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TELEVISION

There are a number of guest stars showing up on Suits when the series returns to the USA Network for its second season next month. First, actor Scott Grimes (ER and Party of Five) will appear as Tommy Walsh, an entrepreneur with a penchant for making high-stakes gambles and succeeding, forcing Harvey to raise his game. Actor Matthew Glave (Army Wives) will appear as slick, no-nonsense attorney Alex Shelton, who puts Harvey on the defensive. And, actor Peter Outerbridge (Nikita) will play Keith Hoyt, Harvey’s good friend who lands in some trouble in Atlantic City. With Keith’s future on the line, Harvey makes a dangerous play that could either be Keith’s salvation or his ultimate demise. Suits is back with new episodes starting on June 14. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Sarah Wynter (24) will have a recurring role on the next season of Californication, playing the wife of rock star Atticus Fetch, who is being described as a combination of Bowie, Bono and Lennon rolled up into one. Fetch has been drafted to write the music for the Broadway musical A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which is based on the hit romantic comedy of the same name adapted from Hank Moody’s (David Duchovny) breakthrough novel. Wynter is set to appear in at least six episodes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Well-known actors Ronny Cox and Fred Ward will both be guest starring on an upcoming episode of Leverage when it returns for new episodes on TNT starting on July 15. There are no details on what parts the actors will be playing, though. (Matt Mitovich and Megan Masters at TV Line)

Syfy has cancelled Sanctuary. The show started out as a web series and aired on the network for four seasons. (SciFiPulse)

CONDOLENCES

Legendary Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb passed away over the weekend. He was 62. (E! Online)

ME: Rest in Peace, Mr. Gibb. Deepest condolences to his family, friends and fans!

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

FX is development a drama project from actor Tim Roth and Homeland co-executive producer Alexander Cary. The as-yet-untitled project, which would star Roth is being described as a drama about addiction, bank robbery, and an extremely volatile family dynamic. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

AWARD WINNERS

Congrats to the winners at last night’s Billboard Music Awards, including Adele, U2, Lady Antebellum, Coldplay and Foster the People [among others]. (E! Online)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Naveen Andrews (Lost) is set for the male lead in the upcoming feature called Diana where he will play Dr. Hasnat Khan, the heart surgeon who had a brief relationship with Princess Diana before her death in 1997. Actress Naomi Watts will play Diana. (The Guardian and Dark Horizons)

Actors Scott Speedman and Bill Pullman and actress Ali Larter are set to star in the film adaptation of the Barry Malzberg sci-fi novel called Beyond Apollo that deals with the first two-man mission to Venus that is aborted mid-flight and abruptly returns back to Earth. When rescue crews retrieve the space capsule, they discover The Captain is missing and the lone surviving astronaut has no clue as to what took place. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actress Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are set to star in a currently untitled buddy cop movie that will be about the tense working relationship between a high-strung FBI agent (Bullock) and an unconventional Boston cop (McCarthy) as they team to take down a Russian gangster. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Colin Firth will star as actor, director, playwright and singer Noel Coward in a new comedy drama called Mad Dogs and Englishmen. The story follows Noel’s two weeks at The Desert Inn in Las Vegas in 1955, when he performed for huge crowds. (Associated Press and Dark Horizons)

Here are the top 10 box office films for this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations:

1. The Avengers, $55.1 million
2. Battleship, $25.4 million
3. The Dictator, $17.4 million
4. Dark Shadows, $12.8 million
5. What to Expect When You’re Expecting, $10.5 million
6. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, $3.3 million
7. The Hunger Games, $3 million
8. Think Like a Man, $2.7 million
9. The Lucky One, $1.8 million
10. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, $1.5 million

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Actor Dorian Missick (Southland and The Cape) will join the cast of Haven when it returns this September. He will appear in the recurring role of Tommy Bowen, a street smart, big city detective who comes to Haven investigating a suspected serial killer case. A shrewd, calculating policeman, he’s also a fish out of water, completely mismatched with this small town. (Showcase)

A&E cancelled the police drama Breakout Kings. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Harold Perrineau (Lost) will have a critical recurring role on Sons of Anarchy, playing Damon Pope, the ex-drug kingpin whose daughter was murdered by Tig in the Season 4 finale. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Morgan Freeman will join Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro in the comedy film Last Vegas that is about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single. Freeman is set to play Archie Clay, an army veteran, who looks to escape the watchful eyes of his son and daughter-in-law and accompany his best friends on a trip to Vegas. (Deadline)

