Hey All,
Here are the news items for the day before the Fourth of July:
TELEVISION
Actor Peter MacNicol (Ally McBeal) will guest star in an upcoming three-episode arc on Necessary Roughness. He will play a former psychology professor Dr. Gunner, a former mentor of Dr. Dani (Callie Thorne). (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)
Actress Christine Lahti (Chicago Hope) will have a recurring role on Hawaii Five-0 this fall, playing Doris McGarrett, the thought-to-be-deceased mother of Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin). (CBS)
Actor David Tennant has joined the cast of the upcoming 8-part drama called Broadchurch that will on ITV in the U.K. This mini-series explores what happens to a small coastal community when a media frenzy comes to town after a young boy is murdered. Tennant will play the police detective leading the investigation. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress Barbara Hershey (The Black Swan) will star in the upcoming Lifetime movie called Left To Die, playing an innocent woman thrown in an Ecuadorian jail for drug trafficking. Rachel Leigh Cook will play her daughter Tammi, who believes in her mother’s innocence and fights to free her. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
TV TRAILER
Watch Trailer for Lifetime’s ‘Steel Magnolias’ Remake
ONLINE SERIES NEWS
Actresses Lili Taylor (Six Feet Under) and Kandyse McClure (Battlestar Galactica) have joined the cast of Hemlock Grove from Netflix. When a young girl is killed, both a Gypsy teen (Landon Liboiron from Terra Nova) and a spoiled young man (Bill Skarsgard, brother of Alexander Skarsgard from True Blood) are suspects in her death. Taylor will recur as Liboiron’s mother, whose way of life is anathema to the rich teen’s mom, played by Famke Janssen (Nip/Tuck). Meanwhile, McClure will play Dr. Chausser, an animal behaviorist with a PHD with a history of self-destruction. Dougray Scott (Desperate Housewives) will play Janssen’s character’s brother-in-law. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line and The Deadline Team)
CONDOLENCES
Andy Griffith, who starred in the classic comedy The Andy Griffith Show as Sheriff Andy Taylor as well as the long-running whodunit series Matlock, has passed away. He was 86 years old. (E! Online)
ME: Rest in Peace, Mr. Griffith. Condolences to his family, friends and fans!
MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Sharon Stone will join actress Andie MacDowell (Jane By Design) and her real-life daughter Rainey Qualley in the indie drama Mother’s Day about the relationship between 12 mothers and their daughters. Previously announced cast members include Susan Sarandon and her real-life daughter Evan Amurri Martino and Christina Ricci. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
Q&A SECTION (with the Watch with Kristin Team at E! Online)
Question: I. Need. Nikita. – Megan in Portland
Team WWK: In the season three premiere, Nikita and Michael will come face-to-face with Martin, an ex-Division agent who is ruthlessly dangerous, but also handsome with an “evil sexuality.” Martin has been working in Hong Kong as an undercover fashion photographer, but once Percy died and Division gained new leadership, he cut out his tracker (ouch!) and went rogue. Now Martin is working with Hong Kong Intelligence Agent Li Bai, leaving a trail of dead CIA members who all had horrible “accidents.”
Question: Love that Mekhi Phifer is on White Collar! What can you tell me about his character in the season premiere? – Jessica
Team WWK: Only that he’s nothing but trouble for our poor, handsome Caffrey. Collins (Phifer) is going to do some very illegal things to bring our favorite blue-eyed fugitive to justice. And by the end of the episode, Collins will be way too close to arresting him, and that’ll be thanks in large part to a double-cross from a very surprising source. White Collar’s new season is starting off with a bang, folks!
That’s it. Enjoy!
Have a safe Fourth of July!!
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