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Here are the news items for today:

DEVELOMPENT NEWS

FOX is developing a new drama project called Atlantis that will follow two estranged brothers, who, along with a ragtag crew and a billion dollar state-of-the-art vessel, begin a search for the lost city of Atlantis, discovering mysteries of the deep sea along the way. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on a potential new military drama tentatively called Boots that would be a serialized drama following young men and women from all over the country as they are thrown into the gauntlet that is the US Marine Corps Boot Camp on Parris Island, SC. As they inevitably collide with each other, their instructors and local townies, these recruits must overcome their pasts and in doing so build their futures. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

NBC is teaming with Liz Heldens (creator of the medical drama Mercy, the short-lived drama Deception and co-creator of the summer series Camp) on an as-yet-untitled drama set against the backdrop of a Texas mega church. When the leader of the Spring Hill Congregation dies, the matriarch of the Strickland family rallies to keep the family together in a show about faith and family and all the complications that come with both. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing a limited drama series based on the best-selling novel by Lily Koppel called The Astronaut Wives Club. The story is set in the 1960s, telling the true story of the women behind NASA’s early astronauts and the struggles they face when their lives and families are catapulted into the spotlight overnight. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CBS is developing a drama project called Damascus that will star Ugly Betty alum America Ferrera if it is picked up to series. Ferrera would play a crusading nun, who practices law on behalf of the least fortunate, and has her beliefs tested when her life collides with an elitist corporate lawyer. As the two set out to help those in need of justice, they come up against a secretive and powerful organization that is determined to destroy them. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actor-singer Cheyenne Jackson (Behind the Candelabra) has landed the lead role in the upcoming independent film called The Song. He will play Ben Cantor, a man who bets it all to enter a songwriting contest reality show against the better judgment of his wife, boss, and banker. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

Actors Channing Tatum and Diego Luna as well as actress Zoe Saldana and Christina Applegate will lend their voices to the new animated film called The Book of Life that will follow Manolo, a young man torn between his heart and his family’s expectations. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his fears. Other voices will be provided by Ron Perlman, Ice Cube, Cheech Marin, Hector Elizondo, Placido Domingo and Danny Trejo (among others). (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

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Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team from E! Online, Natalie Abrams and Adam Bryant at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: What’s coming up on Beauty and the Beast? – Lyla

TV Scoop Team: Death is what’s coming up. A character will lose their life before the midseason finale. Rest assured, it’s not Vincent or Catherine. However, everyone else, from guest stars to recurring characters, are not safe.

Question: I can’t wait for the Pretty Little Liars Halloween special! Can you share any spooky details? – Meghan

TV Scoop Team: We just finished watching the annual PLL Halloween episode and you definitely won’t be dissapointed! Don’t believe us? Well then maybe you’ll believe what Pretty Little Liars creator Marlene King told us: “With every Halloween episode of Pretty Little Liars, it keeps getting darker and darker, scarier and scarier.” She continues, “Last year’s episode was insane and this one tops that. So we really took creative license in writing and producing the most amazingly scary, mini-movie of PLL that we could.”

Question: I cannot begin to tell you how much I’m loving Once Upon a Time in Wonderland! What else is coming up? – Chelsea

TV Scoop Team: We suggest you keep your eye on one character in particular. He’s may be cute and punctual, but this show’s White Rabbit is oh-so sneaky! We just got off the phone with the voice that brings the White Rabbit to life, John Lithgow, and he tells us that our furry little friend has some tricks up his sleeve this season. “The White Rabbit is devious and not to be trusted, but the things that motivate him I think are understandable.” The actor reveals, “I think that people ultimately will really like this character.” Well, considering that the Red Queen was two seconds away from making rabbit stew in the pilot, I guess we can be a little bit slightly sympathetic.

Question: Do you have anything you could please share on Revolution? – Tyler

TV Scoop Team: Why yes, kind sir. Yes we do. Prepare to meet two new fellas by episode 11—one is charming and charismatic while the other is power-hungry and headstrong. Better watch your back because the one you’d least expect could turn on you at a moment’s notice.

Question: Loving Jafar on Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. But what is he really after? —Amanda

NATALIE: “Jafar is not evil for evil’s sake,” executive producer Adam Horowitz tells us. “His actions come out of a deep pain that we plan to reveal. And to soothe that pain he’s going to have to change the laws of magic, [which] will affect everyone in Wonderland.” Remember those pesky laws of magic, like you can’t bring someone back from the dead and you can’t make someone love you? Yeah, we’re guessing that Jafar is interested in those two in particular.

Question: I’m loving seeing more of Shaw this season on Person of Interest. Could there be a romance in the offing between her and Reese? — Jill

ADAM: Not if Reese is to have a future on the show! “Shaw, sexually, is probably like a praying mantis,” Sarah Shahi jokes. “Afterward, she eats them.” Kidding aside, Shahi says she’s up for possible sparks between Shaw and Reese, but not before she becomes a fully integrated part of the team. “Reese and Finch are teaching her some bedside manner, teaching her to go for the kneecaps, not the jugular,” Shahi says.

Question: Do you have any Arrow scoop? —Jaime

NATALIE: Oliver’s team will step into the spotlight this season! “We’re definitely going to learn something pretty big about Diggle … in Episode 6,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim teases. “And we’re hoping to meet one or both of Felicity’s parents at some point during Season 2.”

Question: Got any more news about Kensi and Deeks’ relationship on NCIS: Los Angeles? — Brittney

ADAM: Executive producer Shane Brennan says he plans to stretch that story out for most of the season, noting that the couple will talk around their feelings rather than dealing with them, which could lead to trouble. “It comes to a head, and it has some pretty devastating consequences,” Brennan teases. “There’s a revelation … about Kensi that is quite shocking.” But before you ask, it has nothing to do with Daniela Ruah’s real-life pregnancy. “I will put to rest any suggestion that Kensi is carrying Deeks’ baby,” Brennan says.

Question: Are we going to get any more flashbacks to Snow and Charming’s past on Once Upon a Time? —Mark

NATALIE: Yes! We’ll get more of the happy couple’s early days and we’ll also get to see more of Bandit Snow. “There will be flashbacks for Snow and Charming where what happens in the past has direct relevance to what’s happening in the present story,” executive producer Adam Horowitz says. Here’s hoping that those flashbacks include information about how to cure Dreamshade poisoning without having to sacrifice someone else.

Question: I can’t wait for White Collar to return! How long is Peter going to be behind bars? — Gary

ADAM: While viewers shouldn’t expect to see Peter rocking an orange jumpsuit for too long, you can look forward to seeing exactly how Neal will help exonerate Peter of that murder charge he’s facing. Unfortunately, Neal’s plan will be troubling to Peter and very dangerous to pretty much everyone involved.

Question: Some delicious scoop on Supernatural, (please). —Henry

Ausiello: Sam won’t be the only one kept out of the loop about Dean’s decision to let Ezekiel heal his brother. Shares Misha Collins: “Cas and Ezekiel knew each other way back when, but Cas is kept in the dark for a long time about what Dean did with Ezekiel.”

Question: Can you drop some Betrayal spoilers? – Allyson

Ausiello: I was going to make a cancellation joke, but an ABC insider tells me there are no plans to pull the struggling soap off the air. So now I’ve got nothing. (Totally sucks because my cancellation joke was really funny.)

Question: Russian Beauty and the Beast fan here, in need of a scoop: —Natalee

Ausiello: Da, I have! TVLine has confirmed that 90210 alum Riley Smith will appear in Episodes 7 and 8 as “The Bombmaker,” a sophisticated, hired assassin with a specialty in explosives — and a particular vengeance against beasts such as Vincent.

