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Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Morris Chestnut (the remake of V and the upcoming box office film The Best Man Holiday) has joined the cast of the upcoming TNT spy drama called Legends that follows deep-cover operative Martin Odum (Sean Bean), who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t who he thinks he is. Chestnut will play Antonio “Tony” Cimarro, a quick-witted FBI deep cover operative. The 10-episode drama will debut sometime in 2014. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Scarlett Byrne (who played Pansy Parkinson in the final three Harry Potter movies) has joined the cast of the TNT alien drama Falling Skies as a series regular. She will play a mysterious young woman with special powers and an unusual connection to the alien invaders, who is said to be key to the story next season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Jordana Spiro (My Boys and The Mob Doctor) will appear in The Good Wife in the potentially recurring role of Jenna, a tough, funny and smart police detective who’s not opposed to mixing business with pleasure. (Michael Slezak at TV Line)

Actors William Sadler (Homeland and Roswell) and Justin Kirk (Weeds) will both guest star in an upcoming episode of The Blacklist with Sadler playing Sam, a man from Liz’s past who is gravely ill and reaches out to her while Kirk will play Nathaniel Wolff, the founder of a movement of anti-capitalists and the next criminal on the Blacklist. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The CW is developing a drama series around the young adult book series The Perfectionists by author Sara Shepard (the woman who wrote the book series Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game, both of which are/were on ABC Family). The Perfectionists is a murder mystery drama. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC Family is in the early stages of potential developing the box office film The Hand That Rocks the Cradle for the small screen in the form of an hour-long drama that would tell the story of a young, attractive nanny who terrorizes a suburban family from the inside. (Lacey Rose and Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Jason Isaacs (Harry Potter franchise) and executive producer Mark Gordon are teaming up for a private eye drama at ABC that will be an hour-long character driven-drama about a former LAPD homicide detective whose disabling injury gives him a powerful new ability to solve difficult cases. (Lacey Rose at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter himself) will appear in the upcoming box office film called Gold that is based on the Pat Butcher book “The Perfect Distance” that covers the rivalry of Olympic athletes Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett in the years leading up to the 1980 Moscow Games. Radcliffe will appear as Coe. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects and Jack Reacher) will write and direct a live-action adaptation of the space-set 1970’s anime TV series Star Blazers that focus on what happens when Earth’s atmosphere has been obliterated by a distant alien race and the survivors have one year before radiation will reach their underground refuge and wipe out the human race. The survivors get a shot of hope in the form of alien technology that can deliver a small crew across the universe and back with the means to stave off extinction. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

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

Question: Revenge is SO good this season! What’s coming up for my favorite Hamptonites?! – Cory

TV Scoop Team: Want to learn more about Aiden? You’re in luck! A gorgeous, sexy and strong woman from his past named Niko will be introduced later this season as a nurse at a hospital. Why are they reunited at a hospital? A major shooting will be going down!

Question: In desperate need of Supernatural spoilers! – Emily

TV Scoop Team: In an episode fittingly titled “First Born,” fans will meet a retired demon named Cain, who was known as the Father of Murder who used to train the Knights of Hell. So what made him quit the game? Love! But Cain may be sticking around for a bit, so we’re thinking he could return to his old ways…

Question: The Blacklist is my favorite new show of the season! I need to know who has been spying on Tom and Liz ASAP! – Denise

TV Scoop Team: Prepare for answers, just not right away! “That will unquestionably come into play, who they are and why they’re watching and the sort of Big Brother element to it,” Ryan Eggold teases of Tom and Liz’s Peeping Toms. But when will we learn exactly what’s going on?! “At some point over the next six episodes we will get into that. They will definitely answer who these guys are and why they’re watching.”

Question: Any news on what comes next for Once Upon a Time‘s Neal, now that he is in Neverland? –Stephanie

Ausiello: Though it appears that Hook will soon share with the others the news of Neal’s presence on the island, SwanThief fans might be wise to worry about the pirate losing his latest (figurative!) grab of booty. As Colin O’Donoghue notes, “Hook spent 300 years looking for revenge because he lost one woman. Who knows what would happen to him if it happened again?” For the short-term, though, the sea captain won’t be making waves. “He is desperately trying his best to be a team player, to try and help save Henry. Because he now sees there’s more to life than that side of things,” the actor previews. That said, O’Donoghue warns, “It’s very easy to go back to old habits.”

