydia on Desperate Housewives. But Lydia is a changed woman, as she is now engaged and shows up with her new fiancé. (William Keck at TV Guide)
Actor LaMarcus Tinker (Friday Night Lights) will join the cast of the FOX musicomedy Glee, playing Marcus, a massive linebacker for the McKinley Titans and a love interest for Mercedes (Amber Riley)’s lovelorn diva. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Natalie Hall (All My Children) will appear in a story-arc on Pretty Little Liars, where she will play Kate, the step-sister to Hanna (Ashley Benson). (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actress Autumn Reeser will guest star in an upcoming episode of Hawaii Five-0, playing Dr. Akina, the curator of a maritime museum who lends her expertise when a murder investigation takes McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danny (Scott Caan) into the world of sunken treasure. This could be a potential recurring role. The series is slated to return on September 19. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Courtney Ford, who has appeared in Dexter, The Vampire Diaries and most recently True Blood, will guest star in a fall episode of CSI: NY when it returns with all new episodes on September 23. She will appear as Nicole, a car thief who only steals cars worth at least a quarter of a million bucks. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
Actor Sebastian Roche (who played Balthazar on Supernatural) will appear on The Vampire Diaries as the newest vamp hunter who even makes Klaus (Joseph Morgan) nervous. (Zap2It)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Looks like CBS is thinking about rebooting the classic TV series Bewitched. The network has ordered a script from Sony Pictures Television, but no other details are available yet. (The Live Feed and Dark Horizons)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress Natalie Hall (All My Children) has booked the lead in the Hallmark Channel mini-series Love’s Christmas Journey, which is part of the Love Comes Softly series of books by Janette Oke. In the two-hour, two-part mini, slated to air in November, Hall will play Ellie King, a young pioneer woman who has suffered the loss of her husband and daughter. Ellie visits her brother Aaron (Greg Vaughn from General Hospital), a sheriff in the small town of Haddonton and his two children during Christmas. When a corrupt attorney in town leaves an innocent young man to blame for Mayor William Wayne’s (Sean Astin) barn catching fire and burning, Ellie steps in to help. The cast includes Dylan Bruce, JoBeth Williams and Ryan Wynott [among others]. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Rose Byrne is set to replace actress Greta Gerwig in the upcoming box office film called The Place Beyond the Pines. Bryne will play the wife of Bradley Cooper’s police officer turned politician who finds himself in a showdown with a motorcycle-riding bank robber (Ryan Gosling). (Vulture and Dark Horizons)
Actress Stephanie Szostak (Dinner for Schmucks) is set to play the living wife of Ryan Reynolds’ deceased police officer in the upcoming film adaptation of the comic series called R.I.P.D. The story is about an officer murdered while on duty, who is recruited to the Rest in Peace Department. (Digital Spy and Dark Horizons)
Actor John C. McGinley (Scrubs) has joined the cast of the upcoming film called I, Alex Cross, which is the reboot of the character from the James Patterson novels. The film will star which Tyler Perry in the lead while McGinley will play Chief of Police Richard Brookwell and boss of forensic psychologist Cross who is tracking down a serial killer (Matthew Fox). (Showblitz and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
Watch: Intense UK Trailer for Ralph Fiennes’ Shakespeare ‘Coriolanus’
Q&A SECTION (with Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Question: How will House deal with Cuddy’s absence? Is there any chance Lisa Edelstein will come back to shoot a proper ending for her character? — Beth
ADAM: Though the show’s one-year time jump will skip Cuddy’s exit from Princeton-Plainsboro, creator David Shore says the show won’t overlook it altogether. “There’s going to be an acknowledgement, but it’s not going to be a big story about her because unfortunately we don’t have [Lisa],” he says. Does Shore think he will ever get to write Cuddy a proper send-off? “Down the road, that might be more appropriate. It didn’t seem right now,” he says. “Given that she was gone, we decided it was better to not just have her come back to leave again.”
Question: Will Finn and Rachel be happy when Glee returns? — Joshua
NATALIE: Yes! “You pick up with them as a couple,” Lea Michele tells us. “I have a feeling that they’re just going to be settled this year. They did talk a lot about Rachel in the final episode of last season, of her wanting to go to New York and not knowing where he’s going to go, so I think that’s going to be a lot of the issues between them this year, and not so much of the Rachel/Puck and Finn/Quinn stuff.” Gearing up for a possible career on New York City’s Great White Way, Rachel will join the school musical this season.
