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Hey All,

Happy Over the Hump Day! I sure hope everyone is having a good week. While today’s news is rather short there were still some interesting items to share with all of you):

TELEVISION

Actor Ethan Peck (the TV series 10 Things I Hate About You) is set to appear on Gossip Girl later this season. He will play a director’s assistant, but no other specific details are available at this time. (Tierney Bricker at Zap2It)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Brenda Strong (the voice of Mary Alice Young on Desperate Housewives) will play Ann Ewing, the latest wife of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) in the TNT drama pilot/remake Dallas. In this version actors Jesse Metcalfe (Chase) plays all-grown-up Christopher Ewing (Bobby’s son), while J.R.’s conniving spawn, John Ross, will be played by Josh Henderson (Over There). Larry Hagman will reprise his iconic role as J.R. Ewing. (William Keck at TV Guide)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actresses Catherine Zeta-Jones and Judy Greer have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Playing the Field that stars actor Gerard Butler as a former pro soccer player who finds himself dodging romantic advances from soccer moms after he agrees to coach his son’s youth team in an attempt to bond with the boy. Zeta-Jones will play a hot newscaster, while Greer takes on the role of a lathered-up housewife. The cast also includes Dennis Quaid as a rival soccer coach, Jessica Biel as Butler’s ex-wife, and Uma Thurman as one of the mom’s after Butler. (24 Frames and Dark Horizons)

Actress Meg Ryan will make her feature directorial debut with the film Into the Beautiful, which is described as a contemporary version of The Big Chill, following longtime friends who reconnect after years apart. (Variety and First Showing)

Actor Malcolm McDowell and actress Carrie-Anne Moss have joined the cast of the horror flick Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, which stars Adelaide Clemens (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and Kit Harrington (Game of Thrones). McDowell will play Leonard Wolf while Moss will play Claudia Wolf. The film is about a teenager (Clemens) on the run from dangerous forces that she doesn’t fully understand. Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean and Deborah Kara Unger also star. (Joshua Weinstein at The Wrap)

Q&A SECTION (with Adam Bryant and Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Question: I’m dying for Burn Notice to come back. Scoop me! — Jared

ADAM: I’m hearing the new season will feature a new recurring character, a female operative sent by the CIA to investigate the murder of one of its own. Although Michael is willing to help her, it quickly becomes apparent that Michael may have been responsible for the operative in question’s death.

Question: Any scoop on my favorite show, Rizzoli & Isles? — Aaron

NATALIE: While the ladies try to track down a Navy sailor during Boston’s “Fleet Week” who is accused of rape, Maura and Jane will be the object of an auto shop owner’s affection. Once Giovanni realizes Jane doesn’t dig him, he’ll switch his attention to the interested Maura. The ace up his sleeve to seal the deal? He’s holding out on fixing Jane’s mom’s car until Maura sleeps with him. Classy!

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Happy Tuesday, Everyone!! Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Brad Dourif (Deadwood) will appear in the season finale of Fringe on May 6, playing a mysterious character named Moreau. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

If you’d like to read more about some newly announced guest stars and some spoilers for Drop Dead Diva, please visit here.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

A new hour-long drama is being considered by ABC Family based on the childhood of country singer and recent Academy of Country Music winner Miranda Lambert whose father – Richard Lee “Rick” Lambert – is a retired police officer who became a private investigator in partnership with her mother, Beverly “Bev” June Lambert. The project is being described as Hart to Hart with a family, centering on a Texas family where the kids help their PI parents in solving cases. (Deadline)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

The HBO made-for-TV movie Too Big to Fail, starring William Hurt, Paul Giamatti and Matthew Modine, based on the bestselling book by Andrew Ross Sorkin, will premiere on Monday, May 23 at 9 PM. The movie centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (Hurt) and examines the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington. The cast includes Edward Asner, Billy Crudup, Topher Grace, Cynthia Nixon, Michael O’Keefe, Bill Pullman, Tony Shalhoub and James Woods. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class and Jane Eyre) is set for a lead role in the upcoming film called Good Vibrations, which tells the true story of Terri Hooley, a man who many people call a punk rock impresario. (First Showing, The Playlist and Cineuropa)

Actress Mae Whitman (Parenthood and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is in final negotiations to join the independent coming-of-age film called The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which is based on the 1999 coming-of-age novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows the trials and tribulations of a 15-year-old shy and unpopular high school student (Logan Lerman) who writes a series of letters to a mysterious pen pal. Whitman will play Mary Elizabeth, a tattooed vegetarian who becomes his first girlfriend. Actress Emma Watson (the Harry Potter franchise) has the lead role in this film. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

ANIMATED FILM NEWS

Actress Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) will be voicing a role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars but very little is being released about which character she will play except that it is “a memorable character”. (Blastr)

SPOILER ROOM (with Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly)

WARNING: Please tread carefully if you don’t want to be spoiled on Being Human, Supernatural and Chuck!!

