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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Lyndon Smith (90210) will have a recurring role in Parenthood, playing Natalie, a fellow freshman Drew’s (series regular Miles Heizer) college class at Berkeley on whom Drew quickly develops a huge crush. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Hilarie Burton (White Collar and One Tree Hill) will have a recurring role on the new fall CBS drama Hostages that will follow Dr. Ellen Sanders (series lead Toni Collette), a top-shelf surgeon who with her family is abducted by terrorists the night before she is to operate on the President of the United States. Burton will recur as Samantha, an assistant to Brian Sanders (series regular Tate Donovan), Ellen’s secret-keeping, commercial real estate-dealing husband. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Rebecca Mader (Lost) will guest star on the season finale of Drop Dead Diva, playing a dominatrix who hires Grayson (series regular Jackson Hurst) to represent her when a client refuses to pay her for services rendered. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Teryl Rothery (Stargate: SG-1 and Cedar Cove) will make a guest appearance on Arrow this fall, but there are no details as to what part she will play. (Blastr)

Actress Juliette Lewis has been cast in the upcoming limited series from FOX called Wayward Pines that follows Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon), who arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, on a mission to find two missing federal agents. But instead of answers, Ethan’s investigation only turns up more questions. Lewis will play Beverly, a local bartender who’s also suspicious of “Wayward Pines”. (Jethro Nededog at The Wrap)

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FOX is developing an apocalyptic event series called World War III from X-Men writer David Hayter and Hatfields & McCoys producer Leslie Greif. The project will center on what happens when a perfect storm of world events places us in the center of a global battle which may bring the world as we know it to an end. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) may be returning to the primetime line-up in a project that is being shopped to broadcast and cable networks. The project would focus on how the CIA handles hotspots around the globe, with Heigl playing an adviser/communications liaison for the U.S. president. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline and USA Today)

CBS is developing a new drama project called Dorothy that is described as a medical soap based in New York City inspired by the characters and themes from The Wizard of Oz. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Hugh Grant has been cast in the upcoming box office film The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He joins Henry Cavill (Man of Steel) and Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger). Grant will play the head of British naval intelligence. (The Deadline Team)

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Q&A SECTION (with Matt Mitovich at TV Line and Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Question: I’d like some Once Upon a Time scoop — especially about the “Boy Who Never Grew Up.” –Mason

Mitovich: You may be wondering, as I was, why Once‘s Peter Pan is a force “we all should fear”? (Or was Rumple overselling it?) “There’s a history between those two,” series co-creator Adam Horowitz affirms. “There is a big reason why he said if you’re going to be scared of someone, this is the guy to be scared of.” But there is also a degree of professional respect. “When you meet Pan, you’re going to see a very, very, very clever person,” says Eddy Kitsis. “And if there’s one thing Rumple admires, it’s somebody who has game.”

Question: Please help us, we are all dying here! What else can you say about Regina’s new love interest/”special someone” on Once Upon a Time? –Ana

Mitovich: Fine, fine. I doubled back with the boys and Horowitz said that this “someone” “becomes a part of the show very quickly” – within the first five episodes – “but in a way that you don’t expect.”

Question: Is there some kind of time jump in the Castle season premiere? –Sandra

Mitovich: No, Season 6 opens “right where we left off,” there at the swings, Nathan Fillion confirms. “The only difference, I think, is I’ve had a haircut or two!” But then, once the matters of the marriage proposal and Beckett’s career decision are resolved, “We do jump ahead three or four months.”

Question: Where’s the Pretty Little Liars love? Anything on Aria/Ezra? –Jeanine

Mitovich: In short, “Their worlds collide” in an upcoming episode, Lucy Hale tells us. “You find out things about Ezra that you never knew about, and he’s let into this secret world of Aria and what she’s been dealing with with ‘A’, which is very exciting for people to get to see.”