Question: I’m really loving Sleepy Hollow. And I love Ichabod and Abbie. Any scoop? —Sanna

Ausiello: You already know that Golem will terrorize the pair this season, but what you may not know is when. I’m hearing the towering foe will turn up in Episode 9 and, according to the casting notice for the role, interested actors must be over 6-feet tall, possess creature/suit/prosthetic experience, be comfortable with stunt work and be composed entirely of inanimate matter. Fox’s rookie hit is also on the lookout for actresses to play Irving’s (Orlando Jones) thirtysomething ex-wife, Cynthia, and teen daughter, Mae.

Question: Got any scoop on NCIS: LA Deeks/Kensi? —Katie

Ausiello: It’s time for another round of “Is This Just a Coincidence or Am I Onto Something?” Earlier this week, NCIS: LA EP Shane Brennan told Matt Mitovich that “there’s quite a shocking moment in Episode 10 that throws everything awry, and then for the next eight or so episodes Kensi and Deeks’ relationship is in some serious trouble.” Curiously, it’s also around Episode 10 that the show is introducing a new (possibly recurring) “physically capable” American female agent, and two Middle Eastern male agents. Now, I ask you: Is this just a coincidence or am I onto something? (Mitovich votes for the latter, theorizing that Kensi will take a very dangerous off-grid assignment in the Middle East that sets up Daniela Ruah’s forthcoming maternity leave.)

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Garrett Clayton (Holiday Spin and the recent Teen Beach Movie) will be joining his Teen Beach Movie co-star Maia Mitchell in the new ABC Family drama The Fosters when it returns for the rest of its debut season in January. Clayton will play the recurring role of Chase, a handsome and charming high school senior who recruits Mariana (Cierra Ramirez) to join the crew of the school play. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

CBS is developing the new drama project called Blackwood that will center on a ruthlessly successful lawyer who, after he is critically wounded in a shooting that kills his wife, returns to his job to find redemption in a humbling rehabilitation and relentless search for their assailant. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Kate Beckinsale has joined the cast of the upcoming movie The Face Of An Angel that is based on the book “Angel Face” by Barbie Latza Nadeau. The plot has a certain resemblance to the story of Amanda Knox, the American woman who, with a boyfriend, was convicted of killing her housemate in Italy, serving four years before her conviction was overturned. In this story, Beckinsale plays a journalist pursuing the case of a suspect in a murder case. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Dwayne Johnson will star in the disaster flick San Andreas, playing a rescue-chopper pilot who treks across an earthquake-devastated California in search of his estranged daughter. (The Deadline Team)

Actress Morgan Saylor (the much-lamented Dana on Homeland) will appear in the box office film McFarland alongside Kevin Costner and Maria Bello, who will play her character Julie’s parents. The film focuses on the true story of an ex-football coach (Costner), who moves his family to rural McFarland, CA, building a cross-country running team out of the local school’s dirt-poor and predominantly Mexican-American student body. (Jen Yamato at Deadline)

Young actor Ty Simpkins (who just appeared in Iron Man 3) has landed a lead role in the long-in-the-works sequel Jurassic World. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

SPOILER ROOM (with Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly)

Here are five scoop items about Arrow:

Vertigo returns. Arrow is far from done protecting Starling City from one of the most dangerous drugs around, says Haynes. But the reappearance of Vertigo will also mean the return of some of Roy Harper’s skeletons. “Vertigo comes back into the storyline this season and that could set up a possible appearance from somebody from Roy’s past, which, in a way it does with the character Sin (Bex Taylor-Klaus),” he reveals. “[Sin] starts to make Thea a little curious about what happened in their past, and she’s definitely a big part of helping Roy and Thea grow closer…you’ve got to break them apart a bit to make them grow stronger.”

John Barrowman’s return as the Dark Archer: Not what you might think. News of John Barrowman’s return sent fans clamoring to Speculation City, and exec producer Marc Guggenheim wouldn’t have it any other way. “We said at Comic-Con that John was coming back — but we didn’t say when and we didn’t say how. So, I’m going to continue to not spoil that. But I will remind everybody that you know we tell stories in two different time periods — we’re actually doing an episode where Oliver sort of has hallucinations, we’re doing flashbacks from different people’s perspectives,” he says. “OK, I’ll make a joke — we’ve got a lot of different arrows in our quiver. So just because you think you may know something doesn’t mean that you know how it’s going to happen.”

Barry Allen/Flash (Grant Gustin) — will he anger Olicity shippers? Haynes was happy to report that he quickly got along with new cast member Grant Gustin (they bonded over IKEA, in case you were wondering), but there’s one segment of folks who may not be so happy about the arrival of Barry Allen. Namely, Olicity fans. “I know his chemistry with Emily [Rickards] is electric,” says Haynes. “Olicity shippers are going to be in for a little rude awakening this season. I don’t know if they’re going to get what they want.”

Another death? Are you — like Oliver and Co. — still reeling from the death of Tommy? Then you better brace yourself. “I would say there is one more fatality that is coming up,” Guggenheim says.

Summer Glau reveal coming. We met her in the season premiere, but there’s still much for the audience to learn about Summer Glau’s Isabel Rochev. “She has a surprising connection to the Queen family, which will be revealed in episode 8,” teases EP Andrew Kreisberg. “She’s not an adversary for the Arrow, she’s really an adversary for Oliver.”

And, here is some intel on NCIS: Los Angeles:

Just because Daniela Ruah has a baby on board doesn’t mean her NCIS: Los Angeles counterpart will as well. In fact, says exec producer Shane Brennan, if all goes according to plan, viewers won’t even be able to tell that Ruah is carrying around more than just her gun these days.

“We won’t be referencing the fact that Dani is pregnant on the show at all,” he says. “And through the magic of television and with great editing and acting and great story lines, the audience won’t even know she’s pregnant”.

Additionally, he said, his current plans to pack this season with plenty of Kensi and Deeks remains largely unaffected. “Anyone who has followed their relationship is in for a pretty interesting ride,” he says. “There’s going to be a lot revealed about their relationship. It’s going to go beyond the kiss and it’s going to have some pretty amazing ramifications for both of them. And just when you think it might have sorted itself out, late in the season, there is a revelation, about the two of them, I guess — but in particular about Kensi — that will totally rock their relationship.”

The surprise, he says, has been in the works since season 1, “and it’s been sitting there quietly ticking,” he says. “It’s a great arc. Yes, we’ve had to adapt a little because Dani is pregnant, but as a result, it’s become an even more powerful journey for both of them this season.”

Q&A SECTION (with Sandra Gonzalez at Entertainment Weekly and TV Scoop Team from E! Online)

Question: Any plans for Abby to get a new love interest or for her to have a large storyline this season on NCIS? — Laura

Sandra: “I’m certainly open to it,” says exec producer Gary Glasberg. “I can’t say that we’ve been talking about it right now, but I’m not going to say no. Pauley Perrette is fantastic and can handle anything that’s thrown at her and if the time is right and the opportunity is right and the character is right then we’ll consider it, sure!”

Question: Can you give me any scoop on Palmer’s baby adoption on NCIS? He seemed to be having a hard time in the last episode. Is it going to fall apart? — Gracie

Sandra: That’s an arc that will continue to play out throughout the season, says Glasberg. “We’ll step away from it from time to time and it’ll resurface, but people should be prepared for a bit of an emotional roller coaster when it comes to that,” he says.

