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Hey All,

HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY!

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Misha Collins (Supernatural) will guest star on an upcoming episode of Ringer, playing Dylan, a man from Siobhan and Bridget’s past in Tahoe who played a strong role in the rift between the twins, leading to a six-year separation. (Tierney Bricker at E! Entertainment)

Actress Ashley Green (from the Twilight franchise) will appear in a three-episode arc on the new, but struggling, ABC period drama Pan Am, as a debutante with a past connection to Ted (Michael Mosley). She will first appear in the December 5 episode. (Lynette Rice at Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Eureka) will guest star on the Bones spinoff The Finder. She will play Athena Brooks, the lawyer representing the music mogul to be played by special guest star 50 Cent, who will play Big Glade, a successful, intimidating hip-hop bigwig who is desperate to find the lost tracks of a deceased rap artist on his music label. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Russell Tovey (the original BBC America series Being Human) has just announced he is leaving the series. It appears that the departure of actor Aidan Turner (and subsequently his character Mitchell) seems to be the catalyst. Of course, the news may come as a shock to fans and it’s quite unclear at this moment if his departure will take place during season 4, or at the end of it. (Blastr)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Max Irons (Red Riding Hood [and son of actor Jeremy Irons] has landed the second male lead role in the film adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer novel The Host. Actor Jake Abel (Supernatural and I Am Number Four) recently landed the other male lead. Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) will play the female lead. (Entertainment Weekly and First Showing)

Actor Jason Clarke (The Chicago Code and Brotherhood) is the first actor set for the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Clarke will play a terrorist hunter in service of the U.S. efforts to hunt Bin Laden. Other actors being considered for roles include Tom Hardy (Inception), Jennifer Ehle (A Gifted Man), Guy Pearce (The Hurt Locker), Idris Elba (Luther), Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Nina Arianda (Midnight In Paris). (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Actor Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia and Captain America) has joined the cast of the upcoming movie My Dinner With Herve, the indie biopic of French dwarf actor Herve Villechaize, who is best known for his roles on TV series Fantasy Island and 007 film The Man With The Golden Gun. Actor Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) will star as Herve while Cooper will play the reporter who gets the final interview before Herve committed suicide in 1993. (Dark Horizons)

Actor Matt Lanter (90210) has landed the lead role in the indie drama A Chance of Rain, which follows a young man who, while trying to bring water to a destitute village in Africa during a horrible drought, encounters his own problems, challenges and struggles. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actors Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, Rhashan Stone and Michelle Lukes will return for the official second (and unofficial third) season of the Cinemax hit action series Strike Back, which has received a ten episode order that will be shot on location in South Africa, starting in January for debut later in 2012. (Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Must Watch: Badass Trailer for Action Film ‘Safe’ with Jason Statham

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Hey All,

Here are the news items, few though they may be, for today:

TELEVISION

Actor David Anders (Alias and The Vampire Diaries) will guest star on House, playing the “Patient of the Week” in an early 2012 episode, which centers on House’s unorthodox process being put on (metaphorical) trial. Actress Audrey Marie Anderson (The Unit) will play the wife of Anders’ character. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Nicholas Lea (Kyle XY and The X-Files) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Supernatural that will be a time-travel episode where he plays Eliot Ness, the real-life G-man. The episode will visit Ness during his heyday in the 1940’s where, in the Supernatural world, he is actually a hunter. Actress Meghan Ory (Ruby on Once Upon a Time) will guest star as a “working girl” name Sally who comes to Sam for help. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

AWARD WINNERS

Congrats are extended to the winners of Country Music Association Awards that were presented last night, including Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, The Band Perry, Jason Aldean, Mac McAnally and Kenny Chesney. (E! Entertainment)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Watch: Teaser Trailer for ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’ 3D Sequel

Must Watch: First Trailer for ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ Arrives

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Miguel Ferrer (Crossing Jordan and the recently defunct Against the Wall) is joining the cast of NCIS: Los Angeles in a recurring role. He will play NCIS Assistant Director Allan Granger, a high-ranking federal agency supervisor. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Carlos Bernard (24) has landed a recurring role on the TNT remake of Dallas that will air next summer. He will play a suave Venezuelan businessman trying to hammer out a deal with J.R. (Vulture)

Actress Torrey DeVitto (who happens to be the real-life wife of Paul Wesley) will appear on The Vampire Diaries in the recurring role of Mary, an intelligent young doctor intrigued by Alaric’s (Matt Davis) powers of recovery. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings franchise) will make a guest appearance on Franklin & Bash play a college security guard who dons a cape and tights by night to fight campus crime under the name Viper. When he’s accused of killing a so-called culprit, he retains Franklin and Bash to defend him. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Kevin Alejandro (True Blood) will guest star in an episode of the A&E series Breakout Kings, playing Benecio Cruz, a tattooed, Latino religious obsessive, who is dying from Stage 4 lung cancer. Cruz escapes from Sing Sing and fighting to maintain his sanity with the aid of a pain patch, attempts to atone from his past crimes. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS is planning on remaking the 1950’s/1960’s classic TV series The Rifleman with Laeta Kalogridis and Patrick Lussier writing the script and executive producing. The original series starred legendary actor Chuck Connors as a skilled gunman and widowed Civil War hero who moves to uncharted New Mexico territory to raise his young son and gets recruited by the sheriff to help protect the unruly town. (Variety)

Syfy has picked up three new potential projects (all scripted dramas). The first is an untitled project that has this tagline: After decades of war, the newly formed Unity Democracy orders a volatile mix of humans and trans-humans to lead the Starship Defender on an expedition in search of lost worlds requiring law and order. The second has the working title of Seeing Things and is about a cop who becomes a ghost after his violent death and the only person who can help close his last case is a socially awkward man who realizes that the hallucinations he’s had all his life may not be a figment of his imagination. The last is called Ghost Projekt and is based on the popular comic series about a female KGB agent and male American weapons inspector who form an unlikely partnership when a deadly force is unwittingly unleashed from a Siberian research facility. (TV By the Numbers)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

The casting is underway for the adaptation of the Stephenie Meyer novel The Host. Actress Saoirse Ronan (The Lovely Bones) is already cast in the lead, but now it has been announced that actor Jake Abel (Supernatural and I Am Number Four) will play one of the two male leads. The other male lead role is still up in the air with the likes of Liam Hemsworth, Max Irons, Kit Harrington and Jai Courtney vying for the role. (First Showing)

Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Some Revenge scoop, please? —Sabrina

Ausiello: Some of the Hamptons’ stuffed shirts may start looking a little deflated after we meet over-the-top Mason Treadwell. He’s a fancy pants writer type whose book on the locals has made him as big a celebrity as any of the rich bitches he’s profiled.

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