Question: With all the craziness that went down in the season finale, are we going to be seeing a whole new Haven or will it still be Audrey’s story? –Aimee

Mitovich: As Season 4 opens on Sept. 13, the titular town will be “going through some serious growing pains,” EPs Matt McGuinness and Gabrielle Stanton tell the Inside Line. “Of course Audrey will be there — Haven and Audrey are inexorably tied — but it’s a ‘difficult’ union. The real questions are: Who is Audrey? Where did she come from? Who does she really love? And we’ll deal with that big-time this season!”

Question: Revenge going to have a flash-forward this year? — Jane

Sandra: Yes. Incoming showrunner Sunil Nayar revealed to me that that’s one tradition they definitely wanted to remain intact. And according to one castmember (coughthewonderfulGabrielManncough), the kicker of the flash-forward will reveal “the mother of all bodies.”

Question: Are we ever going to see more of Jasika Nicole on Scandal? I just love her! More Huck backstory please! — Nimmy

Sandra: Guillermo Diaz would definitely be up for it! “I would love to see her again and have more scenes with her and [his son]. I hope Shonda [Rhimes] brings them back, but I don’t know yet,” he tells me. But if you dig flashbacks, you’ll love episode 2, where we travel back in time once again. “We will see Huck in the past again with Olivia and we’re going to get more of a glimpse into their relationship in the past,” Diaz says.

Question: NCIS: LA question: How does/is Hetty handling everything that is going on? — Anna

Sandra: If by “everything” you mean the massively traumatic events that we first saw in the finale and will continue to see in the premiere, then … probably not well. In fact, according to executive producer Shane Brennan, psychologist Nate Getz (Peter Cambor) will be making a grand reappearance in the second episode, which takes place three or four months after the finale/premiere. “Nate returns because people are having problems with what happened,” he says. “I know a number of months have passed, but at that point, there are still issues. It’s something that plays out for some time.”

Question: Have any Suits scoop? — Amy

Sandra: The first images from the much-touted flashback episode have arrived! As you may have read, the episode will find Mike in college and Harvey in the DA’s office. “It ties together just a lot of things from 10 years ago,” EP Aaron Korsh dishes of the episode, titled “The Other Time” (airing Aug. 20). “I will say it also deepens the insight into Mike’s relationship with Trevor in several ways. And we might also see some other old friends pop up in that episode.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a great weekend!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Lyndie Greenwood (Sonya on Nikita) has landed a recurring role on the new FOX drama Sleepy Hollow. She will play Jenny Mills, the sister of Abbie Mills (series lead Nicole Beharie). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Roma Maffia (Nip/Tuck and Pretty Little Liars) will make a guest appearance on NCIS, playing Vera Strickland, an experienced, tough Special Agent who is on the cusp of retirement, who just might have some history with Gibbs (series lead Mark Harmon). (Liz Raftery at TV Guide)

The French TV channel TF1 is working on a 12-episode drama series called Taxi: Brooklyn South that will be set and filmed in the US with the following American TV stars: Chyler Leigh (Grey’s Anatomy), Jennifer Esposito, Ally Walker (Profiler), James Colby (Body Of Proof) and Bill Heck (Person Of Interest) and American film stars Jacky Ido (Inglorious Basterds) and Jose Zuniga (Twilight). The drama series will center on Caitlyn Sullivan (Leigh), a brilliant investigator at the Brooklyn Police Station whose stubborn character and recklessness behind the wheel have made her an outcast within the NYPD. She teams with Marseille-born Leo Romba, a happy New York Taxi driver full of energy and care for his clients, to form the most improbable and efficient partnership to solve crimes and mysteries around Brooklyn. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones) has landed a role in the upcoming Starz adaptation of Outlander, based on the book series by Diana Gabaldon. Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. Menzies will play Claire’s 20th century husband Frank Randall, a professional historian with a deep interest in the 18th century and his own genealogy. He also will play Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, Frank’s ancestor from the 18th century, a Captain in the English Army posted into Scotland during a time when rebellion was rife. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Steven Culp (Desperate Housewives) will have a recurring role on Revolution, playing clean-cut Edward Truman, a dignified authority figure. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS has ordered a straight-to-series sci-fi thriller called Extant from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television and CBS Television Studio. The new series will chronicle a female astronaut struggling to adapt to life on earth after a year in space. (Lucas Shaw at The Wrap)

