Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
The cable network Bravo has given pilot orders for its first scripted dramas. The first is The Joneses, which is a remake of the 2009 independent film that starred Demi Moore and David Duchovny. The family drama follows the all-American Joneses, a family of four that has just moved in to an upscale suburb to start a new life but have a secret they must keep from friends and neighbors: they aren’t a real family at all. Liz Tigelaar, who created Life Unexpected and has worked behind the scenes on Once Upon a Time and Revenge and now on Nashville wrote the pilot with producing partners Gary Fleder and Mary Beth Basile. The second pilot is called Rita and has been adapted from the Danish format. It is also a family drama, centering on an acerbic and outspoken private school teacher who struggles to raise her three teen children while dealing with bureaucracy and overprotective parents at her school. Krista Vernoff (writer for Grey’s Anatomy’s Krista Vernoff will write and executive produce the project with Mikkel Bondesen (The Killing) and Henrik Bastin (My Generation). (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) has replaced Brendan Fraser in the TNT drama pilot Legends that follows a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum (Bean), who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t who he thinks he is. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
The cable network E! has added a scripted project to its development slate – a high-concept romantic drama from feature writer/directors Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait). The project centers on a young entertainment lawyer who dies but is determined to pursue a romance with a woman who’s still alive while he exists in limbo in New York City, working for the Department that judges the recently departed. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
TNT has put into development the drama called Hit based on an idea by actor Jamie Foxx, which centers on two former high school football teammates and best friends, who years later are “drafted” by the Miami P.D. and assigned to HIT (High Impact Team). The same shorthand that made them unstoppable on the gridiron makes them great partners taking down the most dangerous criminals in the city. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Alex Winter (Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure) has sold his Midwestern militia pitch tentatively called Rights Of Bill to AMC. The project will center on a Sheriff who forms his own militia in Wisconsin, becoming both the law and an outlaw simultaneously. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars) will play the lead in the indie film called C2C that concerns a young tourist who travels to Thailand in an effort to solve her sister’s murder. She befriends a group of young ex-pats led by a seductive young woman who knows more than she lets on. Filming is underway in Thailand. (The Deadline Team)
Actor Timothy Olyphant (Justified) will star alongside Kurt Russell, Peter Sarsgaard, Richard Jenkins and Jennifer Carpenter in the box office film called Bone Tomahawk that centers on four men who attempt to rescue a group of captives from a band of cannibalistic troglodytes that live beyond the edge of civilization. Olyphant will play John Brooder, an eloquent sharpshooter who moved to the frontier in order to satisfy the dark impulses that lie beneath his polished exterior. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
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Q&A SECTION (with Team Watch with Kristin at E! Online; Natalie Abrams at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Question: Revenge me! – Marc
Team Watch with Kristin: We talked with Gabriel Mann recently about what’s happening when Revenge returns; he revealed that they are about to start filming the big episode with the sinking of The Amanda. “We’re almost up to the big reveal where we find out who gets the ax,” he tells us. “It could be any number of people. Nolan’s a little more serious this year, so hopefully with his lack of humor it doesn’t mean he’s gonna be [the one dying].”
Question: Loved the Once Upon a Time midseason finale. What’s coming up when the show returns? — Joan
NATALIE: The Charming family has been reunited, but look for more bad news on the horizon. When we asked Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison about the joyous reunion, they both offered up ominous answers that may or may not have to do with the arrival of Hook and Cora. “It’s, of course, short-lived because yet another obstacle is going to be thrust between all of these characters,” Goodwin says, with Morrison adding, “New terrible things need to happen for us to work out.” Any guesses as to what’s in store for the Storybrooke gang?
Question: My friend Leticia needs some cheering up, and a really good NCIS Abby-related brand-new spoiler/scoop seems to be the only thing that will work. — Ruby H
Ausiello: If “really good” will cheer her up, this (should) leave her ecstatic! Pauley Perrette told TVLine that she was not only shooting “a very, very Abby episode” but one that “people have been asking for… for 10 years.” In it, she explained, “we actually go back and find out about Abby’s past and childhood.”
Question: I’m excited to see the inside of Tony’s apartment in (the) December 18 episode of NCIS. Any hints of what we’ll find? —Mary
Ausiello: You’ll find “a lot of Michael Weatherly in it,” teases Perrette, who says Tony’s portrayer was a very hands-on interior decorator. “He picked out a lot of stuff — he has amazing taste. His [real-life] house is decorated so immaculately and with a lot of class. So there are couple Michael Weatherly things in there — and one really big surprise.”
Question: Is the Mulan/Aurora arc over on Once Upon a Time? Are they done for the season/forever? –Mary
Ausiello: Mitovich — who just spent a long weekend in Vancouver, where Once shoots — hears that one of the princesses will be seen soon after the show returns from its holiday break (on Jan. 6).
Question: Any fresh (information) on who Ethan Embry is playing on Once Upon a Time? —Jenny
Ausiello: Jennifer Morrison knows about as much as the rest of us — which isn’t much. “[All we] know is he’s an outsider, he is a stranger and he is not a fairytale character,” she says, before quickly adding, “at least he’s not someone anyone recognizes from fairytale land.”
Question: Any good Owen-Nikita moments we can look forward to on Nikita? —Tara
Ausiello: Moments? Try whole episodes. “When Owen comes back in January, there are two back-to-back episodes of Owen and Nikita doing crazy stuff,” Devon Sawa tells us. “Just [lots of] action and solving stuff.”
That’s it. Enjoy!
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