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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Francois Arnaud (The Borgias) will star opposite Maggie Q (Nikita) in the limited series Red Flag that will begin production this fall; but does not have a specific network attached just yet. The limited series will be set in the early 1800s, centering on Ching Shih (Maggie Q), a beautiful young Chinese prostitute who goes on to become one of history’s most powerful pirates and head of the most successful crime syndicate in China. With over 100,000 sailors and 1500-plus vessels, Ching controlled the South China Sea while taking on the Imperial Chinese navy, the Portuguese navy, and the all-powerful British navy to eventually conquer them all. Arnaud will play Carlito, the Portuguese sailor and bounty Hunter engaged to hunt down and capture Ching Shih. He has no loyalty and takes from everybody to kill Ching Shih and soon becomes her lover. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Mike Epps has landed a recurring role on the upcoming second season of the BET hit new drama Being Mary Jane where he will play Chris Warren, husband and a father who is in a great marriage, something Mary Jane (series lead Gabrielle Union) covets. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

No great surprise here, but ABC has not only pulled the plug on Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (the trailer for next week’s episode did, after all, say series finale); but the network has also cancelled the Christian Slater-Steve Zahn-led drama Mind Games after five low-rated episodes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Syfy has given a second season order to their new thriller series Helix, which airs its season finale tonight. (Twitter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Boris Kodjoe (Undercovers) has landed a role in the straight-to-series ABC drama The Club that will focus on the upstairs/downstairs stories at a private country club. Kodjoe will play Deacon, a Hall of Fame pro football player who moved his family back East and is trying his hand at real estate. Infuriated by the bureaucracy, and ultimately realizing that knowing the right people will make things easier, he joins the Club. (The Deadline Team)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Dana Delany (China Beach and Body of Proof) has joined the cast of the Amazon Studios pilot Hand of God that will follows Judge Pernell (Ron Perlman from Beauty and the Beast and Sons of Anarchy fame), a law-bending man with a call girl on the side, who has a religious awakening. He begins to have visions and hear voices that could be God speaking to him through his ventilator-bound son. Delany will play Crystal Harris, the wife of powerful Judge Pernell. (Natalie Jarvey at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFFICE NEWS

Actor Dayo Okeniyi (The Hunger Games and The Spectacular Now) has landed the final lead role in the upcoming reboot film Terminator: Genesis. He joins the likes of Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) [who plays Sara Connor], Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty) [who plays John Connor], Jai Courtney (Divergent and A Good Day to Die Hard) [as Kyle Reese] and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okeniyi will play Danny Dyson, son of brainiac cyborg developer Miles Dyson. The film will be out in July 2015. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Trailer: Begin Again (with Keira Knightly & Mark Ruffalo)

Q&A SECTION (with Matt Mitovich at TV Line and TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: I could really use some scoop on Pretty Little Liars — preferably on Ezra, but I’ll take anything you have. –Estee

Mitovich: “Anything I have” wins! Early in Season 5, we’ll meet the potentially recurring character of Sydney, a new member of the high school swim team. Speculation here at the office has her either A) sharing a connection to either Emily’s ex, Paige or B) forging a “connection” with Ems herself!

Question: Do you have any scoop on Syfy’s Bitten? There are only a few episodes left. –Carol

Mitovich: This Monday, Jeremy finally tells Elena the truth about why Clay bit her years ago. And then in the April 8 finale, as Elena and the Pack prepare for a final stand against a Mutt army led by Santos and the mysterious James Williams, Elena will cement her status as a heart-breaker — but probably not in the way you’re thinking.

Question: Are we going to see more magic lessons for Once Upon a Time‘s Emma? –Robertino

Mitovich: “That is definitely something that comes up,” says Jennifer Morrison, who describes the Emma/Regina scenes as both “fun” and “interesting.” As she points out, “Regina’s a bit annoyed because Emma wasn’t really into learning magic in Neverland, so there’s some banter back and forth about my ‘reluctance’ to be magical.” But with a Wicked Witch on the loose and Henry in a partially amnesic limbo, “Emma has that extra motivation to reach into place in herself that she’s not necessarily comfortable with.”

Question: Reign is insane right now! What’s ahead? – Luke

TV Scoop Team: More family drama is coming! “You will see some family members,” of some of the characters Anna Popplewell dishes, though she notes no one from Lola’s family has been introduced since her wayward brother.

Question: Any spoilers on Avery and Juliette on Nashville? They’re my favorite couple on the show now! – Jeaneen

TV Scoop Team: Sorry, but there are rocky waters ahead for Juliette and Avery after he is all too quick to be there for a struggling Scarlett (along with her mother, who we’ll meet very soon). The good news? It looks like Juliette will actually be the mature one in this situation. Our girl’s growing up!

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Carmine Giovinazzo (CSI: NY) will have a recurring role on the USA Network drama Graceland when it returns this summer for its second season. He will play Sid Markham, the head of LAPD’s Gang Task Force. Sid is more mind than muscle and uses his intelligence and ability to read people as a way to build relationships and close cases; but that doesn’t mean he’s not prone to acts of violence here and there. Briggs (series regular Daniel Sunjata) grows close to him, seeing Sid as a helpful tool in taking down a cartel. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Perrey Reeves (Entourage) will have a recurring role on the USA Network drama Covert Affairs, playing Caitlin, the no-nonsense COO of Ryan McQuaid’s (actor Nicholas Bishop from Body of Proof) security company. (Andy Swift at TV Line and E! Online)

Actress Michelle Borth will be leaving the CBS remake Hawaii Five-0 at the end of this current season. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Trailer: Words and Pictures (New Rom-Com with Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche)

ME: Does this mean we may finally start to see a return to REAL rom-coms at the box office or just a tease of what could be if the movie industry would actually relearn what rom-coms really are? Just my opinion!

Q&A SECTION (with Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: Longtime reader, first time question. I’m a huge Scandal junkie and would love some scoop. —Kristen

Ausiello: This Thursday, we will meet the Grant teens, and the family dynamic is far from The Brady Bunch. “We had many happy years as a family, but they have been through a rocky road these last few years,” First Lady Bellamy Young previews. “You read ugly things about your parents in the paper and on the Internet, so yeah, we’ll meet them in a fraught moment. You can imagine teenagers in this situation and how they might react!” Of Lost alums Dylan Minnette and Madeline Carroll, Young raves, Scandal has “incredible, formidable actors who are so capable of carrying this complicated material” — and complicated it shall be. Notes the actress with a laugh, “It so humanizes Fitz and Mellie to see them try and parent! Nothing can undo you like your own teenagers.”

