Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
In what will be a surprise decision to many TV viewers, show runner (aka series creator) Alan Ball will be stepping down from his control of the HBO vampire series True Blood after NEXT season. The show will be back for its fifth season this summer; but once that season has concluded, Ball will only be associated with the show in a supervisory capacity. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
Actor Jordan Belfi (Entourage and Moonlight) and actress Ashley Jones (The Bold and the Beautiful) will appear as the big-screen versions of Booth and Brennan in an upcoming episode of the FOX drama Bones. The episode will revolve around the production of a movie written by Brennan and featuring the characters “Dr. Kathy Reichs” and “Special Agent Andy Lister.” Jones will play the actress portraying Reichs, while Belfi will play the actor playing Lister (aka Booth). Bones will be back from its hiatus on April 2 (a newly announced return date). (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actress Lucy Liu (Ally McBeal, Southland and the Charlie’s Angels film franchise reboot) will play Watson in the CBS drama pilot Elementary, the network’s latest reimagining of the Sherlock Holmes legend. Actor Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) will play Sherlock. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Young actress AnnaSophia Robb (Soul Surfer) has landed the lead role in The Carrie Diaries, the drama pilot at The CW based on the novel by Candace Bushnell, which is a prequel to the HBO comedy Sex and the City. The pilot will center on a young Bradshaw, who comes of age in the 1980s and is asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan. (Variety and Deadline)
Jamie Chung (Samurai Girl and Sucker Punch) has joined the FOX drama pilot The Asset that will center on Anna King (Ali Larter), a remarkably gifted globe-trotting photographer with a secret life: she is a CIA field operative. Chung will play a polygraph expert with the CIA who administers a confrontational polygraph to King that immediately puts her on the wrong side of King’s temper and attention. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actor David Eigenberg (Sex and the City) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot called Chicago Fire that will follow the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. Eigenberg will play a veteran firefighter who just lost his home to foreclosure and is now forced to move in with his in-laws. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus) has joined the ABC drama pilot Beauty and the Beast, which is the network’s fantasy re-imagining of the classic tale where an embattled princess, Grace, discovers an unlikely connection with a mysterious beast, Shiro (Darius Campbell), a mercenary bodyguard. Abraham will play Emperor Dorian’s chancellor, a wise and trusted but duplicitous man of state. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. has landed a lead role in the FOX legal drama pilot called Guilty, which will center on William “Billy” Remz (Gooding), a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after being falsely convicted of fraud and stripped of his legal license, uses his unorthodox methods to solve the cases he’s been prohibited from handling … and to exact revenge on those who set him up. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Jordana Spiro (My Boys) has landed a lead role in the as-yet-untitled FOX medical drama pilot from Josh Berman and Rob Wright pilot that will center on Grace Delvin (Spiro), one of Chicago’s top young cardiothoracic surgeons who, to save her gambling-indebted brother, is forced to moonlight as a mob doctor. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE POSTER REVEALED
An Action-Packed Theatrical Poster for ‘The Avengers’ Has Surfaced
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