Question: When is Tahmoh Penikett back on Supernatural? Loved him in 9.01 — @Missa110

Sandra: You weren’t the only one! He was totally great. Sadly, when I spoke with EP Jeremy Carver, he wasn’t quite forthcoming about when (or IF) we’ll see Penikett again. “We’re living in a world where [Zeke] is inside Sam right now, so it’s hard to really address anything beyond that, but I will say that as an actor and as a character he was fantastic,” he said. Personally, I’d count on seeing him again.

Question: Is Quinn going to get a love interest this season on Scandal? She deserves something good. Also, might stop her from going all crazy. — Jillian

Sandra: I agree on the crazy front. But Katie Lowes seems unconvinced that there’s romance in Quinn’s future. “Quinn’s had really bad luck with her lovers — between Jesse Tyler being blown up at Cytron and ripping the scissors out of Gideon’s neck and him dying in her arms. She’s not had the best of luck. She’s kind of like a black widow spider at this point,” she says. “I don’t know whether it’s dangerous for her to be involved with someone or dangerously sexy.”

Question: Once Upon a Time scoop, please! — Carrie

Sandra: Speaking of romance…sorry if I’m being a big tease (that’s kinda the point, right?) but Captain Swan fans should pick up the issue of EW on stands Friday. There’s a photo in there that you’ll want to see. That’s all I’m allowed to say for now.

Question: I will take ANYTHING on Pretty Little Liars. — Steph

Sandra: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Answers are coming. I know, I know, but I really believe it this time. Why? Because when I spoke with creator Marlene King, she had just finished writing the finale. ”We promised this was the season for answers and season 4, when we come back in January, really delivers on that and the questions that fans have been waiting for answers on, I think, since the pilot,” she says. “They will get those answers in this finale — it’s just nonstop answers!” In addition to a number of “shocking, shocking twists,” she says the episode is for “the patient fans [who] deserve this episode.” “That’s sort of how we pitched it from the get go when we started this season,” she says. Meanwhile, make sure you pick up the issue on stands Friday, PLL/Ravenswood fans. We asked King some of the questions you submitted via Twitter. Don’t miss it!

Question: Any chance we’re going to get to SEE Dan Stevens on The Tomorrow People? (I miss Matthew!) — Alicia

Sandra: No plans now, according to Tomorrow People EP Phil Klemmer, but Klemmer says he does recognize how lucky they were to snag Stevens to voice biological computer TIM. “It’s super super cool because usually when a guy leaves one of the most like cherished shows on television, it doesn’t mean that he’s going to land in your lap, but he was just such a nice guy and I had such a good time talking with him” he says. “I was a little intimidated to pitch cousin Matthew on one knee to come play a talking computer, but he was totally charmed by the idea…now the big trick will be how to find out how we can come get him to do a cameo.” Klemmer even has some ideas! While the original series never showed the human being behind TIM (then voiced by Philip Gilbert), Klemmer says with a laugh, “I think Dan Stevens deserves his own flashback story we can find out how he got turned into a computer.”

Question: Any idea who the big bad of Arrow’s second season is? It’s going to be hard to top the Dark Archer! – Lee

TV Scoop Team: “There are actually two,” Stephen Amell says when asked if there is a big bad of season two, but the actor played coy when pressed for detail. He would say, “A lot happens in the first nine episodes, but episode nine for us is when you can always start to sniff out what the endgame is going to be.” Before the grand reveal, fans can expect to see a slew of DC Comics baddies villains, with Amell telling us, “There’s no shortages of villains out there. It’s pretty gnarly out there right now.”

Question: Counting down the days until Ravenswood premieres! Got any fun teases? – Jenna

TV Scoop Team: Like mothership, like spinoff: Prepare for flashbacks! The new series will be featuring creeptastic flashbacks to 1917, where some super-weird meetings are going down in Ravenswood. The word revival may or may not be tossed around.

That’s it. Enjoy!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

MTV has renewed the thriller Teen Wolf for a fourth season. The rest of the show’s current third season will be back starting on January 6. (Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Actor Seth Gabel (Fringe) will have the lead role in the WGN America’s first scripted series called Salem that is set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, exploring what really fueled the town’s infamous witch trials. Gabel will play Cotton Mather, a local aristocrat who makes it his business to oversee the witch hunts in Salem. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Christopher Cousins (Breaking Bad) has joined the cast of NBC drama Revolution where he will recur as high-ranking Patriot Victor Doyle, who’s on a collision course with Tom Neville (series regular Giancarlo Esposito). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Lotte Verbeek (who played Giulia Farnese on The Borgias) and British actor James Fleet (Four Weddings and a Funeral) have been added to the cast of the upcoming Starz series Outlander, based on the popular novels by Diana Gabaldon. Verbeek will play Geillis Duncan, who – in the books – is a sly, 18th-century Scottish woman who dabbles in the black arts and befriends accidental time-traveler Claire (to be played by Catriona Balfe). Fleet will play Rev. Wakefield, a Scottish historian of sorts who (again) – in the books – interacts with Clare and husband Frank in the 1940s. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Actress Victoria Justice (Nickelodeon’s Victorious) has joined the cast of the MTV cyber thriller pilot called Eye Candy, which is based on the best-selling novel by RL Stine. Justice will play Lindy, a beautiful but reclusive hacker whose blog exposes everything from terrorist plots to suspected killer. Convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, Lindy is targeted by a dangerous cyber stalker and believes one of her suitors to be the culprit. When things take a deadly turn, she teams up with the city’s cyber-crime unit to catch the killer. (The Deadline Team)

Lifetime is developing a Wizard of Oz themed drama called Red Brick Road that will take an edgy look at that magical world. In the original 1939 film, when Dorothy sets off for the Emerald City, she followed the Yellow Brick Road; but among the yellow bricks at Dorothy’s feet, there was also a swirl of red bricks. The series will answer where the red bricks lead by following Dorothy down that fateful path, taking her to the oldest, darkest and most dangerous parts of Oz to find what became of her friends who all have gone missing. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC is developing a contemporary spin on King Arthur with a project called Excalibur that will center on a young Brooklyn man who is forever changed when his life is saved by a beautiful stranger who reveals that he is the last living descendant of the very real King Arthur and that he is now at the center of an eons-old shadow war between the descendants of the Knights of the Roundtable and the forces of dark magic. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Netflix has ordered a new psychological thriller series from the creators of Damages that will center on a family of adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home. The 13-episode first season will premiere exclusively for Netflix members to watch instantly in all Netflix territories. Production will begin next year. (The Futon Critic)

CBS is working on an untitled project with executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (the men behind the new Star Trek, Sleepy Hollow and Hawaii Five-0). The series is inspired by the true story of Walter O’Brien’s life and how he, a man with the fourth highest documented IQ, became a real-life professor X. He recruited the world’s greatest intellects to his company where they not only solved the world’s most pressing and significant problems, but also helped each other learn to fit in and live in a world where literally being “one in a billion” can be as lonely as it sounds. Additionally, the duo will be working with writer Corinne Brinkerhoff on a new project for The CW that is also currently untitled that will center on a young Brooklynite recruited by the CIA to infiltrate her recently discovered biological family, a wealthy and powerful dynasty in Texas suspected of having criminal alliances across the globe. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MINI-SERIES NEWS

FX is working on a 10-part mini-series with Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, producer Christian Colson and writer Simon Beaufoy called Telemark that is based on the true story of the British-trained Norwegian resistance fighters who sabotaged Hitler’s nuclear development program during World War II. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

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

1. Gravity – 44.2 million
2. Captain Phillips – 26 million
3. Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 – 14.2 million
4. Runner Runner – 3.7 million
5. Machete Kills – 3.6 million
6. Prisoners – 3.5 million
7. Insidious Chapter 2 – 2.7 million
8. Don Jon – 2.3 million
9. Rush – 2.2 million
10. Baggage Claim – 2 million

