Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Sprague Grayden (Jericho and Low Winter Sun) and character actor Gregg Henry will both appear in the second season of The Following, which will return to FOX on November 19 and 20 for its two-night season premiere. Grayden will appear as Carrie Cooke, a tabloid reporter turned best-selling author, who wrote a book on the Carroll/Havenport events and continues to investigate and write about the killings, which puts her at odds with Ryan Hardy (series lead Kevin Bacon. Meanwhile, Henry will guest star as Dr. Strauss, a distinguished doctor who may have a dark secret. (Jethro Nededog and Tim Kenneally at The Wrap)
Actress Amy Brenneman (Judging Amy and Private Practice) will show up in 2014 in the new CW series Reign, playing Mary’s (series lead Adelaide Kane) mother. (Kate Stanhope at TV Guide)
Actress Lisa Bonet will have a multi-episode arc on the upcoming Sundance Channel limited series The Red Road that revolves around a sheriff (Martin Henderson from Off the Map) struggling to keep his family together while policing two clashing communities. She will play a Lenape Native American lawyer who returns home after a crime is been committed against a member of her tribe. (NOTE: Her real life husband Jason Mamoa also has a role in the series.) (Megan Masters at TV Line)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
FX is working with Kelsey Grammer’s production company Gramment on a limited series called The Code that will be based on the book “Song Yet Sung” by James McBride, which draws from the life of famous abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman was born a slave, but escaped and, with the help of the hard-bitten white watermen of Maryland’s Eastern Shore, fostered an intricate escape network of secret routes and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad that she used to smuggle more than 300 slaves to the North. The project will center on Liz, a black woman making a desperate dash to freedom, on the run from a torn white waterman and able slave catcher, who takes on one last job only to find himself in a war against a notorious female slave stealer. As Liz makes her way through the dark and forbidding swamplands of Maryland’s Eastern Shore using the black codes of the underground, the complexities of slavery play out in full force, pitting slave against slave, white against white, and plantation owner against plantation owner. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
CBS is developing a drama project called Doc Ford based on the Randy Wayne White book series about a retired NSA agent-turned-marine biologist who gets justice for those in need on the Gulf Coast of southern Florida. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Actor Tom Ellis (EastEnders) will play the title role in the USA Network drama pilot called Rush that is a fast-paced Hollywood drama centering on Dr. William Rush (Ellis), a brilliant physician whose “practice” is acting as a highly paid on-call doctor for those in medical need. Because of who they are, what they’ve done or what they’re hiding, his patients can’t seek traditional treatment. He’s not your average on-call doctor because he’s not attached to any hospital; he’s highly discreet no matter what the ailment as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium, and he can party with the best of them. He has no desire to change his life or how he lives it until an old flame and his conscience begin to stir things up. Also, actor Rick Gonzalez (Reaper) will also star in the pilot as Manny Maquis, a well-connected dealer who considers Rush a friend as well as a client. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Aaron Eckhart will star the upcoming thriller film called Incarnate that follows an exorcist (Eckhart) who taps into the subconscious of a possessed nine-year old boy (David Mazouz from Touch). (The Deadline Team)
Actress AnnaSophia Robb (The Carrie Diaries) will star alongside Minnie Driver and Frank Grillo in the upcoming political thriller film called Conspiracy on Jekyll Island, playing the duo’s cancer-stricken daughter. (The Deadline Team)
Actor Max Martini (The Unit and Castle) will play Jason Taylor, the bodyguard and head of security for Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan from Once Upon a Time) in the upcoming film adaptation of the E.L. James best-selling novel Fifty Shades of Grey. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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