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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Rutina Wesley will be back as Tara on True Blood despite her character taking a bullet to the head in the season finale. But details on how exactly Tara will return are unclear at this time. (SciFiPulse)

WEB SERIES

TNT has announced there will be post-episode web shows for Falling Skies and the new Dallas reboot. The new 15-minute digital talk shows called 2nd Watch and Dallas Round-Up will feature discussions on each week’s episodes, interviews with special guests from the cast and crew, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage, fan questions, trivia and more. 2nd Watch will air here with actor Wil Wheaton as host. 2nd Watch will go live on June 17, at 11 PM (Eastern Time), running for nine weeks. Dallas Round-Up will air here with Cameron Mathison set as the host. Dallas Round-Up will go live on June 13, at 11 p.m. (Eastern Time), also running for nine weeks. (TV By the Numbers)

CONDOLENCES

Renowned author Ray Bradbury has passed away after a long illness. He wrote such classics as Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. He was 91. (The Wrap)

ME: Rest in Peace, Mr. Bradbury. Deepest condolences to his family, friends and legends of fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Billy Campbell (The Killing) has taken over the lead role from Jason Patric in the Civil War-era film called Copperhead. He will play Amber Beech in the film, which is based on the Harold Frederic 1883 novel about a family feud during the Civil War. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actors Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Paul Dano as well as actor Paul Giamatti and actress Sarah Paulson have joined the ever-growing cast of the upcoming film called Twelve Years A Slave that will star Chiwetel Ejiofor (Serenity) as Solomon Northrop, a black man captured and sold into slavery. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) plays a plantation owner who buys Solomon and is ultimately won over by his engineering skills. There are no details, yet, on the roles all of these actors will play in the film. (Variety and First Showing)

Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) will play opposite Vera Farmiga (Source Code) in the upcoming film called Greenland Time, which is set on the icy Arctic landmass, following a woman out for revenge against the man who killed her daughter in a hit-and-run accident. (Screen Daily and Dark Horizons)

Actor Luke Evans (The Raven and Immortals) has, indeed, joined the cast of Fast Six, the next film in the Vin Diesel-Paul Walker franchise. (24 Frames and Dark Horizons)

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Jerry O’Connell (Crossing Jordan) has been cast as Herman Munster in the upcoming NBC drama reboot of the classic 60’s sitcom that will be known as Mockingbird Lane from the mind of Bryan Fuller (the man behind Pushing Daisies). O’Connell joins already cast Eddie Izzard as grandpa, Charity Wakefield, as their “plain” cousin and Mason Cook as Eddie. Word has it that actress Marianna Klaveno (True Blood) could potentially play Lily Munster, but that will only happen if she is released from her contract to Marc Cherry’s new pilot Devious Maids that was up for consideration at ABC (but not picked up there) but still in potential play at Lifetime. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline and William Keck at TV Guide)

Syfy has picked up season three of the Canadian hit series Lost Girl with plans to air it next January. (Shilo Adams at TV Overmind)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actors Eddie Cibrian and Michael Beach (both of Third Watch) will star in the Hallmark Channel movie called Playing Father that revolves around a former musician (Cibrian) who, despite having fans around the world, opts to return home to take a job teaching music to disenfranchised children so he can repair his relationship with his own family. Beach will play a custodian who works at the school. The film will premiere next year around Father’s Day. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Danielle Panabaker, singer-actress Naomi Judd and Travis Milne (Rookie Blue) will all star in the Hallmark Channel movie called The Nearlywed. The project revolves around three friends who have dream weddings only to find out that the pastor who married them failed to complete the key paperwork required to make them official. Panabaker will play Erin, whose husband David (Ryan Kennedy) invites his manipulative mother Renee (Judd) to stay with the couple. Milne will play Nick, one of the other husbands. The film will premiere in January. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope) has joined the cast of the upcoming film called Twelve Years A Slave where he will portray Armsby, a fellow field hand who works alongside Solomon Northup (Chiwitel Ejifior), a free black man who’s brought South against his will and sold into slavery. Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) also stars. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actors Douglas Booth (The Pillars of the Earth) and Logan Lerman (Percy Jackson and the Olympians) are set to play Noah’s son Shem and Ham in the upcoming epic film entitled Noah that is set to star Russell Crowe. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Actor Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory) has joined the cast of the upcoming film called CBGB, the legendary New York club where American punk rock and New Wave got its start in the mid-1970’s. Galecki will play band manager Terry Ork. The cast includes Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint and Malin Ackerman. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actress Rebecca Hall (The Town) will star in the upcoming film called A Promise, which is an adaptation of the Stefan Zweig novella entitled Journey into the Past. The film will be set in Germany in 1910 and centers on the wife of an older, wealthy man who falls hopelessly in love with her husband’s teacher, a young and ambitious engineer from a modest background. They embark on a passionate liaison and quickly vow to live together. When WWI breaks out and they are separated, they promise to go on loving each other. (Variety)