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Titus Welliver (Lost and The Good Wife) will play Agent Blake in an upcoming episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

The CW has given an additional script order to new shows The Originals and The Tomorrow People as well as the upcoming drama Reign, which doesn’t debut until October 17. Each shows has been given a 3 script order. (Vlada Gelman at TV Line)

Actor Max Adler (Glee) and actress-comedian Sandra Bernhard will have recurring roles on the ABC Family drama Switched At Birth. Adler will play Tank, a fraternity brother Bay (series regular Vanessa Marano) befriends in her college art class while Bernhard will play Teresa Lubarsky, Bay’s groovy art professor at a local college. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor William Russ (Boy Meets World) will guest star in a November sweeps episode of NCIS: Los Angles, playing a reformed addict who now runs a resort-like rehab center for the rich and famous. When one of his patients is found dead, Kensi (series regular Daniela Ruah) and Deeks (Eric Christian Olsen) go undercover at the facility. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Paola Turbay (Royal Pains) will guest star in the upcoming mid-season ABC drama Killer Women centers on Molly Parker (Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica fame), the only woman in the notoriously male Texas Rangers. Turbay will portray Carmen Garza, a singer who thinks she is a “great” belter but has been reduced to hosting karaoke nights in strip-mall bars. When Molly gets on the trail of a serial killer, she finds Carmen to be a person of interest. (Philiana Ng at The Hollywood Reporter)

Nashville actor Michiel Huisman and Nikita actor Peter Outerbridge will be joining the cast of the BBC America hit series Orphan Black. Huisman will recur as Cal Morrison, a rugged, resourceful outdoorsman with surprising emotional depth and a sixth sense about people and situations. Meanwhile, Outerbridge will recur as Henrik “Hank” Johanssen, a mercurial modern-day cowboy. Orphan Black will be back in April 2014. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

ABC Family has renewed the new family drama The Fosters for a second season. The show will be back with the rest of its debut season in January 2014. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The new NBC medical drama The Night Shift isn’t set to air until mid-season, but apparently the network is already happy with the show since it received an order for three more scripts. The series will focus on the men and women who work the wee hours at San Antonio Memorial. This order now brings the show up to 11 episodes. The lead role will be played by Merlin hunk Eoin Macken as well as Brendan Fehr (Roswell), Jill Flint (Royal Pains), Ken Leung (Person of Interest and Lost), Brigid Brannaugh (Army Wives), Daniella Alonso (Revolution), A Martinez (Longmire) and Kenneth Mitchell (Jericho). (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

TV TRAILERS

Falling Skies Season 4 Trailer

The Tomorrow People Sneak Peek

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Looks like NBC is thinking about time travel again (remember they were the home of cult classic series Quantum Leap). In fact, it’s not just one but two shows they are looking at. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Here are the details:

* Lighthouse, from Josh Friedman, the guy behind Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is an ensemble drama set at a mysterious hotel for wayward time travelers.

* Timeless from Deborah Pratt, former co-executive producer on Quantum Leap, will center on Alexandra King who, time traveling between earth’s future and present day, finds herself caught between two men she desperately loves, the worlds they each inhabit and the secrets that could destroy them all.

ABC is developing a new drama based on the best-selling book series Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen. The story is set in 1929, centering on two women who escape their small Midwestern town and end up in Manhattan. One discovers that the father she’s never known is the head of a crime ring, while the other struggles to become a singer. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead) is teaming with Syfy and writer Natalie Chaldez (Heroes and V) to develop an alien-themed drama called Hunters, based on the best-selling novel by Whitley Streiber. The story follows Pennsylvania detective-turned-suspect Flynn Carroll who, after his wife mysteriously goes missing, is determined to prove his innocence and find her. His search leads to evidence that dangerous alien cells are living among us, and the U.S. government has a secret organization in place to thwart their terrorist efforts. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Writer-director Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being A Wallflower) will team with actress Emma Watson (the Harry Potter franchise) on the box office film While We’re Young that will be based on the novel by Adena Halpern. The story is about a 75-year-old woman, still feeling frisky and that she has far more in common with her 29-year-old granddaughter than with her stuffy 55-year-old daughter, is granted a birthday wish. She gets to be 29 again, for a day. She uses the time to go on an adventure with her now same-aged granddaughter. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Victor Garber (Alias) will star opposite Ryan Reynolds in the sci-fi thriller Selfless that will center on a terminally ill billionaire who undergoes an experimental procedure to transfer his consciousness into the body of a younger man, only to be hunted by the killers who murdered his host. Garber will play the billionaire’s longtime friend. (The Deadline Team)

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

Question: I absolutely loved the premiere of Once Upon a Time in Wonderland last night! Could we possibly see any Storybrooke-Wonderland crossovers this season? – Regina M.

TV Scoop Team: We adore this series and we were wondering the same thing! To get to the bottom of is, we caught up with Wonderland’s executive producer Zack Estrin and asked him if would could ever expect a spellbinding switcheroo. “Right now in the beginning we’re going to make sure that each show lives on its own,” Estrin explains. “Wonderland is its own show, but down the road, who knows? You may see a familiar face or two making their way over to Wonderland. Certainly there are some who started in Wonderland who could always return.” Our money is definitely on Cora—aka The Queen of Hearts!

Question: S.H.I.E.L.D. me, people! – Gavin

TV Scoop Team: Loving Skye and Agent Ward together? Then you’ll like the final scene of the next episode, which may or may not feature Skye putting a piece of S.H.I.E.L.D. technology to good use to check out Ward’s assets.

Question: Once Upon a Time‘s Pan is one creepy kid. Do you have any scoop on the history between him and Hook? Or really, any scoop on Hook in general? –Stef

Mitovich: I am told that Hook’s sure-to-illuminate reunion with Pan is “imminent.” As for more Hook scoop, his backstory is also fast-approaching. In that episode, Colin O’Donoghue says, “You’ll see different colors to Hook, and to Killian Jones before he becomes Hook. You begin to understand a bit more why he is so self-absorbed, apart from the whole thing with Milah and why he’s a pirate. [It’s about] how he becomes a pirate, which is brilliant. The guys have done a great job with that.” And speaking of Hook and Milah….

Question: I have a question brought up by the Once Upon a Time Season 2 DVD set. Were Milah and Killian actually married, making him Henry’s step-grandfather? –Rita

Mitovich: No, that confusion is the result of a mistake made during the production of a DVD featurette. Series co-creator Adam Horowitz confirms, “As far as show ‘canon’ is concerned, Hook and Milah were never married.”

Question: Are we going to see NCIS: LA’s Nell and Eric venture out more in Season 5? –Cari

Mitovich: “There is always fun with those characters,” show boss Shane Brennan answers. “In fact, Nell’s out in the field a couple times this season, and at one point, later in the season, gets a serious moment or two out in the field. She gets to fire her weapon, in anger.”