Question: Got any good scoop on Witches of East End? —Ray

Ausiello: An upcoming episode will flash back 100 years to “reveal who Ingrid was then and why she is who is she is today,” previews Rachel Boston of her character’s previous lives, adding. “Because of the choices you make in another life, you’re still retaining that wisdom and information as you go into this life.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today few though they may be:

TELEVISION

AMC has renewed The Walking Dead for a fifth season. (Variety)

Actor John Larroquette (Night Court) will have a recurring role on the upcoming FOX futuristic drama Almost Human, playing Nigel, a genius roboticist who is sympathetic, highly intelligent and a bit broken. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

20th Century Fox has acquired the rights to the upcoming thriller Swedish novel “De Redan Döda” by author Robert Karjel for adaptation on the small screen. The story centers on a Swedish secret service agent summoned to a remote U.S. military base to interrogate a prisoner thought to be a fellow Swede. He is drawn into the complex investigation led by a female CIA agent, where the evidence takes them from the 2004 Thailand tsunami to a terrorist attack in Topeka, Kansas, and where no one is who they seem to be. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC is developing an hour-long project based on the Harlen Coben best-selling thriller “Gone For Good” that will center on Will Klein, whose endless search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, is filled with so many twists and turns it leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he’s ever loved. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CBS is developing a new as-yet titled project that would center on a defense attorney who takes on the most important case of his life: defending his own brother, a successful surgeon and father of two who is accused of murdering his wife. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE TRAILERS

Hot Trailer: X-Men: Days Of Future Past

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Lifetime has renewed Drop Dead Diva for a 13-episode sixth season. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line and Entertainment Weekly)

Cinemax has ordered a 10-episode fourth (and final) season of its drama Strike Back. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Noah Bean (Nikita) will have a recurring role the upcoming FOX drama Gang Related, playing Jason Manning, a Stanford educated, rich hedge fund owner. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos) will guest star in the mid-season FOX series Rake that stars Greg Kinnear in the title role. Imperioli will play a successful three-star restaurateur and father of five who is charged with bigomy. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Australian actress Peta Sergeant (who was the star of the failed – twice – CW pilot The Selection) will have a recurring role in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, playing a “force of nature in Wonderland”. Details on her character are being kept under wraps at this time. (Philiana Ng and Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Jamey Sheridan (Homeland) will guest star in Suits, playing Charles Van Dyke, a former name partner at the law firm, when it was still known as Gordon Schmidt Van Dyke, who has an ax to grind. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Lee Tergesen (Oz) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Following, which is set to return on January 20 on FOX. Tergesen will play Kurt Bolen, a normal family man who Ryan Hardy (series lead Kevin Bacon) suspects may harbor a dark secret. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Janet Montgomery (Made in Jersey and Human Target) and actor Xander Berkeley (Nikita) have joined the cast of WGN America’s first scripted drama called Salem that will be set in the 17th century, exploring the town’s infamous witch trials. Montgomery will play lead sorceress Mary Sibley, the confident and powerful wife of the ancient, ailing but very wealthy George Sibley. Berkeley will recur as Magistrate Hale, a politician who believes in pomp and circumstance. The cast already includes Ashley Madekwe (Revenge) and Seth Gabel (Fringe). This new series is set to debut in Spring 2014. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Sophina Brown (Numb3rs and Ravenswood) will co-star in the Bravo pilot Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce that follows Abby (Lisa Edelsein from House), the famous author of a best-selling self-help book series. who is hiding 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. Brown will play Abby’s best friend Kate who has to decide whether to stand by her as she’s going through this divorce or risk their years long friendship. Star Wars alum Carrie Fisher will make a cameo appearance in the pilot as Abby’s book editor, Cat. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Riley Smith (90210 and the short-lived drama Drive) will appear in the backdoor pilot for Lifetime called Deliverance Creek that centers on Belle (Lauren Ambrose from Six Feet Under) who attempts to defend her family’s land by any means necessary and is pushed into becoming an outlaw by the corrupt bank that runs their town. Smith will play Toby, Belle’s old beau who jilted here and left her to marry a man she didn’t love. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing an untitled hour-long drama project with former Lost alum (and current star of the summer series Mistresses) Yunjin Kim based on the Korean drama series called Nine: Nine Time Travels. This potential series will center on a man with the ability to travel 20 years back in time who, in trying to alter a murder which destroyed his family, sets off a chain of events that impact the woman he loves and threatens his own life. He embarks on an odyssey through time to make things right. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC is developing another legal drama called Law Man from executive producer Carol Mendelsohn that is inspired by the Shon Hopwood memoir that chronicles the journey of a small town basketball star from young bank robber, to federal prison inmate, where he became the greatest jailhouse lawyer in American history. He went on to join the D.C. District Attorneys Investigative Unit where his life experience gives him insight into identifying the guilty from the innocent, as he struggles to fit back into the world that left him behind. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ONLINE DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Amy Aquino (Being Human and ER) has joined the cast of the Amazon drama called Bosch that is based on the Michael Connelly novels about Harry Bosh, who will be played by Titus Welliver (Lost and The Good Wife), a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Aquino will play Lt. Grace Billets who is Harry’s immediate supervisor on the LAPD, in charge of the detectives who work out of Hollywood Station. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