ABC has ordered an untitled cop from Dana Calvo that is under the umbrella of Shondaland. The series will be set in one of America’s most eclectic and vibrant cities, following an unorthodox detective and his methodical new partner as they solve cases that only seem to happen in the neon wilds of Miami. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actress Jordana Spiro (The Mob Doctor) has joined the cast of the FX drama pilot Tyrant that includes actor Justin Kirk (Weeds) as part of the cast. The drama will revolve around an unassuming American Family, Barry, Molly and their kids, who are drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation. Spiro will play Dana, the wife to John Tucker (Kirk) and with whom she works at the American Embassy as a cultural attaché. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Kimberly Elise (VH1’s Hit the Floor) has joined the cast of the upcoming Lifetime movie A Day Late & A Dollar Short that will star Whoopi Goldberg and Ving Rhames. The movie is about a woman (Goldberg) who finds out that she has only weeks to live and sets about finding a way to get her dysfunctional but loving adult children to reconcile with each other. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Judy Greer will star alongside George Clooney, Hugh Laurie (House) and Britt Robertson (Under the Dome) in the upcoming box office film called Tomorrowland. Details on her role as well as background on the movie, however, are being kept under tight wraps. (Dominic Patten at Deadline)

Actress Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film The Road Within that will follow a young man with Tourette’s (Robert Sheehan from this month’s The Mortal Instruments), who breaks out of a residential home with an anorexic woman (actress Zoe Kravitz from X-Men: First Class) and his OCD roommate (Dev Patel from The Newsroom and Slumdog Millionaire) to take his mother’s ashes to the ocean. Sedgwick will play Dr. Mia Rose, who runs the clinic where the trio are patients. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

Actress Kate Winslet will star in the upcoming box office film called The Dressmaker that follows Tilly Dunnage, who returns after many years in Europe to her Australian outback hometown. But this isn’t your average return trip home as Dunnage has revenge on her mind. Dunnage, a talented dressmaker, is coming home after she ran away as a child, somehow being accused of murder; hoping to make amends with her eccentric mother, who will be played by Judy Davis. The film is based on Rosalie Ham book of same name. (The Hollywood Reporter and First Showing)

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Q&A SECTION (with E! Online)

Question: Loved the Scandal stories! I’m dying for it to come back. Can you fix my withdrawal with some spoilers? – Tammie in St. Louis:

E! Online: Darby Stanchfield tells us she really wants Abby to get some loving this season. “It would be nice for Abby to be happy. She’s had the school of hard knocks,” she says. “Especially at the end of last season, it was a bitter pill to swallow that David pulled one over on all of them. And what she doesn’t like is liars and cheaters!” So there’s no hope for Abby and David? “It would be interesting to see more of Abby and David, but I also want her to branch out and try someone new,” Stanchfield reveals.

Question: Will Beckett accept Castle’s proposal?! Sept. 23 is too far away! – Kasaraleann:

E! Online: We totally agree, so here’s some Caskett info to feed your frenzy in the meantime! We recently caught up with Seamus Dever and asked him if he thinks that Beckett will say “I do!” to Castle’s proposal. “I think she is going to search deep into her heart and I think she is going to consider all her possibilities and she’s going to do what’s best for Beckett,” he said. Come on Dever, you’ve gotta give us a little more than that! After a bit of soul-searching, Dever admitted, “I hope she says…The fact that they’re in love and they’re good at what they do is all about the future of this show and the idea that all these things can coexist.” Woo-hoo! Let’s hope Castle finally puts a ring on it this season.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Tahmoh Penikett (Battlestar Galactica and Dollhouse) will guest star on Supernatural this fall as Ezekiel, one of fallen angels from the show’s season 8 finale. Supernatural will be back with its 9th season on The CW starting on October 8. (Sydney Bucksbaum at Zap2It)

It looks like actress Amanda Righetti and actor Owain Yeoman are leaving the CBS series The Mentalist. They play special agents Grace Van Pelt and Wayne Rigsby. The network has yet to comment on their exits, though. (E! Online and TV Line)