BIG CHANGES COMING TO ‘BEING HUMAN’

Holy cow, Humans! Last night’s penultimate episode of Being Human on Syfy not only included a few nail-biting cliffhangers (Please don’t die, Aidan!), but it also left us on a great note going into the season 1 finale. Lucky for you, Sam Witwer spilled many a secrets about next week’s wicked finale to help ease the pain of the wait. “There are actually a few cliffhangers, and there are a few provocative questions, primarily with Josh and Aidan,” Witwer says. And some of those new questions are likely to be raised in the flashback scene to two years ago that “explains something that Josh did earlier this season,” Witwer teases. “There’s a vengeful move that Josh does at the urging of [Josh’s jerk were-buddy] Ray. We learn a little bit more about why he did that. And we’re also catching Aidan right as he’s about to pull away from the vampires; he’s already starting to feel quite alone and isolated. So that, more than anything, allows him to identify Josh as someone else who has the same problem.” But aside from exploring Aidan and Josh’s first encounter, the episode will also play a key part in defining what the trio’s friendship has become since their first meeting earlier this season — and what might change. “By the end of the season, the question of are they better together or better apart is answered — or begins to get answered. We have a lot of moments that are designed to remind us — sometimes literally and sometimes in a metaphoric way — how far these characters have come with each other,” Witwer says. But just don’t get too comfortable with the direction — or line-up, for that matter — that you see now. Because Witwer warns that come next week, not all will be as it is now. “Some of the things we end with demand the show has to change to keep up with them.”

‘SUPERNATURAL’: A TITANIC-SIZED TWIST

Has the wait been long enough for you? Well, lucky for you, the first new episode of Supernatural in six weeks is all you’ve been waiting for — a little mythology, a lot of one-liners, and a heck of a twist. In the April 15 episode, titled “My Heart Will Go On,” Sam and Dean find themselves in an altered reality where everything — from the not-Impala they drive (horror!) to the career of Celine Dion — is different as a result of the Titanic not sinking. But once Supernatural fans get a glimpse of how the ship’s safe arrival to the U.S. affects the world, you might find yourself wishing, like Balthazar (who’s behind the altered world), that the ship never sank. Particularly when you see the circumstances under which Ellen (Samantha Ferris) returns to the fold. If you, like me, bawled like a baby when she and Jo (Alona Tal) were killed off last season, you might shed more than a tear during this episode. Also great? Many bromantic moments between Dean, Sam, and the “dirty-trenchcoat-wearing angel who’s in love” with them. Not my words.

MORE AWESOME ACTION FOR CAPT. AWESOME ON ‘CHUCK’

The spy world is a dangerous place, and after Awesome and Ellie welcomed baby Clara this season, I got a flood of emails asking if this was the end of the new parents’ spy adventures. Well, for the most part it was — at least in regards to this season, when they resided primarily in Babyville. But things are about to change… “It was really tricky because the first time Awesome got into the spy world, it was a little self-centered to be honest. You know, married life does have its lulls. He wanted to spice things up a little bit and get that adrenaline rush,” Ryan McPartlin says. “If he did that now with a baby, it would be really selfish. So [the writers] had to be really careful bringing us into the spy world and making it out of necessity rather than desire.” Fans can assume that “necessity” has something to do with Pa Bartowski’s laptop of secrets, which Ellie has found herself engrossed with since she got her hands on it. But McPartlin eased any fears a bit, saying that the audience will be “relieved and happy to see what comes of it.” But not before Awesome and Ellie get to have a little fun. “I think the audience still likes to relate to people who are thrown in there, who have no business being there. Otherwise, you just have Alias. Where does it go? Whereas when we get in there, everything is haphazard,” he says, laughing.

Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly)

Question: I’d love some Drop Dead Diva! — Margo

SANDRA: Then you’ll love this. Sharon Lawrence and Faith Prince will be reprising their roles as Deb and Jane’s mom, respectively, in episode 7 of next season, titled “Mothers’ Day.” But prepare to see them like we’ve never seen them before: singing “Lean On Me” with Brooke Elliott! “Jane’s got to help both moms with [separate] legal issues, and they’re fighting over her attention. She’s being torn between both mothers,” creator Josh Berman tells EW exclusively. “Then on top of that, we learn something new about her relationship with Grayson in this episode. It’s a juicy episode.” Juicy, indeed!

Question: I need some Warehouse 13 info — is Myka coming back? I hate waiting a whole year for a summer show to return. — Nathan C.

SANDRA: Waits are painful but usually worth it — and I hear yours might be, too. Though the powers that be are still quite mum on a return for Myka and would not confirm her appearance in the first episode of the third season (as listed on IMDB), a “you’ll see” is always better than a “no.” Right?

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Wow, what an interesting couple of days I have had. As I mentioned late last week, I left for San Francisco early Friday morning (yes, I traveled on April Fool’s Day, but no pranks were pulled by the airlines) to attend Wonder Con; the 3-day mini-Comic-Con-like event that happens annually in that city. I took part in a lot of panels, did some behind the scenes interviews in the press room and got to visit with some friends for whom I haven’t seen in a while. All in all it was a good 3 days, but I have so much to catch up not only in my personal life but also in my professional one.

One of those “things” is my daily update for Friday and for today, which, of course, are combined below for your enjoyment. But before I get into all of the news, please know that I will be working on some fun items for the site to fill you in on the excitement of Wonder Con and I hope you will also stop by NiceGirlsTV for more coverage from the con.

Now, let’s get into the news, shall we?

