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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Claire Coffee, who plays Adalind, the Hexenbiest nemesis of Detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) on Grimm, has been promoted to series regular. The next new episode of Grimm will air this Friday, September 28. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Annabeth Gish (Pretty Little Liars) has landed a guest role on Once Upon a Time where she will play Anita, the charismatic and mysterious leader of a pack of humans who, like Red (Meghan Ory), turn out to be wolves. The fairytale drama is back for the start of its second season takes place this Sunday, September 30. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Ilene Chaiken, the creator of The L Word, has sold a crime drama to CBS. The project, called Solve for X, revolves around a young game developer at a social gaming company in San Francisco who agrees to consult for an anti-crime task force. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

A female soap from Holly Sorensen, the creator of Make It or Break It, and producer Mark Gordon (whose projects include Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice and Army Wives) has been put into development at ABC. The untitled drama, based on an idea by Sorensen and Irish actress Victoria Smurfit, revolves around three very average girls who break into New York’s beauty industry with a product that holds a wicked secret. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Thomas Edison, one of the world’s greatest inventors, will be the subject of a new period crime drama at NBC to be called Edison. The show’s fictional storyline has Edison working as a secret consultant to the under-trained and under-equipped New York Police force. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Nicholas Gonzalez (Off the Map and The O.C.) has landed a regular role in the Lifetime pilot Witches of East End, which stars Julia Ormond as a mom who has been concealing a shocking secret from her daughters Ingrid and Freya that they are witches. Gonzales will play Matthew, a good-natured local cop who is dating a ditzy co-worker of Ingrid’s (Rachel Boston) but is very much interested in Ingrid. He soon becomes very busy at work when a series of murders and strange deaths strike his township. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Producer Tom Donaghy (The Whole Truth) and Greg Berlanti (Political Animals) have joined together for the NBC drama series Napa that is being pitched as a contemporary take on Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” which deals with a doomed love affair. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Lifetime is close to green-lighting a sequel to its five-part original made-for-TV movie Five, which told five breast cancer stories. The sequel which is tentatively called Five 2, will address mental illness. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CONDOLENCES

Legendary crooner Andy Williams passed away yesterday, following a year-long battle with bladder cancer. He is best known for the songs “Moon River” and “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”. He was 84. (E! Online)

Q&A SECTION (with Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online and Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Question: Can’t wait for Once Upon a Time to return! What can you tell me about season two? – Darielle

Team Watch with Kristin: Before the season-two premiere, we’ve got a little homework assignment for all the young’uns: Watch an episode of the classic show Bewitched! “Do you remember Aunt Clara? Who kind of did everything wrong and she was trying to use her magic and a huge elephant would end up in the living room?” Lana Parrilla aka Regina/Evil Queen teases. “That kind of happens a little bit in Storybrooke. Not that comedic, but magic is different in Storybrooke. It doesn’t work quite the same way that it did in fairy-tale land.” But what does the return of magic mean for Regina specifically? “It comes with its struggles. It’s almost like the Tin Man, he’s been asleep for a long time and needs to be oiled,” she explains. “It’s the same thing for Regina, she hasn’t used magic in 28 years, so it’s going to take her a little bit to get her mojo back.” Let’s just call this season: Once Upon a Time: How Regina Got Her Groove Back.

Question: Loving Revolution! Got any scoop on what’s ahead? – Tom

Team Watch with Kristin: Viewers will meet a young and passionate rebel later in the season named Ashley, a girl who is more than tough enough to run with the big dogs, as well as a military leader who is always looking for a big victory in battle, even if it means facing extreme danger.

Question: Going through Teen Wolf withdrawals. Got anything to ease the pain? – Sean

Team Watch with Kristin: While we hate to enable your addiction, here’s a small scoop for you: Though it seems like almost everyone in Beacon Hills has been let in on the big werewolf secret, there’s still one beloved character in the dark. “It’ll be a challenge next season to see how long they can keep the secret from Sheriff Stilinski,” creator Jeff Davis teases. Still, Davis acknowledges that he’ll probably be clued in pretty soon. “When characters don’t know it gets harder and harder to involve them in the story” he admits. “At a certain point, people just have to know. It’s all about being able to give more to those characters actually.”