Actress Juno Temple has joined the cast of the live-action film Maleficent, a revisionist retelling of Sleeping Beauty starring Angelina Jolie as the title character. Temple will play one of three pixie fairies who are tasked with taking care of Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning) in the cottage in the woods. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

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TELEVISION

Actor Noah Bean has been promoted to series regular on Nikita; that means now that the show has been renewed, Ryan Fletcher will be a regular member of Team Nikita. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

CONDOLENCES

The Queen of Disco, Donna Summer, passed away this morning at the age of 63 after a battle with cancer. (TMZ and Twitter)

ME: Rest in Peace, Ms. Summer. Deepest condolences to her family, friends and fans.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE…

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) will play silent actress and key film industry pioneer Mary Pickford in the as-yet untitled upcoming movie based on the Eileen Whitfield biography about the film legend. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actresses Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates will star in the English-language 3D project called The Young and Prodigious Spivet, which is based on the Rief Larsen novel. The story follows a 12-year-old boy (Kyle Catlett) with extraordinary skills who leaves his family in Montana and takes off on a cross-country adventure to the Smithsonian Museum to receive a prize. Callum Keith Rennie (The Killing and The Firm) has already been cast as the boy’s father. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

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BBC One is moving ahead with an eight-episode series loosely based on the Emile Zola novel Au Bonheur Des Dames. The series will be called The Ladies’ Paradise and will be set in England’s first department store. It will follow the rags-to-riches story of Denise Lovett, a young girl who works in the store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Jesse Plemons (Friday Night Lights) has landed a major recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Breaking Bad. He will play Todd, a dependable, innocuous, working-class guy, but his character may not be what he appears to be. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actors Sam Claflin, Matthew Goode and Tom Wilkinson as well as actresses Miranda Richardson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sarah Gadon and Emily Watson have all joined the cast of the upcoming film Belle, a biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle. Dido (Mbatha-Raw) was the half-black illegitimate daughter of renowned Admiral Sir John Lindsay, who was eventually taken in and raised as an aristocratic lady in 18th Century England by Lindsay’s uncle William Murray, the Earl of Mansfield. Gadon and Claflin will play Belle’s cousin and love interest respectively, but no other cast details are known. (Screen Daily and Dark Horizons)

Actress Keira Knightley will replace Scarlett Johansson in the upcoming film Can A Song Save Your Life?, where she will play a singer who moves to New York with her boyfriend only to be dumped by him and subsequently discovered by a producer. Hailee Steinfeld also stars. (Screen Daily and Dark Horizons)

Actor Dominic Cooper (Mamma Mia!) will star opposite Pierce Brosnan in the long-gestating dream project called November Man. The film is an espionage action-thriller based on the Bill Granger novel There are No Spies. Brosnan would play an ex-CIA operative who finds himself pitted against his former pupil (Cooper) in a deadly game involving high-level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actress Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan and The Hunger Games) will play the lead role in the remake of the remake of the 70’s horror classic Suspiria, which follows a young girl who travels to Europe to attend a world-renowned school, only to learn that the academy is a front for a coven of witches. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor James Badge Dale (24 and Rubicon) has joined the cast of Iron Man 3. He will play a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army put in charge of Project: Ultra. After stepping on a land mine, cybernetic surgery is performed on him and he’s resurrected as the cyborg Coldblood. (Variety and Coming Soon)

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Actor Richard Burgi (Desperate Housewives and One Tree Hill) will appear as a villain in an upcoming episode of Burn Notice as Morris, a duplicitous, backstabbing loan shark with a vile temper who’s looking to move up the criminal ladder. Burn Notice will be back with its new season starting on June 14 at 9 PM on the USA Network. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

Actress Lorraine Toussaint (Saving Grace) will guest star on a July episode of Drop Dead Diva, as law professor, Gretchen Daily, who invites her former student, Jane, and Grayson (Jackson Hurst) to deliver a lecture to one of her classes at Stanford Law School. The attorneys decide to help one of the students with a complicated case against a Silicon Valley company. But, the pupils will have to take on their mentor when the company hires the best attorney they can find: Gretchen Daily. Drop Dead Diva will be back with a new season on Lifetime on June 3. (Jethro Nededog at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