TELEVISION

Congratulations to the winners of the 46th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, including Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Sugarland, Lady Antebellum, Zac Brown Band, Reba McEntire, The Band Perry, Garth Brooks and Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers. (TV Guide)

Legendary actor Malcolm McDowell will appear in the season premiere of Psych as Ambassador Fanshaw, a witty British diplomat temporarily residing in Santa Barbara. When a murdered woman turns up in his house, Fanshaw hires Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill) to help him psychically find her killer. Psych will be back with its 6th season sometime this summer. (E! Entertainment Online)

Mark your calendars! True Blood will be back on HBO with 12 all new episodes (the show’s fourth season) starting on June 26 at 9 PM. (The Futon Critic)

Actors Adrian Pasdar and Milo Ventimiglia (both from Heroes) are set to voice Iron Man and Wolverine respectively in two new animated series based on the Marvel superheroes that will air on G4 next year. (Dark Horizons)

The role of Diana’s girlfriend on White Collar has been cast. Actress Moran Atias (from Starz’s series Crash, which was based on the box office film) will play Christie, Diana’s (Marsha Thomason) oft-referred-to-but-never-seen onscreen sweetheart who is a cardiologist who brings out Diana’s lighter side with her sweet smile and scalpel-edged wit. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

MADE FOR TV MOVIES NEWS

Legendary actor Burt Reynolds will co-star with LeAnn Rimes in the CMT made-for-TV movie called Reel Love, one of the first two films to come out of the newly created CMT Original Movies division, which will produce TV movies with a focus on romantic comedies and music-based films. Reel Love stars Rimes as Holly, a successful big-city girl who returns to her small-town roots after a family emergency. She then embarks on a soulful, comedic journey to reconnect with family and friends and find meaningful romance along the way. Reynolds will play Holly’s father, a grizzled ex-Army, ex-cop, ex-trucker. The movie will premiere in September. (Deadline)

Another Procter & Gamble family friendly 2-hour movie is set to air on NBC. The made-for-TV movie (and backdoor pilot) is called Passport and stars Robyn Lively as Meredith, an expert chef skilled in Piloxing (Pilates mixed with boxing) who is raising her teen kids alone because of her geologist husband Simon’s (Loren Dean) erratic travel schedule. When Simon doesn’t return home from his latest trip, Michelle launches an investigation and discovers that he has been leading a double-life as a covert intelligence operative with CAD (Clandestine Activities Division). Along with her teenage daughter (Skyler Day), she travels to Europe to save Simon, who was abducted during his latest mission and must work together with his captor to bring down a traitor at CAD. (Deadline)

MUSIC NEWS WITH TV TIE-IN

Actor-Singer Matthew Morrison (Glee) has announced the dates for his upcoming tour (which follow below). His self-titled debut album from Mercury Records will be out on May 30. He will be in Minneapolis on June 18, St. Louis on June 19, Rosement (Illinois) on June 21, Columbus (Ohio) on June 22, Detroit on June 23, Philadelphia on June 27, Newark (New Jersey) on June 28, Boston on June 29, New York City on July 1, Atlantic City on July 2, Washington, D.C. on July 6, Greensboro (North Carolina) on July 7, Duluth (Georgia) on July 7, Tampa on July 10, Orlando on July 11, Boca Raton (Florida) on July 13, Jacksonville (Florida) on July 14, Grand Prairie (Texas) on July 16, Austin on July 17, Phoenix on July 19, San Diego on July 20 and Los Angeles on July 23. (The Wrap)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Relative newcomer actor-singer Diego González Boneta (Pretty Little Liars and 90210) will play leading man Drew Bowie in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages, working alongside Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin and others). Boneta got his start as a singer in Mexico. (Vulture)

Actress Lily Collins (The Blind Side and Priest) – and daughter of Phil Collins – landed the role of Snow White opposite actor Armie Hammer (The Social Network), who will play the Prince while Julia Roberts will play the evil Queen. The movie is due in theatres on June 29, 2012. (E! Entertainment Online)

Actress Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass and Let Me In) is in talks to join the Tim Burton film adaptation of the classic TV series Dark Shadows. She is expected to play Carolyn, the daughter of reclusive Collins matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer). (Deadline and Dark Horizons)

Actors Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) have landed roles in the much-anticipated film adaptation of the best-selling book The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Hutcherson will play Peeta Mellark, the sometimes love interest of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) while Hemsworth will play Gale Hawthorne, Katniss’s loyal friend. The film hits theaters on March 23, 2012. (The Wrap)

Legendary actor Leonard Nimoy will be coming out of retirement to voice Sentinel Prime, the new Autobot in the upcoming sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He will not appear on camera. (First Showing)

Relative unknown actors – Sam Claflin and Alicia Vikander – will appear alongside Julianne Moore and Jeff Bridges in the film The Seventh Son, which is an adaptation of Revenge of the Witch, the first book in the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney. Claflin will play Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son who is apprenticed to Spook (Bridges), a local whose job is to fight evil spirits and witches. But while Spook is away, the boy will soon have to face the powerful witch Mother Malkin (Moore) on his own. Vikander will play Alice, an enigmatic new friend of Tom’s who aims to help him fight the evil witch. (First Showing)

Actors Alec Baldwin, Marisa Tomei, Thomas Haden Church and Allison Janney are all joining the cast of the box office film called Lucky Them, which follows a female rock journalist who sets out to find her ex-boyfriend. (Dark Horizons)

Will Smith and his son Jaden will star in the as-yet untitled futuristic science fiction adventure film to be directed by M. Night Shyamalan. (Deadline)

Here are the top 10 movies at the box office for this past weekend according to Exhibitor Relations and E! Entertainment Online:

1. Hop, $38.1 million
2. Source Code, $15.1 million
3. Insidious, $13.5 million
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, $10.2 million
5. Limitless, $9.4 million
6. Lincoln Lawyer, $7.1 million
7. Sucker Punch, $6.1 million
8. Rango, $4.6 million
9. Paul, $4.3 million
10. Battle: Los Angeles, $3.5 million

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Happy Thursday Everybody!! The news isn’t too voluminous, but I still found some interesting items to share:

TELEVISION

It has been confirmed that Allison Mack will be back on Smallville for the two-hour series finale. (Zap2It)

Actress Vinessa Antoine (Being Erica and Soul Food) will have a recurring role on the Syfy series Haven when it returns for its second season. She will play Evidence “Evi” Ryan, a former con-artist and lover of Duke’s (Eric Balfour). (The Futon Critic)

