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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

NEWS

Congrats to the winners at the VMA’s last night, including (but not limited to) Rihanna, One Direction, Coldplay, Beyonce and Katy Perry.

TELEVISION

Actor Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files and Sons of Anarchy) has been promoted to series regular on the reboot of Dallas, as it airs on TNT. He will back, full time, when the series returns next year as Harris Ryland, the ex-husband of Brenda Strong’s character, who controls influence over the entire Ewing family. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Matt Long (Jack & Bobby) will appear on Private Practice in the recurring role of a new doctor – yep, that’s all I got right now. The series will be back for its final season starting on September 25 on ABC. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Blake Hood (90210 and The Young and the Restless) and actress Alyssa Diaz (The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Army Wives) will both have guest star roles on The Vampire Diaries, playing new “minion” (aka hybrids) of Klaus (Joseph Morgan). The CW series will be back starting on October 11. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actress Debra Mooney (Everwood) will play a Supreme Court Justice in a multi-episode arc on Scandal. The ABC drama returns for its second year on September 27. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The box office film Act of Valor is being shopped around as a TV series to both the major and cable networks. The original film mixed real life U.S. Navy SEALs and Navy Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen with actors. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Howard Gordon and Alex Cary (who worked behind the scenes on Homeland) are adapting another international series for possibly US consumption. This time it will be the Icelandic series Réttur that centers on a seasoned lawyer with an unorthodox approach who demonstrates his personal contempt for the law by using it as a blunt instrument. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

TNT gave the green light to three new pilots. First is the Howard Gordon pilot called Legends, based on the novel by Robert Littell, that follows a deep-cover operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. The next pilot is from Jerry Bruckheimer called Trooper, which centers on a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing. The third pilot is from Shane Brennan and is called King & Maxwell, which is a based on the popular characters Sean King and Michelle Maxwell from author David Baldacci. They are former secret service agents whose unique skill set often gives them a leg up on both suspects and conventional law enforcement. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Chris Evans (The Avengers) and Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) will star in the upcoming “anti-romantic comedy” called A Many Splintered Thing that is described as in the vein of the films Amelie and (500) Days Of Summer, telling the story of a young man disillusioned by love who meets a breathtaking young woman at a charity dinner by pretending to be a philanthropist. But, it turns out that she’s engaged to a guy who doesn’t like her going on dates. Challenged by the chase, and egged on by his eclectic friends, he feigns a platonic relationship in order to keep seeing her as he tries to conquer her heart. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer and Rosamund Pike (Pride & Prejudice) have joined the cast of the upcoming comedy film called Hector and the Search For Happiness that is based on the novel by François Lelord. The film will star Simon Pegg as an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: he’s going nowhere and his patients are just not getting any happier. One day Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of life into a global quest to find out if happiness exists for not just everyone else, but himself. The quest takes him on an exotic, dangerous and hysterical journey. Pike will play his long-term girlfriend while Plummer will play UCLA’s Happiness Studies guru Professor Coreman. (Dark Horizons)

Actor Jeffrey Wright (Casino Royale) has been cast in the role of Beetee in the sequel film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. (Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Latest Breaking Dawn: Part 2 Trailer

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Syfy has picked up the overseas series Sinbad for broadcast here in the States. The series chronicles the famous Middle Eastern sailor’s voyages in a 12-episode first season that is expected to premiere on Syfy in April 2013. The series stars Elliot Knight in the title role, with Lost alum Naveen Andrews co-starring. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Kim Raver (Grey’s Anatomy and 24) will join the new fall drama Revolution in a recurring role. The show takes place 15 years in the future, showing the aftermath of a global blackout where the entire world lost power. There are few details on the character that Raver will play, but she will play a pivotal role. Revolution debuts on NBC on September 17. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

Actress Christina Ricci (Pam Am) has landed a guest starring role on The Good Wife, playing a controversial comedienne in need of the firm’s help. The Good Wife returns on September 30 on CBS. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

