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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Titus Welliver (Lost and The Good Wife) will play Agent Blake in an upcoming episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

The CW has given an additional script order to new shows The Originals and The Tomorrow People as well as the upcoming drama Reign, which doesn’t debut until October 17. Each shows has been given a 3 script order. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

Actor Max Adler (Glee) and actress-comedian Sandra Bernhard will have recurring roles on the ABC Family drama Switched At Birth. Adler will play Tank, a fraternity brother Bay (series regular Vanessa Marano) befriends in her college art class while Bernhard will play Teresa Lubarsky, Bay’s groovy art professor at a local college. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor William Russ (Boy Meets World) will guest star in a November sweeps episode of NCIS: Los Angles, playing a reformed addict who now runs a resort-like rehab center for the rich and famous. When one of his patients is found dead, Kensi (series regular Daniela Ruah) and Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) go undercover at the facility. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Paola Turbay (Royal Pains) will guest star in the upcoming mid-season ABC drama Killer Women centers on Molly Parker (Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica fame), the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers. Turbay will portray Carmen Garza, a singer who thinks she is a “great” belter but has been reduced to hosting karaoke nights in strip-mall bars. When Molly gets on the trail of a serial killer, she finds Carmen to be a person of interest. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Nashville actor Michiel Huisman and Nikita actor Peter Outerbridge will be joining the cast of the BBC America hit series Orphan Black. Huisman will recur as Cal Morrison, a rugged, resourceful outdoorsman with surprising emotional depth and a sixth sense about people and situations. Meanwhile, Outerbridge will recur as Henrik “Hank” Johanssen, a mercurial modern-day cowboy. Orphan Black will be back in April 2014. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

ABC Family has renewed the new family drama The Fosters for a second season. The show will be back with the rest of its debut season in January 2014. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The new NBC medical drama The Night Shift isn’t set to air until mid-season, but apparently the network is already happy with the show since it received an order for three more scripts. The series will focus on the men and women who work the wee hours at San Antonio Memorial. This order now brings the show up to 11 episodes. The lead role will be played by Merlin hunk Eoin Macken as well as Brendan Fehr (Roswell), Jill Flint (Royal Pains), Ken Leung (Person of Interest and Lost), Brigid Brannaugh (Army Wives), Daniella Alonso (Revolution), A Martinez (Longmire) and Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

TV TRAILERS

Falling Skies Season 4 Trailer

The Tomorrow People Sneak Peek

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Looks like NBC is thinking about time travel again (remember they were the home of cult classic series Quantum Leap). In fact, it’s not just one but two shows they are looking at. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Here are the details:

* Lighthouse, from Josh Friedman, the guy behind Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is an ensemble drama set at a mysterious hotel for wayward time travelers.

* Timeless from Deborah Pratt, former co-executive producer on Quantum Leap, will center on Alexandra King who, time traveling between earth’s future and present day, finds herself caught between two men she desperately loves, the worlds they each inhabit and the secrets that could destroy them all.

ABC is developing a new drama based on the best-selling book series Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen. The story is set in 1929, centering on two women who escape their small Midwestern town and end up in Manhattan. One discovers that the father she’s never known is the head of a crime ring, while the other struggles to become a singer. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) is teaming with Syfy and writer Natalie Chaldez (Heroes and V) to develop an alien-themed drama called Hunters, based on the best-selling novel by Whitley Streiber. The story follows Pennsylvania detective-turned-suspect Flynn Carroll who, after his wife mysteriously goes missing, is determined to prove his innocence and find her. His search leads to evidence that dangerous alien cells are living among us, and the U.S. government has a secret organization in place to thwart their terrorist efforts. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Writer-director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being A Wallflower) will team with actress Emma Watson (the Harry Potter franchise) on the box office film While We’re Young that will be based on the novel by Adena Halpern. The story is about a 75-year-old woman, still feeling frisky and that she has far more in common with her 29-year-old granddaughter than with her stuffy 55-year-old daughter, is granted a birthday wish. She gets to be 29 again, for a day. She uses the time to go on an adventure with her now same-aged granddaughter. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) will star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the sci-fi thriller Selfless that will center on a terminally ill billionaire who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his consciousness into the body of a younger man, only to be hunted by the killers who murdered his host. Garber will play the billionaire’s longtime friend. (The Deadline Team)

Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Question: I absolutely loved the premiere of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland last night! Could we possibly see any Storybrooke-Wonderland crossovers this season? – Regina M.

TV Scoop Team: We adore this series and we were wondering the same thing! To get to the bottom of is, we caught up with Wonderland’s executive producer Zack Estrin and asked him if would could ever expect a spellbinding switcheroo. “Right now in the beginning we’re going to make sure that each show lives on its own,” Estrin explains. “Wonderland is its own show, but down the road, who knows? You may see a familiar face or two making their way over to Wonderland. Certainly there are some who started in Wonderland who could always return.” Our money is definitely on Cora—aka The Queen of Hearts!