Actor Jonathan Groff will be back on Glee for this season’s final three episodes. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Looks like the box office movie Transporter will be made into a 12-episode action drama on Cinemax. The series will center on professional transporter Frank Martin, operating in a seedy underworld of dangerous criminals and desperate players, who can always be counted on to get the job done — discreetly. Production will begin this summer, but no premiere date has been set yet. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Parker Posey will guest star on The Big C when it returns to Showtime on June 27. She will appear in four episodes as Poppy, an older woman who develops an unlikely relationship with Adam (Gabriel Basso), Cathy’s son. Also announced yesterday was that actor Hugh Dancy will also guest star in the show. He will appear in six episodes as Lee, a charming fellow cancer patient who befriends Cathy (Laura Linney) [SPOILER ALERT] as they take part in an experimental drug trial. (Tim Molloy at The Wrap)

HBO has pulled the plug on their series In Treatment. (The Futon Critic)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Denis O’Hare (True Blood) has joined the FX drama pilot American Horror Story that stars Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights) and comes from co-creators Brad Falchuk and Ryan Murphy (the men behind Glee). (The Futon Critic)

Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights) is being courted for the FX drama pilot called Powers about a pair of homicide detectives in a world where superheroes are commonplace. He would play one of them, Christian Walker, who secretly used to be a superhero. (The Futon Critic)

Margo Martindale (Justified) has joined the cast of the as-yet untitled Susannah Grant pilot that is about Michael Halstead (Patrick Wilson), an ultra-competitive surgeon whose life is changed forever when his ex-wife, Anna Lindberg (Jennifer Ehle), dies and begins teaching him what life is all about from the hereafter. Martindale will take over for S. Epatha Merkerson as Rita, Michael’s “don’t cross her” assistant. (The Futon Critic)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) will star as Sixties cover girl Jean Shrimpton – the supermodel of her day – in a new BBC film called We’ll Take Manhattan, which will examine the charged four-year love affair between the iconic model and photographer David Bailey. This is Gillan’s first leading role since making her debut in Doctor Who. (Daily Mail Reporter and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean franchise) will voice the role of Tomar-Re, a key member of the Green Lantern Corps. in the upcoming Green Lantern movie that stars Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

Actor Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes) and actress Sarah Shahi (Fairly Legal) are set to appear in the box office thriller called Static that follows a young couple on the verge of divorce and dealing with the loss of their child. Their life is complicated further by the arrival of a young visitor (Sara Paxton) with supernatural implications. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actor John Travolta is set to play mobster John Gotti Sr. in the film Gotti: Three Generations that will focus on the relationship between John Gotti Sr., the head of the Gambino crime family who died in prison in 2002, and his son John Gotti Jr. who took over the family business. The younger Gotti served time in prison, but then successfully escaped conviction in four subsequent racketeering trials. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

That’s it. Enjoy!

PS: Have a terrific weekend – I’m send these well wishes off early, as I’m heading to WonderCon tomorrow and will have limited access to the internet during that time.

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Hey All,

Today’s update is a little delayed because of my day job, but here is the news as its stands for today:

DEVELOPMENT

Actress Natalie Zea (Justified) will guest star in the J.J. Abrams/CBS pilot called Person of Interest, playing a district attorney whose investigation of a particularly troubling homicide may cost her life. The pilot stars Lost alum Michael Emerson as a billionaire who recruits a presumed-dead CIA agent (Jim Caviezel) to catch violent criminals in New York. Taraji P. Henson co-stars. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

Actress Ashley Crow (Heroes) has been cast as Jane Blake in the CW drama pilot Secret Circle, as the main character Cassie’s (Britt Robertson from Life Unexpected) grandmother. The pilot centers on young teen from California, Cassie Blake (Robertson), who is forced to move to her grandmother’s in New Salem, Maine, after her mother’s death. Soon, she learns that she is a member of the town’s secret coven of witches. (Tierney Bricker at Zap2It)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Young Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) is linked to the big screen adaptation of Cat Patrick’s novel called Forgotten. She is expected to appear as Sleeping Beauty. No other specifics are known at this time. (Deadline and First Showing)

Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line and Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

Question: Any scoop on next week’s No Ordinary Family finale? —Chris

Ausiello: A series regular perishes and we’ll get an answer to the show’s biggest mystery: How did the Powell clan get their powers?

Question: Please, give us some Chuck scoop! Man, I hate this hiatus. —Ceci

Ausiello: Yeah, well, you may hate this next scoop more: In this season’s penultimate episode on May 9, “Something terrible happens to someone we love,” reveals EP Chris Fedak. In potentially related news, the show is casting the role of Clyde Decker, a “determined and remorseless CIA agent who will go to any lengths and spare no expense — or life — in order to keep the CIA’s secrets buried.” His nickname? The Eraser. Um, yikes much?!

Question: Thanks for the awesome scoop about Ben Lawson’s upcoming stint on Covert Affairs. Have anything else to share about the second season? —Tristina

Ausiello: How about some more casting scoop? General Hospital and Privileged star Ignacio Serricchio has signed on to guest star in episode 2.02 as an alleged member of the Italian AISE that Annie is tasked with exchanging for a captured CIA operative. In the same episode, The Shield‘s Benito Martinez plays the Deputy Director of Argentine Military Intelligence and an old chum of Joan’s (Kari Matchett). When the aforementioned exchange goes awry, their friendship is put to the test.