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TELEVISION

Actor Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse) has landed a major recurring role on the new Lifetime drama Witches of East End, playing Mike, a mysterious stranger and novelist who takes a strong interest in Ingrid (Rachel Boston), but his reasons for getting to know her go far beyond her work at the library. (Natalie Abrams at TV Guide)

Actresses Kate Walsh (Private Practice) and youngster Joey King (White House Down) as well as actor Josh Close (The Exorcism of Emily Rose) have joined the cast of Fargo, the first limited series at FX that is a new incarnation of the box office film. The 10-episode series already includes Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Oliver Pratt and Colin Hanks. Walsh will play Gina, a trophy wife-type and reluctant mother of twin sons; King will play Greta, the daughter of Hanks’ police deputy, a single father who comes face-to-face with a killer. Close will play Ron, the brother of Freeman’s small-town insurance salesman Lester Nygaard. (The Deadline Team)

The upcoming HBO drama The Money has added to its cast, including Billy Magnussen (The Lost Valentine), Rosemary Harris (Aunt May from the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man franchise), Mamie Gummer (Emily Owens, M.D.) and Ray Liotta. Magnussen will play Greg Castman, the middle, and favorite, child of mogul/patriarch James Castman (Brendan Gleeson), who wields power and influence to expand his media empire and control his clan. Harris will have the recurring role of Ellen Knox, the sharp, fearless, and funny mother of James Castman’s wife Ruth (Laila Robins). Gummer will recur as Tricia Castman, who comes from old New York money and is married to John Castman (Patrick Kennedy), James and Ruth’s dutiful son and key lieutenant in Castman’s empire. Liotta will recur as wealthy, entitled, untouchable Wall Street tycoon George Archer. (The Deadline Team)

ABC has given a full season order to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. (AJ Marechal at Variety)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Uber-producer Greg Berlanti has teamed with Nicholas Wootton (creator of the short-lived Golden Boy) for an hour-long project at TNT called President X that will center on a former U.S. President who wakes up from a year-long coma and, now out of power, must hunt down the individual who tried to assassinate him. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The CW is working on a new futuristic project called Colony, a thriller about a group of explorers sent to colonize Mars, who are willing to leave their lives behind to brave the dangers of another planet, and the terrifying reality they discover. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Executive producers Howard Gordon and Evan Katz (24) are going into development together on a new project called Trial of The Century that will be told from the point-of-view of a young Latina attorney working on a unique high-profile case. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Peter Jacobson (House) has been cast in the Lifetime pilot HR that will center on Ellen (Alicia Silverstone), the uptight Director of Human Resources for a global company who after a head injury alters her outlook on life, throws standard corporate practices out the window and inspires the business to strive for new ambitions and profits. Jacobson will play Moss Lieber, Ellen’s smarmy boss. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Box office film writer-director Mark Steven Johnson is developing a new drama project for CBS called Generation Next that is set a year after a deadly outbreak that caused ordinary citizens to fly into a mindless rage. After a cure is discovered, these “Carriers” are finally allowed to return to society, and to solve crimes committed by or against the infected, the Infectious Crimes Department is formed. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark on Game of Thrones) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film Barely Lethal that will center on a 16-year-old assassin (Hailee Steinfeld) who fakes her own death in pursuit of a “normal” adolescence. Turner will play an undercover agent who enrolls in high school to help capture the teen. (The Deadline Team)

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TELEVISION

Newcomer Michael Malarkey (who appeared in the lead role of Prince Maxon in the second pilot of The CW’s failed-to-be-picked-up series The Selection) has landed a major recurring role on The Vampire Diaries. He will play Enzo, a charismatic but tortured figure from Damon’s past who arrives in Mystic Falls desperate to reconnect with his old friend. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actors Robert Forster (Alcatraz and Breaking Bad) and Lou Diamond Phillips (Longmire) will guest star in the same upcoming episode of the new NBC drama Ironside. Forster will appear as Virgil’s (series regular Pablo Schreiber) father, Michael Burke, an ex-detective and NYPD legend. While Virgil loves and worships his dad’s professional legacy, he fears the job will do to him what it did to his father, causing some friction between the two. Meanwhile, Phillips will portray Stuart White, the head of security for a prestigious New York City university and a former NYPD cop who helps Ironside (series lead Blair Underwood) and his crew track down a car bomber. (Rob Moynihan at TV Guide)

Actress AnnaLynne McCord (90210) will appear in the third season of Dallas (set to premiere this winter on TNT), playing Heather, a twenty-something ranch hand with a troubled ex-husband and a 5-year-old son. (ET Online)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Netflix has cast newcomer Madeline Brewer (who made her acting debut in Orange Is The New Black) in Season 2 of their online series Hemlock Grove. She will have a recurring role as a graphic novelist entering the town. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

ABC has picked up a pilot called Allegiance from up-and-coming writer Sue Chung that will be executive produced by Chris Morgan (executive producer and writer on Fast & Furious 6), directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld franchise) and has Jennifer Johnson (Alcatraz and Touch) as showrunner. The project will center on a young female FBI agent who, after a series of devastating, high-tech attacks on the government, pursues the smartest and deadliest domestic terrorist in American history: her own mother. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The USA Network has added the following three drama pilots to its slate:

Complications comes from Matt Nix, the man behind Burn Notice, and is a gritty medical drama that centers on an ER doctor whose life is transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy’s life and killing one of his attackers.

Novice comes from Joe and Tony Gayton (the creators of Hell on Wheels), and follows a young man as he enters a life of crime after repeatedly trying to break into corporate America.

Rush from Jonathan Levine (writer of Warm Bodies), and follows an on-call doctor who is highly discreet, accepts cash-only transactions and parties with the best of them. (AJ Marechal at Variety)

CBS is teaming with Janine Sherman Barrois (executive producer on Criminal Minds) for a new crime drama project called Jigsaw that will follow the intersecting lives of homicide detectives, prosecutors, defense attorneys, the Media and the Mayor’s office as they work to solve the most scandalous crimes San Francisco has seen in decades. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

MADE-FOR-TV NEWS

Actress Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) has landed the lead role in the two-hour movie/backdoor pilot Deliverance Creek at Lifetime. The project takes place at the end of the Civil War and centers on Belle Barlowe (Ambrose), a mother of three who attempts to defend her family’s land by any means necessary. When the corrupt bank that runs their town pushes Belle into becoming an outlaw, the stakes become personal, setting off a chain of events that force her to question whether it’s better to be good or to survive. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Q&A SECTION (with TV Scoop Team at E! Online, Natalie Abrams and Adam Bryant at TV Guide and Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Question: I have a Once Upon a Time question. Will we learn more about Rumplestilskin’s past with his father? – Jamie

TV Scoop Team: Why yes, yes we will. We recently chatted with the OUAT masterminds Eddy Kitisis and Adam Horowitz and they promised us that we were definitely dig into Rumple’s daddy issues this season. “We’ve hinted in the past that his father was a coward. His father’s name was kind of a something that haunted him and that his father left him when he was younger,” Kitsis reveals. “Episode four is called “Nasty Habits” and that will be Rumple’s first back story episode of the new season.” Can’t wait! Hopefully there’s some more Rumbelle goodness headed our way too!

Question: I am beyond pissed at the premiere of Hart of Dixie! How could Zoe do that to my poor Wade? – Kayla

TV Scoop Team: Trust us girl, we feel your pain—and so does Wilson Bethel! We caught up with him on the Hart of Dixie set and he shared that even though Wade is bummed that he lost his lady love, he’s not going to be sulking around Bluebell. “Wade got his feelings hurt but he’s also not the type of guy to hold grudges so I think he’s pretty quick to forgive and forget,” he says. “But it looks at least in the short term that Zoe has moved on so that is kind of a bummer.” So what’s Wade’s new mission? Bethel says with a smile, ” I think his M.O. is kind of just giving this dude a hard time as one would when one is hanging around their ex-girlfriend’s new fella.” FYI punches may be thrown…

Question: Counting down the days until Grimm premieres. Help a sister out with some spoilers? – Helen P.

