Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
7:10 PM: Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters movie on More Max
7:30 PM: Knight and Day movie on Fox Movie Channel
8 PM: 24: Live Another Day on FOX (Encore) Game of Thrones on HBO (Reair) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows movie on TNT How to Train Your Dragon (animated) movie on FX
9 PM: Gang Related on FOX (Encore) Hart of Dixie on The CW (Reair) Game of Thrones on HBO (Reair)
9:45 PM: A Knight’s Tale movie on Encore
10 PM: Crossbones on NBC (Check Your Local Listings) Continuum on Syfy (NEW) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows movie on TNT How to Train Your Dragon (animated) movie on FX Ocean’s Thirteen movie on Oxygen
Pretty Little Liars has been renewed for two more seasons (its 6th and 7th) by ABC Family. The series just got its fifth season underway on Tuesday night. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Starz has renewed its new series Power for a 10-episode second season. (The Futon Critic)
Actors Raza Jaffrey (Smash) and Michael O’Keefe (King & Maxwell) will have recurring roles on Homeland. Jaffrey will play Aasar Khan, a decorated lieutenant-colonel in the Pakistan intelligence service while O’Keefe will play deputy station chief John Redmond who is stationed in Afghanistan and will clash with Carrie. (Sadie Gennis at TV Guide)
Actress Nicole Gale Andereson (Ravenswood) will be returning to Beauty And the Beast for its third season as a series regular. She plays Catherine Chandler’s (series lead Kristin Kreuk) younger sister. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
Veteran actors Marion Ross (Happy Days) and Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) will appear in the new ABC Family series Chasing Life, playing April’s (series lead Italia Ricci) grandparents. Chasing Life debuted on Tuesday. (Rebecca Iannucci at TV Line)
Actress Tracy Spiridakos (Revolution) has landed the female lead in the upcoming romantic comedy Byrd & the Bees that will star Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Dracula). She will star as Rebecca Byrd, a young woman who travels to Scotland to find and meet her biological father and winds up meeting her dream guy along the way. (Jeff Sneider at The Wrap)
Actor Guy Pearce will join actress Kristen Stewart and actor Nicholas Hoult in the upcoming futuristic love story called Equals that is set in a future society where emotions have been eradicated and the new breed of humans is called Equals. They live peacefully; but when a disease begins activating in its victims, everything they thought they’d escaped, they are sent away and never seen again. When Silas (Hoult) is infected, he becomes an outcast, but he notices one person who seems to understand what he’s going through, Nia (Stewart), who is able to hide her emotions. The only way for them to ensure their survival is to escape. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)
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Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams from TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)
Question: Forget Emily, how will Victoria handle David’s return on Revenge? — Micah
Natalie: David won’t be Victoria’s first concern. That honor belongs to Emily, since she put Victoria in the psych ward. “[Victoria] takes stock in the horrible things that Emily has done and the chaos she has rained down on the Grayson family,” executive producer Aaron Harberts told my colleague Robyn Ross. “She’s going to be pissed and she’ll come out swinging. As Emily is trying to create a new, more positive life for herself… Victoria is going to be coming up behind her.” But David will eventually be caught in the middle of that battle. “He’s going to cause a lot of problems because he’s at a point where these two women’s lives intersect,” Harberts says.
Question: What’s coming up for Abbie and Jenny on Sleepy Hollow? — Harriet
Natalie: A sibling love triangle! Although executive producer Heather Kadin says the formerly estranged sisters will be on the “same side” more in Season 2, “there may be a male who might get in the middle of that,” she teases. But what brings the duo closer together? Mommy issues! “Abbie’s story this year really has to do with the relationship with her mother and a lot she didn’t know about as a child,” Kadin says. Even though their mom supposedly died years ago, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see her in the flesh this season. Hit the comments with your casting ideas!