Question: Got any good scoop about Hawaii Five-0? Is Jenna Kaye going to hang around for a while? — Susan

ADAM: That’s the plan. In fact, she might be taking Chin Ho’s place on the team! I’m hearing that the final episodes of the season will reopen the matter of Chin’s unjust removal from the police force, and that he may finally get the reinstatement he deserves. Will he be able to turn down their juicy offer?

Question: When will Bones wrap up the serial killer story arc? — Jeff

ADAM: Executive producer Stephen Nathan promises that the hunt for Jacob Broadsky will be resolved in this season’s penultimate episode. Helping (or hurting?) Booth and Brennan will be a female twentysomething special agent whose inexperience ultimately puts Booth directly in Broadsky’s crosshairs.

Question: I love NCIS: Los Angeles. Got any details about the end of the season? — Tyler

ADAM: The show is hoping to land a big name actress for three episodes before the season’s up. The character in question is described as a no-nonsense natural leader, who despite rarely letting her guard down, is actually vulnerable and deeply caring. The question is: For whom will she be letting her guard down?

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

How is your week starting out? Hope all is well. Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

AMC is officially moving ahead with a 5th season of the award-winning series Mad Men (even though a deal with the show’s creator and executive producer, Matt Weiner, hasn’t been ironed out yet). The drawback to the show’s renewal, though, especially for fans – it won’t be back until early 2012. (Deadline)

Actors Alan Alda (M*A*S*H and The West Wing) and Hugh Dancy (King Arthur and Ella Enchanted) will be appearing in the 2nd season of The Big C when the show returns with new episode this summer. Alda will play an oncologist that Cathy (Laura Linney) sees [SPOILER ALERT] after receiving a failed treatment for her melanoma. Dancy’s role has yet to be specified. The show will be back on June 27 at 10:30 PM. (Deadline and TV Overmind)

Actor John Rothman (Ghostbusters) and actress Cristine Rose (Heroes) will appear as Cooper Freedman’s (Paul Adelstein) parents in the May 5 episode of Private Practice. Meanwhile Tess Harper (Silkwood) will appear as Charlotte King’s (Kadee Strickland) mom in the same episode. (William Keck at TV Guide)

Justified has been picked up for a 3rd season by FX. (Twitter)

Actor Jay Mohr (Gary Unmarried) will have a guest appearance in the 10th and final season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, playing a famous and incredibly successful Charlie Sheen-type bad boy – a “rock star” fashion designer whose every creation turns to gold. The show will be back on the USA Network on May 1 at 9 PM. (Nellie Andreeva at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actors James Spader and Ryan Phillippe and actress Carla Gugino have joined the dramatic box office thriller called By Virtue Fall, which stars Eric Bana in the story of two ATF agents who find themselves on opposite sides of the friendship divide after one sells out the other. There are no details on the roles for any of them, though. (24 Frames and Dark Horizons)

Q&A SECTION (with the Spoiler Chat at E! Entertainment Online and Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Question from Quentin: Breakout Kings is amazing! Tell me I’m not the only one feeling the heat between Lloyd and Julianne!

Spoiler Chat: You are definitely not the only one. And you’re in luck, because Brooke Nevin tells us there will be more Lloyd (Jimmi Simpson) and Julianne sparks coming up. “The writers are definitely going to let this one play out,” she says. “I don’t know that anything is necessarily resolved by the first season but certainly if you caught on to some sort of chemistry between Julianne and Lloyd you wouldn’t be far off. That is really something that’s meant to be there.”

Question from Cheryl in Hudson, N.Y.: Emily isn’t really moving to Texas on Pretty Little Liars, is she?

Spoiler Chat: First Caleb hops a bus for Arizona, now Emily’s family’s relocating to the Lone Star State…are the folks in Rosewood that desperate for fresh salsa? Anyway, while Caleb is road tripping back home with Lucas, Mrs. Fields proves she’s serious about getting out of (going to?) Dodge by putting the house on the market and getting a realtor. Suggestion for Emily: Melissa might be looking for a roommate in the guesthouse. Just sayin’.

Question from ElderPoptart: Any post finale #PLL scoop would be amazing! Please and thank you!

Spoiler Chat: When Pretty Little Liars returns for its second season June 14 (Cannot. Wait.), someone else besides A will be privy to the girls’ secrets: a posh therapist. Because no one believes their allegations about Ian and what happened to him in the church, their parents send their Little Liars (who happen to be telling the truth this time) to group counseling. Too bad their Jenna isn’t the one having her head examined instead.

Question from Simone Snow: I’m begging for some Mikita scoop!

Spoiler Chat: Nikita show runner Craig Silverstein tells us, “It’s a little hard for them. Michael and Nikita will make it work for a second—and then there is the next second.” We then asked Craig what a world with a semi-functional Mikita relationship would look like and he teased (squee), “God willing, that world is called season two.” Whoo! Meanwhile, Craig tells us, “When we come back on April 7, we will see why he wasn’t able to make it work with Nikita, when they were both working at Division, and we will get another reveal about his past that kind of ripples through and changes his presence.”

Question: Anything on the return of Leverage? I’m so excited for it to come back! — Lori

Sandra Gonzalez: The show is in the planning stages of a super trippy episode that will find Parker in a journey through time. Part of the episode takes place in present day and the rest takes place in flashbacks to the 1930s-40s as a client relays his complex and heartbreaking tale to Parker. I. Can’t. Wait.