TV Scoop Team: The premiere is on Oct.25 and episode nine is titled “Red Menace”, and we’ll meet a pretty Russian woman who has an intriguing connection to the big bad in the episode. She’s also quite the flirty one, so Nick should definitely watch his back…and his front

Question:  Now that Beckett is presumably back in New York to stay, when can we expect a Castle wedding? — Ashley

ADAM: Not anytime soon. Although Stana Katic was one of the most vocal proponents of getting Castle and Beckett together ASAP, she’s not in as much of a rush for her character to walk down the aisle. “I don’t know if the wedding needs to happen in the next few months or not,” she says. “It’s not as much of a push for me because they’re together and they’re a solid couple. … There’s so much juice to be mined from the complications of getting a wedding together, especially when you have characters like Martha or Lanie or Captain Gates on the outskirts. I think that that will make for a really fun wedding-planning scenario.

Question: How long before Stefan is saved on The Vampire Diaries? —Peach

NATALIE: You know those visions Elena has been having along with that big pit in her stomach? Well, the dreams are about to get even clearer. The nail in the coffin — pun intended — will be that Katherine is having the same exact visions, but it’s she who recognizes the location, leading them to where Stefan might be found.

Question: What can you tell me about Ziva’s replacement on NCIS? — Julie

ADAM: There will be a bit of a revolving-door situation at Ziva’s old desk for the next few weeks, and viewers won’t get a look at who will most likely be the permanent new team member until November. Fortunately, when Emily Wickersham’s NSA Analyst Ellie Bishop finally does report for duty, she will make a strong first impression during the NCIS team’s hunt for terrorist Benham Parsa. “He is a new face that we haven’t seen before and has a new approach to things,” executive producer Gary Glasberg says of the season-long villain. “Bishop will actually have a strong view and position on [Parsa]. She’ll be bringing something extra to the table.”

Question: What’s going to happen to Charming on Once Upon a Time?! — Mary

NATALIE: “He dies,” jokes executive producer Adam Horowitz. Relax. He’s not dead — yet — but Peter Pan did say that Emma would leave Neverland as an orphan. “Peter Pan is a guy of his word. This is a terrible circumstance he’s found himself in. It’s also a circumstance that’s going to get worse and more complicated,” says Horowitz. Fellow executive producer Edward Kitsis adds that the Dreamshade poisoning will bring out the true essence of Prince Charming’s noble, heroic nature. “The way he deals with adversity is truly practicing what he preaches. He’s going to put his family first even at the risk of his own life.”

Question: Do you have any scoop on Arrow’s version of Amanda Waller? — Sam

NATALIE: This will be the proto-version of Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson), who is not yet the head of A.R.G.U.S. “One of the things we’ll be exploring is: What is this organization? What do they know? Who are they working with?” executive producer Marc Guggenheim says. “We’ve got a couple of surprises up our sleeves about that. We just started talking about something that actually won’t come into play until Season 3, but is a pretty exciting way to use Amanda.” However, there will be a nod to the Waller fans know and love. “Once she gets promoted, she’s going to start stress-eating,” Guggenheim jokes.

Question: Any scoop on Beauty and the Beast? –Gail

Ausiello: As seen in Monday’s premiere, Cat met her biological dad yet she didn’t meet her biological dad. But that introduction is on the horizon. “Once Cat finds out the man she thought was her dad isn’t, that’s going to really throw her for a loop,” says Kristin Kreuk. “Then, because she’s a detective, she’ll start to find out who her [biological] dad is fairly quickly, and it’s tough for her. She believes that everyone from her past has lied to her… and this man is going to be the only thing that ties her to anything that she was, any of her history.”

Question: I’m a big fan of the Lanie character on Castle. Any scoop? —Ana

Ausiello: Stana Katic told Matt Mitovich that Beckett and her bestie — whom we haven’t seen together since the engagement — have “a few scenes coming up,” during which they hash out a delicate issue facing the betrothed “Caskett.”

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TELEVISION

Actress Ashley Madekwe (formerly of Revenge) has joined the cast of the first scripted series for WGN America called Salem that will be set in the volatile world of 17th century Massachusetts, exploring what really fueled the town’s infamous witch trials. She will play Tituba, Salem’s most powerful witch Mary Sibley’s exotic and mysterious right hand and helper who hasn’t aged in the ten years she has been apart from her master. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor William Sadler (Roswell and Iron Man 3) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Elementary, playing Ian Gale, an iconic technology entrepreneur and innovator. (Jethro Nededog and Tim Kenneally at The Wrap)

Actor Amir Arison (Homeland and the short-lived Zero Hour) will have a recurring role on the new hit NBC drama The Blacklist, where he will play FBI Tech specialist Aram Mojtabi who is an enthusiastic, hardworking agent desperate to assimilate. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Bess Armstrong (My So-Called Life) will have a recurring role on the mid-season CBS drama Reckless, which is a sultry legal drama about gorgeous Yankee litigator Roya Rayder (Cam Gigandet from Twilight and Burlesque) and charming southern attorney Jamie Sawyer (Anna Wood). Armstrong will portray Roy’s mother Melinda. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actor Ryan Kelley (Prayers for Bobby) will appear in an arc on the MTV thriller Teen Wolf, playing young Deputy Sheriff Perish, the newest member of the Beacon Hills Sheriff’s Department. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Annie Wersching (24 and Revolution) will guest star in an upcoming episode of Castle, playing Dr. Kelly Nieman, an elite cosmetic surgeon who draws the interest of the NYPD detectives because of her connection to a murder victim. (Matt Mitovich at TV Line)

Actress Jeri Ryan (Body of Proof) has joined the cast of the upcoming new Syfy thriller Helix that will follow a team of Centers for Disease Control scientists who travel to the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak. Once there, they find themselves involved in a life-and-death struggle “that holds the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation.” Ryan will play the COO of the research facility where the series takes place. (Megan Masters at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Andrew Cosby created the Syfy series Eureka and he is now developing a new series called Strange Fiction for NBC. The series will center on a young book editor drawn into the world of the supernatural by a reclusive and quite possibly insane paranormal investigator. (Lesley Goldberg at The Hollywood Reporter)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Jennifer Ehle (Pride & Prejudice and the short-lived A Gifted Man) will play the role of Carla in Fifty Shades Of Grey, the mother of Anastasia Steele. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Young actor Brenton Thwaites (Blue Lagoon: The Awakening) will star alongside Gerard Butler, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (from Game of Thrones) and Geoffrey Rush in the box office film called Gods Of Egypt. Butler will play Set, a god of the desert, storms, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. He killed and mutilated his own brother Osiris. Horus (Coster-Waldau), the son of Osiris, seeks revenge. Thwaites will play Bek, a human thief who cares little for the affairs of gods but when he discovers Zaya has been cursed by Set, he falls on the side of Horus, hoping that Set’s death will break the curse. (Mike Fleming, Jr. at Deadline)

Actor Jason Isaacs (the Harry Potter franchise) has joined the cast of the upcoming box office film called Fury that will be set in the waning days of the war, revolving around the five-man crew of an American tank who come upon a desperate German division. Isaacs will play the confident captain and veteran on the team that includes Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman and Michael Pena. (Heat Vision and Dark Horizons)

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

Question: S.H.I.E.L.D. question: Will there be more storylines like the one in the pilot? I liked the reluctant superhero idea. – Brennan

TV Scoop Team: Yes, fans of the pilot will be happy to know that the S.H.I.E.L.D. gang is far from done looking for people who have recently become super. Episode nine in particular will be pleasing to those who want Coulson and his crew to get back to business.