Question: Loved the Castle premiere, but what was Castle doing with a half-naked woman in the promos for the next episode?

ADAM: As creator Andrew W. Marlowe already teased, that encounter is a consequence of Castle pretending to be single in order to keep his relationship with Beckett a secret from their co-workers. But that doesn’t mean infidelity won’t be an issue. An upcoming case will implicate Castle in the murder of an ex. “It makes everybody question: How well do we actually know this guy?” Marlowe says. But it gets worse: “Castle may have been having an affair with her at the same time he was dating Beckett,” he teases. “That goes to the heart of all of Beckett’s insecurities.”

Question: Belle doesn’t look too happy with Rumple in the Once Upon a Time clips.

NATALIE: She isn’t! Belle’s mere presence will be an unforeseen complication for Rumplestiltskin. “Gold is a meticulous man, as is Rumplestiltskin, and he had a plan that he has been enacting,” executive producer Adam Horowitz says. “The wild card was Belle because he never, ever thought she was going to be coming back, and he is a man who has, in the past, always chosen power over love. I think he’s on a mission, and here he has a second chance with the woman he always regretted letting go.”

Question: I love Matt on The Vampire Diaries. Will he have any good story lines this season?

ADAM: Although Matt was essentially the reason that Elena died, he’ll also play an integral role in her transition. Let’s just say his guilt will lead him to do just about anything for her — especially when she needs to feed.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The USA Network has renewed White Collar and Covert Affairs both for a new 16-episode season while Royal Pains has been renewed, getting a two season order for 26 episodes (most likely 13 episodes for each season). Covert Affairs will be back with new episodes of its current season on October 16 while Royal Pains will have a 2-hour holiday movie (Evan and Paige’s wedding) on December 16 and White Collar will be back in January. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actresses Teri Polo (Meet the Parents) and Sherri Saum (In Treatment) will star in the ABC Family drama pilot The Fosters (from executive produced by Jennifer Lopez). The project tells the story of Stef (Polo) and Lena (Saum) Foster, a mixed race couple who are raising a biological son, along with several adopted children. When Lena decides to take in Callie, a troubled teen with an abusive past, Callie’s disruptive ways threaten to turn the Fosters lives upside down. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Box office directors Joel and Ethan Coen have closed a deal to bring the box office flick Fargo to TV via the cable network FX. This will be an hour-long project loosely based on their 1996 comedic crime drama. The Coen brothers would serve as executive with Noah Hawley (The Unusuals) as writer/executive producer. The original film starred Frances McDormand as a pregnant Minnesota police chief who follows the trail of two bumbling criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) hired by a car salesman (William H. Macy) to kidnap his wife. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE MOVIE NEWS

Actress Rachelle Lefevre (the first two Twilight Saga films) has joined the cast of the box office film White House Down, which stars Channing Tatum as a secret service agent forced to save the White House. Lefevre would play Tatum’s ex-wife in the film. She will also appear in the box office film called Homefront, which is about an ex-DEA agent (Jason Statham) fighting a local drug lord in a small town. In this film Lefevre will play a school psychologist who tries to warn the family about the dangers of living there. (Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter)

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

Question: I love Grimm! It is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me! It hurts to have to wait until Friday for new episodes, and I would be really, really, really happy if you could share a few scoops with me. —Oliver

Ausiello: Oliver, grab a paper bag and start blowing into it — your question has been selected for this week’s Ask Ausiello. The Event‘s First Lady ala Lisa Vidal has been tapped to guest-star in this season’s 11th episode as Lauren Castro, Portland’s ambitious DA who intends to run for mayor and won’t let anything — or anyone — get in her way. FYI: Vidal shows up in the same episode in which Jason Gedrick appears.

Question: Could you spare any information on Justified — maybe something you found out at the Emmys? — Audrey

Ausiello: Production on Season 4 starts Oct. 3 and, according to co-star Joelle Carter (Ava), the action will pick up “a couple of weeks” after the Season 3 finale. “I visited the writers, and there’s some exciting new stuff [planned],” she told us at HBO’s post-Emmy bash. “I think it will be the best season ever. They’re going to stick [closer to] home a little bit more and work with already-developed storylines.”