Character actor Roger Rees (Warehouse 13, Grey’s Anatomy, The West Wing) will have a guest starring role in the new fall drama Elementary, the modern-day Sherlock Holmes drama on CBS. The only details known about the character he will play is that he is “an important figure from Holmes’ mysterious past. Elementary debuts on September 27. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

Actress Brenda Strong (Desperate Housewives) will have a guest appearance on Scandal, playing Joan Reston, the wife of a governor. Scandal returns for a second season on September 27 on ABC. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

TV TRAILERS

Hunted (New Cinemax Series) Promo

Downton Abbey Series 3 Trailer

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

JJ Abrams and J.H. Wyman (one half of the team behind Fringe) are teaming up for a new futuristic drama at FOX that is described as an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. This is the 2nd of two robot-themed dramas on the development block, but that one is from Howard Gordon (24) and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) over at NBC. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Looks like Wonder Woman just might make it back to TV after all. At least, The CW, Warner Bros. and DC Comics think so as they have found a new way to revive the legend of Diana of Themyscira. This time around it’s an origins story. The plan is for Allan Heinberg (Grey’s Anatomy and The O.C.) to write the script under the working title of Amazon; but unlike other failed incarnations, this version will focus on Wonder Woman as a young, budding superhero, rather than a fully formed defender of liberty. But before anyone starts freaking out or bellowing, The CW is only developing a script at this point; no pilot production has been greenlit or even contractually guaranteed. (Josef Adalian at Vulture)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Full Theatrical Trailer for The Wachowskis’ and Tykwer’s ‘Cloud Atlas’

RETROSPECTIVE TRAILER

Mischief Managed: the Harry Potter Retrospective

Q&A SECTION (with Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online)

Question: I miss Hart of Dixie…spoilers please! – Helen

WWK Team: We were on set for the Halloween episode, and based on what we saw, fans are going to go crazy…for the costumes, for the love triangle drama and, well, for the costumes. We can’t reveal much right now, but we will say that someone is dressed as James Bond, with a license to be damn handsome.

Question: You haven’t given us Psych scoop in a long time. How about if I tell you that you’re pretty? Will that help? – Gordon

WWK Team: Flattery gets you everywhere! And now that we know you think we’re pretty, this Psych scoop just happen to fall into our laps. Psych is looking for a big name to play a very important guest star and possibly recurring eccentric character named Trout. The only other thing we know is that he’ll appear in the season-seven finale. We cannot wait to see who Psych picks for this role.

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The final two episodes of the Canadian series Saving Hope that has been airing on NBC over the summer will not be aired on the network, but rather have been relegated to online. Once the episodes have aired in Canada, they should be available here in the States at NBC.com. The episodes were to air on September 8 & 15. (Twitter and TV Line)

Actress Amanda Schull (Center Stage and Pretty Little Liars) has landed a recurring role on Suits. She will play Katrina Bennett, a tenacious assistant district attorney; described as an ambitious go-getter, who knows how to play people’s weaknesses to get what she wants within Manhattan’s D.A.’s Office and proves to be a foil for Harvey (Gabriel Macht). Suits returns to the USA Network in January. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actors David Meunier and David Andrews – both who appeared in this past season of Justified – will both have minor roles in the new NBC drama Revolution. Meunier will play Strasser, a tough and psychotic militiaman who works for General Monroe (David Lyons) while Andrews will play O’Halloran, a kind family man and former cop. Revolution debuts on NBC on September 17. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