Question: I’m the biggest Caskett fan! Got Castle scoop regarding my favorite couple?? – Ash

TV Scoop Team: Stana Katic talked to us recently about the future of Kate and Castle, and it doesn’t exactly sound like smooth sailing ahead. “I think these two characters have strong opinions, and that will create a lot of conflict and opportunity for romance and interest, hopefully,” she tells us. “It would be a new kind of like, new version of the show. But they’ve been revolutionizing the show, I think, for the past two or three years, so I think that they did a nice job of kind of shifting it into the romance last year, and now finally into the engagement, and I’m already filming episode seven or right, and it seems like they’re doing a great job of kind of creating that shift.” Gird your loins, shipper.

Question: LOVED the BATB premiere, but nervous about VinCat’s future, especially with Gabe still in the picture! – Nancy

TV Scoop Team: Fret not over the handsome former Beast’s presence as Sendhil Ramamurthy assures that Catherine won’t be feeling amorous about Gabe anytime soon. “It stays pretty combative, certainly in these first few episodes,” he teases of the duo’s dynamic moving forward, “and then they kind of grow to an understanding. And Gabe kind of shows that he’s on board with going forward with this and trying to help with a cure for Vincent.”

Question: Any scoop on Arrow would be great! Maybe about Roy? – Karine

TV Scoop Team: Mini-vigilante is still trying to be a vigilante when we see him again in season two, much to Thea’s dismay. But he’s not giving up, even after several meetings with the Hood, who suggests he should. Oh, and you can expect to see the two come to an understanding by the end of episode two, one that will please fans hoping to see Colton Haynes eventually don a superhero suit of his own (aka everyone in the world).

Question: The Blacklist is my new favorite show! Any scoop on why Reddington is so interested in Liz? – Nicholas

TV Scoop Team: You know that theory circulating that he’s her father? Well, those theorists may want to head back to the drawing board after this tease: We will meet Liz’s father Sam, who is battling a sickness, in episode seven and soon learn he shares a history with a man with an affinity for hats…

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TELEVISION

NBC gave the new drama The Blacklist a full 22-episode season order. (Variety)

The National Geographic Channel is getting into scripted dramas with an adaptation of the box office film Act Of Valor, which will begin production next year. The series will focus on para-rescue men, also known as PJs, who are the unsung heroes tasked with recovery and medical treatment of personnel in humanitarian and combat environments. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Sharon Leal (Hellcats and Dreamgirls) will have a multi-episode arc in Grimm, playing as physical therapist and potential love interest for Hank (series regular Russell Hornsby). Grimm returns for an all-new season on October 25 on NBC. (Kimberly Roots at TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Screenwriter Diablo Cody and TV producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl and Chuck) are teaming up for a potential TV series called Prodigy that will center on a homeschooled and brilliant teen who enters a high school and is adopted by a wild crowd. (AJ Marechal at Variety)

NBC has given a pilot order to the psychological crime thriller Tin Man that will be set in the near future, focusing on a fugitive robot accused of first-degree murder, who may hold the key to the future of human evolution, and the young female public defender forced to fight for his cause. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Cinemax is developing another Western-theme drama project called Blood & Ice that will be about the near-future race to control the vast natural resources hiding in the Arctic. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ONLINE SERIES

Actresses Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue) and Arielle Kebbel (The Vampire Diaries) [among others] have joined the cast of the Amazon Studios pilot The After from Chris Carter, the creator of The X-Files. They join Jamie Kennedy, Adrian Pasdar and Aldis Hodge as part of the cast that will take place at the moment of apocalypse. Lawrence will play Francis, a wealthy mysterious woman who resides in Bel Air while Kebbel will play Tammy, a sexy, professional woman. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

Actress Amy Price-Francis (King) has joined the cast of the other Amazon drama pilot called Bosch, which is a police procedural based on the Michael Connelly novels about Harry Bosch (actor Titus Welliver of Lost fame), a veteran police homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Price-Francis will play Sunny “Money” Chander, an attractive and exceptionally good lawyer representing Rosa Flores, whose husband Roberto, a suspected serial killer, was killed four years ago by Bosch, and Chandler’s job is to destroy Bosch in court. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

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

1. Gravity – $55.6 million
2. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 – $14.5 million
3. Runner Runner -$7.6 million
4. Prisoners – $5.7 million
5. Rush – $4.4 million
6. Don Jon – $4.2 million
7. Baggage Claim – $4.1 million
8. Insidious Chapter 2 – $3.9 million
9. Pulling Strings – $2.5 million
10. Enough Said – $2.2 million

The Weinstein Company has joined Look Out Point and BBC Worldwide as production partners on the upcoming six-part adaptation of the Leo Tolstoy classic novel War And Peace that begins in 1805 Russia, centering on five aristocratic families set against the backdrop of the reign of Alexander I. This will be an “event series” for the BBC written by Andrew Davies, screenwriter for House Of Cards, Pride And Prejudice, Bridget Jones and Sense & Sensibility. (Nancy Tartaglione at Deadline)

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TELEVISION

Actress Kim Raver (Grey’s Anatomy) and legendary actor William Devane will reprise their roles on 24 when the series returns to FOX next year for its big event series 24: Live Another Day. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

The Hallmark Channel confirmed that the two-hour back-door pilot Signed, Sealed, Delivered that will air this weekend on the cabler has been picked up as a series, airing 10 episodes sometime next year. (The Deadline Team)

ABC has cancelled the new drama Lucky 7 after only two airings. (Variety)

Actress Halle Berry will star in the straight-to-series CBS drama Extant from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin TV and CBS TV Studios. The series will follow an astronaut (Berry) returning from a year-long solo space mission who tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately change the course of human history. (Variety)

ONLINE SERIES NEWS

Actors Jamie Kennedy (The Ghost Whisperer), Adrian Pasdar (Heroes and The Lying Game) and Aldis Hodge (Leverage) have all joined the cast of the Amazon Studios pilot called The After that comes from Chris Carter (the man behind The X-Files). The online series will take place at the moment of apocalypse with Kennedy playing a professional clown, Pasdar playing a successful Beverly Hills businessman, and Hodge playing an escaped convict who proclaims to be an innocent man who was railroaded. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Shonda Rhimes just keeps making more TV projects. She now has another drama in development at ABC that will center on a bankrupt, forty-something divorcée and her underemployed Millenial neighbors who make ends meet by chasing reward money for unsolved crimes. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

ABC isn’t finished there, though, as they have a drama project in development with producer Mark Gordon called Conviction which centers on Amy Koch. When her 20-year-old son, Steven, is convicted on two counts of first-degree murder, she is simply unable to accept it, and so, facing a slim list of options, Amy sees no alternative but to take matters into her own hands. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

CBS is developing a drama project based on the James Patterson best-selling thriller called Zoo that is set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet. A young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

BOX OFFICE NEWS

Actress Reese Witherspoon will produce and star in the comedic fairy-tale box office film called Happily Ever After that will follow a prince and princess ten years after they got their “happily ever after.” Even in fairy-tale land, they realize they have to work to keep their relationship and lives together. (The Hollywood Reporter and Dark Horizons)

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

Question: Can’t wait for my date with the Winchesters! Any Supernatural scoop to celebrate? – Shauna

TV Scoop Team: Fans will be meeting a new angel in episode nine: Therat-faced Malachi, who is a street fighter of an angel who has managed to put together a sizable group of loyal followers. (Join or die is his kind of thing.) His goal? To start a war.

Question: I wasn’t expecting to love The Fosters as much as I did, so I’d appreciate any scoop you have on its return! – Debbie

TV Scoop Team: Mariana is getting a new friend…and possible love interest! Levi is a new freshman boy who is smart, funny and self-deprecating. He’s pretty much the definition of awkward cute. Levi would as the lighting and tech guy for the school’s drama club, which is how Mariana meets him.

