Hey All,
Here are the news items for today:
TELEVISION
Actress Chloe Bridges (The Carrie Diaries) will have a recurring role on Pretty Little Liars, playing Sydney Driscoll, the newest member of the swim team, who befriends Emily (series regular Shay Mitchell). She will appear in multiple episodes when the show returns for its fifth season on June 10. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
Actors Brendan Hines (Lie to Me and Betrayal) and DB Woodside (24 and Buffy) will both have multi-episode arcs on Suits when the USA Network drama returns for its fourth season. Hines will play Logan Sandler, the son of a millionaire entrepreneur who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and isn’t used to hearing the word “no.” His desire to prove himself by making a splashy acquisition will put him squarely in the middle of a conflict between Harvey (series regular Gabriel Macht) and Mike (series regular Patrick J. Adams). Meanwhile, Woodside will play Jeff Malone, a former SEC prosecutor who is a financial expert with a personal stake in Pearson Specter. His expertise is needed when the firm is faced with its toughest challenge yet. Suits will air its season finale (season 3) on April 10 with season four back this summer. (Maggie Furlong at YahooTV)
Actor Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises and Lawless) will star in an 8-part period piece for the BBC that will be executive produced by Ridley Scott and writer Steven Knight called Taboo that will be set in 1813. Hardy will star as James Keziah Delaney, an adventurer who recently returned from Africa seeking to avenge his father’s death. James’ refusal to sell the family shipping and trade business results in a complicated battle with the East India Company. There is no word whether BBC America will broadcast the mini-series in the US, though. (Sadie Gennis at TV Guide)
Syfy has given a 13-episode order to 12 Monkeys, the new drama based on the Bruce Willis film of the same name. The series will debut in January 2015 and will star Aaron Stanford (Nikita) and Amanda Schull (Center Stage and Suits). The series is about a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will eventually decimate the human race. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)
ONLINE SERIES NEWS
Actor Enrique Murciano (Without A Trace) and Katie Finneran (The Michael J. Fox Show) have landed recurring roles in the as-yet-named Netflix psychological thriller from Damages creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler. The 13-episode series centers on a close-knit family of four adult siblings (Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz) whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother (Mendelsohn) returns home. Murciano will play Meg’s (Cardellini) boyfriend Marco, a member of the county sheriff’s department. Finneran will plays Kevin’s (Butz) red-haired, witty wife Belle. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
BOX OFFICE NEWS
Actor Ryan Reynolds (Green Lantern) will star alongside Helen Mirren (Red and The Debt) in the upcoming box office film Woman In Gold, a fact-based story about real-life heroine Maria Altmann (Mirren), a Jewish WWII survivor who fought the Austrian government to get back several paintings by Gustav Klimt that were pilfered from her family during wartime. Reynolds will play the attorney who took his case despite knowing little about art. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)
Actress Gwendoline Christie (Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones) will replace actress Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) as Commander Lyme in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 due to Rabe having a scheduling conflict. Commander Lyme character is one of the leaders of District 13, hailing from District 2 as a past victor of a Hunger Games. (Dave McNary at Variety)
That’s it. Enjoy!
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