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

1. Jackass: Bad Grandpa – 32 million
2. Gravity – 20.3 million
3. Captain Phillips – 11.8 million
4. The Counselor – 8 million
5. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – 6.1 million
6. Carrie – 5.9 million
7. Escape Plan – 4.3 million
8. 12 Years A Slave – 2.1 million
9. Enough Said – 1.5 million
10. Prisoners – 1 million

Actresses Eliza Dushku (Dollhouse) and Louisa Krause (Martha Marcy May Marlene) will appear in the upcoming box office film called Jane Wants A Boyfriend that explores a week in the life of a young woman (Krause) with Asperger’s, who enlists her older sister (Dushku) to help her find her first boyfriend. (The Deadline Team)

Noomi Rapce (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) will star in the independent sci-fi drama called What Happened to Monday? that will have Rapace playing the multiple roles of septuplet sisters who struggle to stay hidden in an overpopulated world where a one-child policy outlaws siblings. The seven must overcome their own differences and avoid government execution in order to solve the disappearance of one of their own. (Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter)

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

Question: I’m a simple woman…I just want Scandal spoilers. – Wendy

TV Scoop Team: You know how every time you watch Scandal you think to yourself: ‘Damn, Olivia Pope is a real badass’? Well, in an upcoming episode, Olivia might come face to face with another woman who quite possibly is more intimidating, more badass and definitely more dangerous than her. Prepare for a tough women showdown! Let’s hope Olivia has come to win. What are we saying, she always does that!

Question: Loving The Tomorrow People. What can we expect from Wednesday’s episode? – Ethan

TV Scoop Team: Oh, you’ll just learn why John hates Jedikiah so much, thanks to some illuminating flashback reveals. “There’s a lot of history, a lot of drama there. But throughout the first season, we keep flashing back to that relationship, and that’s very exciting,” Peyton List teases of the duo’s dynamic. “It’s not just, oh this is what it was, and this is where they stand. It’s like, no this happened over years, and years, and years, so there’s a lot to play with. There’s a lot there that the both of them get to sort of figure out. It’s good.”

Question: I still can’t breathe after that unbelievable CaptainSwan kiss on last night’s Once Upon a Time! What’s next for my favorite couple?! – Michelle

TV Scoop Team: Prepare yourself CaptainSwan lovers because this ship is about to face a rough storm. Now that Neal is on the island and Pan oh-so impolitely revealed this news to Hook, we’re about to witness a heated debate for Emma’s heart. But Colin O’Donoghue exclusively tells us that Hook’s relationship with Neal is “extremely complicated.” He explains, “Even though now technically they seem to be about the same age, Hook is old enough to kind of be his father figure, and I think an element of him still sees Neal as that little boy.” This is one strange love triangle. Especially when you recall that Hook used to hook up with Neal’s mom!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Kirk Acevedo (Fringe) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Blue Bloods, playing the criminal brother of Danny’s (series regular Donnie Wahlberg) partner Maria. (Zap2It and TV Line)

Actor Kristoffer Polaha (Ringer) will guest star in an upcoming episode of CSI, playing Darryl, a blue-collar mechanic who is likable and charming, who comes to the aid of Sara (Jorja Fox), Finlay (Elisabeth Shue) and Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) when their car breaks down, but he may have darker intentions. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The CW is working on a new project, a one-hour drama called Players that will be set against the Golden Age of Hollywood, centering on a young Midwestern woman who moves to Los Angeles to avenge her sister’s death at the hands of a predatory studio head and finds herself swept up in the Hollywood star-making machine, unwittingly becoming the ingénue in a closeted movie star’s “lavender marriage”, and a pawn in a studio fixer’s scheme against the mob. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The cable network Starz is developing a drama project called Most Wanted that will be set in the Great Plains during the 1970s, tracing the rise and demise of Nate Daniels, a talented and prolific bank robber who finds himself on a collision course with his family and crew as he becomes one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing a drama called American Crime that will be written by feature film from writer John Ridley (12 Years A Slave) that will be set in California’s Central Valley, centering on a racially charged murder and the subsequent trial that will be examined through the personal lives of the victims, the accused and their families. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

It looks like CBS is developing a reboot to the WB series Charmed except this version will supposedly center around four sisters who discover their destiny – to battle against the forces of evil using their witchcraft. (Vulture and AJ Marechal at Variety)

