Hey All,
Here are the news items for today, few though they may be:
TELEVISION
Actors Danny Masterson (That 70’s Show) and Kris Lemche (Joan of Arcadia) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Haven. Masterson will play Anderson Harris, one half of the Darkside Seekers team, a duo of paranormal investigators who star in their own low-budget TV reality show. Lemche will play Seth Byrne, the host of the TV show. (The Futon Critic)
NETFLIX EVENT
Netflix and Walt Disney Co. have announced that Marvel TV will bring four live-action series to the streaming service all leading to a mini-series event. A 13-episode series revolving around Daredevil will start sometime in 2015 followed by the multi-year rollout of a Jessica Jones series then Iron Fist and lastly Luke Cage. The big mini-series event will then have all four characters teaming together, making up Marvel’s dream team of The Defenders. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
BBC FILM
Actor Kit Harington (Game of Thrones) and actress Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty) will join the cast of the BBC film Spooks: The Greater Good along with original series star actor Peter Firth in the film version of the long-running BBC series (that was also known as MI5 here in the States). The espionage thriller will find Harington playing an ex-MI5 operative brought back in by Ehle’s deputy chief to uncover how a terrorist escaped custody during a routine handover. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
FOX is developing a new drama called Ball & Chain that centers on two ex-operatives with screwed up personal lives who are set up by their intelligence agency to become romantically entangled and run missions as a team. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actress Ashley Scott (Jericho) has joined the cast of the Lifetime pilot Unreal that stars Shiri Appleby (Roswell and Life Unexpected) that follows the experiences of Rachel (Appleby), a young staffer whose sole job is to manipulate her relationships with — and among — the contestants of a dating show to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage the program’s producers demand. Scott will play Mary, a type-A financial advisor who has been unlucky in love and a hopeful contestant. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)
The CW is developing a zombie drama project with Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas and the upcoming film’s co-writer Diane Ruggiero based on the DC property iZombie, which is a supernatural crime procedural that centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. But with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories, and with the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
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That’s it. Enjoy!
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