Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
GENERAL NEWS
Recipients of the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards were announced with the following being just some of the winners: TNT’s Southland, ABC Family’s Switched at Birth, the HBO movie Game Change, the HBO comedy Girls and Doctor Who. (E! Online)
TELEVISION
Actress Jessica Camacho, who had a recurring role on the short-lived ABC drama Last Resort, will guest star in an upcoming episode of Nikita, playing Rachel, a Division agent aiming to ruffle some feathers. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
Actor Adrian Pasdar (Heroes and The Lying Game) has joined the cast of Burn Notice for its upcoming season. He will have a major recurring role, playing Randall Burke, a savvy, dangerous and unpredictable former special ops soldier who is now suspected of running a freelance terrorist ring. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)
CBS has renewed some more dramas, including NCIS: Los Angeles, Person of Interest, Elementary, Hawaii Five-0, The Mentalist, Blue Bloods and The Good Wife. NCIS and CSI were already announced as renewed. (Twitter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actress Nicola Peltz (Bates Motel and The Last Airbender) has landed the lead female role of the upcoming sequel Transformers 4 that will star Mark Wahlberg. (Twitter and Dark Horizons)
Actor Ron Perlman (Hellboy and Sons Of Anarchy) and country singer Trace Adkins have joined the cast of the latest adaptation of the western novel The Virginian. (Variety and Dark Horizons)
Actress Kate Mara (House of Cards) has joined the cast of the upcoming Johnny Depp movie called Transcendence. Plot details are being kept under wraps, though. (Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE TRAILERS
Hot International Trailer: ‘The Wolverine’
Hot Trailer: ‘White House Down’
Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams and Adam Bryant at TV Guide, Michael Ausiello at TV Line and Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)
Question: Give me Game of Thrones scoop now or I’ll sic my dragon on you. — Chet
NATALIE: One unlucky bastard (no, not a literal one like Jon Snow) will tick off the wrong person and as a result, lose an appendage. Ouch! And if you think this sounds like The Walking Dead, then you’ll be interested to learn that another poor sap gets trussed up in a torture room, one leader will be betrayed and a baby will be born in the midst of violent events. All that and the dead rising back up to kill the living? Watch out, AMC!
Question: Any Klaroline scoop for The Vampire Diaries? — Helen
NATALIE: When we last saw Klaus, he wasn’t looking so well, considering Silas had stabbed him with a piece of white oak stake. While we’re used to seeing Klaus care for/hurt/take advantage of Caroline when in a vulnerable state, this time the tables will be turned. As Klaus screams in pain trying to heal himself, Caroline walks in and finds him practically on his deathbed. In light of their recent relationship state, do you think she helps him or laughs in his face?
Question: What’s next for Scarlett and Gunnar on Nashville now that they hooked up? — Rachael
ADAM: Trouble, of course! (Happy couples don’t make for good drama, you know.) In particular, look for The O.C.’s Chris Carmack, who plays the duo’s new neighbor, to come between the couple. But it’s not Scarlett who’s swept off her feet. “He becomes Gunnar’s new dude-friend, because he hasn’t had a guy friend,” Sam Palladio tells us. “He’s always hanging out with Scarlett. … He needs a companion, and Will becomes that kind of best mate. … He ends up actually finding a new lease on life with this new character.” Anyone think that sounds a little more than friendly? Perhaps you should!
Question: Is Jenna back for good on Pretty Little Liars? An what about Shana — is she around for a bit? —Lori
Ausiello: According to exec producer Oliver Goldstick, “You’ll see both around,” adding, “We saw [in last week’s finale] that they’re a weird trio, like Macbeth’s witches, with Melissa and Jenna and Shana plotting. So the four girls start Season 4 questioning what the alliance is between those three. Is one of them actually giving orders to the others? What bonds them besides their antipathy toward Alison and the Liars?”
Question: Is Colton Haynes really gone from Teen Wolf? If so, are they going to recast the part? –Kriselda
Ausiello: Now that Haynes has been upped to a series regular for Arrow Season 2, his days as Jackson are definitely over. And while there was talk that his character would be killed off for the Season 3 premiere (airing June 3), Haynes himself has heard nothing to that effect. “I don’t know, actually,” he tells us. “I’m still really good friends with everybody, and I’m sure that [showrunner] Jeff [Davis] and all the writers, whichever way they go [with Jackson], it will be epic and true to the show. I think that Jackson will always be alive, somehow. Whether they kill him or not, Jeff will find a way where everybody is happy.”
Question: Scandal scoop? Please? I’m obsessed! —Jeff
Ausiello: The Grim Reaper will be putting in another appearance soon. No recurring character is safe!
Question: How long before Neal figures out Tamara’s real deal on Once Upon a Time? —Kelly
Ausiello: Not any time soon, so everyone there in Storybrooke — both magical and “Muggle” — had better watch their backs. Because make no mistake, Tamara isn’t pulling off her dirty work using any ol’ $99 stun gun. “We did not just kill a magical creature with an off-the-shelf Taser,” series co-creator Adam Horowitz affirms. “The Taser isn’t what it seems at first, and we get into that soon.”
Question: Just loving Arrow. Any hope for Laurel and Oliver? —Clare
Ausiello: Though in this Wednesday’s episode Oliver is there to console Felicity in the wake of this tragic incident (for which she blames herself), know that by hour’s end, the tough guy bravely reaches out to his ex, having decided he’s “tired of living on an island.”
Question: Help me out, I need some scoop on Beauty and the Beast! These last couple of episodes have been crazy good. And by good, I mean hot. — Andrea
Sandra: After you take an ice cold shower, Andrea, help yourself to this little tease: Cat and Vincent’s already complicated relationship is going to be double-dipped in turmoil during an upcoming episode later this season in which someone (read: a man!) gets close to Cat, causing Vincent to become uncharacteristically jealous and quite possessive (and also probably very hot). The big Q: How will Cat react to this jealous shade of Vincent?
Question: Arrow scoop? PLEASE! — Jane
Sandra: Sure, but not from me. Colton Haynes, come on down! “I just read episode 22…Roy starts to give a little bit of information to Thea and he starts to give her a little bit more backstory into his life that makes her realize he needs a mentor,” he scoops. Lucky for Roy, I think I know just the man for the job…
That’s it. Enjoy!
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