Question: I’m liking The Tomorrow People more and more, but its future isn’t looking too bright. Anything you can say to make me feel better about the odds of a second season? —Joseph

Ausiello: If the Season 1 finale turns out to be TTP‘s swan song, the show is going out with a bang… and a fair amount of nudity. According to exec producer Phil Klemmer, here’s a preview of what’s going down in the May 5 closer: “Someone will die. Someone will be stuck in limbo. The entire world might be ending or might not. [Robbie Amell] will be shirtless [and] will kick some very, very serious ass. Someone will lose his or her powers. A couple that we’ve never seen be intimate will become intimate. Someone will possibly lose their memory…. they’ll be turned into, like, a grotesque automaton version of their former selves.”

Question: Have anything good about Arrow? —KE

Ausiello: EP Marc Guggenheim told Matt Mitovich that next week’s episode is titled “Deathstroke” because it revolves around “the first huge move that Slade Wilson is going to make in his plan to exact revenge.” He also said that as the last episode leading into a brief spring break, it ends on a “bittersweet” — and “very messy” — note.

Question: Any chance we might see an NCIS episode featuring Gibbs and Tony undercover together? If not them, what about Tony taking McGee on his first undercover operation? —Julia

Ausiello: Asked about any such capers, show boss Gary Glasberg would only say, “There’s a bit of an undercover aspect to the McGee storyline with Delilah that’s coming up [on April 8]. We have some fun there.”

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TELEVISION

NBC has acquired the rights to the 12-episode action/comedy series Taxi Brooklyn that Chyler Leigh (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jacky Ido (Inglourious Basterds) as well as Jennifer Esposito (Blue Bloods), Ally Walker (Profiler), James Colby (Person Of Interest), Bill Heck (Pan Am), Jose Zuniga (Body Of Proof) and Raul Casso (Blue Bloods). The series focuses on Detective Caitlyn “Cat” Sullivan (Leigh), who is determined to find the truth about the death of her father, an NYPD detective who was killed in the line of duty; but when her stubborn character and recklessness behind the wheel finds her demoted to foot patrol, she teams with the highly skilled and charming Marseille-born cabbie Leo Romba. Realizing Leo lied on his immigration form, Cat offers him a deal: in exchange for his driving prowess and taxi, she will help Leo with his papers situation. He becomes her personal driver and police consultant as they race through the streets of New York City solving cases. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

The A&E drama Those Who Kill that was pulled after only two episodes will get a second life (so to speak) on Lifetime Movie Network (LMN). The first two episodes will air this Sunday on the cable network at 8 and 9 PM followed by the third episode at 10 PM. The rest of the episodes will roll out on Sunday nights on LMN at 10 PM. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Amy Acker (Person of Interest and Angel) has landed a role on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. where she will play Audrey, the love of Phil Coulson’s (series lead Clark Gregg) life. A talented musician turning heads in Portland, Audrey believes Coulson to be dead and has no idea that he’s guarding her from a distance as a super-powered threat from her past re-emerges. Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be back on ABC starting on April 1. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actor Linus Roache (Law & Order and Vikings) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Blacklist, playing the Kingmaker, an extremely dangerous and influential man with political ties around the world who manipulates democracy to his own ends and is an expert at political assassination. (Damian Holbrook at TV Guide)

Actor Dylan Bruce (Orphan Black) will have a recurring role in the upcoming El Rey Network series Matador that will chronicle the unlikely rise of Antonio “Matador” Bravo (Gabriel Luna), a popular soccer star who in reality uses his sports career for a cover as a skilled covert operative executing missions for a little-known branch of the CIA. Bruce will play Gabriel, a Lothario type DEA Agent. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Sam Jaeger (Parenthood) has joined the cast of the upcoming Clint Eastwood flick American Sniper that will feature Bradley Cooper as decorated marksman Chris Kyle, whose memoir American Sniper: The Autobiography Of The Most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History serves as the basis for the Warner Bros film. Jaeger will play Captain Martens, who welcomes Chris back to Iraq for his second tour of duty and is his commanding officer on his subsequent tour. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Jon Tenney (The Closer and the short-lived King & Maxwell) has joined the cast of the upcoming film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Book Of Me that will tell the story of Dawson and Amanda, former high school sweethearts who find themselves reunited after 20 years apart when they return to their small town for the funeral of a beloved friend. Their reunion reignites the love they’ve never forgotten, but the duo find the very same forces that drove them apart before live on. Tenney will play Harvey, father of Amanda (played as a teenager by Liana Liberato and as an adult by Michelle Monaghan). (The Deadline Team)

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

Question: When are we going to get Outlaw-Queen stuff from your Once Upon a Time talk with Lana Parrilla? — Sarah, via Twitter

Natalie: Soon, I promise! But the more pressing matter is Regina’s reunion with Robin Hood in Storybrooke. Even though the couple has a (forgotten) history, don’t expect a magical romance right off the bat. “She’s terrified. She’s afraid to open her heart and afraid to let love in,” Parilla says. “So many things have been taken away from her. … She doesn’t believe that… this love has the potential to be as deep and real as she dreamt.”

Question: Do you have any Orphan Black scoop on my favorite clone Alison? — Arianna

Natalie: Poor waspy Alison will be wracked with guilt over killing suspected monitor Aynsley. So, she’ll try to ease her mind by taking on an unusual project that requires her to flex a completely different muscle. Unfortunately, her new gig will put her in even more danger than before.

Question: When are we going to find out who the Clairvoyant is on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? — Taryn

Natalie: Though she wouldn’t confirm or deny my theory that the Clairvoyant is someone we already know, executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen promises the reveal is coming very soon. How soon? Well, the April 1 episode — which features the returns of Agents Hand (Saffron Burrows), Garrett (Bill Paxton), Sitwell (Maximiliano Hernández) and Blake (Titus Welliver) — is shaping up to be pretty super. I hear one of the returning faces is harboring a big secret and another will wind up on the wrong end of a battle with Deathlok.