Question: Got any good scoop about Ziva on NCIS? — Rodney
ADAM: Cote de Pablo tells us that she wants to move away from the stories about Ziva’s father and introduce some motherly love to her backstory. Executive producer Gary Glasberg does too. “Ziva will be dealing with a Middle Eastern family and the matriarch of the family connects with her in a really interesting, personal way,” Glasberg says. “Sounds like Ziva will need the support based on Glasberg’s other plans. “Someone from her past who we haven’t met before is coming forward,” he says. “[In addition,] Ray will probably come back halfway through the season, and they will intersect.”
Question: What’s the latest on Sweets and Daisy on Bones? — Megan
ADAM: “Daisy is definitely a part of Sweets’ life,” John Francis Daley tells us, and we can confirm Daisy will appear early in Season 7. But Sweets may have bigger fish to fry. “He is more active in the investigations because Brennan is slightly less able to go on the scene and get herself into dangerous situations,” Daley says. “So, you’re going to see more of Booth and Sweets working together as FBI agents.” Even better, creator Hart Hanson tells me that for the first time ever, Sweets will be packing heat! [Cue the Aerosmith song.]
Question: How is Fringe going to handle Peter never existing? — Amanda
NATALIE: Au contraire, Amanda! Peter did exist, according to the man who plays his father, John Noble. He says the final scene of the season finale, in which the Observers appear to negate Peter’s existence “was a slight teaser in the wrong direction, because Peter did exist, but Peter died as a child; both Peters died as a child.” As a result, the Season 4 premiere might remind you of It’s a Wonderful Life, as we’ll find Walter in a familiar predicament. “When we meet him in Season 4, he’s still insane, locked into the lab with guards, and mad because he’s never had Peter to bring him out of it,” Noble says. “He won’t have had that motivation to repair himself, so he’s quite mad and neurotic and obsessive-compulsive. He’s agoraphobic, so he won’t go out of the lab.”
Question: I’m really hoping you have some NCIS: Los Angeles scoop? — Thomas
ADAM: How’s this? In an early Season 3 episode, all the agents will be forced to swap partners! “Hunter puts us in this situation… and it screws up the whole dynamic,” Eric Christian Olsen tells us of the super-covert mission. “Deeks ends up with Sam… and [he’s] really trying to jostle for position, because Sam’s the man. He’s the Navy Seal, but Deeks is like, ‘No, I got this!'” Anyone care to take a guess who wins that battle?
Question: Will Damon and Elena go on the hunt to find Stefan on Vampire Diaries? —Sarah
NATALIE: They will both attempt to find him, but one is certainly trying harder than the other. “Damon loves his brother, he can’t deny that anymore, but at the same time, his relationship is building with Elena in a very nice way, so that maybe he’s not trying as hard as he should to find Stefan,” executive producer Kevin Williamson tells us, adding that Damon will feel guilt over that. As for Stefan, the ripper lifestyle will lend for some serious life contemplation on his part. “Will he ever be able to come back and how will Stefan and Elena save him if they do? It’s really going to be about the journey for Stefan: What’s Klaus up to? What’s Klaus’ use for him? It twists and turns in a bunch of different ways that are surprising.”
Question: Someone’s been stingy with the Glee scoop of late. And that someone would be you. —Lisa
Ausiello: Someone’s about to make up for lost time. And that someone would be me. I heard through the grapevine that Quinn gets back in touch with her inner bad girl when Season 3 starts. Also, word around town is that several cast members will be taking a crash course in tap-dancing in preparation for the Sept. 20 season opener.
Question: Any scoop on Chuck? —Dani
Ausiello: Chuck and Sarah are taking full advantage of their new professional autonomy, particularly when it comes to the design and look of their new spy shingle. I hear the offices of Carmichael Industries will look like the cool rec room you always wanted as a kid but never had. We’re talking pinball machines, candy-filled jars and other kitschy goodness. It’s the kind of set-up that would make General Beckman lose her will to live, so it’s probably best she’s only around part-time this season.
Question: Got anything about ABC’s Once Upon a Time? —Danny
Ausiello: Two things: It’s so good I watched the pilot twice (and that almost never happens). Also, the show runners told TVLine’s Matt Mitovich that they initially reached out to Lady Gaga to make a cameo as The Blue Fairy in the pilot, but they never heard back. Mother Monster’s loss is Canadian actress Keegan Connor Tracy’s gain!
That’s it. Enjoy!
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