Question: What can you tease about the new characters on Under the Dome this season? — Bekki
Natalie: Two of the new faces — science teacher Rebecca (Karla Crome) and Big Jim’s not-to-be trusted brother-in-law Sam (Eddie Cahill) — will create plenty of drama, particularly with Barbie and Julia. What kind of drama, exactly? Perhaps the kind that ends relationships. “Julia and Barbie face a very, very trying situation in Episode 3 that really puts their relationship to the test,” executive producer Neal Baer tells me. Then again, if the couple can survive Barbie killing Julia’s husband, what can’t they get through?
Question: I cannot wait for White Collar to come back! What can you say about the new season? — Thomas
Natalie: Although I can’t reveal exactly how Peter and the team will — spoiler alert! — find Neal after his abduction in the Season 5 finale, Neal will be back on the job by the second episode. But things won’t be completely back to normal. In fact, it will be Peter who has to run a con in order to get Neal out of a jam. Unfortunately, Peter’s acting talents will be further put to the test when he has to start a fight to create a diversion. Let’s hope he’s not just pretending he can throw a right hook!
Question: Got any Covert Affairs scoop? — Rachel
Natalie: Annie isn’t the only person who has history with Max Martini’s character, Nathan Mueller, a former operative who also went off the grid. Turns out, Auggie worked with him back in the day, and when Nate resurfaces, Auggie calls on another old contact to find out why Nate went rogue in the first place. The reason is the last thing he expects.
Question: Please tell me that Killian is alive on Witches of East End! — Kitra
Natalie: Killian’s fate will be revealed quickly in Season 2 — and where he ends up is not as important as who he ends up with. But the Beauchamp clan has more important issues to deal with, including the fact that they’ve yet to find a cure for Joanna, who is progressively getting worse after being poisoned by Penelope. Though whatever (or whoever!) came through that door from Asgard could be Joanna’s savior, Wendy believes it will be her undoing. Let the catfights begin!
Question: It’s been awhile since Hank had some romance in his life on Royal Pains. Any new love interests on the horizon? — Ramon
Natalie: Yep! Hank will romance a spa owner named Charlotte. And while they have smoking-hot chemistry in the bedroom, they can’t quite get their act together when they’re not between the sheets. Also getting a new love interest is Jeremiah, who’ll put aside his long-standing feelings for Divya when a new woman named Viviana catches his eye.
Question: What’s coming up on Teen Wolf this season? — Mitch
Natalie: When the show returns, the gang goes south of the border to find Derek. Little do they know, Derek is actually with Kate, whom Scott & Co. will be shocked to discover is still alive. But the real surprise waiting for the gang has nothing to do with Kate! Let’s just say Derek has changed in a very peculiar way.
Question: Anything on Castle? The hiatus is already too long. —Rachael
Ausiello: Viewers will witness the immediate fallout from Rick’s fiery car wreck, confirms series creator Andrew Marlowe. Translation: no time jump. (And thus more Beckett wedding dress, albeit possibly singed.) “We feel like, given the way we left off, we have an obligation to start exactly where we ended,” explains the EP. “So we’ll be picking up in real time.”
Question: Revenge Season 4 — hit me! —Jacob
Ausiello: I am not a violent person, Jacob, but I’m about to smack you upside the head with a doozy of a Revenge scoop: Emily’s getting a major new love interest this fall. Details are sparse, but I hear the recurring character will be sexy (duh), charming (double duh) and full of secrets (I made that last one up, but, um, triple duh). Jack/Emily ‘shippers shouldn’t throw in the towel though. Revenge exec producer Aaron Harberts hinted to Variety.com that the bond between the star-crossed lovers will likely intensify in the wake of David’s resurrection. “There’s really only one character on the show who knows the relationship between David Clarke and the girl who was Amanda Clarke, and that’s Jack Porter,” he said. “In a year of Emily asking herself, ‘Who is Amanda Clarke? How do I get back to that?’ Jack’s going to play such a huge component in that.” Harberts also revealed that Season 4 will represent a major shift for the drama. “So much of the show was built on the past, but with Conrad being taken down and with [flight] 197 being put to bed, what we’re most excited about is now the show can start living and breathing in the present.”