Question: Please tell me you got more Sleepy Hollow scoop on Season 2! — Sandy

Natalie: I did, and I can tell you the new captain replacing the incarcerated Irving will not be an ally. “It’s somebody who is not in support of Abbie and Crane,” executive producer Len Wiseman says. “They’re going to find themselves in a tricky spot again with the department.” Speaking of bosses, War and Moloch won’t always be on the same side in Season 2.

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The History Channel has given a third season pick-up order to Vikings. (Press Release)

Fans of Teen Wolf have already lost cast members Crystal Reed and Max Carver (who played Allison and Aiden respectively) and now they will be losing one more: Daniel Sharman. But, this time around his character Isaac won’t be killed off. Daniel – much like Crystal – asked to leave the show, but requested that Isaac not be killed. Daniel apparently wants to give other projects a try, but hopes that he can have the opportunity to come back in the future. (Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Actress Tessa Ferrer and actor Gaius Charles have not had their contracts picked up for their series regular roles on Grey’s Anatomy, which means they will not be back for the show’s upcoming fall season. It is also unclear if they will make any guest appearances in the future either. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Betsy Brandt (The Michael J. Fox Show) has joined the cast of the upcoming straight-to-13-episode series ABC drama The Club that will focus on the upstairs/downstairs drama at a private country club. Brandt will play Leslie, the wife of one of the brothers who own the club who just ran off with their father’s trophy-wife stepmother after squandering the club’s finances, leaving behind his wife, who has a legal consulting practice, and their son. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Matthew Modine has joined the cast of the TNT drama pilot Proof, which is a supernatural medical drama to be executive produced by actress Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer). The pilot will center on Dr. Kathryn Russo (Jennifer Beals of Flashdance fame), a skeptical, hard-science, brilliant female surgeon with a caustic edge who has been struggling with the devastating loss of her teenage son and a growing estrangement from her surviving daughter. She is persuaded to investigate cases of reincarnation, out-of-body experiences and hauntings. Modine will play Ivan Turing, a charming, eccentric, technology multi-billionaire facing a terminal cancer who is willing to apply all his resources to answering the question, is there anything beyond death? (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Trailer: Hercules

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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Justin Hartley (Smallville and Revenge) will have a recurring role in the ABC summer drama Mistresses, playing Scott, a new love interest for Joss (series regular Jes Macallan). (Michael Slezak at TV Line)

Actress Kelli Williams (Army Wives and The Practice) will guest star in an upcoming episode of NCIS, playing an NCIS agent. The episode will explore the issue of sexual assault in the Navy. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Marilu Henner (Taxi and Evening Shade) will guest star in the upcoming Hallmark Channel series Signed, Sealed, Delivered that focuses on a group of postal detectives who solve the mysteries behind undeliverable letters and packages from the past, delivering them when they are needed most. Henner will play one of the group’s supervisors, a role that will also be filled by Valerie Harper, Della Reese and Valerie Bertinelli. (The Futon Critic)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Alfre Woodard will appear in the NBC drama pilot State Of Affairs that stars Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) as a maverick CIA officer who was plucked from the field to become the president’s daily briefer, assuming responsibility for targeting America’s most critical threats while navigating the unique lifestyle that comes with such a high-powered job. Woodard will play President Roberta Payton. (The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. Divergent – 56 million
2. Muppets Most Wanted – 16.5 million
3. Mr. Peabody & Sherman – 11.7 million
4. 300: Rise of an Empire – 8.7 million
5. God’s Not Dead – 8.5 million
6. Need for Speed – 7.8 million
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel – 6.7 million
8. Non-Stop – 6.3 million
9. The LEGO Movie – 4.1 million
10. The Single Mom’s Club – 3.1 million

Full Trailer: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Actor Sam Worthington and actress Robin Wright (House of Cards) have joined the ensemble cast of Everest that already includes Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Martin Henderson, Emily Watson, Jake Gyllenhaal and John Hawkes as part of the cast. The film will tell the true saga of a disastrous attempt to scale the summit of the world’s highest mountain when they were hit by a fierce snowstorm near the top. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: Since we’ve been seeing Robin Hood on Once Upon a Time, does this mean that we’ll get to see more of Mulan too? – Lauren

TV Scoop Team: Unfortunately, we will not be seeing our badass Chinese princess anymore this season. However we will be reunited with another fan favorite that we have not seen in a while! Red, aka the most kickass Little Red Riding hood we’ve ever met, will be returning to our magical drama pretty soon. Fingers crossed we’ll get a sweet best friends scene with her and Snow!

Question: I still can’t get over Pretty Little Liars crazy finale! Can you give us a tease for season five? – Michelle

TV Scoop Team: Well as you should know by now, our brooding babe, Caleb, will be back in Rosewood by episode five of next season. But, did you know that Caleb might be bringing a few friends along? Executive Producer, Oliver Goldstick, exclusively revealed to us that fans will definitely find out what happened to Miranda in Ravenswood. “Yes, we’re going to try to be as economic and yet elegant as possible without belaboring because they’re not on screen,” he said. “But I think, you know, residents of Ravenswood may even come back to Rosewood. In addition to Tyler, you might have some familiar faces crashing in. Not permanently, just time to time, because he did have a world there.”

Question: In desperate need of some spoilers on Arrow! Will anyone else find out Oliver’s secret this year? So many people are in the know! – Colin

TV Scoop Team: First, let’s address this one: how has Det. Lance not caught on yet that his hooded friend is Oliver, who has dated both of his daughters? “Episode 19 pretty definitively answers that question as far as Lance is concerned and I think that the answer will surprise you,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim teases, adding that a few more people will learn Oliver’s secret by the end of season two.

Question: Where oh where has my weekly dose of Aaron Tveit gone? The wait for Graceland is killing me. – Vicki

TV Scoop Team: They’re working on it, trust us! Season 2 will introduce viewers to Sid Markham, the head of the LAPD’s Gang Task Force. Sid is strong, dependable and when he first meets Mike, he’s extremely helpful—but like many characters in Graceland, first impressions are not necessarily the correct ones.

