Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Film star Uma Thurman will be showing up in a multi-episode arc on the mid-season NBC musical drama Smash. She will play a famous and somewhat difficult movie star who flirts with the idea of starring in Marilyn, the musical within the musical. Smash will debut on February 6 at 10 PM. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
ABC has given Castle an order for one additional episode, bringing its fourth season to 23 episodes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Diane Neal (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) will guest star in an upcoming episode of A Gifted Man, playing a lawyer. It is unclear when this episode will air, though, and there are no other details on the episode. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)
The popular Canadian sci-fi series Lost Girl has been picked up for a third season. The series is currently airing its second season on Showcase and the first season will debut here in the States on Syfy starting on January 16. (Showcase)
Actor Jim Beaver (Supernatural) will return to Justified, reprising his role of Shelby, the manager of the mine where Boyd (Walt Goggins) worked for much of last season. He has been confirmed for one episode, but there is a potential for him to appear in as many as 7 episodes if not more. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line and Twitter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Believe it or not: Lifetime has given the greenlight to a contemporary remake of the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon. Yes, you read that right!! Supposedly casting is already underway. The executive producers of Drop Dead Diva and the mid-season series Smash – Neil Meron and Craig Zadan – are the men behind this new version. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Ben Kingsley is in talks to join the cast of the film adaptation of the Orson Scott Card novel Ender’s Game. The film already stars young actors Asa Butterfield (Hugo) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) in the lead roles. (The Hollywood Reporter and First Showing)
BOX OFFICE TRAILER
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Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)
Question: NCIS seems to set up things for some bigger Tiva movement. The lack of emotional scenes, the “we need some time”-moment early this season, Tony’s bucket list and Tony’s dad telling his son he should come to his senses and pick Ziva. Am I delusional or are they up to something? — Svenja
Sandra: Well, these are interesting clues you’ve pieced together, but a return from a very important character might throw a wrench in this plan you predict. The Jan. 10 episode will see a return from none other than Agent Ray Cruz (Enrique Murciano), who, according to executive producer Gary Glasberg, “returns to sweep Ziva David off her feet.” “There are always plenty of sparks between Cote and Enrique, but this time we’re taking things to a whole other level,” he teases. One other blast from the past we’ll be seeing? The infamous ring box!
Question: Any chance you have any scoop for Will and Emma from Glee? — Michael
Sandra: Erm, my bag of tricks reveals a shortage of Wemma for you. Can I offer a consolation prize with some good news on another character? We hear word that newbie Gleek, Damian McGlinty has been offered an extended stay on the show! He reports: “I found out this week that I am getting more than seven; I am getting kept on,” he says. “That’s nice. That’s what I was working towards. It’s an early Christmas gift. For how much longer, who knows? I am trying to learn to just enjoy things as they come.” And what IS to come? A possible new flame! “There’s a line in the Christmas episode that possibly hints at it for Valentine’s Day,” he tells us. “All the girls on Glee are gorgeous. I’d be a lucky guy with any of them, I’m telling ya.”
Question: Any Vampire Diaries scoop please? — Sophie
Sandra: While Paul Wesley has made no secret of his love for playing Evil Stefan over Good Stefan and while there’s always a possibility he might revert to the latter sometime this season, there’s one character the actor says will likely never show his sweeter side. “I don’t think Klaus is in any danger of ever becoming a good guy,” he tells EW. He will either stick around as a villain for quite a while or he’ll be sent out with a big bang. I don’t think we’ll ever convert Klaus into like one of the guys in Mystic Falls who works at the Mystic Grill flipping burgers. That would be a big mistake. He needs to be that big dark entity.” Additionally, Wesley teases that Klaus is “definitely still a huge part of the second half of the season,” and that he and Stefan will “continue to walk that fine line between friendship and foe.” “There’s things we need from him and there’s things he needs from us. It’s that sort of back-and-forth for the rest of the season,” he says.
Question: I’m so excited for the return of White Collar. Scoop, please? – Anna
Sandra: Considering the cliffhanger we left off on, count me among the excited! I mean, we can all pretty much assume Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen) is going to be found alive and well. But Neil and Peter’s relationship won’t emerge from her kidnapping quite as unscathed, according to Matt Bomer, who we ran into at the Trevor Live! benefit last weekend. In fact, he teases, things get physical! “Oh, we’re definitely on the outs,” he says. “When we come back in January, it’s really the most fraught with tension their relationship has ever been. It even gets physical at one point. But in typical Neal and Peter fashion, they find a way to work together and sort of make amends, only to have the tension re-created, I assure you. That’s the natural cycle of their relationship, it seems.”
That’s it. Enjoy!
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