Question: What can you tell me about the new agent coming to Fringe? I heard she’s going to be played by Emily Meade from Boardwalk. — Ryan

Sandra Gonzalez: Right you are. The agent is scheduled to make her debut in the season finale, and executive producer Joel H. Wyman tells me her character will have a deeper meaning than a simple rookie agent. “We try and expand our storytelling week to week to a way that we are able to tell, I guess, deeper stories about our main characters. So many of the guest stars that come on are there to do one main thing and that’s to reflect back on our main characters and to learn more about them and sort of uncover more aspects of their personality and deepen them for the viewer. That character will definitely be there to do that,” Wyman tells EW. As for rumors that the new agent will be recurring, the EP says that’s more of a safety net. “We always protect ourselves by saying that because you never know. When we used Seth Gable, for instance, he turned out to be so great. And it’s just those little discoveries that you’re like ‘Wow, you never know.’ We always like to just know that we’re covered, should it go great.”

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Happy Monday! There is a lot of news to share with all of you so let’s get right into it all:

TELEVISION

Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo will appear in the season finale of House; but there is no confirmation on the role she will be playing as yet. It is believed she will play House’s new mother-in-law. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Film star Tom Hanks announced via his Twitter account that he will be making an appearance on 30 Rock – his first prime time appearance in more than two decades. There are details on his role as yet, though. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Jeff Hephner (The O.C. and Hellcats) will star opposite Kelsey Grammer on the Starz eight-episode drama series Boss, which centers on Kane (Grammer), the Mayor of Chicago who is diagnosed with a degenerative mental condition that only he and his doctor know about. Hephner will play the state’s Treasurer, an impeccably handsome and ambitious Chicago native who is clearly about to become a major player on the Chicago political scene. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Michael Gladis (Mad Men) will make a guest appearance in an upcoming of Leverage, playing Reed Rockwall, a public relations expert in crisis management who ruthlessly protects his clients, often going after and destroying their enemies. When one of Rockwall’s victims turns to Nate (Timothy Hutton) for help, however, it will be the team that pulls out all the stops to bring Rockwall down. Leverage will return for its 4th season on Sunday, June 26 at 9 PM. (Adam Bryant at TV Guide)

Actor Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, Law & Order: Criminal Intent) will appear in an episode of Drop Dead Diva as a corrupt District Attorney who just so happens to have a romantic past with Jane. He will appear in the 6th episode of the show when it returns with new episode this June. (Meg Masters at TV Line)

Actress Aubrey Dollar (Dawson’s Creek and Women’s Murder Club) will play a sweet-faced nurse who takes a shine to Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) in an upcoming episode of The Good Wife. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE TRAILER

First Look at Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Adrian Pasdar (Heroes) will be back on NBC, but this time in a comedy pilot. He will have the male lead opposite actress Sarah Paulson (Cupid) in the as-yet untitled Kari Lizer workplace comedy that revolves around Mary Leahy (Paulson), a relationship-challenged woman who, with the help of her co-workers, guides people through unexpected career transitions. Pasdar will play Brad, a super confident guy who has drunk sex with Mary in a bar bathroom. After seeing how charming he is, Mary and her partner ask him to join their company. (Nellie Andreeva at TV Line)

Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica), Lou Diamond Phillips (Stargate Universe), Bailey Chase (Saving Grace) and Cassidy Freeman (Smallville) have all joined the A&E drama pilot Longmire that is the small screen take on Craig Johnson’s literary hero Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), the charismatic, dedicated and unflappable sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming. Sackhoff and Chase will play Walt’s deputies, Victoria “Vic” Moretti, a former homicide detective from Philadelphia; and Branch Connally, who plans to run against him in the next election. While Phillips is set as Henry, Walt’s best friend who tries to loosen him up; and Freeman as Cady, Walt’s lawyer daughter. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Billy Brown (Lights Out) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot Reconstruction, which is a period drama about Jason Edding (Martin Henderson), a Civil War veteran who crosses the country and settles into a complicated town where he is welcomed as its savior – whether he likes it or not. Brown will play Sam who befriends Jason. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Gale Harold (Hellcats) is now part of the cast of the CW drama pilot Secret Circle, which is about Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson), a California teen who moves to her mom’s hometown of New Salem, Maine and discovers that she comes from a family of witches. He will play Thomas Meade, Diane’s (Shelley Hennig) father, who along with Vice Principal Dawn Chamberlain (Natasha Henstridge) take a unique interest in Cassie. (The Futon Critic)

CONDOLENCES

Geraldine A. Ferraro, who was the first female vice presidential candidate on a national ticket, died on Saturday, according to CNN. She was 75. Ferraro died at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from multiple myeloma, a blood cancer she’s had for 12 years. (TV Guide)

ME: Rest in Peace, Ms. Ferraro. Condolences are extended to her family and friends.

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE….

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Amy Adams has been tapped to play Lois Lane alongside Henry Cavill as Clark Kent in the planned reboot of the Superman franchise. (Twitter)

Actor Armie Hammer (The Social Network) is set to play the coveted role of the handsome prince in the upcoming feature film Snow that includes Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. The Snow White role for this particular film has yet to be cast. [NOTE: There are 3 Snow White films in the planning stages at 3 different film studios]. (Brandi Fowler at E! Entertainment Online)

Canadian actress Sarah Gadon (Being Erica and The Border) has snagged the role of estranged wife Elise Shifrin alongside Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga franchise), who has the lead role in the film Cosmopolis, which is based on the Don DeLillo novel. (Indiewire)

Here is the list of the top 10 films at the box office over the weekend from Exhibitor Relations.