ABC is also pursuing its long-gestating plans for a Hulk TV series (seems the Hulk’s popularity is bigger than ever because of the success of the box office film The Avengers. And, while the “Hulk” series didn’t come together in time for the 2012-13 season, it could be a possibility for the season after that. (Tim Molloy at The Wrap)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Amaury Nolasco (Prison Break) and Megalyn Echikunwoke (House of Lies and The 4400) have joined the supporting cast of the upcoming film A Good Day to Die Hard that will star Bruce Willis and Jai Courtney as John McClane and his estranged son Jack (respectively) who take on Russian villains. Nolasco will play Willis’ friend early in the film while Echikunwoke’s role is unknown at this time. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Channing Tatum (Dear John) will appear in the upcoming action thriller called White House Down. He will play a Secret Service agent and single dad who must save the president when his official residence is taken over by paramilitary group. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actor Alan Rickman has landed the lead role as famed New York nightclub owner Hilly Kristal in the upcoming film called CBGB that will tell the real-life story of how Kristal’s CBGB club impacted the underground music scene and made famous such talents as Talking Heads, the Ramones and Blondie. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Mark Deklin (GCB) has joined the cast of the 3D/CGI motion-capture film Tarzan in which he will play Tarzan’s father, who is exploring the site of a mysterious ancient meteorite and is on the brink of a discovery when he dies alongside his wife (Jaime Ray Newman). Kellan Lutz and Spencer Locke will play Tarzan and Jane respectively. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

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Actress Maggie Grace (Lost) has landed a major arc on Californication, playing Faith, an innocent Catholic school girl who’s been exposed to the evils of rock and roll. As a music groupie, she’s been on the road for years, acting as a muse to elite artists and falling heads over heels in love with them. Despite her fondness for sex, drugs and rock and roll, not to mention, a friendship-turned-more with Hank Moody, Faith remains religious. The network is considering a possible spin-off based on this new character. Californication is back in 2013. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

NBC has given a direct-to-series order to a new drama called Crossbone, which is an adaptation of the Colin Woodard novel The Republic of Pirates that is set in the 1700s during the Golden Age of Piracy and revolve around legendary pirate Blackbeard. NBC has ordered 10 episodes of the series. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Late last week and over the weekend the major networks revealed the shows that are being renewed and cancelled as well as the new pilots that are being picked up to series. Here is how much of those announcements broke down:

NBC: Cancelled Harry’s Law and renewed 30 Rock.

The CW: Renewed Nikita, Hart of Dixie and Gossip Girl while they picked up five new series, including The Carrie Diaries, Arrow, Cult, First Cut, and Beauty and the Beast. They cancelled Ringer and The Secret Circle, though.

ABC: Renewed Scandal, Body of Proof and Private Practice and picked up three new pilots Red Widow (formerly known as Penoza), Nashville and Zero Hour. They cancelled GCB, Pan Am, Missing, and The River though.

CBS: Renewed CSI: NY, but cancelled NYC 22, Unforgettable, A Gifted Man and veteran CSI: Miami. The new pilots that were picked up include Elementary, Vegas (formerly known as the Ralph Lamb pilot), Made In Jersey (formerly known as Baby Big Shot) and Golden Boy.

NOTE: Full details on renewals, cancellations and pilot pick-ups can be found in the separate posts I will be making throughout this week in conjunction with the network’s upfront presentations.

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies from this past weekend courtesy of Exhibitor Relations:

1. The Avengers, $103.2 million
2. Dark Shadows, $28.8 million
3. Think Like a Man, $6.3 million
4. The Hunger Games, $4.4 million
5. The Lucky One, $4.1 million
6. The Pirates! Band of Misfits, $3.2 million
7. The Five-Year Engagement, $3.1 million
8. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, $2.7 million
9. Chimpanzee, $1.6 million
10. Girl in Progress, $1.4 million

Actor Taylor Lautner will play Cam, a bike messenger who gets in hot water with the mob in the upcoming film called Tracers. The film is set in the world of parkour, the physical discipline that centers on moving efficiently around obstacles, be it by jumping, climbing or running. (Brent Lang at The Wrap)

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TELEVISION

ABC has renewed Grey’s Anatomy, Castle, Once Upon a Time and Revenge. (The Wrap)

Cougar Town will indeed be going over to TBS for its fourth season. (E! Online)

CBS has made it official: A Gifted Man will not be back for another season (Variety)

Parenthood has been picked up for another season by NBC. (The Wrap)

Actor Johann Urb (Eastwick and Resident Evil: Retribution) has been cast in a major recurring arc Californication. He will play Robbie Mac, an openly gay movie star who is picked up for representation by Charlie (Evan Handler). (Deadline)

