Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actor Dan Stevens (Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey) will appear, in addition to Season 3 of the PBS/UK mega-hit, in another period project in London called Summer in February where he will play Gilbert Evans, a 1913 land agent for the Lamorna Valley estate in England’s picturesque, southwestern county of Cornwall, which has become home to a group of artists. Australian actress Emily Browning plays the object of his affection, Florence Carter-Wood, and Dominic Cooper is Evans’ charismatic competition, A.J., who would go on to fame as artist Sir Alfred Munnings, one of England’s best painters of rural scenes. The film is based on a book by a teacher from his old school, Jonathan Smith. (Yahoo News)
Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway (Shameless and HawthoRNe) will guest star in the season finale of the new drama Ringer, playing Special Agent Berens, the Regional Director of the FBI who shows leniency to Agent Machado (Nestor Carbonell). The season finale will air on The CW on April 17 at 9 PM. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)
Actor Jamey Sheridan (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) has been promoted to a series regular for season 2 of Showtime’s new drama Homeland. In season one, he played Vice President Walden, who survived an assassination attempt and offered Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis) to run for the U.S. House of Representatives as he himself is priming for a Presidential run. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actor Frankie Faison (The Wire) has been cast as a regular in the upcoming Cinemax drama Banshee that is being executive produced by Alan Ball (True Blood). The 10-episode series will center on an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, PA, where he continues his criminal activities even as he’s being hunted by the shadowy gangsters he had betrayed years earlier. Faison will play Sugar Bates, a powerful and wise former boxer and ex-con who is now the owner of the local watering hole. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actor Jay Harrington (Better Off Ted) has been added to the cast of the FOX drama pilot called Guilty from Greg Berlanti (Everwood). The pilot centers on a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney, Billy (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) 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. Harrington will play Scott, a former colleague of Billy’s who has set up a practice of his own that Billy uses as a home base. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Mercedes Masohn (The Finder) and actor Robert Buckley (One Tree Hill) have both landed roles in the ABC drama pilot 666 Park Avenue, based on the Gabriella Pierce novel, about a young couple (Rachael Taylor and Dave Annable) who accept an offer to manage one of the most historic apartment buildings in New York City where they begin to experience supernatural occurrences. Masohn and Buckley will play two of their tenants – playwright Brian Leonard and his photographer wife Louise. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actor Aidan Quinn (the short-lived Prime Suspect) has joined the cast of the CBS drama pilot called Elementary that envisions Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in the present day as a former Scotland Yard consultant who solves crimes for the NYPD alongside Joan Watson (Lucy Liu), his personal recovery assistant. Quinn will play Tobias “Toby” Gregson, an NYPD Captain who originally crossed paths with Holmes while assigned to Scotland Yard to observe their counterterrorism bureau after 9/11. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actress Rochelle Aytes (the short-lived Work It, Detroit 1-8-7 and The Forgotten) has landed a role in the upcoming ABC drama called Mistresses, which is based on the U.K. series of the same name. The pilot follows the lives of four female friends and their involvement in an array of illicit and complex relationships. She will play April, a recent widow raising two daughters and running a high-end linen shop on Robertson Boulevard. (Deadline and The Futon Critic)
Actor Jeremy Piven is in negotiations to star in the 10-episode ITV drama series called Mr. Selfridge. That will trace the life of the flamboyant and visionary American entrepreneur, Harry Gordon Selfridge, chronicling the launch of his famous London department store Selfridge’s. The series is based on the book Shopping, Seduction And Mr. Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead. It would be set in London in 1909 at a time when wealthy women were enjoying a new sense of freedom, and “Mile a Minute Harry” wanted to indulge, empower and celebrate these women, making shopping as thrilling as sex. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Lauren German (Hawaii Five-0 and Happy Town) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot Chicago Fire that will star Jesse Spencer (House). The drama is about the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. German will play the all-business and humorless Shay to whom the team reports. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
British actor Theo James (Bedlam, Downton Abbey and Underworld: Awakening) has landed the lead in the CBS drama pilot Golden Boy, which centers on Clark (James), a cop, and chronicles his meteoric rise from officer to detective and ultimately police commissioner. Actor Ryan Phillippe was originally tapped for the role but exited shortly thereafter. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal is in negotiations to star in the revenge thriller film called Motor City that follows a small-time hood (Gyllenhaal) framed and sent to prison by a drug trafficker, only to relentlessly exact revenge years later to get back the woman he loves. Gary Oldman and Amber Heard have already been cast. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)
Actor s Nick Braun (ABC Family’s short-lived 10 Things I Hate About You) and Brandon T. Jackson (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief) have joined the cast of upcoming comedy film called Get A Job that follows a college graduate named Will (Miles Teller from Footloose and Rabbit Hole) and his friends who have to lower their expectations about life as they enter the real world during a recession. Braun, Jackson as well as Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Superbad and Kick Ass) will play Will’s three friends. Anna Kendrick (the Twilight Saga franchise) will play Will’s hard-charging girlfriend and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) is his father who is also looking for a job at the same time his son is. Alison Brie is also onboard as a sharp-witted co-worker. (Yahoo! and Dark Horizons)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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