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, $24.4 million
2. Sucker Punch, $19 million
3. Limitless, $15.2 million
4. Lincoln Lawyer, $11 million
5. Rango, $9.8 million
6. Battle: Los Angeles, $7.6 million
7. Paul, $7.5 million
8. Red Riding Hood, $4.4 million
9. The Adjustment Bureau, $4.2 million
10. Mars Needs Moms, $2.2 million

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Watch: First Trailer for Paul W.S. Anderson’s ‘The Three Musketeers’

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Hey All,

Happy Friday everyone!! I hope you have some plans activities planned for this weekend. In the meantime, let’s get right into the news for today:

TELEVISION

The big news all over Twitter last night was that FOX renewed Fringe for another season. Congrats to the cast and crew and hurrah for all the fans out there. (Twitter)

Actors Chi McBride (Human Target) and Dave Foley (Kids in the Hall) will guest star in the season finale of How I Met Your Mother. McBride will play a construction foreman, named Rod, who isn’t exactly pleased with Ted (Josh Radnor) — which is a problem, consider it’s Ted who’s designed the new building. Foley will appear as a potential new boss for Marshall (Jason Segel). (Mikey O’Connell at Zap2It)

The new ABC drama The Hot Zone has been given its series premiere date: Tuesday, June 21 at 10 PM. The series is set in 2006 at the only military hospital providing advanced surgical care in all of Southern Afghanistan, and charts the frantic lives of the hospital’s resident doctors and nurses from Canada, America, the U.K. and other allied countries. The series stars Elias Koteas (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), Michelle Borth (Hawaii Five-0 and The Forgotten) and Luke Mably (The Gates) [among others]. (The Futon Critic)

Meanwhile, the Canadian drama Rookie Blue, which was a hit for ABC last summer, will be back with its 2nd season starting Thursday, June 16 at 10 PM. The show takes a look inside the professional and personal lives of five rookie cops as they navigate their first years on the job. The show stars Missy Peregrym, Gregory Smith, Charlotte Sullivan, Enuka Okuma, Travis Milne, Ben Bass and Eric Johnson. (The Futon Critic)

Two familiar faces will be seen in the 2nd season of Covert Affairs when it returns to the USA Network on June 7. Actor Ben Lawson (the short-lived ABC drama The Deep End) will have a recurring role as Dr. Scott Weiss, a charming and handsome Doctors Without Borders-type physician who Annie (Piper Perabo) meets when she takes her niece, Chloe, to the emergency room. Actress Rena Sofer (NCIS) has been cast as Gina, Arthur’s (Peter Gallagher) smart, kind-hearted ex-wife who re-enters his life to offer advice as he deals with the political fallout from Lisa’s (Emmanuelle Vaugier) media assault. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Meanwhile over on White Collar, four familiar faces have been lined up for the 2nd episode of the new season (the show returns June 7). Those include: Danny Masterson (That 70’s Show), his real-life brother Christopher Masterson, Anna Chlumsky (and William Sadler (Roswell). Sadler will play a menacing security consultant who orchestrates a kidnapping with the Masterson brothers actually playing two brothers contesting their fathers will while Chlumsky appears as a new FBI agent recruit who helps the team. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Mark Deklin (the short-lived FOX drama Lone Star) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Good Christian Bitches about Amanda Vaughn (Leslie Bibb), a widowed mother of two who – to get a fresh start – moves back to the affluent Dallas neighborhood where she grew up. He will play Blake Caruth, Amanda’s first crush who’s now married to Cricket (Miriam Shor), a former Plain Jane who was tormented by Amanda as a teen. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Justin Bruening (Knight Rider) will play Steve Trevor in the NBC drama pilot of Wonder Woman. Trevor is the government agent who crash landed on Themyscira, home of the mythical Amazons; fell in love with one of them, Diana (Adrianne Palicki); and brought her back with him to New York. They’ve since broken up as Diana now operates out of L.A. and Steve is a lawyer for the Justice Department. (The Futon Critic)

MADE FOR TV MOVIES NEWS

Actor Woody Harrelson will join Julianne Moore and Ed Harris in the HBO Films called Game Change that follows John McCain’s (Harris) 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (Moore) as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general election. Harrelson will play Steve Schmidt, McCain’s senior campaign strategist and adviser. (Deadline)

Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez from Entertainment Weekly)

Question: Are there any hopes for Deeks and Kensi to get together on NCIS: LA? I have gotten all the girls in my office hooked [on the show], to the point now we are all going crazy. Please — we are in desperate need here. Thanks. — Christy

Answer: Well, I like desperation. It makes it more fun to tease you with quotes like this one from executive producer and creator Shane Brennan. “Deeks is handsome, funny and loyal. Kensi is smart, exotic and smoking hot. What was the question again? … Would we like to see Deeks and Kensi together? You bet! Will it happen? Characters have funny ways of taking you to unexpected places. We’ll all just have to hang in and see…”

Question: Any Blue Bloods scoop? I started watching this show every week with my dad — mostly for him. But now I’m addicted. — Amy

Answer: Remember when Michael T. Weiss guested as the super creepy Det. Molevsky? Well, I can confirm he’ll be back before the end of the season. And I don’t know about you, but news of his return made me recall what he told Jamie earlier — “It can be dangerous out here.”

Question: How much of this war are we going to see on Supernatural. It would be kind lame for them not to show the thing they’ve been talking about all season, right? — Rachael

Answer: Lame? Probably not. My gut tells me it would be for a good reason. Misha Collins agrees with my gut. “We’re not going to see a whole lot of the actual war that’s taking place in heaven. We’re going to see how that plays out with respect to Sam and Dean and their world. But the two definitely collide in the season finale,” he says. Another thing we can expect not to see? Cas in 300-style angel battle gear. “I would love to have some sexy, feathery armor, but I’m not getting any. It’s the same frumpy trench coat and suit,” he laments.

Question: Any scoop on Cas’s new angel buddy on Supernatural? — Krystal

Answer: I wouldn’t necessarily use the word “buddy.” More like “reluctant ally.” “It’s hard for Cas to figure out who’s on his side and who’s not,” Collins dishes. “There’s a lot of duplicity and spies.”

