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Hey All,

Here are the news items, few though they are, for today:

TELEVISION

The Canadian series Bomb Girls, which is airing its second season on Reelz Channel right now, will be coming to an end with a two-hour movie event coming in the winter of 2014. (The Futon Critic)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FX has bought a drama pitch from author James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) and producers Joe Roth and Clark Peterson that will be based on Ellroy’s 2012 novella called Shakedown. The project is set in the tabloid world and underbelly of Los Angeles circa the late 1950s, centering on the city’s top informant/operator/wire tapper/fixer, Fred Otash, who lives and works where the glamour and the grime intersect. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Liam McIntyre (Spartacus) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Hercules 3D that will star Twilight Saga actor Kellan Lutz in the lead role. McIntyre will play the young army captain Sotiris who becomes Hercules’ most trusted battlefield companion. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Hot Trailer: ‘Thor: The Dark World’

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Teryl Rothery (Stargate SG-1 and Kyle XY) has joined the cast of the upcoming first-ever Hallmark Channel series Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove, which focuses on Judge Olivia Lockhart (Andie MacDowell) whose Cedar Cove Municipal Court is the professional milieu and social microcosm of issues the judge will face in her own day-to-day life with family and best friend Grace (Rothery). Dylan Neal plays Jack Griffith, the new editor of the Cedar Cove Chronicle and budding love interest for Judge Lockhart. (The Futon Critic)

Actresses Jessica Tuck (True Blood) and Robin Givens (Head of the Class) have joined the cast of the upcoming, new ABC Family drama Twisted in recurring roles. Tuck will play Gloria, the mother of deceased student Regina Crane while Givens will play Judy, Lacey’s (series lead Kylie Bunbury) hip and outgoing mother. Twisted will debut on June 11 at 9 PM. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo and E! Online:

1. Oblivion, $38.1 million
2. 42, $18 million
3. The Croods, $9.5 million
4. Scary Movie 5, $6.3 million
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation, $5.8 million
6. The Place Beyond the Pines, $4.7 million
7. Olympus Has Fallen, $4.5 million
8. Evil Dead, $4.1 million
9. Jurassic Park 3D, $4 million
10. Oz the Great and Powerful, $3 million

Actors James Caviezel (Person of Interest) and Michael Chiklis (Vegas) as well as actress Laura Dern (Enlightened) will star in the upcoming inspirational high school football film called When the Game Stands Tall. Caviezel and Chiklis star as Bob Ladouceur and Terry Eidson, the visionary coaches who led De La Salle High School’s struggling football team to unparalleled national record-breaking success by teaching them to stand for something greater than winning. The team had a 151-game winning streak from 1992 to 2003. Dern will play Caviezel’s supportive wife. The film is set to be released in the fall of 2014. (Jeff Sneider at The Wrap)

Q&A SECTION (with Matt Roush at TV Guide)

Question: What is your prediction for Syfy’s new Defiance? I was completely engaged for a majority of the two-hour premiere, and the ending’s battle scene literally had me on the edge of my seat! I was a little disappointed when I realized the show was just about one town in a huge new world, but I hope that the characters will find a need to branch out of the town and give the viewer a broader scope of this new earth. I love the idea of learning more about the different alien races and how the conflicts between them and the humans play out. And what’s with all the video game hype when they clearly stated that it would not affect the TV show? — Shannon

Matt Roush: My prediction is that Defiance will be around for a while. It opened strong, and some of that may be attributable to the video-game tie-in, which might have helped it break through the TV clutter (which on Mondays is considerable). The good news is that you can enjoy one without the other, although the interactive element of Defiance is a hook that calls attention to it, and these days, where’s the harm in that? What I liked about the next few episodes, even more than in the pilot, is that Defiance the town serves as a microcosm to explore the various alien races and the conflicts within. It’s possible the show will expand its scope, especially where outside threats are concerned, but I’d give it some time to get on its feet before asking it to reach for the stars (where Syfy hasn’t gone in far too long).

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