Question: S.H.I.E.L.D. me, people! – Gavin

TV Scoop Team: Loving Skye and Agent Ward together? Then you’ll like the final scene of the next episode, which may or may not feature Skye putting a piece of S.H.I.E.L.D. technology to good use to check out Ward’s assets.

Question: Once Upon a Time‘s Pan is one creepy kid. Do you have any scoop on the history between him and Hook? Or really, any scoop on Hook in general? –Stef

Mitovich: I am told that Hook’s sure-to-illuminate reunion with Pan is “imminent.” As for more Hook scoop, his backstory is also fast-approaching. In that episode, Colin O’Donoghue says, “You’ll see different colors to Hook, and to Killian Jones before he becomes Hook. You begin to understand a bit more why he is so self-absorbed, apart from the whole thing with Milah and why he’s a pirate. [It’s about] how he becomes a pirate, which is brilliant. The guys have done a great job with that.” And speaking of Hook and Milah….

Question: I have a question brought up by the Once Upon a Time Season 2 DVD set. Were Milah and Killian actually married, making him Henry’s step-grandfather? –Rita

Mitovich: No, that confusion is the result of a mistake made during the production of a DVD featurette. Series co-creator Adam Horowitz confirms, “As far as show ‘canon’ is concerned, Hook and Milah were never married.”

Question: Are we going to see NCIS: LA’s Nell and Eric venture out more in Season 5? –Cari

Mitovich: “There is always fun with those characters,” show boss Shane Brennan answers. “In fact, Nell’s out in the field a couple times this season, and at one point, later in the season, gets a serious moment or two out in the field. She gets to fire her weapon, in anger.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

Have a terrific weekend!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse) has landed a major recurring role on the new Lifetime drama Witches of East End, playing Mike, a mysterious stranger and novelist who takes a strong interest in Ingrid (Rachel Boston), but his reasons for getting to know her go far beyond her work at the library. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actresses Kate Walsh (Private Practice) and youngster Joey King (White House Down) as well as actor Josh Close (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) have joined the cast of Fargo, the first limited series at FX that is a new incarnation of the box office film. The 10-episode series already includes Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Oliver Pratt and Colin Hanks. Walsh will play Gina, a trophy wife-type and reluctant mother of twin sons; King will play Greta, the daughter of Hanks’ police deputy, a single father who comes face-to-face with a killer. Close will play Ron, the brother of Freeman’s small-town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. (The Deadline Team)

The upcoming HBO drama The Money has added to its cast, including Billy Magnussen (The Lost Valentine), Rosemary Harris (Aunt May from the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man franchise), Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, M.D.) and Ray Liotta. Magnussen will play Greg Castman, the middle, and favorite, child of mogul/patriarch James Castman (Brendan Gleeson), who wields power and influence to expand his media empire and control his clan. Harris will have the recurring role of Ellen Knox, the sharp, fearless, and funny mother of James Castman’s wife Ruth (Laila Robins). Gummer will recur as Tricia Castman, who comes from old New York money and is married to John Castman (Patrick Kennedy), James and Ruth’s dutiful son and key lieutenant in Castman’s empire. Liotta will recur as wealthy, entitled, untouchable Wall Street tycoon George Archer. (The Deadline Team)

ABC has given a full season order to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. (AJ Marechal at Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Uber-producer Greg Berlanti has teamed with Nicholas Wootton (creator of the short-lived Golden Boy) for an hour-long project at TNT called President X that will center on a former U.S. President who wakes up from a year-long coma and, now out of power, must hunt down the individual who tried to assassinate him. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on a new futuristic project called Colony, a thriller about a group of explorers sent to colonize Mars, who are willing to leave their lives behind to brave the dangers of another planet, and the terrifying reality they discover. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Executive producers Howard Gordon and Evan Katz (24) are going into development together on a new project called Trial of The Century that will be told from the point-of-view of a young Latina attorney working on a unique high-profile case. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Peter Jacobson (House) has been cast in the Lifetime pilot HR that will center on Ellen (Alicia Silverstone), the uptight Director of Human Resources for a global company who after a head injury alters her outlook on life, throws standard corporate practices out the window and inspires the business to strive for new ambitions and profits. Jacobson will play Moss Lieber, Ellen’s smarmy boss. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Box office film writer-director Mark Steven Johnson is developing a new drama project for CBS called Generation Next that is set a year after a deadly outbreak that caused ordinary citizens to fly into a mindless rage. After a cure is discovered, these “Carriers” are finally allowed to return to society, and to solve crimes committed by or against the infected, the Infectious Crimes Department is formed. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Barely Lethal that will center on a 16-year-old assassin (Hailee Steinfeld) who fakes her own death in pursuit of a “normal” adolescence. Turner will play an undercover agent who enrolls in high school to help capture the teen. (The Deadline Team)

That’s it. Enjoy!

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