Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Royal Pains will air a two-hour movie event on USA Network on December 16 that will featured the return of former cast member Jill Flint and a look at bachelor and bachelorette parties for the bride and groom (Evan and Paige); but the winter wedding for which Paige has dreamed about all her life could end in disaster because of a snowstorm. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)
Supernatural guest actors Mark Pellegrino (Lucifer), Todd Stashwick (Dracula) and Colin Ford (young Sam) will also guest star on the new NBC drama Revolution. Pellegrino will play a militia officer while Stashwick will play a drug lord and Ford will be the brother of a boy who’s been taken by the big, bad militia. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)
Actor Tim DeKay will guest star in a spring episode of the ABC medical drama Body of Proof, playing a forbidding, deeply religious father whose teenage daughter dies dramatically in the ER, who may have been possessed by the devil prior to her death. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actress Sherilyn Fenn (Twin Peaks) has joined the cast of the Starz period drama Magic City. She will play Madame Renee, a beautiful former call-girl who runs a brothel that Ben Diamond (Danny Huston) financially backs. The second season of Magic City will return sometime next year. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The executive producers of The Ghost Whisperer – Ian Sanders and Kim Moses – have set up dramas at ABC and CBS. Gaslight at ABC is described as a lavish soap opera of passion, greed and hope set in a present-day Steampunk World in which three rival families battle for power and redemption in a re-imagined San Francisco. Reckless at CBS is set in Charleston where sex and crime walk hand in hand as two adversaries, a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a Southern city attorney, struggle to hide their attraction while clashing over a police sex scandal that threatens to implode the city. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
NBC has put a drama series based on characters from the Vertigo comic books and graphic novels called Midnight Mass. into development. The project is about a sophisticated, sexy, globe-trotting husband and wife paranormal investigator team — based in Midnight, Massachusetts — that takes on supernatural foes, macabre mysteries and the most frightening creature of all: marriage. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Film actress Diane Kruger has landed the lead role in the FX drama pilot called The Bridge, which is an adaptation of the Scandinavian series i Bron. The Bridge centers on two detectives from the United States and Mexico who must work together to hunt down a serial killer operating on both sides of the American-Mexican border. Kruger will play El Paso Police Homicide Detective Sonya North, a dogged cop who lacks tact, warmth and empathy. Shockingly candid, she calls the world like she sees it – which can be off-putting to her colleagues, but also refreshing and funny. The role of her partner, Marco Ruiz, is still being cast. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
FOX has bought the drama pilot America’s Son from writer Paul Redford, Amblin TV and Sony Pictures TV. The project is described as part juicy soap, part paranoid political thriller set in Washington DC and is a sophisticated contemporary spin on William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. When a beloved presidential hopeful dies in a tragic car wreck, a renegade JFK Junior type returns home to D.C. to discover that his father’s death was no accident – and he makes it his mission to untangle a complicated web of family secrets, expose the truth and ultimately avenge the murder. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS
Actress Vanessa Marano (Switched at Birth) and actor Charlie Carver (Desperate Housewives) have been cast in the upcoming Lifetime original movie called Restless Virgins, which is inspired by the book “Restless Virgins: Love, Sex And Survival In Prep School” by Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley, which rocked venerable Massachusetts prep school Milton Academy during the 2004-05 school year. The movie depicts a world where privileged teens run wild at a New England prep school, thriving on exploitation and manipulation, culminating in a sex controversy. Marano will play a scholarship student and the editor of the school newspaper who exposes a sex tape made by the senior hockey players that blows the lid off the controversy. Carver will play one of the students embroiled in the scandal — a wealthy and calculating senator’s son. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Nonso Anozie (Game of Thrones) will have a role in the upcoming film Jack Ryan, which is a reboot of the legendary character that will star Chris Pine in the lead role. The story goes back to Ryan’s post-Marine/pre-CIA analyst days. There are few details about the role Anozie will play, but his character’s name will be Embee. (Black Film and Dark Horizons)
BOX OFFICE TRAILERS
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That’s it. Enjoy!
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