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Fan-favorite actor-comedian Patton Oswalt (Justified and the animated film Ratatouille) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, playing Agent Eric Koenig, who was part of Nick Fury’s team of World War II soldiers in the original Marvel comics. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

While it hasn’t been confirmed by the USA Network, White Collar will probably be ending after its upcoming sixth season, which will consist of only six episodes. Meanwhile, the network has picked up two pilots to series. The first is Rush, a fast-paced Hollywood drama centered on Dr. William Rush (Tom Ellis), who is not your average on-call doctor. He is highly discreet no matter what the ailment, as long as the client can pay his cash-only premium, and the doctor can party with the best of them. He has no desire to change his life or how he lives it, until an old flame and his conscience begin to stir things up. The other is Complications, which centers on John Ellis (Jason O’Mara), a disillusioned suburban ER doctor who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy’s life and killing one of his attackers. When Ellis learns the boy is still marked for death, he finds himself compelled to save him at any cost and discovers that his own life, and his outlook on medicine, may never be the same. Both shows will have 10 episodes. The network also recently picked up two other dramas, the untitled drama that will star The Glades actor Matt Passmore and the upcoming event series Dig that will star Jason Isaacs and Anne Heche. (Sadie Genis at TV Guide, Nellie Andreeva at Deadline and Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Kevin McKidd (Grey’s Anatomy) will guest star in an upcoming episode of the TNT series Franklin & Bash, playing a man named Albert Daugherty, who is also the Duke of Weddington, who crosses paths with the lawyers after he finds himself in a spat with his neighbor. (Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Patricia Wettig (Brothers & Sisters) has joined the cast of The CW drama pilot Identity, which will tell the story of a young woman in need of an organ transplant who discovers her half-brother’s family is the target of a CIA investigation for domestic terrorism. Wettig will play family matriarch Liana Grant. (Andy Swift at TV Line)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Mena Suvari (American Pie franchise and was just seen on Chicago Fire) has landed the lead role in the Amazon Studio drama pilot Hysteria that centers on Dr. Logan Harlow, an exceptionally bright, driven, complicated, charming but socially awkward neurologist/psychiatrist at the University of Texas Medical School who travels to her hometown of Austin, TX to investigate a mysterious epidemic among high school girls that may be spreading through technology. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actresses Kathy Baker (Picket Fences) and Amanda Crew (Charlie St. Cloud) will appear in the upcoming box office film The Age of Adaline that follows the miraculous life of 29-year-old Adaline (Blake Lively from Gossip Girl), who stops aging after recovering from a near-fatal accident. She embarks on a worldwide journey keeping her secret until she meets a man who forever alters her life. There are no details on what roles the actresses will play in the film, though. Other cast members include Harrison Ford, Ellen Burstyn and Michiel Huisman (Nashville). (Rebecca Ford at The Hollywood Reporter)

Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: Sleepy Hollow season two is so far away! Give me something to look forward to! – Miriam

TV Scoop Team: Another major first for Ichabod, our favorite fish-out-of-water! “Air travel, he’ll experience for the first time,” executive producer Len Wiseman teases. “Imagine Crane on a plane basically thinking it’s a massive truck. It’s got wheels, he doesn’t really know the thing actually picks up and takes off into the air. That’s something he will experience.”

Question: I’m addicted to Reign! Give me some scoop! – Ellie

TV Scoop Team: You think it’s crazy right now? Oh, just wait. “Think about the pace that things are moving at on just an average weekly basis, and then imagine the season finale,” Anna Popplewell previews. “It’s going to be enormous. So yeah, there’s plenty to look forward to, and fear and dread and all the rest of it.” But can we expect a death. Popplewell teases, “No one is safe in the castle, as you know. There are deaths almost every week, but I couldn’t possibly say who will or won’t survive.”

Question: Revenge, please and thank you. – Gayle

TV Scoop Team: The season finale, titled “Execution,” will see one of your favorites in prison and they’re not having a great time in the slammer. And there’s a trial. And a visit to the psych ward. And somebody’s dead. And that’s all we’ll tell you.

Question: Any Beauty and the Beast scoop to share with us Beasties?! – Aimee

TV Scoop Team: BATB is getting its Law & Order on as the mission to clear Vincent’s name is on. The police and our gang are both working on getting enough “evidence and witnesses” to prove their case, Austin Basis previews, adding that the case will “leads to almost an even more desperate problem…it’s almost like the to the starting gate for Vincent and Catherine, not in their relationship, but how are they going to live a normal life?”

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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

NBC has renewed Grimm, Chicago Fire and its spin-off series Chicago P.D. for next season. These shows join newcomer The Blacklist on the prime-time line-up next fall; but there is no word, yet, on whether Law & Order: SVU, Revolution, Hannibal or Dracula will be renewed or not. (Rick Kissell at Variety)

Actor Desmond Harrington (Dexter and Gossip Girl) has joined the cast of the upcoming summer series The Astronaut Wives Club, playing the competitive and steely Alan Shepard, one of the first astronauts in space. (Whitney Friedlander at Variety)

Actress Amanda Righetti (The Mentalist) will reportedly set to appear in upcoming crossover episodes of Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., but there are no specific details yet. (Marc Malkin at E! Online)

Veteran actor Treat Williams (Everwood) will guest star in an upcoming episode of CSI, playing Sam, someone who as a Sheriff’s Deputy back in the late 1980s demonstrated a knack for invention and an aptitude for forensic science. As such, he pioneered methods of crime scene investigating in ways that put him decades ahead of his time. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Leslie Odom Jr. (Smash) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot State Of Affairs that will star Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy) as Charleston Whitney Tucker, a key CIA attaché who counsels the president on high-stakes incidents around the world. Odom will play Mitchell Manning, Chief of Staff to the President of the U.S. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Veteran actor Sam Shepard (August: Osage County) has joined the cast of the upcoming 13-episode untitled Netflix psychological thriller drama that will center on a close-knit family of four adult siblings (Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz) whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother (Mendelsohn) returns home. Shepard will play the patriarch of the family while veteran actress Sissy Spacek will play his wife. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Q&A SECTION (with Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Question: Do you have anything for us NCIS: LA/Densi fans? –Krisztina

Mitovich: When I spoke with Barrett Foa and Renée Felice Smith (aka Eric and Nell), they confirmed that there will be “some transition issues” when Kensi eventually makes her way back to the States, ones that affect her partnership with Deeks. “Hetty kind of encourages Kensi to stay close to home, in ops,” Smith previewed. “So she and Eric Beale get to share some time together, which gives Nell and Deeks some time together out in the field.”