ONLINE SERIES DEVELOPMENT

Amazon Studios is developing another drama called Grand Ave, a large-scale period drama set in 1910 Los Angeles, chronicling the explosive, overnight transformation of L.A. from small town to iconic American city. The show would revolve around a powerful, ruthless family and explores, in an upstairs/downstairs fashion, how the destiny of a select few coincided with a major metropolis on the verge of its grand arrival. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Luke Grimes (True Blood and Brothers & Sisters) has been cast as Christian Grey’s brother Elliot in the upcoming box office film Fifty Shades of Grey. (Justin Kroll at Variety)

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

Question: I need Scandal scoop stat! – Ryan

TV Scoop Team: There is a “distinct possibility” that we will see a face-off between former besties and Olivia’s paramours Fitz and Jake pretty soon, Scott Foley teases. Just don’t expect to see a flashback to their days in the Navy in upcoming episodes. “We have not seen that so far,” he says. “We’re on episode nine and we haven’t seen it yet.”

Question: Totally addicted to The Blacklist, so anything you can share would be appreciated. – Quinn

TV Scoop Team: Episode eight is a big one. Don’t miss it. Oh, you want more than that? Fine. Not only does someone on the team get severely injured in the episode, but Red comes face to face with one of his mortal enemies. Someone Red is scared of? This we can’t wait to see!

Question: Teen Wolf spoilers would be lovely, thanks! – Laura

TV Scoop Team: Fans will be meeting two new Beacon Hills High students in episode 20: Oliver and Meredith, who both seem have troubled pasts. While Oliver is soft-spoken and has a quiet intensity, he’ll prove to be a valuable source of info for one of our main characters, and Meredith is a lonely misfit who probably won’t be looking to connect with anyone around her anytime soon.

Question: What can you tell me about life after Ziva for NCIS‘ Tony? –Cheryl

Mitovich: As glimpsed in this week’s episode, Tony’s still working through his issues regarding her absence, so it’ll be some time before he opens his heart again. “I’m curious to see what’s next for him in his personal life, but we’re not going to rush into anything,” showrunner Gary Glasberg maintains. “Much like a real relationship, it takes time to recover and to figure out what’s next, and the one thing we’re really trying to do is approach this from the standpoint of as if it’s real. You have to give people” – the audience included – “time to ‘mourn’ and deal with their feelings, and then re-embrace why they watch NCIS.“

Question: I love Falling Skies and can’t wait until Season 4. We know that Robert Sean Leonard will appear in at least one episode, but what is the status on Gloria Reuben’s character? –Ganon

Mitovich: File this under “interesting”: At this time, there are no plans for the ER alum to return as Marina.

Question: Will Castle and Kate will get married mid-season or at the end Season 6? –Russell

Mitovich: Ha, nice try with the trick question. You know that show boss Andrew Marlowe refuses to confirm that vows will be exchanged this season. But if we are heading for a wedding, here’s how Nathan Fillion would like to see it play out. “I am, myself, not a huge fan of the big church wedding with everybody in stuffy suits,” he told me. “I’m a fan of the beach wedding, with everybody in linen. And if it meant an episode [filmed] in a tropical location, then that would be great, too.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

The USA Network has renewed Suits for a 16-episode fourth season. (Variety)

ABC has given a 10-episode order for an adaptation of the upcoming Australian series called Secrets & Lies that won’t air “Down Under” until next year. That version stars actor Martin Henderson (Off the Map) as a patriarch who becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a young boy when he finds the body. The US version is current casting and looking for a showrunner. (Michael O’Connell at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Without a Trace) will have a recurring role in the NBC mid-season drama Believe that will follow the unlikely relationship that develops between a young girl named Bo (newcomer Johnny Sequoyah) with a special gift and an escaped convict named Tate (Jake McLaughlin) when he’s sprung from prison and tasked with protecting her from the evildoers who covet her power. Jean-Baptiste will play CIA Deputy Director Brandice Comstock, a dangerous political lifer who is aligned with the series’ villain Roman Skouras (Kyle MacLachlan) in a conspiracy to capture and exploit Bo. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS is developing a new crime drama based on the Austrian series Fast Forward that would center on a female homicide detective who juggles the demands of her job while co-parenting and working side-by-side with her newly divorced husband, the medical examiner. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on a new project with former 90210 showrunner Rebecca Sinclair and Carol Mendelsohn Productions that would be a period drama set in 1961 Malibu at the onset of the Southern California surf culture as well as the wave of social change that would transform America. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Looks like NBC is in the rebooting mode, as the network is considering reviving one of the most successful TV shows: Murder, She Wrote. But this time the potential hour-long drama would star Oscar winner Octavia Spencer. The project would be a light, contemporary procedural in the vein of Bones or Fargo, following a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth (Spencer) who self-publishes her first mystery novel. Set in a day where sensational headlines inundate the news, this woman’s avid fascination with true crime leads her to become an active participant in the investigations. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC has also ordered a script for a procedural based on the Thomas Sniegoski urban fantasy novel series about Remy Chandler, an angel who, having grown weary of celestial warfare, chooses to embrace earthly life and develop a deep appreciation for humans and their vices. (The Deadline Team)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor Jamie Dornan (Once Upon a Time) will supposedly replace actor Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy) in the film adaptation of one of the most-buzzed about books of this modern date: Fifty Shades of Grey. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Captain America The Winter Soldier Trailer

‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Instagram Teases Trailer on October 29

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Looks like ABC might be bringing be resurrecting the recently canceled Body of Proof, the medical drama that starred Dana Delany. This return is speculation at best, but it is possible the show could be back on the primetime line-up for mid-season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Sean Maher (Firefly) will play super villain Mark Scheffer (aka Shrapnel), a serial bomber who places Starling City in a grip of terror and threatens the life of Sebastian Blood (recurring guest star Kevin Alejandro), on Arrow in an upcoming episode. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Richard Schiff (The West Wing) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Bones, playing the “Dr. Brennan of theoretical physics”. (Entertainment Weekly)

Actress-comedienne Whoopi Goldberg will provide the voice of Mrs. Rabbit on Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Francia Raisa (The Secret Life of the American Teenager) has joined the cast of the Lifetime drama pilot called Unreal, which goes behind the scenes of a hit competition dating series to follow the experiences of a young staffer (Shiri Appleby from Roswell and Life Unexpected) whose lone job is to manipulate the relationships with (and among) the contestants in order to get the vital dramatic and outrageous footage producers demand. Raisa will play Inez, a lesbian producer behind the scenes of the unscripted show who has a knack for finding great talent for the show. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Actor Rob Lowe (Brothers & Sisters and The West Wing) is working with executive producer Kevin Falls on a new drama project for ABC called The Point that would be loosely based on the actor’s years growing up in Malibu. The project centers on a single mother and her two teenagers who move from Indiana to Malibu in the summer of 1976. The Byrd family must navigate the cross currents of colorful personalities, power land grabs, dead friends and lovers, cheating hearts, and seismic cultural changes that will transform Malibu from a quirky middle-class beach town to the iconic coastal destination of today’s rich and famous. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Chris Fedak, creator of the NBC fan favorite Chuck, is back with that network working on a fantasy drama that would revolve around people from different walks of life who receive an organ donation that turns out to be from “Earth’s mightiest hero.” (Cynthia Littleton at Variety)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) will play the lead role in the film adaptation of the Nicholas Sparks novel The Best of Me that follows a pair of former high school sweethearts who reunite when they both return to their small North Carolina hometown. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

Actor Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) will star as legendary singer Elton John in the upcoming box office flick to be called Rocketman. (Dave McNary at Variety)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Vera Farmiga Charms Andy Garcia in First Trailer for ‘At Middleton’

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

Question: How will Oliver get out of being trapped by Laurel and the cops on Arrow? — Jon

NATALIE: “He doesn’t get out of it, he lowers his bow,” Stephen Amell teases. But fear not, Oliver won’t be sitting alongside his mom in prison. “He gets out of the situation with some very unlikely assistance,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim reveals. Here’s hoping it’s Canary-related!

Question: What’s coming up for Deacon on Nashville? Will he be able to play guitar again soon? — Samantha

ADAM: While you shouldn’t expect to see Deacon picking up a six-string just yet, Charles Esten tells us that his character will get back to making music very soon. “I play a little light piano in this week’s episode,” he says. (Fittingly enough, the episode will also feature a turning point for Rayna, who is also struggling to regain her singing voice.) As for Deacon’s emotional healing, look for him to continue growing closer with his daughter Maddie in the coming weeks. In fact, I hear the two might even perform together. Will he be strumming by then?

Question; Is it too early to ask for some Justified scoop? — Caleb

ADAM: Nope, and according to series star Walton Goggins, it may soon be too late! Goggins tells us that, as executive producer Graham Yost has hinted, the show is treating its fifth season as the beginning of the end. “We’re all looking at it as 26 episodes, not 13,” Goggins says, noting that he thinks that the sixth season will be its last. “I am looking at this as the longtail of my Justified experience. We’re laying the groundwork for that.” As for what Goggins’ Boyd Crowder will be up to in the wake of his wife’s arrest in last season’s finale, it doesn’t sound pretty. “He’s angry and he feels impotent. If he can’t break through that glass ceiling, he’s going to shatter it with his bullets,” Goggins says. “He is in a place of volatility… that he’s never been before in his life, and he’s acting out in ways that I could not have foreseen.”