Question: Will Dana Tomas, Wu’s childhood crush and good friend, played by Tess Paras, return for Grimm’s fourth season? —Ole
Ausiello: There are no current plans for Dana to resurface, but I’d be shocked — shocked, I tell you — if we don’t see here at least once in Season 4.
Question: Loved the gut-wrenching season opener of Major Crimes. Any idea when we will meet Sykes’ date? –Marijke
Ausiello: “Eventually” seems to be the answer. The very pretty MCDetective “is dating someone,” show boss James Duff confirms, “but she doesn’t want the others to know who yet. No police officer ever wants that — if you only knew the truth about what goes on in a precinct, especially when flowers show up! — so you have to throw down the gauntlet. But yes, we will eventually have to reveal all of that.”
Question: Last Sunday’s Devious Maids flashback revealed that Opal pushed Nicholas’ first wife Dahlia off a bridge, then bought his silence by threatening to expose his role in a second killing. I want to know, though, if Opal was somehow involved in Death No. 2, or if this one’s all on her rich boss. –Liesel
Ausiello: File under “there’s a first time for everything”: Opal bears no guilt in whatever nasty secret Nicholas is hiding — although the latter character’s portrayer, Mark Deklin, reveals that wasn’t initially the writers’ vision. “For quite a long time while we were shooting, the idea was that [Opal] was a part of [the second murder],” Deklin tells TVLine. “But at some point, that changed… Opal wasn’t directly involved. It’s something Nick and Dahlia did — but, of course, you can’t keep anything from your maid.”
Question: Can I please have whatever you have on Teen Wolf? —Natalia
Ausiello: By now, you’ve probably heard a lot about Dylan Sprayberry’s Liam, one of the new lacrosse players in Season 4, but a crucial question still lingers: What is he? That, Natalia, will be answered in the season’s third episode — and it’s not even close to the hour’s wildest reveal. Prepare for a gasp-attack.
Question: I’ll take whatever you got on Suits. —Matt
Ausiello: The new season (premiering Wednesday) will finally shed light on the all-knowing Donna. Explains EP Aaron Korsh: “We [get] some backstory into Donna through some of the things she talks about with Louis. Then we have one pretty fun episode where we get to see what Donna’s doing outside the office. You get to hear her talk about her decision to become a legal secretary and some of her family dynamics growing up.”
Earlier this week the folks at FOX hosted a Girls Night Out at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization behind the Emmy Awards) in North Hollywood, featuring guest panelists that included:
Jane Lynch (Glee) Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) Mindy Kaling (The Mindy Project) Liz Meriwether (Executive Producer and Creator of New Girl) Heather Kadin (Executive Producer of Sleepy Hollow) Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons) Alex Borstein (Family Guy)
Moderated by Stacey Wilson from The Hollywood Reporter the event got underway with a video introduction from Cat Deeley, the host of So You Can Think You Can Dance, who was supposed to be part of the panel, but was unable to attend. The ladies were then introduced to the stage to rousing applause by the packed theatre with each panelist getting her chance in the spotlight.
