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15:00 - The Astronaut Wives Club - Episode 1.07 - Rendezvous - Sneak Peek
04:55 - The X-Files - 2 New BTS Photos of Robbie Amell & Gillian Anderson
...or THIS one, @RobbieAmell! It's Agent Miller time! pic.twitter.com/cUTdB5Q2BU
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) July 29, 2015
04:30 - Jessica Jones - Described as Very Different in Comparison to Daredevil
.@Marvel’s @JessicaJones is "incredibly flawed." Get the scoop on the new @netflix series http://t.co/x4BlkUJyPa #TCA15
— Natalie Abrams (@NatalieAbrams) July 28, 2015
Rosenberg says #JessicaJones is "using some pretty obscure characters, taking them all over the place." They're cognizant of comic mythology
— Laura Prudom (@LauInLA) July 28, 2015
" #JessicaJones is a very, very different show than #Daredevil" according to Melissa Rosenberg, both in look and tone. #TCA15
— Zap2it (@Zap2it) July 28, 2015
"Krysten Ritter is the hardest working woman in show business," says #JessicaJones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg @Netflix #TCA15
— Zap2it (@Zap2it) July 28, 2015
04:30 - Icon - Cindy Crawford Developing Drama for NBC Based on the Modeling Wars of the 80's
Cindy Crawford is developing a drama for NBC, based on the modeling world in the 1980’s, Variety has learned exclusively.
The series, tentatively titled “Icon,” marks Crawford’s television producing debut.
Anne Heche and James Tupper will also serve as exec producers with Crawford and Robin Bissell (“The Hunger Games”) who will pen the project, hailing from Universal TV.
“Icon,” in very early development, revolves around the modeling wars in the ’80s that occurred between Ford Modeling Agency and Elite Model Management. The show is completely fictionalized, rather than a re-telling of Crawford’s own experiences. No actual names of models or figures from the time will be used.
Crawford’s role will remain strictly as a producer, and she will not appear as a character in the series.
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04:30 - The Frankenstein Code - Brad Turner (24 Alum) Joins as Executive Producer
A “24” alum is now taking on “The Frankenstein Code.”
Brad Turner has signed on as an executive producer and producing director on Fox’s “The Frankenstein Code,” Variety has learned exclusively.
Turner previously earned an Emmy as an exec producer and director on Fox’s “24.” He most recently served as co-executive producer on MTV’s “The Shannara Chronicles,” and previously worked on “Hawaii Five-O” as a co-executive producer/director, as well as directing several episodes of “Nikita” and “Prison Break.”
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04:30 - Lavalantula Sequel Green-lighted by Syfy for a Summer 2016 Premiere; Titled: 2 Lava 2 Lantula
Syfy is looking to build another monster mashup franchise, greenlighting a sequel to original movie Lavalantula, which premiered on Saturday as part of Sharnado week.
Set for summer 2016, the Lavalantula sequel, from Cinetel Films, will be titled 2 Lava 2 Lantula! The original movie saw Steve Guttenberg star as Colton West, a 90s action movie star who is on the waning end of his career and in trouble with the law when volcanoes erupt in the Santa Monica mountains. The eruption sends an avalanche of fire-breathing, lava-spewing arachnids who wreak havoc on the city of Angels and some of its most historic landmarks. In the movie, Guttenberg reteamed with his Police Academy castmates Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey, and Michael Winslow, along with Nia Peeples (Pretty Little Liars), Ralph Garmin (Sharktopus), Patrick Renna (The Sandlot), among others. I hear the intention is to bring back the cast, with talent conversations just starting. Syfy is rerunning the original movie on Wednesday.
With Lavalantula, Syfy is looking to replicate the success of the 2013 movie Sharknado, which became a surprise viral hit, spawning a successful franchise. Its third installment, Oh Hell No!, aired last week, and a fourth movie has been greenlighted.
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04:30 - MOVIES: The Night Before - Official Red Band Trailer feat Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt & Anthony Mackie
04:30 - Bosch - Season 2 - Brent Sexton Books Season Long Arc
Brent Sexton (The Killing) has booked a season-long recurring arc on Amazon’s drama series Bosch. Sexton will play Carl Nash, a former police detective who was shoved out of the department by internal affairs and who has a long history with Bosch (Titus Welliver). Bosch is a police procedural based on Michael Connelly‘s novels about a veteran homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Sexton, repped by Greene & Associates and Trademark Talent, recently wrapped MGM’s feature thriller The Belco Experiment. He also recurred on USA drama Complications.
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04:30 - MOVIES: Nosferatu - Remake In Development
EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Robinov’s Studio 8 has set up an untitled film that is a remake of Nosferatu, with Robert Eggers aboard to write and direct the classic that is based on the Dracula mythology. Eggers won the directing prize at Sundance for The Witch. This will be a visceral adaptation of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film masterpiece that brings the horrific vampire of Eastern European folklore back to the screen. Jay Van Hoy & Lars Knudsen’s Parts and Labor will produce, and this underscores Robinov’s determination to work with up-and-coming filmmakers as well as established ones.
