Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Kathleen Munroe (Alphas) will have a major recurring role in the upcoming ABC mid-season drama Resurrection that is set to debut on March 9. The series will ask the provocative question, “What happens when the people you have mourned and buried suddenly appear on your doorstep as if not a day’s gone by?” The lives of the people of Arcadia, Missouri are forever changed when their deceased loved ones return. Munroe will play Rachel, the feisty and charming ex-girlfriend of Pastor Tom (series regular Mark Hildreth). (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Actor Henry Simmons and his wife, actress Sophina Brown (NYPD Blue) will have recurring roles in Ravenswood, the upcoming Pretty Little Liars spin-off that will debut this Halloween on ABC Family. They will play Simon and Terry Beaumont, the parents of Ravenswood regular Remy (Britne Oldford from American Horror Story). Simon runs the local paper while Terry, who recently returned home from serving in the military, is struggling with survivor’s guilt. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
Actress Cynthia Stevenson (Dead Like Me) will make a guest appearance on the ABC drama Scandal, playing a new client in need of Pope & Associates’ help. Scandal will be back starting on October 3. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actresses Jessica Stroup (90210) and Tiffany Boone (Beautiful Creatures) have joined the cast of The Following. Stroup will play Max, the niece of Ryan Hardy (series lead Kevin Bacon), who is an NYPD cop, working in the Intel Division. Tiffany will play Mandy, an impressionable young girl who finds herself to be the newest cult member following Joe Carroll (series lead James Purefoy) whether she likes it or not. The Following returns to Fox in January. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)
Actor Judd Nelson will have a pivotal role in the final season of Nikita, playing a deep-cover operative working for Amanda and The Shop’s Mr. Jones. His character will have major ties to a devious worldwide plot that only the now-estranged group of crime fighters can stop. (Megan Masters at TV Line)
General Hospital actress Lindsey Morgan has landed a recurring role on The CW mid-season drama The 100. The new series will be set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization. A spaceship called the Ark, housing the lone human survivors, sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Earth to investigate the possibility of re-colonizing the planet. She will play Raven, the youngest mechanical engineer the Ark has seen in 52 years. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers have yet another drama series in development at ABC. This project is called How To Get Away With Murder that is being described as a sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor who become entangled in a murder plot that will rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Author Gigi Levangie (The Starter Wife and Maneater) is developing another of her novels – Seven Deadlies – for TV, this time with MTV. The project is set in an exclusive, private high school, centering on a Latina scholarship student who discovers that her classmates carry the bloodlines of the seven deadly sins, and that she must defeat them in order to save the world all while maintaining her GPA. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS
Actor Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black) has landed a role in the TV adaptation of the V.C. Andrews novel Flowers in the Attic at Lifetime. He will play Bartholomew “Bart” Winslow, the trophy husband of Corrine (Heather Graham), a recent widow who puts her four children into a pretty terrible situation at her parents’ mansion after their father’s death. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)
The History Channel has set actor Adrien Brody (The Pianist) to star as Houdini in the network’s upcoming mini-series about the legendary magician. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Quinton Aaron (The Blind Side) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Left Behind, the reboot based on the best-selling book series that is already set to include Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan and Jordin Sparks among its cast. The movie will follow a group of survivors after millions of people around the world disappear. Those left behind have to learn to survive in a world that is quickly plunging into chaos and destruction. Aaron will play Simon, a cameraman who is traveling to London when almost half of the passengers on his flight suddenly vanish into thin air. (Rebecca Ford at The Hollywood Reporter)
Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Question: Any spoilers on Once Upon a Time? —Patti
Ausiello: Matt Mitovich just got off the horn with series creators Adam Horowitz and Eddy Kitsis, and they caught us up on some of the backstory gaps that will be filled in via flashbacks during Season 3. Episode 2 is Snow/Charming-centric, covering the time between the former’s awakening from the sleep curse and when they encountered Regina on the battlefield. “How did the queen react to that? And who first told her?” Horowitz wonders. Episode 3 will relate Tinkerbell’s origin, featuring The Blue Fairy (but not Amy Acker’s Nova) and addressing the question: “What makes a fairy?” Also on tap for fall is a new chunk of Rumple’s past, the tale of how Hook became a pirate and the self-explanatory Episode 6, titled “Ariel” (and yes, Eric is being cast/will not be an existing character).
Question: I’d like some Once Upon a Time in Wonderland scoop, please. —Mason
Ausiello: The Once spin-off will, in its third episode, sic no less than Beowulf’s Grendel on Alice and The Knave. Envisioned (via an actor in prosthetics) as a “large, warted, ogre-like beast,” the cannibalistic Grendel will pose a mortal threat to the genie-seeking pair — though in typical Once fashion, there is more to this beast than meets the eye. But don’t go brushing up on your Old English just yet. “It’s a wink-and-a-nod, as opposed to a real deep-dive into Beowulf,” says series co-creator Adam Horowitz of the creature’s clash with Alice.
Question: Any details on how Ashley will be written off Revenge? —Geoffrey
Ausiello: Despite portrayer Ashley Madekwe’s very public plea that her character “die in a blaze of glory,” showrunner Sunil Nayar tells us that Ash — who will depart in the show’s Sept. 29 opener —will live to see another day. “We’re not killing her,” he reveals. “We’d never do that! She’s too great a character. As sad as we are to bid her farewell at the moment, you’ll see that the way we resolve her storyline now gives her an opportunity to come back with her own revenge agenda.”
Question: Can you tease any good Emily-Victoria moments in the Revenge premiere? —Joyce
Ausiello: I could, but I’m going to let Emily VanCamp do the honors. “We have a moment where we actually band together,” previews the actress. Of course, like most of the truces forged by the sworn enemies, this one is short-lived. “We put up this united front and then, after whatever it is is taken care of, it’s like, ‘OK, I’m outta here,’” VanCamp says with a laugh. “But it’s nice to be able to play something [civil] with Madeline [Stowe] because [Emily and Victoria] are always at odds each other. And I hate it because I love Madeline so much. We’re so evil to each other.”
Question: Do you have any news on Arrow? —Calum
Ausiello: Quite interestingly, the title for this season’s fifth episode, “The Demon’s Head,” is the translation of Ra’s al Ghul — as in Batman’s infamous mentor-turned-adversary. Thus, it kinda sorta makes sense that the hour will introduce the apprentice of a most menacing man — Awwal, a scimitar-wielding protégé of Dark Archer Malcolm Merlyn.
That’s it. Enjoy!
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