Actress Jorja Fox will remain with CSI for its upcoming season. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Ian Gomez (Cougar Town) will make a guest appearance on Drop Dead Diva this summer, playing Warren Patton, a wheelchair-using con man who is suing Harrison & Parker’s newest client after being hit in a crosswalk by the defendant’s gourmet food truck. Being a bit of a legal eagle-slash-lizard, Warren argues his own the case and in doing so proves to be both crafty and manipulative. Drop Dead Diva will be back on Lifetime with an all new episodes starting on June 3. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Awake has been canceled by NBC. (The Hollywood Reporter)

FALL PICK-UP ORDERS

NBC has given the pilot Do No Harm, which stars Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me) a series order for fall. The series revolves around a brilliant neurosurgeon who wrestles with his dangerous alter-ego that threatens to wreak havoc with his personal and professional life. (The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter)

NBC also picked up the drama Infamous (formerly known as Notorious) for the fall. This series will follow a female detective who returns undercover to the wealthy family she grew up in — as the maid’s daughter — to solve the murder of a notorious heiress who was once her closest friend. (The Wrap and The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined the cast of the upcoming film RED 2, the sequel to the hit action comedy about a group of contract killers drawn back into action after they’ve retired. She will join returning cast members Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren and Mary-Louise Parker. There are no details, though, on the part she will play. (The Hollywood Reporter)

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TELEVISION

Actress Thandie Newton (Mission Impossible 2 and Crash) will star in the first original scripted drama from DirecTV. The 10-episode series revolves around a morally and emotionally conflicted cop, Grace (Newton), who is tormented by the possibility that her own actions contributed to her son’s death. Her search for the truth is further complicated by her forbidden relationship with the crime boss who may have played a hand in the crime. (The Futon Critic)

Fox has canceled the comedies I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Breaking In and canceled the dramas Alcatraz and The Finder while giving a second season nod to Touch. (Deadline, E! Online and TV Guide)

Actress Parminder Nagra (ER and Alcatraz) will join the cast of the USA dramedy Psych next season as major new love interest for Gus (Dule Hill). She will appear in multiple episodes as Rachel, a beautiful and charming woman who Gus falls for. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Treat Williams (Everwood and Against the Wall) will join the cast of White Collar on a recurring basis, playing Sam, a gruff and elusive undercover officer from D.C. who has some deeply rooted ties to Neal’s past (speculation is he perhaps be Neal’s dad?) White Collar returns to the USA Network on July 10. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

FALL PICK-UP NEWS

FOX has given series orders to the Kevin Williamson pilot now called The Following, that stars Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy, in a story about a serial-killer and the agent who is brought in to track him down. The network also picked up The Mob Doctor, a drama that will star Jordano Spiro (My Boys) and Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) is a story about surgeon who is forced to moonlight as a mob doctor. (Deadline, The Futon Critic and E! Online)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) has joined the cast of the upcoming film The Wolf Of Wall Street, which is an adaptation of the Jordan Belfort memoir, that is set to star Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill. DiCaprio is set to play Belfort, who experiences a dramatic rise on Wall Street and gets lost in the hard partying lifestyle that comes with that scene. He then fell from grace, spending 22 months in jail before straightening out his life. Chandler will play FBI agent Coleman, who built the case against Belfort and took him down. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

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TELEVISION

NBC has renewed Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for a 14th season. It will be back this fall. (The Hollywood Reporter)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

The cast has been revealed for the groundbreaking digital event about the growing threat of cybercrime, identity theft and vulnerabilities in our highly connected lives called Cybergeddon, from Anthony E. Zuiker, the creator of the CSI franchise. Cybergeddon will be released exclusively on Yahoo! and will star actor Olivier Martinez (Unfaithful) as the elusive cybercriminal Gustove Dobreff, and actress Missy Peregrym (Rookie Blue and Reaper) as FBI agent Chloe Jocelyn. Additionally, Manny Montana (Breakout Kings) and Kick Gurry (Speed Racer) will play FBI Agent Frank Parker and former cybercriminal turned good-guy Chase ‘Rabbit’ Rosen respectively. The story of Cybergeddon follows agent Chloe Jocelyn as she investigates a slew of seemingly unrelated cyber-attacks with fellow agent Frank Parker and incarcerated master hacker Chase ‘Rabbit’ Rosen. Chloe and her team must crack the worldwide cybercrime ring led by Gustove Dobreff before it is too late. In a world where everyone is connected, everyone is at risk. Cybergeddon will premiere globally on Yahoo! in September 2012 as a series of sequential installments. (The Futon Critic)