Question: I would love some Grimm scoop. –Stacie

Ausiello: Now that Juliette is an in-the-know member of the gang, she and Capt. Renard will probably share more screen time. But don’t expect them to rehash the insanity of their Season 2 hook-up. “Sasha [Roiz] and I have chosen to play it in a certain way where there is a subtle acknowledgement when those two characters are in a scene together, but [it’s] nothing blatant,” Bitsie Tulloch tells us. “They’re not really addressing it.” (Don’t worry, we’re sure the captain will find some other reason to take off his shirt in the coming episodes.)

Question: Do you have any scoop on Nikita? The wait is killing us. —Abbie

Ausiello: TVLine’s architecture critic Meg Masters recently stepped foot in Season 4′s “lair in the air” set and issued this exclusive-to-AA review: “It does not disappoint. While it’s hard to replace the old Division digs, the new headquarters, while cozy, bear all the Nikita staples — action figures, assorted trinkets and nerd caves included.” And in case you missed the big news, Nikita‘s farewell season kicks off in less than a month.

Question: Revolution scoop, please! —Lizzy

Ausiello: Supernatural‘s Jim Beaver makes his Revo debut this Wednesday playing “the Secretary of the Interior of the great sovereign nation of Texas” whose “got a problem with these Patriots,” explains EP Eric Kripke. “Jim’s character is a lifeline to Miles, who is like, ‘If I can get Texas, which is a nation of gunslingers and lawmen, to join me in the fight against these guys, I actually have a chance at beating them.’ So Miles needs to convince Jim’s character to join the fight. But you know twists and turns and hilarity ensue.”

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Brennan Elliott has been promoted to series regular for the second season of Cedar Cove, the first original scripted drama on the Hallmark Channel. He plays wealthy home developer Warren Saget. The series will be back sometime next year. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

Showtime has given a second season order to the new drama Masters of Sex and a fourth season order to Homeland. (Cynthia Littleton at Variety)

Actress Jill Marie Jones (Girlfriends) will have a recurring role on the new FOX thriller Sleepy Hollow, playing Cynthia, the ex-wife of Captain Frank Irving (series regular Orlando Jones). She will first appear in the November 25 episode. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

TNT is developing a new action-driven drama pilot called Anonymous that will be about an ex-special ops soldier who discovers a global cover-up that forces him to go off the grid to help those who cannot help themselves. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Cynthia Watros (Lost) will co-star in the MTV drama pilot called Finding Carter that centers on teenage Carter, who has the perfect life with her fun-loving single mom Lori until a police bust reveals that Lori abducted her as a toddler. Now Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her, including her biological mother Elizabeth (Watros), a tough police detective who was devastated by the disappearance of her daughter and will stop at nothing to catch her kidnapper. As she navigates brand-new parents, a twin sister, high school and boys, Carter vows to find Lori before the police capture the only mom she’s ever known and put her behind bars. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Janeane Garofalo (Reality Bites) will co-star in the drama pilot from cable network Bravo called The Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce from executive producer Marti Noxon. The hour-long dramedy is based on the book series by executive producer Vicki Iovine that follows the best-selling author of a self-help book series, Vicki (Lisa Edelstein from House), who is secretly hiding her separation from her husband (Paul Adelstein from Private Practice) and starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her 40s in Los Angeles. She begins to side with and take advice more often from her divorced friends rather than her married ones, and it leads her to some unexpected life-changing experiences. Garofalo will play Lyla, Vicki’s friend and a legendary entertainment lawyer who is a real shark but also fiercely maternal and involved with the people she loves. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

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Young actress Amandla Stenberg (who played Rue in The Hunger Games) will have a recurring role on the new FOX thriller Sleepy Hollow, playing Mae, the teenage daughter of Capt. Frank Irving (series regular Orlando Jones) and ex-wife Cynthia. Sleepy Hollow will be back with new episodes starting on November 4. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter).

Actor Rockmond Dunbar (Prison Break) has been promoted to series regular on The Mentalist before his initial three-episode arc even airs. He will play Dennis Abbott, a no-nonsense FBI Supervisory Agent who isn’t impressed by Patrick Jane’s (series lead Simon Baker) skills or charm. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actress Mira Sorvino will have a recurring role on the fourth season of TNT’s hit alien invasion series Falling Skies, playing Sara, a woman far removed from her former life as a graphic designer, who is now dogged by death at every turn, yet she has never felt more alive, free or fearless. A chance encounter with guerrilla fighter John Pope (Colin Cunningham) leads her to join the resistance and develop a strong personal bond with the outlaw-turned-warrior. Falling Skies will be back in the summer of 2014. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Zuleikha Robinson (Homeland and Lost) will appear in an upcoming episode of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland as Amara, a powerful sorceress from Agrabah in a Jafar-centric episode. (Vlada Gelman and Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actor Ivan Sergei (Crossing Jordan and Charmed) will have a recurring role on the ABC Family drama Twisted, playing Jack, a ruggedly handsome working man with a troubled past. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Stella Maeve (Golden Boy) has landed a recurring role on the upcoming spin-off series Chicago PD that is set to air mid-season on NBC. She will play Nadia, a pretty 18-year-old escort who is addicted to heroin and goes through a very difficult withdrawal. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

