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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Adam Brody (The O.C.) will guest star in two episodes of House of Lies, which returns to Showtime on January 13. He will play the owner of an adult toy company who forms a relationship with Jeannie (Kristen Bell). (The Futon Critic)

Actor Rob Benedict (best remembered as Chuck the prophet on Supernatural) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Mentalist, playing Paul Friedman, an adjunct professor and PhD candidate who works in the same lab where a student was murdered. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

AMC has picked up the pilot Low Winter Sun for a 10-episode season. The series is based on the 2006 British mini-series that starred Mark Strong, who is reprising his role in this version. The series follows the story of murder, deception, revenge and corruption that starts with the murder of a cop by fellow Detroit detective Frank Agnew (Strong). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The USA Network is developing a new project with Law & Order vet Rene Balcer called DarkNet, which is a cautionary tale about trans-humanism inspired by something Ray Bradbury said. (Stuart Levine at Variety)

Actresses Amber Valletta and Tina Majorino and actor Rob Mayes will star opposite Sean Bean in the TNT drama pilot Legends, which centers on Martin Odum (Bean), a deep-cover CIA operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. Valletta will play Martin’s ex-wife. Mayes will play Troy, a former Special Ops guy with a “mission-first mentality” who now works as a federal agent with the DCO. Majorino will play Maggie, the newest member of the DCO field support team. (Variety and Fanhattan)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Mireille Enos (The Killing) and actor Scott Speedman (Last Resort) will star alongside Ryan Reynolds in the box office film Queen Of the Night, a psychological thriller. Reynolds will play a father who discovers a series of disturbing clues eight years after his daughter is abducted, a trail that leads him to believe the now 17-year-old girl is alive. Enos will play his wife, who dutifully checks in with police each year on her daughter’s birthday, and realizes that disturbing memorabilia left at her workplace is not merely there to taunt her but could offer clues to her daughter’s whereabouts. Speedman will play the cop searching for the missing daughter. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) will have a multi-episode arc on the upcoming NBC thriller series Hannibal, which stars Mads Mikkelsen as the legendary serial killer Hannibal Lechter. Anderson will play Lechter’s therapist. The series doesn’t have an official start date yet, but it’s expected to debut in the spring of next year. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Billy Campbell will not be coming back to The Killing for its third season when it actually comes back on AMC despite being cancelled this past May. Funding from Netflix will probably play a key part in the show’s return. It should be noted that actor Brent Sexton and actress Michelle Forbes will not be back either; but series leads Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman are very likely to return. (Stuart Levine at Variety)

Actress Gail O’Grady (NYPD Blue) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Castle, playing Margo Cowan, one of the stars of the hit Real Housewives-esque reality show The Wives of Wall Street. The cameras follow her as she runs her cosmetics empire, an empire that employed the victim of a murder the team is investigating. This is the same episode for which Gina Torres (Firefly and Suits) will also guest star. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Penn Badgley (Gossip Girl) and Hill Harper (CSI: NY) have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Parts Per Billion that will also star Teresa Palmer (I Am Number Four) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls). The film follows three separate couples as they deal with an event that threatens to destroy their relationships. The cast will also include Frank Langella, Gena Rowlands, Rosario Dawson and Josh Hartnett star. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actor Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story) will star in the film adaptation of the Stephen King short story “Gramma” from the Skeleton Crew collection to be called Mercy that follows two young boys who go with their single mother (Frances O’Connor) to take care of their elderly, senile grandmother named Mercy, only to discover she’s a witch who made a pact with a dark force many years before. Younger actor Joel Courtney (Super 8) will also star. (Shock Til You Drop and First Showing)

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

Question: I am having serious anxiety over the Homeland finale. Can you tell me anything about what Sunday is going to look like? – Kyle in Los Angeles

Team Watch with Kristin: It’s going to look like you’ll need an oxygen tank to get through the season-two finale. There will be so many twists, turns, red herrings and close calls in that one episode that you’re rewind button will get a serious workout. We think we’re being spied on right now, so we can’t go too in depth about the storylines, but we will say this: Fans of Carrie and Brody will have so much to talk about on Monday morning, but we can’t say if they’ll be celebrating or mourning.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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