Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
First, let’s congratulate the winners of the Oscar’s from last, including (but not limited to): Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong’o, Matthew McConaughey, Cate Blanchett, Frozen, Gravity, 12 Years a Slave, 20 Feet From Stardom, Alfonso Cuarón and the song “Let It Go”.
TELEVISION
Actor Dean Winters (Oz) has joined the cast of the CBS drama series Battle Creek that is expected to debut next season. The series centers on Detective Russ Agnew (Winters) and FBI agent Milton Bradley, who have very different worldviews but are teamed up to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, MI. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Actor Dylan McDermott (Hostages and American Horror Story) has joined the cast of the as-yet titled CBS drama pilot from Kevin Williamson that is about detectives who handle stalking incidents for the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD. McDermott will play Detective Jack Larsen, who recently transferred to the unit from New York. (Andy Swift at TV Line)
Actress Katie Findlay (The Carrie Diaries and The Killing [season one]) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot How To Get Away With Murder which centers on ambitious law students and their brilliant and mysterious criminal defense professor (Viola Davis) who become entangled in a murder plot that could rock their entire university and change the course of their lives. Findlay will play Rebecca, the edgy, pierced neighbor to struggling law student Wes Gibbins, who become entangled in the murder saga that shakes their university. Also, actor Billy Brown (Hostages and The Following) has joined the cast of this pilot where he will play Nate, a respected police detective who is having an affair and is caught by Wes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Young actor Mason Cook (The Lone Ranger and 666 Mockingbird Lane) has landed a role in the TNT drama called Legends that centers on Martin Odum (Sean Bean from Game of Thrones and The Lord of the Rings franchise), a deep-cover operative who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. Cook will play Aiden Odum, Martin’s son. (The Deadline Team)
Actress Aimee Garcia (Dexter) has joined the cast of the CBS drama pilot Red Zone that centers on retired CIA operative Holden Weller who, when a terrorist event rocks Washington, D.C., is pulled back into action, forced to investigate closer to home where the next generation of terrorists is being bred. Garcia will play Vera Bradley, a whip-smart, driven and impatient case officer with the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism department. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Here are the top 10 box office films for this past weekend courtesy of TV Guide:
1. Non-Stop – 30 million
2. Son of God (the pared-down film version of the TV mini-series The Bible) – 26.5 million
3. The LEGO Movie – 21 million
4. The Monuments Men – 5 million
5. 3 Days to Kill – 4.9 million
6. RoboCop – 4.5 million
7. Pompeii – 4.3 million
8. Frozen – 3.6 million
9. About Last Night – 3.4 million
10. Ride Along – 3 million
Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)
Question: I can’t believe Lola and Francis hooked up on Reign! Please tell me that will not continue! We Frary fans need some hope! – Rebecca
TV Scoop Team: “Lola gets involved with Francis, but she will also move on to others,” showrunner Laurie McCarthy assures. “She’s the first of our girls to be really driven to find a husband.” And one small tease for this week’s can’t-miss (seriously!) episode? One of the other ladies-in-waiting learns of Lola and Francis’ connection.
Question: I heart Hart of Dixie. Please tell me you’ve got some scoop to sooth my soul? – Mandi
TV Scoop Team: Ding-dong-ding-dong! Do you hear that? Nope the wicked witch isn’t dead, those are wedding bells ringing in Bluebell! Grab something old, something new, and something borrowed and blue, because the season three finale of Hart of Dixie is going to feature a wedding! We can’t tell you who will be tying the knot, but we can tell you that this is one ceremony that you absolutely cannot miss.