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

Question: Any good Teen Wolf scoops? —Alysia

Ausiello: JR Bourne, who plays big, bad Argent, would neither confirm nor deny buzz that one and possibly two major characters will bite the dust this season, but he did issue this frighteningly cryptic warning. “I think [the fans] will be shocked, surprised and maybe even upset,” he told TVLine at the ATX Fest. “I think they’re going to cry. I think they might maybe pee a bit in their pants out of nervousness. There’s going to be a lot of stuff going on.”

Question: Any Teen Wolf scoop on Lydia? —Jen

Ausiello: By the third episode you’re going to get some hints of what’s to come with Lydia… and she’s not OK,” teases the show’s creator/showrunner Jeff Davis. “She is definitely feeling the effects of the bite that was taken out of her side. She has a very big arc this season. I told [her portrayer], Holland [Roden], at the start of the season that her role is going to become a lot more important, even though the character doesn’t know it yet. There’s a lot for her to play and she’s part of a big mystery.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The Starz drama Spartacus will come to an end after its upcoming third season. This version will be called Spartacus: War of the Damned and is slated to air in January of 2013. (The Futon Critic and E! Online)

Actress Diane Neal (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) will make a guest appearance on Suits, playing Allison Holt, a legal eagle who digs up a secret that could jeopardize Harvey (Gabriel Macht) and Donna’s (Sarah Rafferty) working relationship. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Dougray Scott (Ever After) is expected to make an appearance in the 7th season of Doctor Who; but no other details are available at this time. (Screen Crush)

Actor Victor Webster (Mutant X and Continuum) will appear in an episode of White Collar, playing Eric Dunham, an aggressive top Wall Street trader. White Collar is back on July 10 on USA Network. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Brian White (Men of a Certain Age) will appear in an upcoming episode of Burn Notice, playing Agent Woods, a hard-edged and by-the-book FBI agent who has devoted much of his career to bringing down a ruthless Boston Mob syndicate. (Jeff Labrecque at Entertainment Weekly)

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) has landed the lead role of Hannibal Lecter in the upcoming NBC drama series Hannibal. The new drama received a 13-episode order for next season. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIES

Actress Frances Conroy (Six Feet Under) and music pioneer/actor John Doe (Roswell) have joined the cast of the Lifetime movie called Ring of Fire (formerly known as The June Carter Cash Story) that will star singer Jewel in the lead role of June Carter. Conroy will play June’s mother Maybelle Carter and Doe will play June’s uncle, A.P. Carter. The film will follow June’s early childhood growing up in the rural mountains of Virginia to her relationship with Johnny Cash (Matt Ross). (TV By the Numbers)

Actor Ralph Macchio (best known for The Karate Kid) will star in the Lifetime holiday film called Holiday Spin that will star Disney’s Garrett Clayton (Teen Beach Musical) as rebellious teen Blake, who is forced to go live with his father after his mother is killed in a car accident. Macchio will play Ruben, Blake’s father, who runs a famed dance studio that has fallen on hard times and is preparing his star student — and future step-daughter, Pia, for the annual Christmas Eve ballroom dance competition, the Holiday Spin, when Blake arrives. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

CONDOLENCES

Actor and Family Feud host Richard Dawson (Hogan’s Heroes) passed away over the weekend. He was 79. (E! Online)

Actress Kathryn Joosten (Desperate Housewives and The West Wing) passed away over the weekend. She was 72. (E! Online)

ME: RIP Mr. Dawson and Ms. Joosten. Deepest condolences to their family, friends and fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here is the top 10 box office films for this past weekend courtesy of TV Guide and Box Office Mojo:

1. Snow White and the Huntsman – 56.2 million
2. Men in Black 3 – 29.3 million
3. The Avengers – 20.2 million
4. Battleship – 4.8 million
5. The Dictator – 4.7 million
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – 4.6 million
7. What To Expect When You’re Expecting – 4.4 million
8. Dark Shadows – 3.8 million
9. Chernobyl Diaries – 3 million
10. For Greater Glory – 1.8 million

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Logan Lerman & Emma Watson in ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ Trailer

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