Question: Any clue what is going on with Neal on Once Upon a Time? His fans are worried! –Sara

Mitovich: Patience, dearie. Within the next few episodes, the mystery of what’s been going on with Neal in Storybrooke will be answered.

Question: On Once Upon a Time, is there any chance that Snow and Charmings’ new baby is “Dorothy” in this Oz story? –Tom

Mitovich: Funny, Ginnifer Goodwin told me that she and Josh Dallas have batted around that same theory – though at the time we chatted, they were warming up to the Emma-as-Dorothy speculation. But through the filming of Episode 18, at least, there have been no hints either way.

Question: A little bird told me that the Major Crimes cast is coming back to work on Monday. Do you have any inside info on Season 3? –Ilona

Mitovich: Ugh, Sharon’s back. No, not Raydor. (We love her.) I’m talking about Rusty’s other “mother.”

Question: Anything on Season 2 of Orphan Black? –Leia

Mitovich: The Season 2 premiere is, as expected, bananas in all the best ways, quickly bringing us up to speed on (in this order) Sarah, Rachel, Cosima and Allison (whom I possibly heart more than ever). Also, by the end of the hour, there will be a new addition to the “Clone Club” team.

Question: I’ve seen recent promo pictures of George and Lemon from Hart of Dixie (which returns this Friday at 8/7c). Are they just working together as friends or is their hope that it will turn into more? —Tracie

Mitovich: I can confirm that George and Lemon will find themselves increasingly in each other’s orbit, and there will be flying sparks. I can’t confirm, however, whether they’re sparks of love or sparks of hate.

Question: Please get some scoop on Longmire — anything. –Ucano

Mitovich: The Season 3 premiere, “The White Warrior,” is named for a new recurring character that will be introduced in that episode — a young-looking Native American man dressed in white-grey war paint, whom we first meet as he takes part in an almost-forgotten Cheyenne religious ceremony.

Question: I absolutely loved last night’s episode of Arrow. The Suicide Squad was great to see. Is there any chance it could have been a quiet backdoor pilot? –Rick

Mitovich: I like and share your thinking, but with The Flash destined to race onto our screens in the fall, I’d put a pin in any further spin-off plans. Yet as hinted in last night’s final scene, Deadshot et al shall return. “I don’t want to spoil too much where we’re headed,” EP Marc Guggenheim says, “but you haven’t seen the last of Amanda, and you haven’t seen the last of the Suicide Squad.”

Question: Any scoop on Switched at Birth? –Darla

Mitovich: When we spoke to Max Adler, he warned of “some rocky times ahead for Tank and Bay,” ultimately leading to an event that will “leave your jaw dropped and is very shocking and heartbreaking for one of the characters…. What happens in the finale is pretty gut-wrenching stuff.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) and Sonya Walger (Common Law and Lost) have joined the cast of the upcoming Starz drama Power that follows James St. Patrick, nicknamed “Ghost” (Omari Hardwick), the owner of a popular New York City nightclub, who is a major player in one of the city’s biggest illegal drug networks. Garber will recur as Simon Stern, a renowned club owner and events guru who has the exact successful, legitimate lifestyle Ghost covets. Walger will play Simon’s wife Madeline Stern. (TV By the Numbers)

Country singer-actor Dwight Yoakam will have a recurring role in the CBS summer series Under the Dome, playing Lyle Chumley, who runs the Chester’s Mill’s barbershop. Under the Dome will return on June 30. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Maggie Q (Nikita and the upcoming box office film Divergent) has joined the cast of the untitled Kevin Williamson-CBS drama pilot that revolves around two detectives, Beth (Maggie Q) and Jack (Dylan McDermott from Hostages and American Horror Story), who handle stalking incidents for the Threat Assessment Unit of the LAPD. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actor Garret Dillahunt (Raising Hope) will star opposite Ron Perlman – and the recently announced Alona Tal and Julian Morris – in the Amazon drama pilot Hand Of God that centers on the powerful Judge Harris Pernell (Perlman), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a religious awakening and starts having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him. Dillahunt will play KD, a young man who went looking for religion to cure his raging temper. He thinks he’s found God, but he is still a sociopath, and his temper is still raging. Pernell is a godsend for KD, as he gives him an intense singular focus, and an outlet for his violent tendencies. (The Deadline Team)

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Q&A SECTION (with Natalie Abrams at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: I’m so jealous you got to watch Orphan Black already! Please scoop me! — Melissa

Natalie: You may have heard a new clone will be introduced, but the bigger news is that a believed-dead character will make a shocking return. Elsewhere, Sarah will call on an unlikely ally in her quest to get her daughter back

Question: Can’t wait for more Deathstroke on Arrow. What can you tease? — Glenda

Natalie: Now that Slade’s made his intentions known, Oliver will worry that his relationship with Sara is putting her in greater danger. Although they’re able to overcome that speed bump for now, the couple could be parting ways (in more ways than one) down the line. “Where they are right now is not where they will end up by the end of the year,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim teases.

Question: I’m so excited for Royal Pains to come back! What scoop do you have about Season 6? — Ron

Natalie: Divya will be in full mommy mode when the show returns, picking up several months after the birth of her baby. (She’ll even battle a new patient to land the perfect nanny!) But don’t worry: The Season 6 premiere will flash back to her giving birth. And suffice it to say, how — and when — she goes into labor will be surprising.

Question: Any scoop on the Switched at Birth finale? — Chloe

Natalie: It’s a doozy, that’s for sure! The hour is action-packed, literally, with one character getting beat up, another getting physically threatened and a duo — you’ll be squealing! — getting down and dirty.

Question: I’ve heard that Ariel will be back on Once Upon a Time. How will she be involved in the plot? —Ilenia

Ausiello: Without divulging the exact storyline, Colin O’Donoghue says that JoAnna Garcia Swisher’s encore as the Little Mermaid means “You’ll get to see Hook and Ariel interact a bit, which I think will be fun. They have a ‘tricky’ sort of relationship, and I think people will like it.”