Question: Have you seen the Arrow premiere? What can we expect! I’m hoping for an Oliver and Felicity hookup finally! – Nina

TV Scoop Team: Well then the first two episodes should please the Olicity lovers out there as the duo share a few moments, including one in which Felicity comments on how “sweaty” Ollie is. Oh, and she then mentions how much she loves watching him workout on the infamous salmon ladder. Alas, we’re hearing Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen and Felicity will share quite the spark when he makes his Arrow debut.

Question: So happy that this season of Revenge feels a lot more like season one! Is it going to stay this way? -McKayla

TV Scoop Team: Oh yes! The Revenge that we all fell in love with is back and it’s going to keep getting better. Now that Emily and Daniel are re-engaged, there are a plethora of things that they need to complete before their red wedding. One of the most important events on their list is a pre-wedding photo-shoot and story about Daniel and Emily’s second attempt at tiring the knot. Unfortunately the journalist in charge of the shoot is determined to as all the hard-hitting questions, even if it makes the atmosphere extremely uncomfortable.

Question: I was wondering if you knew if (or when) Once Upon a Time‘s Neal would go to Neverland? Based on some cast photos that were tweeted, it looked like he might show up there. –Allie

Mitovich: Or, Michael Raymond-James was just photo bombing his pals on their own set…? Because Neal’s road home will not be an easy one. “This show never seems to be short in the obstacles department,” Raymond-James shares. “It’s one of those things where the answer to one problem usually leads to seven more problems that one needs to overcome. So there’s some tough sledding ahead, I’ll say that.”

Question: How has Once Upon a Time‘s Emma not questioned or had a glimmer of hope that Neal might have been saved? –ratinhos

Mitovich: Fair point. So we asked Jennifer Morrison if Emma might start to somehow “sense” that Neal survived his portal plunge. But she maintained, “They have no sense in Neverland what happened with Neal.” And as for Emma’s instincts, “Because of everything she has been through — and especially having been through so much loss with Neal — for her own sanity, she has to assume that he is dead.”

Question: Any clues on Regina’s Once Upon a Time love interest? –Natalie

Mitovich: You think you’re anxious to meet Regina’s romantic interest? How about poor Lana Parrilla, who when we saw her on the set Thursday had yet to start shooting that storyline. But with an eye on it, she said, “I’m like, ‘What?! I don’t think she’s kissed anyone in like 200 years.’ Well, [except for] the Huntsman. But there is something coming up. And I will say: Regina has not met him. But maybe the audience has.”

Question: How cool is Stana Katic?! And any more scoop on Castle? –Clare

Mitovich: You don’t even know, and of course! This Monday’s episode, which centers on the death of a defunct Saved By the Bell-like sitcom’s star, is the one I was on set for, so I invited writer Elizabeth Beall to preview it for y’all. “It’s a really fun world that we go into, one that offers all of our characters really distinct points of view about the ’90s sitcom thing,” she started. “Beyond that, it’s a really surprising type of case, for Beckett and the Feds to bump up against the boys in the precinct. And it takes a very surprising turn going from the fun aspects of the case to a much more serious, grounded conclusion.” As Kate temporarily reunites with her pals at the 12th, “It becomes a really nice big episode for Beckett and everything that she’s going through this whole section of the season.”

Question: You know Gladiators are always up for more Scandal scoop. Anything to tide us over until next week? –Miranda

Mitovich: When I chatted up Joshua Malina at the Saks event this week, he described David’s dynamic with Olivia as now being “cautious friendship.” And as for David’s larger Season 3 purpose, he said that five episodes in, he has yet to see it quite crystallize. “I’ve argued a very important case — I think I can say that — and I’ve had a bit of the, ‘We’re friends/No, we’re on opposite sides of an issue’ thing with Olivia,” he shared. “It feels like their earlier dynamic.”

Question: Big fan of you, big fan of TVLine, and big fan of Hart of Dixie. Anything on Zoe and Wade? –Jill

Mitovich: It would seem that the arrival of Josh Cooke’s character, who like Zoe is a NYC transplant, will shake up the canvas – meaning perhaps a bit less Zade action. “With Joel in town… the five original regulars aren’t working together a whole heck of a lot,” Scott Porter shared with us last week. “George is a kind of a satellite around everyone else’s storyline, and so is Wade. We haven’t as much together this season as I would like, but I’m sure it’s all coming.”

Question: On Revenge, is Aiden’s pairing with Victoria to ruin said “Girl Next Door “legit? Please tell me it isn’t, as I am the many who believe in Aiden and Emily. –coalways

Mitovich: Oh, you must have missed our premiere post mortem Q&A with show buss Sunil Nayar. Sorry, but he said Aiden’s agenda is “absolutely” bona fide, adding: “He will state at the beginning of Episode 2 exactly what his opinions are about Emily.”

That’s it. Enjoy!

PS: Have a terrific weekend!

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Hey All,

Here are the news items for today:

TELEVISION

Actor Joel Gretsch (The 4400 and V) has joined the cast of the new Lifetime drama Witches of East End that will debut this Sunday, October 6. He will play Victor, a mysterious doctor who has an unknown connection to the Beauchamp family of witches. (Tierney Bricker at E! Online)

Covert Affairs has been renewed for a fifth season by the USA Network. (Twitter)

Actress Sherry Stringfield (ER) will make a guest appearance on CSI, playing Dawn, a likable, blue-collar swing shift CSI who joins Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) in investigating a serial rapist case. When she’s not at work, Dawn is attempting to manage her son’s addiction issues. Stringfield will appear in an episode set to air later this fall. (Michael Ausiello at TV Line)

Sleepy Hollow has only aired three episodes of its debut season and already it has been renewed for a second season by FOX. (James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly)

Actor Jimmy Jean-Louis (who played the “Haitian” on Heroes) will appear in a multi-episode arc on Arrow, playing a character called “The Captain”, a mysterious and deadly associate of Professor Ivo (Dylan Neal from Cedar Cove and Blood Ties) who has a connection to a Season 2 mystery called “Amazo”. (Green Arrow TV)

Actor RJ Mitte (Breaking Bad) will have a recurring role on the ABC Family drama Switched at Birth, playing Campbell, a pre-med college student paralyzed by a snowboarding accident who works at the free clinic alongside Daphne (series lead Katie Leclerc). (Team TV Line)

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

The CW is developing a new drama project with Tim Kring, the creator of Heroes. The project is called Exp and will explore what happens when a foreign designer drug – engineered to make you faster, smarter, stronger and better in every way – is trafficked illegally into American high schools, weaving a morally and socially complex web that entangles politicians, law enforcement and teenagers looking for an edge in an ever-competitive and fast-paced world. (Nellie Andreeva at Deadline)

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

Question: I have a Once Upon a Time question. Can you tell us why Peter Pan wants the heart of a true believer? What can belief do? – Thomas

TV Scoop Team: Five points to you, as executive producer Adam Horowitz is glad people are asking that very question. “What we didn’t want to do was do a villain who just wants world domination and wants to do something terrible,” he explains. “What we wanted was someone who had a really character-based motivation for why belief was important to him and why the truest believer was important to him. That’s the story we’re going to unfurl in these first 11 [episodes].”

Question: I’m super-worried about VinCat on Beauty and the Beast! Please tell me there’s hope! – Lee

TV Scoop Team: Just know this: Cat is super-determined and believes in their love. In fact, the words meant to be are used twice, and their love is described as “epic” by someone else. Oh, and there is a VinCat kiss. (Flashback or present day? You’ll have to wait and see!) But it will definitely be a rocky, rocky road in season two as their relationship has one very big adversary: Cat’s real father!

That’s it. Enjoy!

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