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ABC is developing a legal drama project called The Law Of Attraction that will follow a beautiful, upper class, brilliant woman who is forced to practice law with a charismatic, lower class tough guy in a reluctant partnership to save her father’s powerful Boston law firm. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC has bought a potential new drama called Sins that is a dark, twisted, sexy soap about a modern day black widow who seduces a wealthy man while struggling to stay one step ahead of his District Attorney sister and the ghosts of her past. ABC is also working on an hour-long dramedy based on the 2004 Argentine telenovela called Los Roldan, which is about the patriarch of the family, an average blue collar worker, who talks a woman out of jumping off a ledge. For saving her life, she offers him a big job in her company that changes his fortune but also puts him in the path of suspicious co-workers who try to figure out who he is and why has he been given such a big job. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

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

1. Gravity – 31 million
2. Captain Phillips – 17.3 million
3. Carrie – 17 million
4. Escape Plan – 9.8 million
5. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – 9.7 million
6. Prisoners – 2 million
7. Enough Said – 1.8 million
8. The Fifth Estate – 1.7 million
9. Runner Runner – 1.6 million
10. Insidious: Chapter 2 – 1.5 million

Actresses Evan Rachel Wood (Across the Universe and True Blood) and Ellen Page (Juno) have joined the cast of the upcoming box office film called Into the Forest, which is an adaptation of the Jean Heglan apocalyptic novel about two sisters struggling to survive in the remote Northern California wilds after society collapses. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

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Actor Hunter Parrish (Weeds) will appear on The Good Wife later this season, playing Jeffrey Grant, an enthusiastic college student looking to experience everything life has to offer, until he’s caught in a Kafkaesque DNA trip, accused of murdering a female classmate he swears he’s never met. (Philiana Ng and Rebecca Sun at The Hollywood Reporter)

FOX has given a straight to series order to the new fantasy series called Hieroglyph that will be set in ancient Egypt, following a notorious thief who is plucked from prison to serve the Pharoah, navigating palace intrigue, seductive concubines, criminal underbellies and even a few divine sorcerers. A 13-episode season has been ordered for the 2013-2014 season. (AJ Marechal at Variety)

BBC America has given a green light to an 8-episode original series called Intruders based on the 2007 Michael Marshall Smith novel about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others. The X-Files Glen Morgan will be the writer and executive producer. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

TNT has renewed Franklin & Bash for a fourth season. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC has pulled the plug on new drama Ironside after only three episodes. (Jon Weisman at Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actor Paul Adelstein (Private Practice) will co-star in the scripted pilot at Bravo called Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce that is based on the book series by Vicki Iovine and executive produced by Marti Noxon (of Buffy fame). The pilot follows Abby (Lisa Edelsein), the famous author of a best-selling self-help book series who is hiding the fact that she’s separated from her husband (Adelstein) as she starts to navigate her life as a single woman in her early 40s in Los Angeles. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is working on a drama project based on the best-selling young adult novel Beta by author Rachel Cohn. The project is set in the near future when clones have become the enslaved work force for the wealthy. But when a new Beta model is introduced and discovers the dark truth about her own origins, she also begins to uncover secrets and lies within the utopian island community she’s serving. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is teaming with Andrew Marlowe (creator of the ABC hit series Castle) on a potential new series based on the legendary hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe. The project follows the investigations of wise-cracking, edgy and rugged private detective Philip Marlowe as he navigates the morally complicated world of today’s Los Angeles, where the bright California sun casts long and dangerous shadow; and where true love can be more difficult to find than justice. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Lily Rabe (American Horror Story) will star opposite Tobey Maguire in the upcoming box office film called Pawn Sacrifice that will focus on the famed but troubled American chess champion Bobby Fischer with Rabe playing Fischer’s sister Joan. (The Deadline Team)

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

Question: Will Ravenswood be just as scary as Pretty Little Liars? – Rebecca

TV Scoop Team: Nope! It’s going to be way scarier. We just finished watching the pilot (we can practically feel your jealousy radiating through the computer screen!) and believe us when we say you’ll be jumping out of your seat more than once. You’ll also never ever want to take a bath again…

Question: Homeland spoilers? I’ll take anything you have! – Georgia

TV Scoop Team: In Sunday’s episode, Carrie has a chance to get out of the mental institution.
But she’ll find out that the CIA has more of a hold on her than ever before. Plus, Mike is back! Why? Because Dana continues to be a real idiot when it comes to her boyfriend, Leo. When will that girl learn? Probably after it’s too late. Oh, and get ready for a twist ending that we did not see coming!