Actor Sam Underwood (Dexter) is joining the cast of the FOX serial killer series The Following this fall, playing Luke, a very complicated and dangerous young man who may or may not be a follower of the “late” Joe Carroll. Also, Underwood will be showing up in the upcoming third season of Homeland, playing a troubled friend of Dana’s. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Manolo Cardona, who is playing Teo Braga on Covert Affairs right now, will have a recurring role on the new CW drama Reign. He will play Tomas, the dashing Prince of Portugal. Reign will debut on The CW on October 17. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Jason Dohring (Veronica Mars and Moonlight) will have guest role on the new CW series The Tomorrow People, playing Killian McCrane, a former paranormal operative who once worked with John (series regular Luke Mitchell) at Ultra, the paramilitary group that hunts down the Tomorrow People. The Tomorrow People will debut on The CW on October 9. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Ryan McPartlin (Chuck) will guest star in Hart of Dixie this fall, playing Carter Covington, a chivalrous and extremely charming Southern gentleman who is one of the most eligible bachelors in the South and every Southern Belle’s dream husband. Hart of Dixie is back on The CW on October 7. (Robyn Ross at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Justin Kirk (Weeds) has joined the cast of the FX drama pilot called Tyrant that tells the story of an unassuming American family (Barry, Molly and their kids), who are drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle East nation. Kirk will play a sexy, decadent and mysterious American diplomat with a hidden agenda. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Meryl Streep will join Jeff Bridges in the box office adaptation of the Lois Lowry novel The Giver. She will play the chief elder, the authoritarian charged with keeping order in a society that seems utopian. That control is endangered when a young man (Brenton Thwaites) is chosen to be the receiver of memories of life before the “sameness” movement which numbed the population and created conformism. Bridges plays the title character who delivers those memories that unlock a rebellion in the young man. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

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Q&A SECTION (with E! Online, Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: This is our last season for Nikita scoop, so spill! – Daniel

E! Online: Prepare to meet a new badass woman who will not exactly want to be best friends with our favorite spies. Ellen Crawford is a forensics accountant, and she gets her claws on Alex in episode three via an intense interrogation. Their first meeting does not go well, and Alex winds up in a possibly fatal position.

Question: Supernatural scoop, pretty please?! – Casey

E! Online: Prepare for flashbacks to the ‘30s in episode four, which is titled “Slumber Party.” In the same episode, we’ll meet a young new hunter named Dorothy, who is from a very far away land that is supposed to be fictional. Keywords here: “supposed to be.”

Question: Hart of Dixie scoop, please! – Lyla

E! Online: A new Breeland woman is coming to Bluebell: Grandma Bettie! Lemon’s grandmother hits town to help her granddaughter preserve the Breeland name. A pillar of the Southern Belle community, Bettie is strong, upscale and take-charge. Hmmm…we wonder whom Lemon gets her personality from?

Question: Any news on where Revenge will pick up when season three starts? – SavannahRidout

E! Online: Pack your bags, Hamptonites, because we’re going back to visit our favorite revenge-loving characters. Season three will pick up a few months after we last saw Victoria’s long-lost son appear on her doorstep, shocking her enough to drop her glass. However, Madeleine Stowe tells us that she and her son Patrick, played by Smallville hunk Justin Hartley, have developed a “very close relationship” over these past months together, and Daniel is not happy about it one bit. “She’s not trying to make him crazy, but she really wants to have a good, clean, honest relationship. But, of course, this is Revenge, so something terrible is going to happen,” she says. Patrick is the result of a pedophiliac relationship Victoria went through when she was around 15 years old, and it looks like these circumstances have affected her son’s psyche. “He deeply, deeply loves his mother and will do anything to take her side,” Stowe says, “I’ve been given hints and it’s quite dark.” Yikes!

Question: I’m all about Devious Maids, so any spoilers would be mucho appreciated. – Lorena

E! Online: Don’t think for a second that Devious Maids will pull a Killing season one and not wrap up big storylines in the finale. Roslyn Sanchez and Ana Ortiz tell us that we will find out who killed Flora, and everything will be resolved by the end of the season. The reveal of Flora’s murder will be the big arc in the finale, and then, hopefully, plotlines will be set up for the show’s second season.