TV TRAILER

Downton Abbey Season 3 Preview

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FX has put a new martial arts drama called Downtown Dragons into development. The project will be set in the underworld of modern day Chinatown, New York, focusing on rival gangsters who must rely upon traditional fighting techniques to maintain their territories after the triad bosses bans all firearms in the area following a bloody shootout. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Kyle Killen (the creator of the short-lived shows Lone Star and Awake) has another drama in development; this time with ABC. The project is called Influence and is a provocative workplace ensemble centered on the complicated relationship between two brothers — a bipolar genius in human psychology and a slick ex-con — who head a unique agency designed to solve their clients’ problems using the real science of human motivation and manipulation. In addition to helping their clients, the agency’s staff sometimes turns their powers to pull strings on one another. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC has landed another family soap from playwright-screenwriter Kate Robin (Six Feet Under) and director-producer Jake Kasdan. The untitled drama explores what happens when a successful NYC woman suddenly disappears. The lives of her husband, daughter, siblings and parents are turned upside down as they struggle to find out what happened to her while trying to survive the investigation and media circus that considers them as potential suspects, uncovering their darkest secrets. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Graham Yost, the EP behind Justified, is developing a drama for NBC called L.A. Woman, which revolves around a female spy in 1970s Los Angeles. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Michael Fassbender is attached to star in the upcoming comedy flick called Frank that is about a young wannabe musician who discovers he’s bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Fassbender). (Entertainment.Ie and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Lea Michele and Martin Short in Trailer for Animated ‘Dorothy of Oz’

Q&A SECTION (with Adam Bryant from TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Have you heard anything new about Psych? — Ebony

ADAM: Looks like the Santa Barbara Police Department is about to get a makeover. The show is casting a new oddball (think Paul Reubens or Alan Cumming) who is brilliant at turning dysfunctional departments into top-notch law enforcement institutions. That’s bad news for Shawn and Gus, whose lack of professionalism bewilders their new overseer. Do we see unemployment in their futures?

Question: Got any intel on Covert Affairs? — Jacob

ADAM: Wanna know what’s in the file on Annie that Lena gave Arthur before she shot her and Simon? We hear that it’ll help Lena wipe her hands clean of the shooting, while simultaneously implicating Annie in some wrongdoing. “[The file] puts Annie in a bit of a gray area with the committee,” co-creator Matt Corman tells us. “The whole thing has been well-thought-out by Lena.”

Question: Now that you’ve seen the Castle premiere, what can you tell us about “the morning after”? — Brittney

ADAM: Based on Castle and Beckett’s post-coital glow and hilariously giddy morning chatter, it sounds like their (possibly kinky?) night won’t soon be forgotten. But it also won’t soon be replicated. Just when the couple seems ready for Round 2 (or Round 4, if you ask Castle), a comedy of errors will foil their plans — and force Beckett to do a bit of a walk of shame.

Question: Any scoop on Switched At Birth? – Miguel

Ausiello: Bay’s rebound boyfriend from Monday’s premiere? “He comes back!” reveals Vanessa Marano. “As we all know, Bay likes her boys. We did a count, and she has had the most boyfriends on the show — and that includes Regina, who, as we know, has had many good-looking men herself.” So will fists fly between her new guy and her other ex, Emmett? “Actually, there is a fight this season — a big fight. But not between those two characters actually — though Emmett is involved.”

Question: I’m so ready for new episodes of Haven. Do you have any scoop on what’s coming? Last we saw Nathan had a gun to Duke. I gotta know what’s coming! —April

Ausiello: The Sept. 21 season premiere overfloweth with testosterone as Nathan and Duke have at each other in a donneybrook tinged with more than a little supernatural weirdness. Luckily, heads cool in time to track down MIA Audrey, who’s been abducted by a faceless figure hungry for intel on “The Colorado Kid.” One Close Encounters of the Third Kind homage later, the hour closes with the introduction of many new questions about Audrey’s past, including one raised by a warning message she left for the world 20some years ago.

Question: I would highly appreciate any Nikita scoop. —Joseph

Ausiello: Nikita is forced to work with one of the Dirty Thirty ex-Division agents she’s hunting when a mission puts the two in Ari’s (and perhaps Amanda’s?) crosshairs.

Question: Any juicy new scoops on Once Upon a Time? The second season isn’t arriving fast enough! —Trippie

Ausiello: As a power struggle ensues in the newly magically enriched Storybrooke, Episode 2 will flash back to when the Evil Queen first met Rumplestiltskin. Also, series co-creator Adam Horowitz told Matt Mitovich that the show got Sebastian Stan back as the Mad Hatter for no fewer than three of the early batch of episodes — “and he doesn’t just show up to say, ‘Hey, I’m still here.’ He has his own story, because his daughter is still out there.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

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