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04:30 - American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson - Rio Hackford Cast as Investigator Pat McKenna
Rio Hackford has been cast as Pat McKenna in the upcoming FX anthology series “”American Crime Story: The People V OJ Simpson,” TheWrap has learned exclusively.
McKenna was an investigator for Robert Shapiro, a member of Simpson’s defense team during the former NFL’s star murder trial. Hackford previously appeared in the hit 1996 film “Swingers,” the 2006 Denzel Washington film “Deja Vu,” and in an episode of the first season of HBO’s hit “True Detective” among his many credits.
Hackford joins an already star-studded cast. John Travolta will portray Shapiro; “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” alum Courtney B. Vance is Johnnie Cochran; David Schwimmer takes on Robert Kardashian; “American Horror Story” star Sarah Paulson plays Marcia Clark; Cuba Gooding Jr. will put himself in Simpson’s shoes, as the limited run series recaps the so-called Trial of the Century.
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04:30 - Longmire - Creators Tease Season 4 & Talk About Netflix Comeback
The EPs discussed at TCA today their journey from A&E cancellation following their season 3 cliffhanger in late August 2014 to their Netflix season 4 resurrection scheduled to stream on Sept. 10. In addition, the Longmire panel teased some string from next season’s 10 episodes.
As previously reported season, 4 promptly picks up with Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), the sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming; learning who killed his wife and setting out to avenge her death. In addition, Branch Connally (Bailey Chase), the deputy who Walt fired for being a loose cannon has his own theories.
Added Shephard, “Season 4 is about second chances. Who you are as a person is defined by how you handle the second chance. Netflix has incorporated that theme in their campaign. There are a lot of ways in which people can rebuild themselves after devastating experiences. We explore that theme throughout each of our characters. Now that Walt knows the murderer of his wife, how does he go on? With Henry, he has a new found freedom, what does he do with it?”
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04:30 - HBO Developing Paula Pell Comedy Series
Longtime Saturday Night Live writer Paula Pell has teamed with frequent collaborator Michelle Lawler for a half-hour comedy, which has been set up at HBO. Written by Pell and Lawler and executive produced by Sue Naegle, the untitled comedy centers on a fallen Olympic figure skater who returns home to Massachusetts to confront her former bullish coach and narcissistic mother who have cashed in on her success. Pell also executive produces, while Lawler serves as co-executive producer.
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04:30 - HBO's All The Way - Frank Langella to Star
Frank Langella is set to co-star opposite Bryan Cranston in All The Way, HBO’s adaptation of the Tony-winning Robert Schenkkan play. Directed by Jay Roach and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film covers Lyndon Baines Johnson (Cranston) from the moment the assassination of John F. Kennedy made LBJ the 36th president of the United States and through a turbulent first year that included leveraging his power to pass Civil Rights legislation in Congress up to his landslide re-election victory in 1964.
Paradigm-repped Langella will play LBJ mentor Senator Richard Russell. (The Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, is named for the famed Senator).
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04:30 - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Tina Fey & Cast Tease Season 2
Where are they at on Season 2? The writers’ room started in May, they’re currenty still writing, and production begins on August 17th.
Fey also mentioned how many people have commented that they love watching the show with their children, and she “would hate to ruin that in Season 2.
Just because Kimmy and her fellow Mole Women won the case against Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne don’t expect her to suddenly be free from the burden of her past. Fey explained, “She would love to believe that’s entirely put behind her now, but new obstacles may present themselves before she can go on and live a fully realized life.” Fey continued, “She’s in a big hurry to get everything she wanted out of those out of the missing years of her life and hitting some speed bumps along the way.”
Carlock said a specific challenge in writing the second season is to “not let Kimmy stop being Kimmy…She has to keep that strength and optimism and the fun of that naivete.” In Season 2 we’ll see her, “Continuing to open up to the world. Moral relativism is a new idea for her.”
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04:30 - Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp - Short Sneak Peek 2
04:30 - Masters of Sex - Season 3 - Ben Koldyke to Recur
Ben Koldyke has been cast in a recurring role on the third season of Showtime’s Masters Of Sex. Set in 1966, Season 3 finds the famed duo of William Masters (Michael Sheen) and Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) dealing with the glare of the national spotlight as their sex study finally is unveiled.
Koldyke, plays Paul, an ex-football star who now coaches youth football and has recently moved into the house next door to Bill (Sheen) and his wife Libby (Caitlin Fitzgerald). His first episode has already aired. The role parallels Koldyke’s own life. Before his acting career, Koldyke was a high school English teacher and football coach in Chicago. Koldyke also co-stars in NBC’s upcoming comedy series Mr. Robinson.