Question: Any new spoilers on NCIS: Los Angeles? — Marc

ADAM: Executive producer (and hyperbolic quote-giver) Shane Brennan insists that the conclusion of last year’s cliff-hanger in the Season 5 premiere “will have the greatest consequence of any story we’ve told.” So what does that mean exactly? Although it’s safe to assume that Sam and Deeks will escape torture, their emotional scars won’t heal instantly. In fact, the post-traumatic stress will be too much for somebody to bear. “This season, someone will leave the team,” Brennan reports. Guesses?

Question: Do you have more details on Regina’s love interest on Once Upon a Time? — Micah

NATALIE: We’ll meet her love interest very early on in the season, which presumably means that he or she hails from Neverland. “It’s a side of the character of Regina we’ve only touched upon in the first two seasons,” executive producer Adam Horowitz says. “We’re excited to see more of that and more importantly to explore her capacity for love.” Does anyone else think she could be paired with him?

Question: Got any Castle scoop that doesn’t involve the proposal? What about Ryan’s impending fatherhood? — Gina

ADAM: The prospect of becoming a daddy will definitely affect Ryan’s work this season. “You’re going to see a lot of choices that Ryan is going to make [about] how he feels about being a cop at this point,” Seamus Dever tells us. “We’re going to see him be a little uncomfortable with being in the line of fire and being in danger’s way. It’s also going to affect his relationship with Esposito.” Does this mean that the bromance could be over? “They’re no longer single dudes,” Dever says. “Ryan is like, ‘I have to go home and see the wife. That’s the way it is.'”

Question: Any scoop on Revenge? — Harold

NATALIE: Get ready for people to switch teams! After losing Emily to Daniel, Aiden seeks other allies. “That’s what’s interesting about Aiden this year; he’s sleeping with the enemy a little bit!” Barry Sloane spilled to us. So who is he working with? “I’ve been working a lot with Madeleine [Stowe],” he teases.

Question: Thanks for the Scandal scoop. What else can you tease? — Jessie

NATALIE: While Olivia and her associates are dealing with the fallout of Mistress-gate, a flashback within the first two episodes will likely shed light on those illicit, pre-election days, Darby Stanchfield says. “We find out answers to things we thought we already knew, but they’re totally not like you think,” she says.

Question: Do you really think that Kenya is dead on Defiance? Or has Stahma squirreled her way somewhere so they can keep up their lady-loving ways? –Cinders

Ausiello: Let’s just say that production on Season 2 starts Monday, and a certain someone’s name is MIA (as in Kirshner) from this returning cast list: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Stephanie Leonidas, Tony Curran, Jaime Murray, Graham Greene, Jesse Rath, Dewshane Williams, Trenna Keating, Justin Rain and Nicole Munoz.

Question: I’d like to know more about the new season of Once Upon A Time! –Joe

Ausiello: Lost fans just might get a sense of Season 4 deja vu when the Jolly Roger drops anchor in Neverland, and its passengers ultimately face the decision of who to follow. “You’ve got five people on a ship who all think they’re leaders, so we’ll have to see how they react when they face their first obstacle,” series co-creator Eddy Kitsis hints. Adds Adam Horowitz, “There’s certainly some friction, but there’s also a shared goal they have to achieve” — finding Henry. “The question is: Will they achieve it together, separately or at all?”

Question: We Gladiators will take what Scandal scoop we can get! —Miranda

Ausiello: Asked to describe the state of Fitz and Mellie’s marriage when the ABC hit returns next month, series creator Shonda Rhimes demurs, “That’s going to be really tough to answer without giving it away.” But after mulling it over for a few seconds, Rhimes delivers a most intriguing tease, allowing that first couple “are still together” and “Mellie is in caretaking mode.”

Question: Just wanted know about anything on Arrow season 2. —Dana

Ausiello: If you ever wondered how Oliver’s island existence, seen in flashback, could have been any worse, here’s a short answer for you: pirates.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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