FALL PICK-UP NEWS

NBC has ordered the pilot of Chicago Fire to series for the fall. The hour-long series is set in a Chicago fire station and will explore the complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department. Among the cast are Taylor Kinney (The Vampire Diaries) and Jesse Spencer (House). (The Hollywood Reporter)

CONDOLENCES

Renowned hair stylist Vidal Sassoon passed away this morning, of natural causes. He was 84. (The LA Times)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Jessica Chastain (The Help) is out and Rebecca Hall (The Town). Looks like Hall is in talks to play the new sexy scientist in the planned Iron Man 3 film. The flick isn’t set to hit theaters until May 3, 2013, though. (Brandi Fowler at E! Online)

Actress Susan Sarandon and her daughter Eva Amurri Martino have joined the cast of the independent film called Mother’s Day that will follow 12 sets of Mothers and daughters over the course of a single Mother’s Day. (Deadline)

Actor Cole Hauser (Pitch Black and K-Ville) has scored the cast of the upcoming film A Good Day to Die Hard. He will play the pivotal supporting role of a villain named Collins who tangles with John McClaine (Bruce Willis) and his son (Jai Courtney). (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Legendary actress Shirley MacLaine is in negotiations to join the cast of the fairytale film Mother Goose where she would play the title character, the queen of a magical kingdom in which siblings Jack and Jill try to figure out three riddles that will allow them to return home. (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones and Missing) is set to star in the film adaptation of the book Devil’s Peak by Deon Meyer in what is planned to be a trilogy of films based on Meyer’s novel series. Bean will portray Detective Benny Griessel, an aging alcoholic inspector tasked with stopping a dangerous vigilante who brutally killed a child abuser and is standing up for the children of Cape Town. Both Griessel and this avenger find their paths crossing when a young prostitute lures them both into a dangerous scheme. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor Logan Marshall Green (soon to be seen in Prometheus) will play Tennessee Williams in the upcoming feature film called Lonely Hunter, which is based on the life of Southern gothic novelist Carson McCullers (to be played by Jena Malone). Williams was the best friend and longtime confidante of McCullers. (Deadline)

Actress Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger) is set to appear in the sequel (of sorts) to the box office film 10 Things I Hate About You (that was a loose contemporary adaptation of the Shakespearean story of The Taming of the Shrew). It is said this pseudo-sequel will be about two relatable, ordinary people with normal jobs and normal desires whose seemingly great lives have become unmanageable. (Variety and First Showing)

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Actor Dylan Baker (The Good Wife) has joined the cast of the six-episode USA Network drama Political Animals that centers on Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver), a divorced former first lady and current Secretary of State, who is struggling to keep her family together while simultaneously dealing with the crises of the State Department. Baker will recur as Vice President Fred Collier, supporting President Paul Garcetti (Adrian Pasdar). The series will debut on July 15 at 10 PM. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Matthew Lillard (Scream and Scooby Doo franchise) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Leverage where he will play Gabe Erickson, a corrupt businessman who has successfully evaded jail until Nate and Co. find him. Leverage will be back with its new season starting on July 15 on TNT. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

TELEVISION PICK UP NEWS

NBC has given a series order for the J.J. Abrams/Eric Kripke drama called Revolution (the title may change to Blackout, but that has not been confirmed yet) that will star David Lyons (The Cape), Billy Burke (Twilight) and Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad and Once Upon a Time) [among others] is story set in a world where all energy sources have mysteriously disappeared. (Jenna Mullins at E! Online)

TNT has given the green light to the new drama called Monday Mornings (formerly known as Chelsea General) from David E. Kelley that will be set at the fictional Chelsea General Hospital in Portland. The 10-episode first season will follow the lives of doctors as they push the limits of their abilities and confront their personal and professional failings. The cast includes Ving Rhames (Mission Impossible), Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica), Jennifer Finnigan (Better With You), Bill Irwin (CSI), Keong Sim (Glee), Sarayu Rao (Lions for Lambs), and Emily Swallow (Southland). The series is set to premiere in summer 2013. (TV By the Numbers)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Singer-Actor Andre 3000 (aka Andre Benjamin) is developing and is set to star in a feature biopic about rock star Jimi Hendrix. The project is titled All Is By My Side and will focus on Hendrix’s period in England over 1966 and 1967 when he worked on his debut album. (IFC and First Showing)

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