Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
FOX has given the Kiefer Sutherland-led pilot Touch a 13-episode order with the show planned to debut next spring. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
Lifetime has picked up Drop Dead Diva for a fourth season. (Twitter)
Actress Catherine Dent (The Shield) will appear in a multi-episode arc on The Mentalist as Special Agent Susan Darcy, a seasoned and assertive FBI agent who often downplays her intelligence to get what she wants without causing friction. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)
Actor Billy Zane (Titanic) will be joining The Playboy Club, starting on the 6th episode (if it last that long, of course), playing the recurring role of Oscar Bianchi, the cool-headed but ruthless younger brother of Chicago Mafia boss Bruno Bianchi, who was murdered in the first episode. (William Keck at TV Guide)
Actor Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files) will make an appearance on the new FOX series The Finder, playing a former cop-turned-death row inmate who reaches out to Walter (Geoff Stults) to help him with something very important. (Give Me My Remote)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Legendary TV series creator Steven Bochco has a new project at ABC called Legal Affairs that is an ensemble legal drama following the partners and associates at a prestigious L.A. law firm who must balance tangled personal relationships with the demands of family and high-profile cases. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Fox has bought The Raiding Party, a drama project from Breakout Kings creator Nick Santora. The project centers on three brothers, overseen by their dominant mother, who carry on the successful family business that was founded by their grandfather and bequeathed to them by their dad. That family business just happens to be robbing banks. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actors Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) and Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) have landed lead roles in the HBO pilot called 40. They join previously cast Ed Burns and Michael Rapaport in the single-camera ensemble comedy, which revolves around four lifelong friends who help each other navigate life at 40, which isn’t all they expected it to be. Burns plays a married guy and a father who used to work at Bear Stearns making more than $2 million a year, but has now been out of work for almost a year. Rapaport plays another friend, also married, who is described as a neurotic everyman. Imperioli plays a single guy, a hustler who is shameless when it comes to self-promotion. And, Pasdar plays the fourth of the buddies, a Wall Street millionaire. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
ABC has bought Zero Hour, a mystery drama from Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring. The project is described as an epic adventure about a skeptical everyman who gets swept up in one of history’s greatest conspiracies. His search leads him on a dangerous journey around the world collecting clues that will unlock not only a spectacular mystery surrounding the Twelve Apostles but also questions about his own identity. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Richard Jenkins has joined the cast of the box office film One Shot, which is adapted from the Lee Child novel, starring Tom Cruise as a former military police officer, who investigates the case of a sniper accused of murdering five people at a mall. Jenkins will play the district attorney prosecuting the sniper. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a terrific weekend!
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