Question: I’m going through Revenge withdrawals, got anything for me? – Patricia
TV Scoop Team: When Revenge finally comes back from their ridiculously long break, we’ll be meeting many new characters. Specifically in episode 20, entitled, “Revolution,” we’ll be meeting Brandon, one of Victoria’s terrifying and manipulative henchmen. He’s creepy and dangerous, but his good looks and charm lets him fit right in at any Hampton soiree
Question: I still don’t believe that Ezra isn’t connected to the A-team. What about the Pretty Little Liars Halloween episode?! – Jennifer
TV Scoop Team: Funny you should bring that up! We recently chatted with she-who-has-all-the-answers, Marlene King, and we asked that very same question. The executive producer revealed, “I think there were two gas masks that night.” Ooh and the plot thickens! King clarified that other than spying on the girls, we haven’t actually seen Ezra do anything devious. As for Ezra’s disappearing Ravenswood lair? The showrunner explained, “I think he followed the trail of Ali, I think Ali went to Ravenswood first and Ezra was following her trail.” So, in conclusion: Ezra = Super obsessed writer, not “A.”
Question: Got anything for Teen Wolf? – Riley
TV Scoop Team: It’s no secret that things in Beacon Hills are pretty much out of control at all times, so the powers-that-be are looking to bring in some extra law enforcement to help combat the crazy. In season four we’ll meet Deputy Haigh, and if we’re being honest… he’s kind of a dick. Let’s put it this way: He’s the kind of cop that will definitely give you a ticket after pulling you over, no matter what the circumstance.
Question: I‘m extremely excited about Castle‘s episode set in the 1970s! Does the case revolve in that particular decade (á la “The Blue Butterfly”) or are we actually going to see flashbacks of Kate and Rick‘s early years? –Martina
Mitovich: The answer is… neither! As Stana Katic explained to me the other day, “In order to get information from one of our characters, we have to pretend that we’re in that era — because he believes that he’s still in that era.” But does that mean groovy threads and ‘dos for all? “I don’t know how extreme they’re going to go,” Katic answered. “But they’ve been playing around with, like, different hair and stuff — for the guys, mostly.”
Question: You gave a lot of good stuff for Once Upon a Time premiere! Any chance you can tease something beyond New York City? Rapunzel? Blackbeard? Glinda? – Jacquelyn
Mitovich: I choose Door No. 2, Rapunzel. Josh Dallas touted that episode as “awesome,” “dark” and “very psychological, an episode where you have Charming facing a lot of his ultimate fears. He’s going to have to really look at himself, when confronted with something that challenges his strength and courage.” As for the well-tressed lass, Dallas promises, “She is, like all of our women, very strong.”
Question: Can I please, please, please get some Once upon a Time info on Belle, and Rumple? Possibly Neal, too? –Karen
Mitovich: I’ve already told you about Belle’s plan, and while Rumple’s fate isn’t explored much in the midseason premiere, watch for Episode 13 to dive deeper into that mystery. As for Neal, he is not taking his latest separation from Emma and Henry well, at all. As co-creator Eddy Kitsis explained, “In a lot of ways Neal finds himself in a similar position that his father did, which is: I’m stuck in a land and I need to get back to the people I love.’” But while “Rumple was willing to curse everybody to get what he wanted,” Kitsis reminds, “Neal has, up until this point, kind of been a really moral center for his dad… So the question is, ‘Will he follow the same path?’”
Question: I’m getting into the show The Tomorrow People. Is there any word on if it is going to be renewed for another season? –Donald
Mitovich: There’s nothing official yet, no, but the show is nonetheless setting the stage for a comeback. A casting call has gone out for the role of Natalie, an unstable and sadistic rabble-rouser/self-determined leader who speaks her mind without putting a lot of thought into the outcome. She’ll debut in Episode 20 and recur in Season 2 (if there is one).
Question: Do you know what is happening with Callie and Jude on The Fosters? –Marissa
Mitovich: As you may know, their MIA dad is about to resurface, rousing a variety of emotions. “Callie makes contact [first] so that she can protect Jude, but she ends up wanting Jude to meet him as well,” Maia Mitchell tells us. “She kind of does a 180, and it is scary in the beginning. There’s a lot of processing for them.”
Question: Did I hear right that NCIS’s Ellie Bishop is married? Are there plans to meet the husband? –Jayne
Mitovich: Though he has no hard and fast timetable in place, NCIS boss Gary Glasberg told me, “At some point we’ll spend some time with her husband, but we wanted to introduce her first and let people connect with her and understand who she is first.”
That’s it. Enjoy!
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