Question: I’d love some scoop on what’s coming up for Sam on Supernatural. —Frances

Ausiello: Gadreel’s little stint inside Sam? “We’re not done talking about it,” promises exec producer Jeremy Carver. “There are more layers to it that are going to take a little while for even Sam to understand.” BONUS SCOOP: The stolen grace that Castiel used to become an angel again “is an issue which will not go undealt with,” Carver teases.

Question: I know Louis is Suits‘ love-to-hate character, but is there any chance we’ll learn more about him this season? —Vicki

Ausiello: You shall, though primarily through his ever-scheming actions versus any exposition drop or flashbacks. “Louis is going to be forced to make a lot of tough choices, and [through that] we’re going to learn a tremendous amount about him,” exec producer Aaron Korsh says. “But I don’t know that we’re going to learn a tremendous amount of facts about Louis’ past.”

Question: Wondering if you have any Arrow scoop — especially Olicity-related? —Vanessa

Ausiello: The spark between the partners will “keep popping up,” promises EP Marc Guggenheim. “You haven’t seen the last of ‘Olicity’ moments, for sure. But at the same time, we don’t try to cram them in.” As for the Gal Friday herself, the EP teases that we’ll learn more about her parents in future episodes, with additional back-story coming in Season 3. BONUS SCOOP: Before season’s end, the number of people who know about Oliver’s secret “will go up,” Guggenheim reveals.

Question: I’m loving Reign right now, but I need to know if there’s any hope for us “Mash” fans. —Cora

Ausiello: Never give up hope, Cora. Mary may be married to Francis, but Lola’s extramarital bun in the oven isn’t going to make for wedded bliss. “As long as that secret exists, Mary is going to be lying to her husband,” Anna Popplewell tells TVLine. “It’s not just Lola’s future that’s at stake, but also Mary’s future with Francis.” As for Mary’s future with Bash, Popplewell tells us, “There’s something very exciting that happens in the next few episodes that will alter the balance of that situation.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for yesterday and today:

TELEVISION

Actress Nazanin Boniadi, who plays Fara Sherazi on Homeland, has been promoted to series regular for the show’s upcoming 4th season. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Franka Potente (American Horror Story: Asylum and Copper) has joined the cast of the FX drama The Bridge. She will play Eleanor Schrock, a shunned Mennonite. (Liz Raftery at TV Guide)

Actor Michael A. Goorjian (Party of Five) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Covert Affairs, playing Borz Altan, a former U.S. soldier who has become disillusioned with the American Dream. Covert Affairs will be back for its 5th season sometime this summer on the USA Network. (Joyce Eng at TV Guide)

Actress Necar Zadegan (Rake, The Event and Emily Owens, M.D.). has joined the cast of the upcoming 13-episode Bravo drama Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce that stars Lisa Edelstein (House) in the lead role. The series follows Abby (Edelstein), a self-help book author who hides the fact that she’s separated from her husband as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her early 40s in Los Angeles. She finds herself seeking advice from her divorced friends instead of her married ones, which leads to some unexpected and life-changing experiences. Zadegan will play a divorce attorney at Lyla’s (Janeane Garofalo) firm who is fearless and speaks her mind, sometimes embellishing in hyperbole. She wants to be Abby’s attorney and has a very nontraditional type of marriage herself. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Odette Annable (House) has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC summer series Astronaut Wives Club that is based on the Lily Koppel novel. The series tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race. Annable will play Trudy Cooper, the youngest of the Astro-wives and a licensed pilot herself. A tomboy with aspirations of her own, her forward thinking challenges not just her husband but the other wives. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Grammy winner Macy Gray has joined the cast of the FOX drama series Empire that will be set in the world of a hip-hop empire featuring original and current music. Gray will have the recurring role of Tasha, who is having an affair with a much younger man over whom she exercises considerable influence and control. The cast of Empire includes Terrence Howard, Gabourey Sidibe, Taraji P. Henson. (Tony Maglio at The Wrap)

MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE NEWS

Actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson (Spartacus: War Of The Damned and Arrow) has landed the female lead in the History Channel’s upcoming mini-series Texas Rising, which will detail the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers. She will play Emily West, a mythic historical figure, later dubbed ‘the Yellow Rose of Texas,’ who gets caught in a love triangle between Houston (Bill Paxton) and Santa Ana (Oliver Martinez). (The Deadline Team)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace) has joined the cast of the untitled CBS terrorism drama (the working title is Red Zone) that centers on a retired CIA operative-turned-high school football coach who is pulled back into action after a terrorist event rocks Washington, D.C., and he’s forced to investigate closer to home, where the next generation of terrorists are being bred. LaPaglia will star as Coach Holden Weller, the coach/athletic director in Virginia whose commitment to his job nearly cost him his family. Also, actress Kim Dickens (Friday Night Lights) has joined the cast of this new pilot, playing Helen Weller, Holden’s confident and strong wife, a former CIA shrink who teaches psychology at the same high school as her husband. Actor Kevin Rahm (Mad Men) and Samantha Mathis (Under The Dome) will play husband and wife Paul and Olivia Jordan, the parents of Jake (Graham Rogers from Revolution), the second-string QB on Holden’s team and a friend of the Wellers’ daughter Laney. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter and The Deadline Team)