Question: Thanks for all the scoopage on the Winchester boys … I’m torn between excitement and dread for the last episodes of the season. Just thinking that what’s left is all we might ever have makes me want to have a little Hunter’s Helper and pass out in grief! I was wondering if there is any word yet on whether we will have a season 7? Thanks! — Gia

Answer: Save some room for me at your table, because I think we’re going to need to lean on each other for support after a likely soul-killing finale. Actually, let me back up. The heartbreak really begins with “The Man Who Would Be King,” the first episode being directed by fan-fave writer Ben Edlund. “It’s the story of Castiel looking over his life, and then it turns into Castiel looking into his relationships,” he says. “If it does its job, it’ll break your heart.” As for the chances of a next season, Supernatural show runner Sera Gamble tells me, “We’ve cliffhung this season, so if you want to know what happens, you have to tune into season 7. So we have to make one.”

Question: Let’s get some Nikita action going on here, Sandra. Spoilers, please! — Ashlyn

Answer: In an upcoming episode, Nikita will put herself on the line (<< no news there) for a shocking reason: to help Division. There’s much more to this story…

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Have a terrific weekend!

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Hey All,

The weekend is almost here and the sun is shining so it’s a good day, right? Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor D.B. Sweeney (The Event) will guest star in upcoming episode of Castle that finds Castle and Beckett going to LA to investigate a murder. He will play Detective Kyle Seeger, a Los Angeles cop with Robbery Homicide, who questions Castle and Beckett about their rogue investigation. This is the same episode that will include Jason George (Off the Map) and Dominic Purcell (Prison Break) as guest stars. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Chris Vance (Prison Break) has booked a major recurring role on the TNT breakout hit Rizzoli & Isles. He will play Sgt. Major Charles “Casey” Jones, an old flame of Rizzoli’s (Angie Harmon) who comes back into her life just as she’s [SPOILER ALERT] struggling to recover from being shot and nearly killed in the line of duty. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Natasha Henstridge (Eli Stone) will appear in the season finale of CSI: Miami as Renee Locklear, an undercover agent who is about to cause a stir in more ways than one. (TV Guide and Spoiler TV)

Actor Michael Trucco (Fairly Legal and Battlestar Galactica) will guest star in an April episode of How I Met Your Mother as Robin’s (Colbie Smulders) long-time crush. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Scott Grimes (ER and Party of Five) will guest star in the Tony DiNozzo origins episode set for May 3 as Det. Danny Price, an ex-partner of Tony’s. They worked together 10 years ago while serving as cops in Baltimore. (Entertainment Weekly)

FX has canceled its new drama Lights Out, but the final 2 episodes will air. (Twitter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

BBC America will co-produce the new six-part drama series called The Hour, which will premiere in the summer on BBC America. The series is a spy thriller set behind the scenes of the BBC’s news room in London in the mid ‘50s, starring Dominic West (The Wire), Romola Garai (Emma) and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star) who are locked in a highly competitive, sharp witted and passionate love triangle. (Deadline)

Actor David Alpay (The Tudors) will star alongside Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) in the FOX drama pilot Weekends at Bellevue, which is based on Julie Holland’s memoir. The pilot centers on Ellie (Ambrose), the psychiatrist in charge of the weekend shift at Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric unit. He will play Ben, a second-year attending psychiatrist at Bellevue who graduated from an Ivy League school and comes from a family of doctors. He has a history with Ellie and is strongly drawn to her. (Deadline)

Actress Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse) has landed the female lead opposite Damon Wayans in the CBS as-yet untitled sports radio show pilot. The pilot is inspired by ESPN personality Colin Cowherd’s outspoken sports talk show with this one centering on Nick (Wayans), an egotistical sports-radio host with a quick wit and cocky likability who is adored by his fans. She will play Nick’s radio cohort Casey, a fun, quick-witted gal who is socially oblivious and pathologically blunt. (Deadline)

MADE FOR TV MOVIE NEWS

Veteran actor Ed Harris has been cast to play John McCain in the upcoming HBO adaptation of the best-selling book Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. Harris will play the Republican candidate John McCain for the film’s depiction of his 2008 presidential campaign. Julianna Moore will portray Sarah Palin in the film. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Looks like actress Amy Adams (Enchanted and The Fighter) is being courted to join the cast of the upcoming box office movie Rock of Ages, in which she would play the journalist who falls into a bedroom romp with Tom Cruise’s decadent rock star character, Stacee Jax. (Mike Fleming at Deadline)

Q&A SECTION (with the TV Addict)

Question: Got anything for a WHITE COLLAR fan who is already going through post-finale withdrawal? — Ainsley

The TV Addict: When WHITE COLLAR returns this June, fans will finally get a peek into the private life of Detective Diana Barrigan when Neal meets Diana’s partner, Christie. What’s more, the episode will feature Diana as she goes undercover to protect a powerful newswoman who is about to break a deadly secret that may take down a major corporation. Which, if you ask us, is a nice change of pace from the usual episode of WHITE COLLAR where women are often overlooked and underestimated in lieu of Peter and Neal.

Question: Blood is to vampires as scoop is to me, I need it to survive. Particularly of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES variety, what’cha got? — Mandy

The TV Addict: You know how Bonnie has been somewhat on her own since the death of her grandmother? Well, the good news is that she’ll soon be meeting a relative. Unfortunately, like the majority of the mysterious newcomers to Mystic Falls, said relative has an agenda entirely of her own. Oh, and did we mention she has somewhat of a sordid past with Katherine?

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