Question: I’m ecstatic Lifetime has renewed Army Wives, but what’s going on with Kim Delaney? Will she be part of the new season? —Diana

Ausiello: If she is, I hear it will be a limited capacity. The actress doesn’t have a Season 7 deal in place and word is, she’s unlikely to return as a series regular. A source close to the show, however, insists no final decisions have been made — and they most likely won’t be until closer to the start of production later this year.

Question: Anything on Suits? —Jessica

Ausiello: Remember how exec producer Aaron Korsh told us that Hardman’s absence will “shift the perception” of the firm in the legal community and “possibly make them a little bit more vulnerable”? Well, I think the show is on the lookout for someone to capitalize on that vulnerability. Producers are searching for a Brit or Aussie actor to play the fortysomething head of a London-based international law firm on a recurring basis. “Avuncular, unassuming, likeable, you’d think he inherited his position — but he didn’t,” reads the casting notice. “He uses his simple-man charm to cover the fact that he’s deceptively smart.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

NEWS

Congrats to all of the Emmy winners from last night, including (but not limited to) Damian Lewis, Claire Danes, Homeland, Maggie Smith, Martha Plimpton, Jeremy Davies, Jessica Lange, Danny Strong, Julianne Moore, Game Change, Kevin Costner, Tom Berenger, Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey and Great Expectations [among countless others].

TELEVISION

Actress Anatasia Griffith (Once Upon a Time and Copper) will guest star in the upcoming Cinemax drama Banshee from True Blood creator Alan Ball, which will debut in January. The series centers on Lucas (New Zealand actor Antony Starr), an ex-convict and master thief who assumes the identity of the sheriff of Banshee, Pennsylvania and continues to carry out his criminal activities even as shadowy gangsters hunt him. Griffith will play a prison psychiatrist who treats Lucas. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress JoBeth Williams (most recently seen on Private Practice) will appear in the ABC midseason drama Mistresses, playing the mother of Alyssa Milano and Jes Macallan’s characters. The series is based on the British show of the same name, which follows four women (Milano, Macallan, Yunjin Kim from Lost and Rochelle Aytes from Work It) as they balance their turbulent romantic and personal lives. The series is expected to beginning airing in May 2013. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

The folks over at Castle will be heading to a Comic Con-like fan convention this season and actor Ed Quinn (Eureka) will play Captain Max Richard (a wink to the character played by Castle lead Nathan Fillion in the short-lived series Firefly). Max, it would seem, is the former star of a sci-fi cult-favorite TV show whose career and personal life has gone down the tubes. Castle returns tonight on ABC. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

The HBO series Treme will return for a fourth and final season sometime next year. The series follows a group of people living in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The third season just got started last night. (Michael O’Connell and Aaron Couch at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Jason Gedrick will guest star in an upcoming episode of Grimm, playing Craig Wendell, a murderer that Hank (Russell Hornsby) helped land on death row. But with only days until his sentence is carried out, a claim that his crime was in self defense against a pair of “monsters” begins to sound less and less like the rantings of a lunatic to the man that put him away. This episode will this fall and Grimm will be back with new episodes starting on September 28. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The CW has picked up a potential new drama if the form of Oxygen, an alien drama similar to the box office movie District 9. The project follows a high school pilot program, the first attempt to integrate a group of humanoid aliens stranded on earth who until now have been living in forced segregation. The program is complicated by the prejudices and competing agendas on all sides, and could be saved or destroyed by a burgeoning romance between a human girl and alien boy. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron has teamed with J.J. Abrams on a high-concept drama that has landed at NBC. The unnamed project is about a girl in possession of a great gift/powers — which will come into their own in seven years — and the man who is sprung from prison to protect her from those trying to hunt her down. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations and E! Online:

1. End of Watch, $13 million
2. House at the End of the Street, $13 million
3. Trouble With the Curve, $12.7 million
4. Finding Nemo, $9.4 million
5. Resident Evil: Retribution, $6.7 million
6. Dredd 3D, $6.3 million
7. The Master, $5 million
8. The Possession, $2.4 million
9. Lawless, $2.3 million
10. ParaNorman, $2.297 million

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Official Trailer for ‘Winnie’ with Jennifer Hudson & Terrence Howard

That’s it. Enjoy!

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