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04:30 - MOVIES: Pitch Perfect 3 - Brittany Snow to Return
The Barden Bellas are getting the gang back together: Brittany Snow is closing her deal to reprise her role of Chloe in Universal and Gold Circle’s “Pitch Perfect 3.”
Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson have already closed deals to return with Kay Canon on board to pen the script. Elizabeth Banks helmed “Pitch Perfect 2,” but as of now no director is attached to this installment.
The 2012 original grossed $113 million worldwide, while “Pitch Perfect 2″ has more than doubled that. “Pitch Perfect 2″ has grossed $282 million worldwide on a $29 million budget. Universal has already dated the third installment for July 21, 2017.
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04:30 - Netflix - August 2015 - Additions and Purges
Coming to Netflix in August:
August 1
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein (1999)
Asylum (2005)
Back in Time/Cong Cong Na Nian (2014)
Beneath the Helmet (2014)
Breakup Buddies/Xin Hau Lu Fang (2014)
Bride and Prejudice (2004)
Casting By (2012)
The Code: Season 1 (2014 series)
Dancing on the Edge: Season 1 (2013 Series)
Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Season 2 (2012 series)
Dear Frankie (2004)
Dogs on the Inside (2014)
Electric Slide (2014)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Flex is Kings (2013)
The Golden Era/Huang Jin Shi Dai (2014)
The Hurt Locker (2008)
The Living (2014)
Lost and Love/Shi Gu (2015)
Masha and the Bear: Season 1 (2009 Series)
The Mind of a Chef: Season 3 (2012 series)
November Rule (2015)
Odd Squad: Season 1 (2014 series)
Outcast (2014)
Pants on Fire (2014)
Reading Rainbow: Volume 1 (1983 series)
Russell Brand: End the Drugs War (2014)
Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery (2012)
Somewhere Only We Know (2015)
Sorority Row (2009)
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)
Utopia: Season 1 (2013 series)
Vexed: Seasons 1 & 2 (2010 series)
War (2007)
Wing Commander (1999)
August 3
ChronicCon, Episode 420: A New Dope (2015)
August 4
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2015)
August 5
Yellowbird (2014)
August 6
Kill Me Three Times (2014)
My Amityville Horror (2012)
The Look of Love (2013)
Welcome to Me (2014)
August 7
Club de Cuervos: Season 1 (2015 series)
HitRECord on TV: Season 1 (2014 series)
Motivation 2: The Chris Cole Story (2015)
Project Mc2 (2015)
Transporter: The Series: Season 2 (2012 series)
August 8
Doctor Who: Season 8 (2005 series)
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04:30 - Coach Shocker: NBC Revival Poised to Kill Off Shelley Fabares' Christine
It appears Hayden Fox’s wife will be warming the big bench in the sky when Coachreturns to TV next season on NBC.
Barring an 11th-hour plot tweak, viewers will learn that the character of Christine, played by Shelley Fabares during the original sitcom’s nine-year run on ABC, passed away at some point during the intervening 18 years.
The new Coach series finds Craig T. Nelson’s Hayden being called out of retirement to serve as assistant coach to his and late wife Christine’s grown son, Tim, who is starting up a new team as the head coach at an Ivy League school in Pennsylvania.
Aside from Nelson, Bill Fagerbakke — AKA special teams coach Michael “Dauber” Dybinski — is the only other Coach vet currently attached to the new series.
NBC declined to comment for this story.
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04:30 - Paradise Pictures - USA Network - Georgina Reilly, Daren Kagasoff and Matthew Del Negro Join Cast
EXCLUSIVE: Georgina Reilly (L.A. Complex), Daren Kagasoff (The Secret Life Of An American Teenager) and Matthew Del Negro (Scandal) have signed on to star in USA’s Old Hollywood pilot Paradise Pictures, written and executive produced bySuits scribe Rick Muirragui and executive produced by Suits creator/executive producer Aaron Korsh. The period drama revolves around ambitious people striving to get to the top in 1940s Hollywood, when the dream factory was at its peak. Little do they know the challenges they’re about to face: the end of the studio monopolies, the blacklist and the disruptive new technology of television.
Reilly will play Gretchen Whalon, a successful screenwriter at rival film studio RKO Pictures and ex-girlfriend of the head of production at Paradise Pictures, Tom Kirby (Morgan Spector). Their complicated relationship resurfaces when he asks her to rewrite the script for his dream project. Del Negro plays Ray Aberdeen, the head of security at Paradise Pictures, and Kirby’s right-hand man. Being the studio “fixer” requires Aberdeen to clean up messes, cover up scandals and mete out justice to contract players who have crossed the line. Kagasoff is Wyatt Osborne, an assistant in the studio’s editing department whose real goal is to be a director. A dreamer and a schemer, when he learns the studio’s highest paid screenwriter is writing a novel instead of the studio’s next project, Wyatt writes his own draft and presents it to Kirby.
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