Some of the highlights from the night included:
Jane Lynch
* Jane sharing that it is “shocking that (Glee) is coming to an end, but (we are going to make the end) uplifting”;
* When asked if there is something that Sue has not done yet that she would like to have her do, Jane responded that she will “let (the writers) present what Sue (does next) in their (own) warped imaginations”;
* Chelsea and co-star Andy Samberg actually went to grade school together in Oakland and crossing paths occasionally throughout their early days on the New York stand-up comic circuit;
Chelsea Peretti
* When asked how she balances acting with stand-up, Chelsea shared that “they (actually) complement each other”;
* Mindy, unlike many pundits, is actually proud of season 1 of The Mindy Project, in fact, she shared that “I stand behind that first season”;
* When asked what is her favorite part of the filming/writing experience on her show, Mindy shared that “I get to make out with a lot of good looking guys” so that’s a pretty great experience;
Mindy Kaling, Liz Meriwether and Heather Kadin
* Heather talked about her unusual Hollywood story, sharing that she knew no one in Hollywood when she arrived in the city, but she sent out letters to every production company she could and ended up working for Lynda Obst (the executive producer on the films Sleepless in Seattle and Contact) and then she segwayed into TV at ABC;
* In her down time, which is limited because of her work schedule on Sleepy Hollow and her busy home life with her two children, Heather enjoys watching “three episodes of Orange Is the New Black and drink a glass of wine”;
* Yeardley joked that her goal as a performer “was to rule the world” but that didn’t necessarily work out – or maybe it did because she got teased about her voice and now her voice is known the world over;
* She also shared that the folks behind The Simpsons were told in the beginning that their “cartoon” would not work because no animated series had succeeded since The Flintstones;
Yeardley Smith and Alex Borstein
* Alex shared that Seth McFarlane is “one of the most frustrating people to work with”, but he has “finely tuned eyes and ears” when it comes to dialogue and illustration; and,
* Alex has been with FOX for 17 years, dating back to 1998 when she was brought in to participate in a pilot presentation.
To say the least with that many funny ladies on the stage, the panel was filled with a lot of laughs and ended far too soon; but the audience certainly was treated to a great, entertaining night.
Last night’s programming was, once again, filled with plenty of repeats, reality and news, but there were two new episodes of drams on the major networks.
Here is how those two dramas fared in the overall ratings last night:
9 PM Show: The 100 (The CW) [Part 2 – Season Finale] – 1.7 million
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
5:50 PM: Batman Begins movie on Cinemax
6:20 PM: Ender’s Game movie on More Max
7:15 PM: Rise of the Guardians (animated) movie on HBO
8 PM: The Vampire Diaries on The CW (Reair) Being Mary Jane on BET (Reair) Castle on TNT Love Actually movie on Flix 13 Going on 30 movie on Oxygen You’ve Got Mail movie on TV Guide Network
8:15 PM: The Dark Knight Rises movie on Cinemax
9 PM: Gang Related on FOX (NEW) The Originals on The CW (Reair) Being Mary Jane on BET (Reair) Game of Thrones on HBO Signature (Reair) Castle on TNT Thor: The Dark World movie on Starz
10 PM: Game of Thrones on HBO (Reair) Being Mary Jane on BET (Reair) Castle on TNT 13 Going on 30 movie on Oxygen
The 2-part PBS Masterpiece Mystery The Escape Artist will air on June 15 at 9 PM, running 90 minutes.
David Tennant (Broadchurch and Doctor Who) stars as a defense lawyer with a perfect record of courtroom wins and a perfect family to go with it. Uuntil things go horribly wrong.
“If you’re chained up in a safe at the bottom of a shark tank,” quips a high-placed barrister (in Episode 1), “you call for Houdini.” He means his wizard of a colleague, Will Burton (Tennant), ranked as the top young criminal lawyer in the UK and destined for silk—the honor of Queen’s Counsel—as soon as he finds the time to apply for it.
Ranked as second-best barrister is Will’s perennial rival, Maggie Gardner (Sophia Okonedo from Hotel Rwanda), who finds herself out-argued once again, as she sees her latest prosecution case go down in flames to a stirring defense by Will. Lost amid their intellectual one-upmanship is an appreciation for the wrecked lives they are manipulating in their courtroom games. But all that is about to change.
Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty) stars as the Burton’s endearing wife and Toby Kebbell (Wrath of the Titans and the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot) as an accused murderer who is either a persecuted misfit or a dangerous psychopath.
The Lifetime Movie Network movie My Daughter Must Live will debut on June 15 at 8 PM.