Question: Witches of East End is my new obsession! Any scoop? – Connie

TV Scoop Team: Though Freya and Joanna were in a pretty bad place by the end of last week’s episode, which the former saying she could never forgive the latter for her lies, the duo will share a tender moment in Sunday’s episode after Freya questions her future with Dash now that she’s a witch.

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Actor Martin Donovan (Unnatural History, DirecTV’s Rogue and the short-lived The Firm) will appear in the NBC thriller Hannibal in the potential recurring role of Jack Crawford’s (Laurence Fishburne) therapist at the FBI. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) will guest star in an upcoming episode of The Good Wife, playing a strict and meticulous judge. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS has purchased two drama projects from Greg Berlanti’s Warner Bros TV-based company. The first is called The Shrine, which is based on the upcoming book by the show’s executive producer Nicholas Wootton’s father, Gareth Wootton, and is about a struggling Catholic hospital in Los Angeles that becomes a sensation when patient after patient is miraculously cured of cancer. Could it truly be divine intervention? A young female doctor investigates these “miracles,” only to discover that there may be a murderous impostor in the hospital. The second project is called Black Oak from writer/executive producer Julia Hart that centers on a woman who inherits the haunted hotel that has plagued her family with a curse for generations, forcing her to confront her dysfunctional family’s secrets, ghosts, and demons. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Shawn Ryan (the creator of The Shield and the short-lived Terriers) is working on a new drama project that has landed a pilot commitment at FOX. The untitled project is set in 1957 in the Territory of Hawaii, which is on a path to become the 50th state in the Union two years later. Statehood and tourism are about to make a few men very rich, and when the brother of a small-time Hawaiian hustler is murdered, he resolves to wage war on the most powerful man on the island. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC has teamed with executive producers Lawrence Trilling and Shaun Cassidy on the family thriller project called Empowered that will be set in the pharmaceutical world that revolves around Charlotte Davis, the public face of Omni Health, a massive pharmaceutical company with its tentacles in everything from bioengineering and nanotechnology to the U.S. military. When Charlotte’s father is tragically killed and a mysterious stranger shows up on her doorstep claiming that Omni, and Charlotte’s husband , are responsible, she finds herself torn between her search for the truth and the company that’s always been her family. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

CBS is bringing the international best-selling book The Never List by Koethi Zan to the small screen. The story revolves around four kidnapped young women — three of whom are rescued. The book centers on Sarah Farber, who 10 years after the ordeal, is now a top trauma doctor at a prestigious New York City hospital in the TV version, living life on her own while continuing to unravel the mystery of the missing girl’s disappearance. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Amanda Seyfried will join actor Russell Crowe for the box office film Fathers and Daughters that will deal with two different time periods in the lives of a father and daughter who live in Manhattan. The first period is in the 1980’s in which a famous novelist and widower (Crowe) struggles with mental illness as he tries to raise his 5-year old daughter. The second follows that now 30-year old daughter (Seyfried) who battles her own turbulent childhood demons in contemporary New York. (Variety and Dark Horizons)

Actresses Blake Lively and Ellen Burstyn will star in the upcoming supernatural romance flick called The Age of Adaline that will be about a 29-year-old woman who is rendered ageless after an accident. After years of a solitary life, she heads out on an epic but isolated journey, until she meets a man who might be worth losing her immortality. (First Showing)

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

Question: Revenge is so good this season! What can I look forward to? – Shawn D.

TV Scoop Team: You have until episode ten to find a wedding gift because that’s when an extremely posh wedding ceremony will be going down. One so big that reporters are even waiting outside of the church. The episode’s title? “Exodus.” Chills!

Question: Will Sam or Dean get a real love interest this season on Supernatural? And if so, where can I audition?! – Chloe

TV Scoop Team: Though Castiel will have a love interest this season, don’t expect to see either of the Winchester brothers find a special lady, with Jeremy Carver telling us, “I think you’re going see a little bit of everything. I mean I can’t quite comment on everything down the line here, but as far as the boys are concerned, there’s not a lot of time for [romance], at least here in the early going.”

Question: I really hate baseball season right now because it means three weeks without my new obsession Sleepy Hollow! Any scoop to make me feel better? – Amy

TV Scoop Team: We’ll finally start learning more about Irving! Viewers will meet his ex-wife Cynthia and teen daughter Mae. While they have a good relationship, Cynthia worries about Irving’s relationship with his daughter since he started working in Sleepy Hollow. Expect to see them stick around for a few episodes.

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