Actor Josh Lucas (Sweet Home Alabama and the short-lived TV series The Firm) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot The Mysteries of Laura where he will star opposite Debra Messing (Will & Grace and Smash). The pilot follows the life and relationships of Laura Diamond (Messing), a female homicide detective who can handle murderous criminals, but not her hell-raising twin children. Lucas will play Jake, a clever cop with keen instincts who winds up being captain in the same precinct as his soon-to-be ex-wife, Laura. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Britne Oldford (Ravenswood) has joined the cast of the untitled ABC drama pilot that will be set in New York, revolving around the love and rivalry between two equally matched, powerful socialites: Philip Fitzgerald Julien (Rufus Sewell) and Margot Worth Cole (Melissa George is yet to be cast) — who play out their obsessive attraction and seduction of each other through their manipulation of others. Oldford will play Cecelia, the No. 1 fashion model/cover girl in the world who is publicly, and in truth, a virgin, yet in every photo shoot is portrayed as sexual and unattainable. She’s engaged to marry Anderson Cole, who’s three decades older. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Ivonne Coll (Switched at Birth and Teen Wolf) has joined the cast of The CW drama pilot Jane The Virgin that centers on Jane (relative newcomer Gina Rodriguez), a hardworking religious girl who, due to a series of outrageous events, is accidentally artificially inseminated. Coll will play Alba, Jane’s 60-ish doting grandmother who teaches Jane at an early age the importance of staying pure until marriage. We later learn that Alba has been harboring a lifelong secret. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Sheila Vand (Argo) will star opposite Katherine Heigl in the NBC drama pilot State Of Affairs where the latter will play Charleston Whitney Tucker, a key CIA attaché who counsels the president on high-stakes incidents around the world. Vand will play Grace Hough, a tough CIA analyst on the President’s daily briefing team, who keeps her private life to herself. Also, actor Adam Kaufman (Without a Trace) will star in this pilot, playing Lucas Wright, a CIA analyst on the President’s daily briefing team. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Ashton Holmes (Nikita and Revenge) will star opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in the untitled CBS medical drama pilot that revolves around quadruplets — three brothers and a sister — who grew up on a reality show. Curtis will play their mother, Caroline Lang, a dynamic and distinguished physician who now runs a hospital. Holmes will play Gary, possibly the most brilliant of the Lang quadruplets, who left medical school to travel the world and find himself before a near-death experience impels him to head back Stateside to the loved ones he left behind. When he learns that his brother Jonathan is now deeply involved with Jennifer, the love of his life, Gary realizes how much he may have lost when he left the U.S. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Katharine McPhee (Smash) has joined the cast of the CBS drama pilot Scorpion that centers on Walter (Elyes Gabel from Body of Proof), an eccentric genius and his international network of super-geniuses who form the last line of defense against the complex threats of the modern age. McPhee will play Paige, a working-class hero and diner waitress who understands geniuses. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Danny Huston (Magic City and X-Men Origins: Wolverine) will star opposite actress Ashley Judd in the NBC drama pilot Salvation, which focuses on mega-church pastor Daniel Strickland who suddenly dies, leaving his loyal wife, Jennifer Strickland (Judd), to rally to keep their family together and save the church. Huston will play Caleb, the lead pastor at a rival mega-church. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Ben Barnes (The Chronicles Of Narnia franchise) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Exposed that centers on Anna (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), an investigative journalist who will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, including making questionable alliances. Barnes will play Stoya, a mysterious man who develops an intimate relationship with Anna. He claims to be a pilot but is in fact an NSA whistleblower who is being hunted by the U.S. government because he knows too much. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Daniel Henney (X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Revolution) has joined the cast of the ABC drama pilot Agatha that centers on former convict-turned-big-city criminologist Agatha (Bojana Novakovic from Rake), who is brought in to help local police crack a case involving a perplexing disappearance. Henney will play Rey, Agatha’s attentive, doting and loving fiancé. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Bryce Johnson (Pretty Little Liars and Popular) has joined The CW spin-off pilot Supernatural: Bloodlines that is about the various mafia-esque monster families that, unknowingly to humans, run the underbelly of Chicago and who are being tracked by a newly minted hunter who’s trying to stop them and rid Chicago of anything or anyone supernatural. There are no details on what part Johnson will play, but the cast already includes other Pretty Little Liars alums Nathaniel Buzolic and Sean Faris. (Jake Perlman at Entertainment Weekly)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actress Alona Tal (Veronica Mars and Burn Notice) and actor Julian Morris (Once Upon a Time and Pretty Little Liars) have joined the cast of the Amazon Studios online series Hand Of God that centers on the powerful Judge Harris Pernell (Ron Perlman from Sons of Anarchy and the original Beauty and the Beast), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a religious awakening and starts having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him. Tal will play Pernell’s daughter-in-law Jocelyn while Morris will play Paul Dobson, an actor-turned-preacher whose affinity for quick money and shortcuts have gotten him in trouble in the past. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Bryan Greenberg (How To Make It In America) will star alongside Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane in the movie Vice set at a futuristic resort where the rich can live out their darkest fantasies and the lifelike staff are actually synthetic beings. Greenberg plays Evan, an extremely intelligent hipster nerd with connections in the hacking community. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Ryan Eggold (The Blacklist) will appear alongside Russell Crow, Aaron Paul and Amanda Seyfried in the upcoming film Fathers And Daughters. Eggold will John, a Wall Street type who had a one-nighter with Katie (Seyfried); but when they meet randomly in a restaurant a year later, John is hurt that she doesn’t remember him and gets into a fight with Cameron (Paul) when the guy tries to defend her honor. (The Deadline Team)

Here are the top 10 box office movies for this past weekend courtesy of Box Office Mojo:

1. Mr. Peabody & Sherman – 21.8 million
2. 300: Rise of an Empire – 19.2 million
3. Need for Speed – 17.8 million
4. Non-Stop – 10.6 million
5. Tyler Perry’s The Single Mom’s Club – 8.1 million
6. The LEGO Movie – 7.7 million
7. Son of God – 5.5 million
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel – 3.6 million
9. Frozen – 2.1 million
10. The Monuments Men – 2.1 million

NOTE: The Veronica Mars movie earned 1,988,351 at the box office, coming in 11th place and it is only playing in 265 theatres. I would say that’s not too shabby!!

Newcomer Levi Miller has landed the coveted role of Peter Pan in the upcoming film Pan that will star Hugh Jackman as the evil pirate Blackbeard. (Variety)

Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: Will we see more Dean-Abaddon scenes in S9 or even S10 of Supernatural? – @gatorpez

TV Scoop Team: Supernatural fans can definitely took forward to more scenes between the battling duo, as Jensen Ackles teases, “I will say that I do know that that will come to a head. There will be a blow out there, and Dean will get the fight that he’s been looking for.”

Question: I’m so worried about the Psych finale being called “The Breakup!” Can you make me feel any better about my favorite show ending? – Maya

TV Scoop Team: Despite the ominous title, the finale will be perfect. Tears will be shed, yes, but we can promise you that they’re tears with a glorious happy ending that will fill even the bitterest of hearts with the sweet taste of donuts, spiced flax-seed, and thorough satisfaction. All your favorite characters get their moment to shine, including the infamous Dobson, who we finally get to meet. All will be (mostly) well in Psych-land, and we’re pretty sure you won’t have much more to ask for by the time the doors close on Santa Barbara (murder capital of the world) for good – or at least, for now.