Katie O’Malley (Madeleine Martin from Californication) is a promising dancer. When she has trouble keeping up with the rest of the dance troupe during rehearsals for an upcoming competition, her mother, Meghan (Joelle Carter from Justified) suspects she might be using drugs. When her father, Stu (Paul Popowich from Cracked), finds Katie unconscious in her room, she is rushed to the hospital. The doctors determine that Katie’s liver is not functioning and without a partial liver transplant, she will die. Meghan, Stu and all of their close relatives agree to be tested as potential donors but no one qualifies.
When Meghan questions how neither parent could be a match, she is told the blood tests reveal that Stu is not Katie’s biological father. Meghan pieces together the timeline of her pregnancy and realizes that the one night stand she had with her old boyfriend, Dan (Sergio Di Zio from Flashpoint), at a high school reunion when she was 22 (and engaged to Stu) means that Dan is Katie’s biological father. Meghan begins searching for him but he has disappeared. When she finally tracks Dan down, she discovers that he has moved away and changed his name. He agrees to be tested but when he turns up a match, he refuses to become a donor.
Trying to figure out what to watch tonight? Be it new episodes of the TV season, reairs of cable series or a movie, here are some suggestions:
7 PM: Men in Black movie on VH1
8 PM: Arrow on The CW (Reair) Scandal on BET Castle on TNT Romancing the Stone movie on Encore How to Train Your Dragon (animated) movie on FX
9 PM: The 100 on The CW (NEW – Part 2 of 2 Season Finale) Suits on USA Network (Season Premiere) Game of Thrones on HBO Signature (Reair) Scandal on BET Castle on TNT
9:02 PM: Chasing Life on ABC Family (Reair of DEBUT)
10 PM: Motive on ABC (NEW) Rogue on DirecTV (NEW) Graceland on USA Network (Season Premiere) Strike Back on More Max (Reair) Scandal on BET Castle on TNT How to Train Your Dragon (animated) movie on FX
Actor Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight) will recur on Suits during its fourth season, which will get under way started tomorrow (June 11). He will play Charles Forstman, a titan of finance with a net worth in the billions and an outsized personality to match. (The Futon Critic)
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DEVELOPMENT NEWS
Spike TV has added another series to its development pile in the form of The Chairman that will be executive produced by actor Julian McMahon, who will also be its star should it go to series. The project is based on the Stephen Frey novel, telling the story of Christian Gillette, a charismatic Gulf War veteran who takes over a billion-dollar private equity fund after its founder’s mysterious death. As his new powers open secret doors, he realizes that the world of apparently gentrified Manhattan finance is closely tied to the brutal realm of war that still haunts him and that some of its most dangerous players are now his inherited enemies. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)
ONLINE SERIES NEWS
Actor Vincent D’Onofrio (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) will star as Kingpin in the Netflix adaptation of the Marvel comic book world of Daredevil. Kingpin, aka Wilson Fisk is a powerful businessman whose interests in the future of Hell’s Kitchen will bring him into conflict with the blind attorney Matt Murdock (actor Charlie Cox from Boardwalk Empire) and his alter ego Daredevil. The series is scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime in 2015. (Marvel Studios)
Q&A SECTION (with Tierney Bricker at E! Online)
Question: Please let us know about all things Stydia (that would be Stiles and Lydia on Teen Wolf)!! – amykinz13
Tierney: In Teen Wolf’s season four premiere on June 23, fans can expect to see Stiles and Lydia hit the club along with Scott, Malia and Kira. Oh, and you can expect to see two of the five people listed above engage in some seriously dirty dancing. Also? The last scene is maybe one of the series’ most shocking cliffhangers. Ever.
Question: Orphan Black is my everything right now. What can we expect from the finale?! – Laura
Tierney: Seat belts on, Clone Club! “It’s going to be quite a ride,” boss Graeme Manson teased, while his co-genius showrunner John Fawcett added, “It is jam-packed and it’s a thrill ride.” But will it end on a massive cliffhanger a la season one’s final moment? “It’s a little different, but hell yeah,” Manson assured. And yes, we can expect to see Paul factor into the final two episodes with Manson previewing, “Paul may be gone, but he is not forgotten, and he’s important.”
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