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actress Valerie Bertinelli (Hot in Cleveland and Touched by an Angel) will appear in two upcoming episodes of the new Hallmark Channel series Signed, Sealed, Delivered that is set to debut on April 20. The series follows a team of four postal detectives who specialize in investigating misdirected letters and delivering them when they are needed most. Bertinelli will play the team’s Mailroom Supervisor, a revolving role featuring TV icons. (The Futon Critic)

Actor Boris Kodjoe (the short-lived Undercovers) will guest star in an upcoming summer episode of Unforgettable, playing Secret Service Agent Benjamin Hernandez, who informs the Major Case team that he and his partner, Agent Briggs, are taking over a murder case because of its connection to a federal counterfeit case they’ve been working on called “Mata Hari.” (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress S. Epatha Merkerson (Law & Order) has joined the cast of the NBC drama pilot Babylon Fields that is about a town’s residents who come back from the dead. Merkerson will play Pearl Montoya, Janine’s (series lead Meagan Good) stepmother. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Oded Fehr (The Mummy franchise and Covert Affairs) has joined the cast of the untitled ABC Richard LaGravenese drama pilot that is set in New York, revolving around the love and rivalry between two equally matched, powerful socialites, Philip Fitzgerald Julien (Rufus Sewell) and Margot Worth Cole, who play out their obsessive attraction and seduction of each other through their manipulation of others. Fehr will play Anderson Cole, Margot’s ex-husband and one of the Forbes 500 whose power has resulted in expanding a multimillion-dollar company into a multibillion-dollar corporation. (The Deadline Team)

Actor David Morse (Treme and The Green Mile) and actress Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda and After Earth) have joined the cast of the untitled CBS Wall Street drama pilot that already includes Charlie Cox (Boardwalk Empire) and Maggie Grace (Lost) as part of the cast. The pilot centers on Jackson (Cox), a smart, sophisticated, hedge fund trader. Morse will play Conklin, a powerful and authoritative hedge fund genius, worth billions himself and always planning his next move to consolidate his power and wealth. Okonedo will play Bryce, an Assistant Attorney General who’s deeply committed to her work of heading a task force investigating Wall Street. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actors Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do and Beauty And the Beast) and Niall Matter (Eureka and Primeval: New World) have joined the cast of the TNT drama pilot Guilt By Association that centers on Rachel Knight (Julia Stiles), a talented, unorthodox and impulsive Deputy DA in the LA County District Attorney’s office who sometimes operates outside the law in order to uphold it. Scott will play Eric Northup, the Head Deputy of the Special Trials Unit while Matter will play Lt. Graden Hales, a police lieutenant and Detective Bailey Keller’s (Elisabeth Röhm) boss. (The Deadline Team)

Actor Joe Morton (Scandal and Eureka) has joined the cast of the TNT drama pilot Proof, which centers on a skeptical, hard-science, female surgeon, Katherine (Jennifer Beals from Flashdance and The Chicago Code), who has been struggling with family issues, including a tragic death. She is persuaded to investigate cases of reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, hauntings — all of it looking for verifiable proof to answer one of life’s greatest questions: Is death truly the end, or is there something else beyond? Morton will have the recurring role of Dr. Charles Russell, the serious, dry and intimidating head of Katherine’s hospital. He’s hard-pressed to control her but appreciates her abilities and commitment. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

MINI-SERIES/MADE-FOR-TV NEWS

Syfy has given a greenlight to the 6-hour mini-series event Ascension that will be set in 1963, where the U.S. government launches a covert space mission sending hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage aboard the starship Ascension to populate a new world. Nearly 50 years into the journey, as they approach the point of no return, a mysterious murder of a young woman causes the ship’s population to question the true nature of their mission. This event series is slated to launch in November 2014 and air through December. (The Futon Critic)

Actors Christopher McDonald (Requiem For A Dream) and Trevor Donovan (90210) have joined the cast of the History Channel mini-series Texas Rising that will detail the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers. McDonald will play Henry Karnes, a grizzled, tough taskmaster of the ranging company while Donovan will play Kit Acklin, a handsome, wise-ass, expert horseman whose chivalry and equestrian skills are matched only by his gun-fighting prowess. The cast already includes Bill Paxton, Brendan Fraser, Ray Liotta, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Thomas Jane, Olivier Martinez, Chad Michael Murray, Michael Rapaport and Max Thieriot. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Anne Heche (Men In Trees) will appear in the USA Network upcoming event series called Dig that centers on Peter (Jason Isaacs of Harry Potter fame), an FBI agent stationed in Jerusalem who, while investigating the murder of an archaeologist, uncovers a conspiracy 2,000 years in the making that threatens to change the course of history. Heche will play Lynn, the head of the Jerusalem FBI office and Peter’s boss. She’s also his only friend and love interest. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

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Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online)

Question: Please, please, please, give me deets on Teen Wolf. – Jess

TV Scoop Team: Get ready to meet Violet, she’s a pretty 16-year-old high schooler who is very unassuming…but she’s a lot tougher than you’d think.

Question: Please, please tell me Will does not end up marrying Layla on Nashville! – Vicki

TV Scoop Team: Sorry, but we mustn’t tell lies. It’s going to get even crazier for the engaged duo as Layla manages to convince Will that, in addition to getting married, they also need to have their own reality show documenting the whole process.

Question: Revenge has the best twists. How ‘bout a little tease of one? – Matt

TV Scoop Team: Margaux’s half-brother, the devious and dashing Gideon, make an appearance in the season three finale. And he’s sticking around for season four (it’s just a formality that ABC hasn’t announced one yet). But be warned: he has a dark side.

Question: I think Beauty and the Beast fans deserve a little scoop after our tireless voting in Save One Show. So let’s have it! – Jill

TV Scoop Team: That you do, Beasties. That you do. (Also: feel free to nap for an hour or ten, you earned it.) Guess who’s coming back? Cat’s sister Heather, played by Nicole Anderson! Too bad she’ll be put in serious danger as she gets caught up in Gabe’s revenge scheme against Vincent. Uh oh!

That’s it. Enjoy!

PS: Have a great weekend!!

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